Monday Motivation: What The Hell Is The Psoas Muscle?!

Foreign. Good morning, everybody. Luke here. Happy Monday. Coffee, butter tin. Schedule, routine, rituals, rules. Routines, rituals. Monday, meeting up with my boy jc we always have a cup of coffee. We just catch up. Tell me about the weekend. What's new? What's good in life. We go to our favorite spot, the buttered tin. Decaf, of course, for this guy, it's a great start to the day. I always like to go, Monday, full swag. So we go Cadre, Cadre, Cadre. It's a little intense, a little aggressive. That's okay.

There's nothing wrong with it. So happy Monday to you and yours. I'm sure you saw this live stream today, and it popped up and it said, the psoas muscle. What the h*** is that? What is the psoas muscle? So the psoas muscle connects your lower vertebrae with your hip flexors. It's actually one of the largest. Butter tin. I want to have a sip. And I love it. Speak, wonder. So the psoas muscle, what it actually does is connects your lower vertebrae to your hip flexors. It's this massive, massive muscle that connects on both sides and then wraps around to your hip flexor.

So literally every time you step, when you sit, it crunches over. And then also what the psoas muscle does is when you're stressed and when you're anxious, it just, like, tightens up. It just truly tightens up. So they call it the muscle of the mind. So the psoas muscle is the muscle of the mind, muscle, the soul, you name it. And what I think is really beautiful and what is really great is I know when I'm super stressed, I mean, super stressed out, I know that my psoas muscles just tightening, and it's just tightening out.

So that's why people are talking about doing yoga, stretching it out, you name it. So I wanted to give one beautiful psoas stretch. And I know. And I mean, I literally know when I'm off the charts anxious, off the charts stressed, what ends up usually happening is when I do this stretch, I'll legitimately get dizzy and lightheaded. And so I wanted to share it today. Okay, so here's the one psoas stretch that I absolutely love to do. So I'm gonna go like this. Whoops. I'm gonna go like this. Okay, so everybody see this?

So it's gonna be a lunge. So it'll be a lunge. And then you put your knee. Your one knee down, and then you put it like this, and then you go like this, and then you push back, and that psoas muscle that's connecting your lower vertebrae all the way down. So again, it's like a lunge. But the difference is your lunge is your knee is all the way on the ground, and then it's holding the other knee, and then you're pushing back, and you're going to feel that release. And the harder you push, you should have a great stretch.

And if it should feel like your hip flexor is almost kind of ripping a little bit, not really, but it's going to rip. And if it's working, and it's working really, really, really well, what you're going to find is that muscle that connects your lower vertebrae is going to stretch out, and it'll give you so much relief. And then. And then what's beautiful about that psoas. Good morning. Good morning, junk food junkie. And then what you're going to find when that psoas muscle stretches and it stretches out, it's almost like you're in a different level of flow, a very different level of flow that's allowing yourself to just kind of like, be at peace.

Okay, so what I want everyone to do. Here's your takeaway. Here's your takeaway today. Your one action item. I want you to Google psoas P, S O A S psoas muscle. And I want you to try at least one stretch today, whether it's at work, whether it's at your desk at work, whether it's when you're done with work and at your home, you can do this anywhere. You can do this absolutely anywhere. Again, the more you know the psoas muscle is, if you are stressed and you are anxious and you are tight, I'm telling you, that muscle is just like a knot.

It is just tight, as tight as can be. So I really, really want you all to see how you can work that muscle and loosen it up. Okay? So I wish you all nothing but the best on this beautiful Monday. And now I'll put so sniq. That's fantastic, junk food junkie. Always good to see you, Jules. Same. I saw Robert, a bunch of different folks hop in here. But again, I just want to say really learn about that psoas and what it does for you. If anybody here, like me has generalized anxiety disorder, has. For me, it was panic.

So I was constantly in this fight or flight. That muscle just. It's like a. It's like the heartbeat of. It's like the heartbeat of your anxiety. So if you're consistently anxious, your heart, that psoas muscles. Just imagine that thing fluttering at 150 and it just keeps going, going, going, going, going. It gets tighter and tighter and tighter. How can we get that thing down to 50 beats a minute, 60 beats a minute? And it's going to take stretching but it's also going to take learning about it.

So I want you to google soas I want you to learn about the psoas and most importantly I want you to learn a few stretches about it. So I encourage that. And then in the community feed in the chat I would love, love, love to know what you learned and if there's something maybe that you want to share with the rest of the group. So take care everybody. Have a wonderful Monday. And again so a** S o a s s right so a** but it's really P S o a s so take care everybody. Have a wonderful day. Thanks for listening in and I hope that this will help educate you on the sewing.