excellent thank you

Thank you for all of this relevant and essential information related to my practice. I will be viewing the related information on this excellent website. Again, thank you Ruth!

Excellent tutorial - I wish she had given the full repertoire :D

Thanks Aimee! Glad it was useful for you!

Thank you Debra Holland! Contact me if you like, perhaps we can do a skype thing (or something) for more repertoire.

Hi Ruth x that is very generous of you - really I would feel guilty taking up your personal time. But maybe you can do another Psoas tutorial on here sometime? I am sure the others would love that also :D

At 13.50 Ruth mentions that a contracted psoas is going to pull the pelvis forward, but what I see her show with her body is an posterior pelvic tilt, rather than an anterior pelvic tilt. So, what I see is hip extension, rather than hip flexion - which is the action of the psoas. Hence, I am confused... I always thought that the psoas contributes to an anterior pelvic tilt?

Hi Jacqueline, yes, the technical term would be posterior pelvic tilt. I used the word forward because I was simplifying my language to apply to anyone watching it, even if they didn't have the technicality. Another way I could have said it, is that when the psoas is contracted in supine, it brings the pelvis into a "tucked" position. Actually, a tight psoas can bring the pelvis into anterior and posterior tilts: scroll down to "hip joint extensor" in this article http://www.somatics.de/artikel/for- professionals/2-article/118-lecture -notes-on-psoas-adductors

Very interesting and fun video! Thank you,

thanks for the great tutorial.

i do have a question, while resting my legs, i find that in parallel i am still holding a lot of tension in my hips. it is only able to completely relax in external rotation. will we still be able to release the psoas as such?