Keeping your attention focused at your hip sockets, initiate movement at the hip socket, allowing one foot to glide along the floor. The pelvis stays centered and stable and remains part of the torso—only the leg extends. As the leg lengthens, notice sensations along your back. Any shortening in the low back (to accommodate the extension of the

One example is in the area of our cultural belief in core strength. Believing muscular weakness to be the primary problem, we embark on programs that continually condition through building muscular control. However, growing density in muscle tissue, disguised as strength, rather than cultivating somatic intelligence simply creates additional

Located at one end of the primal midline, the sacrum plays a vital role in not only the muscular-skeletal, but also the proprioceptive and cranial-sacral functions. When the pelvic proprioceptors do not fire properly by sending valid information through the spine to the brain via the central nervous system, the cranial receptors (including the jaw)

When the sacroiliac joints of the pelvis are torn, overstretched, inflamed, or swollen, they pull, twist, and/or torque the deepest fascia sheath covering the spine, called the dura mater. When under duress, the dura mater, through its potential to torque and exert traction within the dura sheath (deepest core midline), disrupts the nervous and

Biomechanics classifies the psoas as a hip flexor; however, the psoas is an evolving tissue and its form and function has shifted over time. From being a major flexor to a supple guide wire, the healthy psoas no longer behaves as a flexor, but as a neutral, multidimensional transmitter. No longer as massive as a primate’s psoas, the human psoas

We experience emotional and physical turbulence. Turning back on itself, bound-up energy may manifest in the form of muscular rotations, torsion in joints, pulled fascia, and taut ligaments. There may be small spirals within tissue, viscera, and organs or large spirals in connective tissue, fascia, muscles, and joints. However, no matter the scale,

The psoas is the largest core muscle and grows out of each side of the spinal midline vertebra. Originating at the twelfth thoracic (T12), the psoas continues emerging out of the five lumbar vertebrae to flow through the pelvic basin, surface over the hip socket, and grows back into the lesser trochanter of the femur bones.

The sacrum as part of the primitive core midline suspends between the two ilium. During a full-body orgasm, the midline’s undulating movement brings the two openings of the core’s primitive tube (mouth and anus) together in a fluid curling and arcing motion. This wave-like motion floods the entire organism with nourishment, energizing the

the ideas of Mabel Todd, Lulu Sweigard, Ida Rolf, F. Matthias Alexander, Elsa Gindler, Moshe Feldenkrais, Anna Halprin, Bob Cooley, Judith Aston, Thomas Hanna, Emilie Conrad, and many others have evolved into a vision of the human body as motion. The mechanical approach of body as object has given way to an understanding of body as a living