Did you know that you can move your tail bone just like you can move all your vertebra? At least you should be able to, but to feel it you may have to do a little digging. The best place to try it is in the shower. Next time you take a shower, find your tailbone with your finger. You don’t actually have to go too deep into any crevices to find it. When I was in China and getting a massage, the therapist rubbed my tailbone. That was shocking and unwelcomed, but when you are searching for your own it’s not that invasive.
Once you find it, by engaging your pelvic floor (think do a Kegel) you should be able to feel it wiggle just a little bit. Think of the range of motion you can get from the first joint of your pointer finger. It’s not a big movement, but you should feel something.
The tailbone is really the last bone of your spine. If something in the body is meant to have mobility, we want to keep it mobile. Since everything is connected, if your pelvic floor is too tight or too slack that effects the positioning of the tailbone, which is connected to the sacrum, which is connected to the lumbar spine, so one influences the other. If you’ve ever broken your tail bone or had coccyx pain, you know firsthand how much your tailbone matters. It can make sitting a miserable experience.
Once you can feel it moving, you don’t always need to actually find your tailbone to recreate this exercise. It’s just worth finding the first time because it’s cool. Obviously.
Once in a while just move it. Do Kegel exercises, both engaging and relaxing the pelvic floor to wag your tailbone.
Have fun playing. I think I’ll skip the video on how to do this one for obvious reasons. But if you’ve felt yours move, and you don’t mind sharing, I’d love to hear it!
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I actually practice wagging my tailbone a lot. I have tried to wag it all day voluntarily to see if its possible. I am learning how closely related it is to emotion caused by thought or other things, for example what you might hear while in a public place. I’ve also noticed different wags it can have. There’s a circular wag and an up down wag which are the two most common. wagging it slowly can keep me calm, and a single wag seems to have an effect on my ears and controlling single wags may be control over emotion. It also seems to create a dizzyness in my balance system and sometimes when I get dizzy from thought I can control my tail wagging and feel it in my balance system.
Wow!
Well needless to say I had to try it.
Yup it moves! Kind of shocking being a nurse for over 30 years not knowing these series of bones can be voluntarily moved by their owner!
So cool, isn’t it? I love the body! Thanks for reading!
OMG i can wag my tailbone!
You bet you can!!!
Where is the tail bone located?
At the very base of your spine…below the sacrum.
Tailbone magic!
I haven’t tried to wag my tailbone, but I understand the power the tailbone holds.
I suffer chronic, unspeakably painful shocks like lightning striking from inside my bones. My bones feel hollow and delicate like “bird bones” and the bolts spread to the blood vessels and veins in my feet, ankles, wrists, hands, and fingers and up to the neck and right ear making it painful to swallow and even listening is painful.
It feels like the pain will kill me UNTIL I apply pressure on the very tip of my tailbone (usually with a self-heating moxabustion patch).
Then Euphoria!!
I also really love the feeling I get when I rotate my hips in tiny, controlled circles.
I named my walking stick Uadjet, loosely translates as spine in English.
The medical doctors have no idea why this is happening. Testing for three years with multiple, extended hospitalizations reveals nothing.
Even the strongest IV pain medication does little to relieve the suffering.
Medical testing for autoimmune markers as the cause are completely negative. No lupus. No Lyme’s disease. No diabetes.
Thank you for sharing this. Namaste
Una– I am so sorry you are going through this. It’s so difficult when we are in pain and the answers aren’t apparent. While I don’t claim to be an expert in the matter, I have had Lyme disease and both times my test came back negative (long story short). So if Lyme has been ruled out by bloodwork alone, I may look a little deeper. And I LOVE the name of your walking stick!