Anterior Pelvic Tilt
Unwind an anterior pelvic tilt
That deep arch in your lower back and belly-forward stance isn't a stretching problem — it's a movement pattern. We ease it by teaching your pelvis to load and move properly again through standing and walking.
Recognise the pattern?
Anterior pelvic tilt is when the top of the pelvis rotates forward, exaggerating the curve of the lower back. It often shows up as:
- A pronounced arch in the lower back ("hyperlordosis")
- A stance where the belly and hips push forward
- Tight, short-feeling hip flexors and lower back
- Glutes and deep core that never quite "switch on"
- Lower-back tightness or fatigue after standing
- A stomach that looks pushed out even when you're lean
Why stretching alone rarely fixes it
The internet's answer to anterior pelvic tilt is usually "stretch your hip flexors and plank." Those can feel good, but they treat the tilt as a flexibility or isolated-strength issue. It isn't. It's how your pelvis is positioned and controlled every time you stand and take a step.
Long hours of sitting shorten the front of the hips and teach the body to move without real hip extension — the moment in a stride where you push the ground away behind you. Lose that, and the lower back arches to make up the difference. Breathing high into the chest tips the rib cage and pelvis further out of stack.
So we don't just chase the tight bits. We rebuild the pattern: restore hip extension in your gait, re-stack the rib cage over the pelvis with better breathing, and teach the glutes and deep core to do their job inside real movement — which is what actually changes your resting posture.
The Functional Patterns take: the pelvis is the hub of human movement. Train it to load correctly through walking and standing, and the exaggerated arch has no reason to stay.
How we'll work on it
Assess your stance & gait
We measure how your pelvis sits and moves, and find where hip extension and rib-cage position are being lost.
Release & re-stack
Myofascial release for the overworked front-of-hip and lower-back tissue, plus breathing work to bring the rib cage back over the pelvis.
Retrain hip extension
Standing and walking drills that rebuild real glute and hamstring engagement, so your pelvis stops relying on the lower back to hold you up.
Integrate & reinforce
Progress the pattern into stronger movement and give you targeted homework so the change holds outside the studio.
Ready to level your pelvis?
Book an initial consultation for a full assessment and a step-by-step plan to unwind the tilt at its source.
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