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Christine
January 30, 2004 - 7:57am
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RE: Lower back position question
Hello,
Your father was right to try to correct your posture, but wrong (perhaps also in his approach!) about correct posture for the female body. I am limited here in trying to describe the anatomy of things without visual aids, and am working as fast as I can on a new resource that will help with that.
What you are setting up in your body in an ideal amount of tension throughout the system, so that all organs are supported naturally. You want the lumbar curve to happen naturally, not try to push a sway back. When the lower back is hollowed, the pelvic floor is extended or stretched out into its ideal position. As you know, we strengthen muscles by flexing, or contracting them. The stretching of the pelvic floor is limited by the hamstring muscles at the back of our thighs. This means it is impossible to keep lifting and lifting your tailbone...the hamstrings, connected to the sacrotuberous ligaments of the sacrum, prevent this from happening, as do the sacrospinous ligaments that are embedded in the pelvic floor musculature.
If you tuck your tailbone under, you are lowering the back half of the pelvic floor. In normal female anatomy, the back half of the floor is much higher than the front. This has vital implications for the whole issue of prolapse, as it is the front half of the floor that receives these energies and the back half that is protected.
If you think of pressing your belly button down and in front of your pubic bone, while keeping your sternum, or breast bone, level (and your shoulders down!) your lower back will be automatically drawn into the correct positon. This sounds paradoxical, but it is true!
Hope this helps,
Christine