Freeing Emotions And Energy Through Myofascial Release – Noah Karrasch (1)

Many of us have extremely tight psoas muscles, from working hard to hold it together, keep it in, tiptoe through life, or shorten our back to stand our ground (Figure 7.2). A healthy psoas relaxes when we stand or walk. An overtightened psoas pulls our low back forward, spills guts downout, and even pitches the head and neck forward off our body (head upback!).

As we relax and retone psoas muscles, we create a new healthier posture and mental attitude. Figure 7.2 Healthy (L) and unhealthy (R) psoas muscles Note how a tight and/or weak psoas can pull the low back anterior, allow the rectus to lose tone, and cause the head to pull forward. This chapter’s logo shows an upback arrow at the waist, on an upward spine/arrow, while a leg lengthens.

I’m convinced the more we learn to live with our waist tucked upback while we move, the more we’ll exercise our psoas with every step and every breath. As we maintain a better posture through life, the longer and healthier our life can be. 1. Client supine, legs down flat, if they can do so comfortably.

2. One sided: Palpate near belly button (L1/2), outside of rectus. Allow fingers to sink in toward spine at 45 degree angle, until you feel the client’s body restrict you. 3. Call for small movement with breath; same, then other side leg draws incrementally up and down, one at a time. 4. Second touch inside hipbone at about ASIS (anterior superior iliac spine), then outside rectus and toward low spine, about L4/5.

5. Call for same and other side legs again; you may find a different pattern. 6. Side two with same protocol. 7. Chances are one psoas and the opposite iliacus are tight. We already worked to release the upper psoas as it gets tied to the lower diaphragm cords at T12/L2 in Chapter 3. As you learn to release the lower psoas, you’re definitely changing a client’s discernment.

Give this simple awareness to clients: “Lie on the floor or bed, on your back. Pull your own low back downback—imagine you can suck your belly button down into your back. Now, keeping your back floorback and keeping your head and neck outlongback, gently drag one heel toward your body so your knee reaches toward the ceiling while it also reaches uplong away from your hip.” (It’s important for you to experience this feeling so you can teach it to clients.)

“You may or may not feel a deep line stretch; even so you’re toning that deep psoas muscle. Can you do the same exercise while telling yourself you’re all right, just as you are? Can you release unresolved thought energy?” (See Figure 7.3.) Figure 7.3 Psoas drag An all purpose stretch that could help any low back.

“For many people, especially physicians and health care providers, discussions about chakras and Chinese healing concepts are so far out of our frame of reference, and so far out of our knowledge and experience, that it is something that we avoid. In this book, Noah brings together in a ‘physical way’ relating or connecting the chakras and traditional Chinese medicine with physical human anatomy. Now, I can picture the concepts, and begin a process of integrating traditional Western and Eastern forms of healing. He also ‘brings a challenge’ to each healer, regardless of our title, to go deeper into the core structure and function of the person—combining the dimensions of physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual self.

It is a ‘good read,’ but also an enlightening and refreshing view of the integrated whole person.” —Ralph Harvey, MD, Cornerstone Family Practice, PLC, Associate Professor, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, USA “I first came to know of Noah through a mutual friend who recommended I meet this ‘American therapist’ who had a different approach to soft tissue work. Over the years he has shared those views with many of my students who have all come away from his classes both enriched and inspired.

I have witnessed his generosity of spirit, his compassion for those he serves, and it is reflected in this gem of a book. He has brought together a philosophy that in essence has been around for a long time, but not connected in a way in which Noah has been able to demonstrate. Follow his journey, make it yours, it will bring a new dimension to your treatments as well as yourself.”

—Susan Findlay, BSc RGN, Dip SMRT, MSMA MLCSP, MCNHC, Director of North London School of Sports Massage, UK “Hugely informative, easily accessible to bodyworker, student and receiver alike. Everyone will come away with something useful.” —Bev Breeze, Shiatsu Practitioner and instructor, London, UK “My coffee sat cold on the counter as I paged through. It’s exciting to see a book written about putting the spirit back in bodywork both for the client and the therapist.

YES.

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