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Yo u r M & B i s w o r t h 2 C E s ! G o t o w w w. a b m p . c o m / c e t o l e a r n m o r e . 75 and juicy, our psoas speaks to safety and coherency. By slowing down, softening, and simply pausing, natural rhythms make their re-appearance, recalibrating our system toward resolution and increasing coherency. In these slow pauses, a trough within a wave provides an opportunity to increase our consciousness. Making sound offers a vibrational resonance that can move tissue, dissolve density, and soften conditioned inhibitors. These nourishing vibrations are carried through wave motion into far-reaching terrains of being, awakening a cellular dance—a gesture of longing and interconductivity. Just as the snake sheds its skin, these cyclical rhythms are biological expressions that refresh our being and invigorate our awareness of self and other. Slowing down also affords more presence in a world that inextricably exhibits an array of ecological and global reactions. The psoas as both personal and global speaks to distress calls from our species as well as all other living beings. Staying close to the earth is one of the many ways to maintain co- regulation. In order to educate people about their psoas, my psoas must stay connected to core intelligence—as every psoas knows psoas. No amount of comforting words or hyperbole will do what showing up and holding space can do for the human species. RE-WILDING PSOAS Decolonizing our static, mechanistic perspective of body is an important step in regaining biological coherency. It includes not only a cognitive process requiring the re-evaluation of language, assumptions, and intentions, but also a sensory process requiring a shift in our awareness toward subtle impressions that evoke new experiences of self. A curiosity to forage our own physicality is necessary if we wish to develop and mature our somatic awareness and awaken consciousness. Thoughts, after all, are literally shaped by movement. If movements are repetitive, redundant, controlled, or militaristic, how is it possible for diverse rivulets of perception to meander or new inspirations to spring forth? Ultimately, it is our core intelligence that can support not only the functional psoas but also our curiosity, innovation, and creative play. Play in all its many forms— specifi cally intuitive, instinctive play—is the creative force that nourishes and strengthens both our inner and internetworking relationships with all life forms. Directly experiencing our aliveness by way of our somatic sensory system enables a conscious participation in a universal intelligence that dissolves mind/body dualism along with its fi xation on reductionist constructs, perceptions, and language. Old terms begin to lose their vitality and fall away while a new language burgeons, blossoms, and thrives. The wild psoas begins to reappear as a different critter than the psoas objectifi ed as muscle. Liminal and orbital, the wild psoas appears as a 360-degree receiver, transmitter, and inner communicator. Embodying the wild psoas is not a task to achieve but an adventure requiring childlike play. Rewilding the psoas—reclaiming what is felt deep inside and bringing it into the world—is not work but a creative expression: a fl ourishing. Turning toward direct perception with heartfelt open attention is a powerful way of waking up not only a dynamic core but also to the fullness of life. Ask yourself, what does my heart desire? What do I long for? This can be the beginning of listening in awe to the wilderness within. Our heart, like our wild psoas, is tuned to the rhythms of planetary and universal longing. When we follow the circuitous rhythms of longing, our kind, curious heart is present to each moment of unfolding. There is no blind following or obedience necessary to become whole. No "right" action is required. Wholeness is our birthright; the urging of these profound longings As a diagonal moving pendulum eliciting free swing of the leg, the psoas energetically connects heart to foot. Receptive, supple, fl uid, and juicy, our psoas speaks to safety and coherency.