Move Your Pubic Bones!
Susan Koenig 4-20-2024
What do we know about the pubic bones? Most of us would have to say not very much! Even if we know about the pubic bones, we usually picture them in our minds as one straight bone at the bottom of our abdomen/belly. In fact, there are two public bones, one disc called the pubic symphysis between the two bones, and two joints. The two joints are where each hemipelvis joins to its side of the pubic disc.
We have been led to believe that there is extremely minimal movement at these joints. However, although we can’t voluntarily move these joints like we can the hip or shoulder joints, movement at the pubic joints does occur when we move other joints. The same six fundamental movements of our three dimensions of space go through these joints—flexion and extension, right and left lateral flexion, and right and left rotation. During this session, we’ll experience our pubic bones moving forward and backward (sagittal plane), up and down (coronal plane), and rotating right and left (transverse plane).
Change your perception, change your mobility. How exciting is that!
Susan Koenig CHSE, was in Wave 1, Thomas Hanna’s, Hanna Somatic Education training in 1990. Since that time, she has been practicing, teaching a Saturday morning movement class (now monthly), and is part of the Novato Institute’s Teaching Team.