• Strenghtening

Asanas which brings the tights and abdomen closer to each other activate the psoas. You can start your practice with standing poses as Parvottanasana, Prasarita Padottasana, followed by Navasana and hand balances of different kind.

For example in Navasana the psoas helps to bring the abdomen closer to the things, as well as lift the lower back with this taking the weight down from the discs.

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• Lenghtening and relaxing   

Backbends not only energize but also lenghten the psoas. However real reliaf comes in poses such as

As an adult, learning to consciously release your psoas can rekindle vital energies by re-establishing your connection to your body’s internal signals—your instinctual somatic wisdom. Releasing your psoas encourages this process by allowing you to trust your skeletal stability instead of holding yourself up by muscular effort. Sensing your bones supporting weight translates into a physical and emotional feeling of “standing on your own two feet.” With a properly functioning psoas, the bones bear weight, the muscles move the bones, and the joints connect the subtle energies of the body. Energy flows through the joints, offering a sense of continuity, like the string flowing through a pearl necklace that transforms it into something more than the sum of its parts. The psoas, by conducting energy, grounds us to the earth, just as a grounding wire prevents shocks and eliminates static on a radio. Freed and grounded, the spine can awaken.