Stop Mashing Your Tight Psoas – Try These 2 Gentle Releases Instead (& Improve Whole Body Alignment)

Petra demonstrates two gentle but very effective exercises to release psoas tension and improve your whole body alignment.

Because our psoas muscles travel from our spines to our leg bones, tight psoas muscles can create a lot of discomfort and dysfunction. Our psoas muscles get tight from sitting in chairs, high levels of stress, and common posture corrections - so having tight psoas muscles is a very common problem!

Releasing your psoas regularly will improve your whole body alignment, allowing you to relax your ribcage down (see my Ribcage Magic videos: https://bit.ly/4hX4T9J ) and stand more easily with your hips over your heels (see this video:    • Essential Alignment Tip for Healthier Feet...  ).

Improving your whole body alignment will decrease pressure on your knees, support healthy hips and relieve back pain, and even improve pelvic floor function, as well as allowing better hip extension when walking.

Which makes these gentle psoas release exercises absolutely essential for anyone who wants to feel better in their body!

And remember - just because they’re gentle, doesn’t mean they’re not effective! In fact, this makes them MORE effective - harsh painful approaches to psoas release don’t do much good for our nervous system!

You’ll need some equipment for this one - but it’s worth it, I promise. For the first option (my favourite) grab firm cushions, a yoga bolster and/or a couple of folded blankets. For the second version (best if the first one hurts your back) you’ll need 1-2 yoga blocks and a squishy, partially deflated 10-12 inch Pilates style ball.

Chapters
00:00 Introduction
00:33 Psoas location & what they do
03:30 Release 1
08:42 Release 2

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