Deep front line
This is a large, wide fascial entity which runs through the deeper layers of the body. Nicknamed the “anchor line” as it has the role of working like an anchor on which the superficial lines can do their work more easily.
There are also quite a few times when this line has been referred to the ‘core’ as most movement, emotion, breath comes from the Deep Front Line. It’s said that this is where we can find a lot of our deepest pains and traumas stored on a physical and emotional level.
The Deep Front Line is responsible for stabilising and supporting the body, hence it’s reference to the core, and don’t forget its connection to the pelvic floor, breath and …. emotion!
It passes through muscles including the:
- Flexor Hallucis Longus (a posterior leg muscle involved in moving the great toe and foot)
- Flexor Digitorum Longus (a thin muscle that belongs to the deep posterior muscles of the leg)
- Tibialis Posterior (the most central of all the leg muscles, and is located in the deep posterior part of the leg)
- Popliteus
- Adductor Magnus
- Pelvic Floor
- Adductors
- Pectineus
- Psoas Minor/Major
- Iliacus
- Quadratus Lumborum
- Thoracolumbar Fascia (worth mentioning as it’s a large, roughly diamond-shaped area of connective tissue constituted by the thoracic and lumbar parts of the deep fascia enclosing the intrinsic back muscles)
- Tranverse Abdominis
- Diaphragm
- Scalenes
- Muscles of the jaw
- Temoralis
As mentioned earlier the DFL is an anchor to the other lines, so it is constantly working with stretch and tension.
A great way to release it, is at the end of the class in relaxation. You can put a block under your sacrum to increase the stretch or lengthen your arm over head or .. just simply chill.
