Why the Sacrum Shouldn’t Bear Your Weight | Free Your Spine & Hips

Why does moving through the sacrum often lock the spine?

This video explores pelvic weight transfer, sacrum movement, and how freeing the pelvis can increase spine mobility and hip stability.

Traditional kinesiology teachers that the sacrum is the keystone between the legs. However, when this is embodied, it locks the spine. Transferring our weight from one leg to the other through our sacrum locks the bottom of the spine to the two pelvic bones.

When we transfer our weight from one leg to the other through the pubic disk in the front of the pelvis, it frees our spine. Our sacrum and legs are free to move independently of each other, which provides increased stability and mobility in our low back and hips.

Embryologically, the left pelvic bone develops with the left leg as a unit and the right pelvic bone develops with the right leg as a unit. The sacrum develops with the spine and cranial bones. Function follows form. When we go back to the development of the form, it helps us to understand the function.

This clips is from Bonnie's on-demand course Embodying Authenticity, Organicity, and Expression: Organs and Glands as a Foundation for Movement, Touch, and Voice A Body-Mind Centering® Approach. Take the full course.