22/05/2026
Has your lower back been quietly talking to you?
Long hours at a desk. Long commutes. A sport played on one side for years. A habit of holding tension in the hips when life gets heavy. The pelvis quietly absorbs all of it — shifting, tilting, finding new positions to manage the load — until those positions become the new normal.
When we sit — at a desk, in a car, on a sofa — the hip flexors slowly shorten. And as they shorten, they pull the front of the pelvis downward, tipping it into what we call anterior tilt. The lumbar spine follows, arching slightly more than it should, and the load that was designed to be distributed across a healthy curve begins to concentrate in places it was never meant to hold.
This happens over months. Over years. Long before there is any pain, the pattern is already forming.
In STOTT Pilates, we work with something called pelvic placement. Before we ask the body to move, we ask it to simply find where the pelvis belongs — a position we call neutral, where the natural curve of the lumbar spine is preserved and the bones of the pelvis rest in their natural balance. Not tucked, not tilted. Just home.
If your lower back has been speaking to you lately — through tightness, through aching, through that persistent sense that something is slightly off — this is often where the conversation begins.
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