Deep in the core of your body lies a muscle that few people think about – yet it holds the keys to your emotional freedom, ancestral connection, and primal wisdom.
It is the psoas (pronounced so-as).
🌀 What is the Psoas?
The psoas is not just any muscle. It is the only muscle that connects your spine to your legs, anchoring your torso to your lower body. It runs from the lumbar spine through the pelvis and attaches to the femur.
It is part of your hip flexor group, crucial for walking, standing, sitting – but also deeply involved in your fight, flight, freeze responses.
👁️ The Emotional & Ancestral Memory Keeper
The psoas is often called the “muscle of the soul.”
Why?
Because it is directly linked to the autonomic nervous system, your primal survival instincts, and the oldest parts of your brain. When you are under stress, threatened, or traumatised, your psoas contracts, curling you into protection.
Over time, if unaddressed, these contractions hold the memory of your experiences, storing:
💠 Unprocessed fear
💠 Old grief
💠 Childhood insecurity
💠 Shame and survival trauma
💠 Generational imprints passed down epigenetically
💠 Old grief
💠 Childhood insecurity
💠 Shame and survival trauma
💠 Generational imprints passed down epigenetically
🌳 The Ancestral Connection
In somatic healing and yogic wisdom, the psoas is also seen as a bridge to ancestral energy. It carries within it the posture, gait, survival stories, and emotional burdens of those who came before you.
Think of your psoas as an antenna:
🔮 Picking up unspoken generational fears
🔮 Holding inherited tensions around scarcity, security, and place in the world
🔮 Storing silent vows like “I must never rest,” “I must protect everyone,” “I am not allowed to be free”
🔮 Holding inherited tensions around scarcity, security, and place in the world
🔮 Storing silent vows like “I must never rest,” “I must protect everyone,” “I am not allowed to be free”
When you release and soften the psoas, you often release emotions you did not know were yours. Tears flow, visions come, memories surface. You reconnect to your rootedness in the Earth and your lineage, and you liberate energy that has been frozen for generations.
💧 Signs of a Tight Psoas
- Lower back pain
- Hip discomfort
- Shallow breathing
- Anxiety or chronic hypervigilance
- Digestive issues
- Feeling emotionally blocked or disconnected from your body
🛠️ Remedies & Tools to Release Your Psoas
🌙 1. Constructive Rest Position
Lie on your back with knees bent, feet on the ground hip-width apart. Let your lower back soften into the earth. Breathe deeply for 10-20 minutes daily.
Lie on your back with knees bent, feet on the ground hip-width apart. Let your lower back soften into the earth. Breathe deeply for 10-20 minutes daily.
🧘🏾 2. Yoga
- Dragon Pose (Lizard variation)
- Low lunge with heart openers
- Reclined butterfly pose
- Kundalini Kriyas
🕊️ 3. Somatic Breathwork & Vocal Release
Combine deep diaphragmatic breathing with sighing, humming, or intuitive sound to release held tension and allow emotions to move through.
Combine deep diaphragmatic breathing with sighing, humming, or intuitive sound to release held tension and allow emotions to move through.
🪶 4. Ancestral Healing Rituals
- Light a candle for your lineage.
- Sit in meditation, placing one hand on your lower belly, one on your heart, and speak:
“I honour the burdens you carried. I release what is not mine to hold. May you be free, and may I be free.”
🔥 5. Trauma Release Exercises (TRE)
These help induce neurogenic tremors from the psoas to shake out stored tension patterns gently.
These help induce neurogenic tremors from the psoas to shake out stored tension patterns gently.
🌸 6. Water Therapy & Floating
Immersing in water or floating helps the psoas release by removing gravitational compression and soothing the nervous system.
Immersing in water or floating helps the psoas release by removing gravitational compression and soothing the nervous system.
🎶 7. Sound Healing & Tuning Forks
Vibrations at the sacral and solar plexus region help soften the muscle and restore energetic harmony.
Vibrations at the sacral and solar plexus region help soften the muscle and restore energetic harmony.
✨ Accessing Hidden Wisdom
When you release tension in the psoas, you create space for:
💠 Embodied intuition
💠 Deeper groundedness and trust in life
💠 Creativity and sexual energy to flow
💠 Ancestral blessings to emerge from beneath the burdens
💠 Deeper groundedness and trust in life
💠 Creativity and sexual energy to flow
💠 Ancestral blessings to emerge from beneath the burdens
You realise that your body is not merely a structure of flesh and bone. It is an archive of stories, a temple of your lineage, and a bridge to the Earth’s ancient wisdom.
🌿 In Closing
Your psoas is not just a muscle.
It is a portal.
To your deepest fears, your inherited strengths, and the silent truths of your bloodline.
It is a portal.
To your deepest fears, your inherited strengths, and the silent truths of your bloodline.
To work with your psoas is to come home to your primal self, to clear your lineage, and to stand in the world more free, rooted, and alive.
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