Gravity is the Therapist…Flossing Your Leg’s Relationship with Your Primal Midline and Diaphragm

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I’ve had a request from a number of teachers and clients to clarify a distinction that I’ve been teaching for a number of years. In our exploration of Down the Back, Up the Front where we’re sensing our whole body’s relationship within the field of gravity, how does the leg connect to the spine…in other words….. how do the diaphragm and hamstrings become postural support for how the leg functions with the psoas and primal midline?

Let’s look at the RED theraband, behind the GREEN theraband on Mr. Bones….it’s demonstrating the grounding from the Hamstrings and knee to the tripod/sole of the foot..and lift from the back of the leg through the Hamstrings, coming forward through the adductors, front of the pelvic floor, along the front of the spine to the lumbodorsal junction where the crura (roots of the diaphragm) connect with the spine.

The lumbodorsal junction is a crucial place for us to have movement awareness…it is the area at the lower thoracic and upper lumbar which is supported by our internal organs, the superficial and deep layers of the abdominals and lumbodorsal fascia and enables us to twist contra-laterally in walking (many people lose this natural ability, which contributes to unnecessary pelvic floor and hip tension and back pain)

The Hamstrings are tonic muscles, meaning they are slower to fatigue and more able to support our postural tone with less tension when they are connected properly by grounding with the feet below, and lift along the front of the spine to the inner ear. What supports this proper function of the back of our leg to the front of our spine, is when we access the relationship between our “Hamstrings and Diaphragm as postural muscles”…. In other words…how we use ourselves and breathe affects our overall body tension and tone.

The GREEN theraband is demonstrating how grounding from the red theraband into the tripod of the feet ignites (wakes up) lift from inner ankle, to inner thigh, through front of the pelvic floor, along front of the spine to the inner ear.
With the YELLOW theraband, I am demonstrating the reciprocal relationship between our:

Down the Back…yielding to gravity (grounding to earth) which begins at the manubrium, the tip of our sternum, travels along the widening clavicles and waterfalls down the shoulder blades, along the spinous processes of the spine to the sitting bones/tailbone to the tripod of our feet….

*This ignites (wakes up) Up the Front…suspension and (lift to sky and space) which begins at our inner ankles, travels along inner thighs..connects to the Hamstrings, adductors, front of the pelvic floor, along the front of the spine, to the inner ear!

When we get in touch with this reciprocal relationship, we can naturally allow our tail to be heavy for grounding, which allows the inner ear and shoulders, neck and jaw to be light and supported by HOW WE BREATHE…because where our diaphragm lives in relationship with our head and tail is crucial for natural postural support.

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