| The Psoas is the body's main hip flexor which is why | | | | becomes trapped in the body, very often |
| it is the main muscle of walking but it plays a deeper | | | | manifesting through pain and injury to the psoas. |
| maybe more important role as a flexor. Flexors are | | | | When the processing of trauma doesn't proceed |
| muscles that bring one body part closer to another | | | | successfully we can get stuck in the sympathetic |
| one. Flexion's relationship to the nervous system is | | | | nervous system. This affects many functions of the |
| through our fear response. Our sympathetic nervous | | | | body, specifically the psoas and also our breathing. |
| system, the system of excitation, from which stems | | | | The psoas is intimately connected to our diaphragm, |
| our flight or fight response, manifests through flexion; | | | | the main muscle of breathing. Both the psoas and the |
| like all animals in the wild when startled or afraid we | | | | breath can lose the ability to work in an optimal way |
| automatically react. The psoas is involved in each of | | | | and as a result many of our essential functions can |
| these reactions. | | | | become disrupted. The synergistic relationship of the |
| Life is traumatic and this is not necessarily a bad | | | | diaphragm and the psoas provide tone and stimulation |
| thing. From the big trauma of being born and taking | | | | to many of our organs and when they are not |
| our first breath to the lesser traumas of day-to-day | | | | working in harmony the opportunity for dysfunction |
| life we are here to be traumatized and to one | | | | is increased exponentially. |
| degree or another develop an inner support system | | | | Physical troubles are the obvious result of problems |
| to heal. Like the pulsing of the heart and the ebb and | | | | with the psoas but being stuck in the sympathetic |
| flow of the tides, the body's trauma/healing interplay | | | | nervous system can cause wide ranging and more |
| is as natural as breathing. When the nervous system | | | | troubling emotional effects as well. |
| doesn't successfully integrate a traumatic event it | | | | |