Loading...Hydrating Movements for Spinal Midline and Psoas – Using a Ball
Liz Koch, author of The Psoas Book and Core Awareness: Enhancing Yoga, Pilates, Exercise, and Dance explains and demonstrates a simple exploration for softening and hydrating connective tissue: spine midline, and Psoas. Using an inflatable type of exercise ball, almost fully deflated, Liz shows how this simple tool can help you re-discover primal movement along the body midline.
Using Balls for Increased Buoyancy and Resiliency
Liz Koch, author of The Psoas Book and Core Awareness: Enhancing Yoga, Pilates, Exercise, and Dance explains and demonstrates 3 simple exploration for softening and hydrating connective tissue using 3 different size balls. Psoas, as fluid tissue, benefits from working with hydrating techniques that increase our sense of buoyancy. Liz introduces each ball for increasing sensing how bones float, experiencing ground reaction force, and dynamically moving diaphragms. See Core Awareness; Enhancing Yoga, Pilates, Exercise & Dance for Liz Koch for more ideas and approaches that nourish psoas, increase proprioception, and hydrate connective tissue. [Read More…]
Unraveling Psoas on Land – Using a Chair
Liz Koch, author of The Psoas Book, explains and demonstrates unraveling the Psoas muscle on land using a simple kitchen chair. Using a chair for unraveling the core Psoas offers a fun, creative way of counteracting every day tension patterns, eliciting a dynamic responsive nervous system, and maintaining a juicy Psoas. [Read More…]
Hydrating Movements for Hip socket – Using a Pool
Somatic movement in water benefits a healthy, responsive fluid psoas as it passes over the ball and socket joint.
Unraveling Psoas in Water
Liz Koch, author of The Psoas Book, explains and demonstrates unraveling the core Psoas muscle in water. Returning to warm water (and ones embryonic memory) activates and supports a deep regenerative process within the core. The slow, rhythmic, weightless surrender releases tension, while being moved by the fluid nature of water hydrates the “filet mignon” Psoas. [Read More…]