"Pull Your Belly In"

Currently, due to our contemporary fashion in regards to our bodies, we have this idea that a “good figure” is to suck the belly in. Rejecting the fat rounded natural belly shape prejudice against any belly whatsoever.

This requires you to suck the belly around the hara area and often means tucking the sacred tailbone in as well. Instead of allowing us to move the belly and pelvic in all planes of action it's designed to move in.

Correct posture cannot be possible without the pelvis being able to move freely in all its articulations. Meaning that the hip joints and the lower back can sway and move in all the areas they are designed to move in.

If one of the motions of the pelvis is restrained, the fluency of action is broken. One’s ability to move freely in any chosen direction from any position. In my training, we define this as acture.

By placing the body in a tucked-in, sucked up position means that the body imprisons the large muscles which are necessary for potent movement: the core abdominal, gluteal muscles, the hip and back flexors and the deep muscles of the pelvic floor.

These all impact on the easy, fluid efficient movement.

Not only do we find the largest muscles inhibited but the sphincters tighten, buttocks gripping and the groin muscles restricted.

This tension impacting not only the muscles of the pelvic area but also causing it into an awkward stance and movement, which can lead to tension in the jaw, neck, shoulders and even back pain.

What's curious is this current fashion standard dis-empowers the individual by placing them in compulsion, nervousness, impotence (both sexual and inaction), and insecurity.

These “anxiety patterns” reflects a movement pattern that holds back the individual to reach their true potential.

When you unleash the power of the pelvis it can initially be accompanied by the emotions that first entrapped it. By reclaiming your pelvic power so you can reclaim your potency and influence over your own life.