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85 page perfect bound, soft covered book is a comprehensive guide to the Iliopsoas muscle and its profound influence on the body/mind/emotions.

Chapters include:

Location: explains the exact location of the psoas within the human body and its relationship to muscles, bones and organs.

Function: clarifies the diverse functions of the psoas and how it serves as a hip flexor, tensile structure, pump and shelf.

Effects: details the effect the psoas has on structural balance, joint rotation, muscular compensations, organ functioning, breathing and emotional well being.

Childhood Conditioning: explains the complexities that are inherent in a short or contracted psoas muscle and looks at the ways parents can support a child’s developmental growth.

Women’s Cycles: suggests ways of working with the psoas throughout every phase of a woman’s life. Includes how releasing the psoas can relieve menstrual cramping and discomforts, supports mother and fetus throughout every phase of pregnancy, eases labor and help provide the conditions necessary for vaginal birth. The healthy psoas offers stability throughout the changes of menopause.

The Fear Reflex: offers insight into the voluntary and involuntary flee or fight reflex and the emotional patterns of which the psoas muscle is a part. A strong case is made for not palpating or engaging manipulative/invasive techniques when working with the psoas.

Releasing The Psoas: gives simple instructions how to release tone and lengthen your psoas muscle.

Approaches to the Psoas: reviews popular body systems and their somatic way of working with the psoas (dated material).

Applications: offers ergonomic ways to properly engage the psoas in everyday activities such as walking, sitting and choice of shoes.

Below you will find a selection of my books, audio CD’s, and articles. These items are available for purchase direct through my online store.

163 page perfect bound, soft covered on-demand book is an essential guide to movement education focusing on cultivating core awareness as key to preventing injury, developing flexibility, increasing strength and resiliency.

Chapters include:

Moving From Your Core: presents a new paradigm of movement, differentiating control verses awareness, the neutral body verses anchoring, hyper flexibility and hyper mobility, over extension and resistance.

Engaging The Iliopsoas Muscle: includes the location, function, diaphragmatic and muscular relationships, fear and adrenal health, core emotional wellness of the iliopsoas muscle.

Centering The Pelvis: covers the importance of the pelvic keystone for maintaining healthy pelvic/lumbar balance and core centering, Includes pelvic/jaw, cranial sacral relationships as they affect the functioning psoas.

Connecting to Bones: focuses on the vital connection to bones (proprioception) for gaining a sense of support, nourishment, movement, joint integrity, skeletal balance and healthy muscle tone. Includes an explanation of the internal righting reflexes.

Deepening Core Awareness: weaves the emotional, ecological, cultural inter-connections within the energetic core includes: conditioning, armoring, belly brain (enteric) dimensions.

Stepping Stones to Core Awareness Explorations: introduces a how to approach for the exploration chapters.

Explorations Include: Awakening Core Awareness, Engaging the Iliopsoas Muscle, Centering The Pelvis, Connecting to Bones, and Moving From the Core: each chapter offers specific explorations for encouraging the continually deeper and more profound experience. Of core awareness.

References & Further Reading Resource: provides resources for continuing the development of the ideas presented within the book.

One hour lecture format audio CD is a laypersons approach to unraveling the patterns of scoliosis.

The one-hour audio compact disk includes:

• A definition of scoliosis
• Reasons why scoliosis manifests in the body
• Current allopathic approaches
• Why surgery may not be the answer
• New paradigms of thinking about scoliosis
• Current (wholistic) approaches for unraveling scoliosis

Published in Midwifery Today focused on educating midwives why the psoas is important and ways to support its natural release. Includes four case studies. Copy quality reprint article.

Published in The Doula (USA) Covers the psoas muscle’s influence during each phase of pregnancy and birth. Copy quality reprint article.

Published in The Doula (USA) A mother’s personal exploration in trusting her intuitive gut feelings. Tapping into ones own core as a means of intuitively responding to our babies and children. Copy quality reprint article.

Privately published. A lay person’s perspective of scoliosis as the manifestation of muscular (psoas) imbalance and energetic expression. Copy quality reprint article.

Published in Vegetarian Times (USA) Explains how releasing the psoas muscle and developing core awareness can enhance working in your garden. Offers an easy to do exercise for relieving back tension. Copy quality reprint article.

Published in Yoga & Health (UK) Supporting awareness is key to a healthy psoas muscle free of pain. From crawling to first shoes, parent’s choices influence their child’s somatic (body) awareness. Copy quality reprint article.

Published in Yoga & Health (UK) Gives a clear idea of the importance articulating the hip socket are for a healthy psoas. Everyday activities such as sitting and driving play important roles in keeping healthy functional hip sockets. Copy quality reprint article.

Published in Yoga & Health (UK) Explores the iliacus muscle, which is part of the iliopsoas complex. Lining the pelvic core it is an important muscle for all aspects of pelvic, organ, sexual and structural health and expression. Copy quality reprint article.

Published in Yoga & Health (UK) Explains the function of the psoas and how the muscle influences breathing, circulation, skeletal balance, flexibility, and emotional health. Copy quality reprint article.