We should not stop exploring.
The end of all exploration will eventually lead us back to the starting point.
This is the first time we know this place.
Through the unknown but deja vu gate, at the source of the longest river…
– The base of the spine of the Nobel Prize winner American poet Eliot’s Little Gideon is the “source of the longest river”, which is a river flowing through the central axis of the spine with great power and potential; The flow of this river is driven by the subtle combination of motion in the pelvic floor and the tailbone.
We guide the voyage of the river of spine from the caudal vertebrae to the pubic part.
Like the keel of a ship, the pelvis also provides stability for the spine and balanced weight for the skull.
Therefore, it is very important to align, straighten and balance the pelvis, but this is not a simple task in view of the various extrusion forces that are often loaded on the base of the spine.
Nevertheless, the movement of the hip joint fossa, the tailbone and the bottom of the pelvis still allows the muscles and nerve vessels to flow between the legs, trunk and skull.
By solving the problem of rigidity and blockage of the first chakra (undersea chakra), the powerful and noble pipeline in the body of energy essence can flow smoothly.
The artistic design of the pelvis The spherical design of the pelvis is very beautiful.
The towering arch, curved edges, and hidden grooves inspired artists such as the American painter Georgia Keeffe to draw the magnificent and moving outline of the pelvis.
The pelvis structure with a round arch crown can be said to be both secular and refined; Like the mountain wall of the canyon, the ridge of the pelvis also protects and limits the river that meanders through the valleys, and the ilium is like the wing that climbs up and spreads around the river.
This spherical umbrella provides the best shelter for the central pipeline of the body.
Anatomically, the two hemispheres extending outward from the pelvis provide span and depth, enabling the pelvis to accommodate the organs in the pelvis and the blood vessels and nerves from the abdomen to the legs.
The shape formed by arching and twisting the lateral wings of the pelvis upward.
Its artistry adds to the beauty of the pelvis like sculpture; The spiral-like structure in the pelvic bone helps to draw the deep vitality of the whole body to carry out swirl-like movement.
The curved edge above the ilium has many muscle attachment points, including the muscle extending from the abdomen down and the muscle climbing up from both sides of the leg.
Like a railway dispatching yard, each train track will meet in this multi-directional operation center, like a rotating pivot.
The bending part of each iliac bone enables the leg, hip joint socket and lateral waist to carry out various changes and amplitude movements; To facilitate these movements, muscle fibers (such as gluteus medius) on the outside of the pelvis will twist and extend.
It is impossible to show the beauty of the three-dimensional spiral shape of the iliac bone with a plane diagram, which can only be fully experienced in sports.
The spiral shape in and around the pelvis can greatly help the sinuous movement and flow of Kundalini’s power.
The towering arch of the ilium forms a funnel-like chute, which reaches directly to the bottom of the pelvis at the tip of the tailbone; The bottom of the pelvis gradually becomes conical, forming an incomplete sphere, which not only reflects but also corresponds to the shape of the skull in many aspects.
Therefore, imagine that we have two skulls: the skull at the top of the spine is an almost completely closed sphere; The pelvis at the base of the spine is closed on both sides, but there are openings at the upper and lower ends.
The motion of the two spheres is synchronous.
In this chapter, we will see that the sacrum, which forms the posterior part of the pelvis, and the occipital bone, which forms the posterior skull, are connected by joints to form a part of the craniosacral system.
We usually think that talent only exists in the skull, but the “skull” of the pelvis also stores some wisdom; In yoga, wisdom is far from the planning strategy of the rational brain, but focuses on the instinctive power of Kundalini.
From the perspective of evolution, it is really a remarkable phenomenon to stand upright on two legs.
Walking on two legs is something we take for granted, but we never thought that “standing” is a real challenge, because from the perspective of structure, it is much easier and more efficient to move on four legs than on two legs; In the quadruped position, the force can be evenly distributed between the pelvis and the shoulder girdle.
Therefore, the task of “maintaining a balanced spine” is much easier for hyenas, reindeer and pumas.
Standing on two legs is like standing on stilts, because our center of gravity will support up and away from the ground, so the kinetic energy force will often be suppressed and locked in the hip joint.
In yoga, hip opening involves outward rotation to extend and strengthen the fan-shaped muscles that extend outward along the outer hip.
For most students, relaxing the tightness and compression of hips is the hardest work in yoga practice.
For the two groups of animals, the design of the top end of the femur is unique, because the angle of the thigh bone near the end of the body (turning to the hip socket) almost reaches a right angle, and this joint is called the femoral head; Just like the cervical vertebra, the upper femur is also likely to cause pain in the femoral neck.
Fortunately, the spherical shell of the hip socket containing the spherical femoral head above the femur can obtain sufficient cushioning of cartilage; The cartilage here is like the sponge-like surface treated with rubber on the indoor tennis court or track and field facilities — solid and not easy to bend, but still full of some elasticity.
The spherical bearing of the femoral head is further buffered and lubricated by a viscous fluid called “joint fluid”.
Because of necessity, the ligaments extending across the hip joint (iliofemoral ligament) are tough and strong, and are one of the strongest ligaments in the body.
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