How is the psoas an integrative muscle?
The Psoas is the deepest core muscle and grows out of each side of the spine (no one attached your psoas!). The psoas is primarily a messenger; it communicates and responds to what is happening deep within. It integrates every system in every direction; connecting back to front, side-to-side, bottom to top. If there is compromise within the core, and I am defining core as the central nervous system inside your spinal column (tip of the coccyx to the cranium) it will be reflected within your psoas. When our integrity is compromised it is always expressed within the core. One expression is curling inward, a protective gesture. No matter if we are emotionally or physically attacked, fall off the roof of our house, lose a loved one or have way too much to think about (Goggle Rodin’s thinking man sculpture to see an image of the over burdened intellect) the psoas will express our being overburdened. A communicator, the psoas reflects what is being expressed in our organs, breath, muscles, b
