HIPS + PELVIS

Engaging One’s Self

The Hips symbolizes how we engage and move in the world.

Hips:

• Questioning movements and actions one is taking or about to take.
• Presenting in the elderly, the tendency to break hips from falling, due to being fearful of the future.
• Sometimes reveal challenges in letting go of the past.
• Feelings of hopelessness present themselves here, due to adopting the perspective that there is nothing to look forward to.

Our Pelvis symbolizes our sense of self and identity.

Pelvis:

• Signifies social and sharing issues.
• Expression of one’s direction and movement.
• Security, survival, communication, relationships.
• Pelvic region reveals relationship with parents, as well as how you relate to yourself.
• Reveals one’s sense of self, identity.
• The essence of who one truly is.
• Deep issues of power and control. Tight gluteus muscles — tendency to hide our deepest inner feelings.