a simple yoga pose to

A while back I did a workshop where I taught my favorite embodied awakening routine which was

made up of a number of yoga poses from a tradition called Swaroopa Yoga. Swaroopa Yoga is a

type of yoga that's based upon the mantra that support equals release. So most of the poses are

slow and gentle and never about pushing or stretching muscles, but about the release that

happens when they're supported.

The series of poses that I taught at my workshop was made to work it's way up the spine, from

the tail bone to the occiput. The exercise in this video, the twisting lunge, is made to support the

psoas and the lower back. The psoas is a deep muscle that attaches on the anterior lumbar

spine, comes through the interior of the pelvis and attaches at the upper leg bones.

Rolfers and massage therapists and runners and yoga folks are always making reference to the

psoas because it's really deep and hard to isolate. Also it's very important because it's connected

into the diaphragm. The diaphragm is tied into the primitive part of our brain which is responsible

for creating survival patterns in our nervous system; the patterns that get set up the second we

come into this world when we feel into our surroundings and perceive that it's less than safe. To

give you some idea of it's magnitude, the psoas is often referred to as the 'muscle of the soul.'

Due to these survival patterns which get created in our bodies, we grip onto the life force energy

in the area of our low backs and belly. And then we end up with this chronic tension being held in

that area. Down the road it can result in countless problems, one of them being lumbar pain.

When we support the psoas, we are able to start to sense into the chronic, survival tension that

has been held there so that the energy that is sequestered in that tension might be digested and

integrated into our body and being. In my own experience it can also result in great relief as far as

low back pain goes. The exercise that I'm teaching in this video is really useful for supporting the

psoas and the low back to soften and release. I definitely recommend it if you suffer from low

back pain or any multitude of issues that might stem from chronic tension in the lower back and

belly

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