The Adductor Family is five muscles strong and shapes the inner thighs from the insides of the knees to the sit bones underneath you to the lower pelvic bowl front of the body. It’s an ancient and powerful family, with the Magnus filling the role of Kingpin, or, some call it, Queenpin. If you belong to the medical, fitness, or dance field, you likely will be aware of the Magnus. Still, most people are unfamiliar with the Magnus, let alone the Adductor Family, even though this family is directly connected to your health and well-being.
Before visualizing the unfamiliar, it can help to link to a familiar aspect. For example, everyone is familiar with family systems. Some families are based on connectivity and love, and others are based on trauma-informed foundations passed down through the generations. If you aren’t that familiar with your Adductor Families, chances are they are out of balance or, worse, in a state of dysfunction. However, your muscles don’t have a mind of their own, and they depend on the signals they receive sent by your thoughts for organizational purposes.
You might not be familiar with the many ways in which your pelvic bowl is important for overall health and stability. Still, the relationship between the Adductor Family and the pelvic bowl is tight. We are all familiar with the complex issues within relationships. When you make an effort to make friends with the position of your pelvic bowl, it becomes evident that chronic tilt or scoop patterns shut the Adductor Family down. When these primary organizational muscles are ignored, the feet no longer know how to speak to the rest of the body.
Most people are familiar with being shut down in one way or another. It doesn’t feel good, and if it goes on long enough, the condition severely compromises authentic expression. We can have empathy, then, for the ignored Adductor Families in lockdown.
It is our thoughts that run the show, and anxious thoughts are signals to tighten or disengage. Choking or freezing up under pressure forces the body to abandon flow for protection. We all are familiar with looking at images every day of our life. They are everywhere. So when your thoughts run amok and send battle signals to the muscles, observe a visual of the Adductor Family, or of the pelvic bowl, instead. When you visualize where your muscles attach and their relationship to each other, they get to wake up and return to fulfilling their role of mindfulness in motion.
