Increase Your Core Support through Engaging the Crura of Your Thoracic Diaphragm

The thoracic diaphragm is a double-domed muscle. It has two crura that go along the front of the spine. I have found, through embodied research, that the crura go from the foramen magnum (base of the skull) to the tip coccyx. This is different from what is found in the traditional literature, which typically says the crura only go from T12 down to about L2-L4.

Finding and embodying your crura down to the tip of your coccyx (tail) and up to your foramen magnum (base of skull) can give support to your spine, without holding, tightening, or forcing your spine into a specific posture or position. The crura give a counter strength along the front of the spine that provides deep core support.

The dorsal aorta is a central pivot around which the diaphragm folds into the inferior crura. This meeting point is a common place of holding. When there is an issue in the area of the dorsal aorta, going to the crura can be helpful to free the holding and pressure there.

In this course, we go deeper into how our endocrine glands relate to and inform us about our muscles, bones, and joints and how the support of our muscles relate to and inform us about our endocrine glands.

This clip is from my on-demand course Embodying Authenticity, Organicity, and Expression: Organs and Glands as a Foundation for Movement, Touch, and Voice.