The Vital Glutes: Connecting the Gait Cycle to Pain and Dysfunction
Biomechanics classifies the psoas as a hip flexor; however, the psoas is an evolving tissue and its form and function has shifted over time. From being a major flexor to a supple guide wire, the healthy psoas no longer behaves as a flexor, but as a neutral, multidimensional transmitter. No longer as massive as a primate’s psoas, the human psoas doe
... See moreLiz Koch • Core Awareness, Revised Edition: Enhancing Yoga, Pilates, Exercise, and Dance
There are three major components to our anatomy that are of particular interest to us as yoga teachers (and students): muscles, fascia/connective tissue and bones. In a very straightforward way we can say that muscles generate forces to move us, fascia resists tensile forces and shapes us, and bones transmit forces to take the burden off muscles.
Peter Blackaby • Intelligent Yoga: Listening to the Body’s Innate Wisdom
What we have to realise is that the contractive power of muscle is completely useless without the tensioning cables of the connective tissues in which the muscle resides. It contracts to tension a tensional network that connects the body to itself and contains everything. It has to pull on something. Thus it is referred to as a pre-tensioned or a p
... See moreJoanne Avison • Yoga: Fascia, Anatomy and Movement: Fascia, Form and Functional Movement
The outward rotator muscles counterbalance both psoas and iliacus muscles.