PSOAS Workshop II
This second psoas workshop, Deep Messenger, takes us beyond anatomy. Building on the first workshop, we explore the psoas as a sensory organ of perception and messenger of the midline.
We track how it passes through the root, sacral and solar plexuses and how it quietly registers safety, threat, abandonment and belonging. We look at primal fear not as a problem to get rid of, but as the body’s “I might not survive / I might be left / I might be overwhelmed” signal, and how the psoas curls, hardens or lets go in response.
Through teaching, dialogue and slow, precise movement, you begin to read the felt language of the psoas—tightening, trembling, fatigue, softening, pulses of power—as information rather than as something to override.
Practically, we work with constructive rest, micro-movements, breath, sound and simple standing and walking patterns to invite the psoas out of chronic bracing and back into a pendulum, fluid motion. The emphasis is on containment: how to hold primal fear in the body without collapsing or armouring, so that the same charge can re-organise as clarity, presence and spiritual energy.
Deep Messenger is less about “fixing” a hip flexor and more about meeting an inner ally—learning how the psoas tells you when you are centred and congruent, and when you have left yourself and need to come back.