Psoas training by Jo Ann Staugaard-Jones

Prevent back pain and strengthen your core through proper psoas training. "Psoas Training" is all about the psoas muscle, also known as the lumbar muscle. The lumbar muscle connects the spine and legs and is one of the most important skeletal muscles in the human body. Despite this, we often neglect it in our modern everyday lives. A well-trained and flexible psoas is often the key to back pain, especially lower back pain. However, its task and function extend beyond the purely anatomical functioning to the nervous and energy system. This is what this book is all about:

• Introduction to the anatomy of the psoas muscle
• Exercises for psoas training, especially for stretching the psoas muscle
• How the psoas muscle acts as an emotional messenger between the brain and the body and can be a repository of deep-rooted feelings
• Psoas as a spiritual component of the lower chakras, which almost imperceptibly determine the flow of life energy through the body

Learn how the psoas muscle affects the health of body, mind and soul The psoas muscle belongs to the iliopsoas muscle group, which also includes the large iliacus muscle. This muscle group is the strongest in the body and is also the lowest hip flexor. Regardless of how fit or flexible we are, how we use and handle the psoas muscle is crucial to our attitude to life. With detailed illustrations and the most important stretching and strengthening exercises, as well as separate chapters on the role of the psoas muscle in Pilates and yoga, "Psoas Training" shows the reader how to release this muscle in order to move in a balanced, harmonious and unhindered manner.