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Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-DEC-03 		Format: Online - approximately 823 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Ever get the instruction "move from your psoas" in your dance class? The psoas (pronounced SO-az), a revered but misunderstood muscle hidden away deep within the pelvis, receives one of the most frequent references in dance training. So where is your psoas and how can it work for you?

"Psoas" is a Greek word, like many anatomy terms, which literally means "muscle of the loin." It technically has a major and a minor part that work along with its companion muscle, the iliacus. Together they are called the iliopsoas, and they comprise the deep hip flexors. The iliopsoas runs in your abdomen behind the organs, along the front of the spine, and ends at a point in the inner leg called the...

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