Stalking Wild Psoas – Gathering The Bones ~ A Collaboration with Sarah Byrden Amsterdam

A Stalking Wild Workshop

GATHERING THE BONES
a collaboration with
Liz Koch & Sarah Byrden

ART CREDIT: Kunst | „La Loba – Knochenflüsterer“ – Marissa Quinn

I might say she lives among the rotten granite slopes in Tarahumara Indian territory. Or that she is buried outside Phoenix near a well. Perhaps she will be seen traveling south to Monte Alban in a bunt-out car with the back window shot out Or maybe she will be spotted standing by the highway near El Paso, or riding shotgun with truckers to Morelia, Mexico, or walking to market above Oaxaca with strangely formed boughs of firewood on her back. She calls herself by many names: La Huesera, Bone Woman; La Trapera, The Gatherer, and La Loba, Wolf Woman.

~ Women Who Run with the Wolves: Contacting the Power of the Wild Woman by Clarissa Pinkola Estes   ~

Friday & Saturday  November 21 & 22, 2025

A  somatic movement exploration
This workshop is open to every body.
Through flows of archetypal qigong, primal expression, dream, and reflection we will work with the story of La Loba

The import and impact of story, archetype, and symbol is a language that cuts through to speak directly in soul-language… with flashes of insight and direct bone-knowing.

~ Sarah Byrden ~

Moving with the ancient story of La Loba, from the book Women Who Run with the Wolves as retold by cuentista Clarissa Pinkola Estes PhD, we work with the wise old woman who lives within each of us and whose sole [soul] task is to gather scattered and lost bones.

The work of gathering our bones asks us to peer between worlds, to listen with a kind of soul-ear — to search the wild earth of ourselves, both past and present, for what has been lost and must be put back in its rightful place so that we can take our truest shape in this world.

Movements and energies carry profound wisdom and transformative power in our lives and in our world. We cannot access these qualities just in our minds.
We must remember what they feel like in our gestures.

The deepest parts of us recognize the power of sensation, symbol, and physical gesture.
Somatically through direct perception and creatively through movement and gesture we take a powerful journey of reclamation and return.
Entering the deep Wild territory of our lives.

Sarah Byrden is a somatic practitioner, Qigong practitioner, educator and wilderness guide. A two time TEDx presenter, Sarah has dedicated over twenty years to the deep study and apprenticeship of nature-based movement modalities. Teaching from her own life-long journey, she is the founder of The Elemental Self, which offers pathways for remembering our true self, the web in which we belong, and our innate capacity to move and be moved by a source beyond our conditioning.

Liz Koch is a conceptual artist exploring the deep sensory system and the wild wisdom of core Psoas. An international somatic educator and author with 45 years of experience, she is the creator of Core Awareness™ and the author of The Psoas Book; Core Awareness: Enhancing Yoga, Pilates, Exercise & Dance; Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence; and her upcoming book Birth Savvy. Liz focuses on kinesthetic intelligence, direct perception,  and somatic awareness as a means of unfolding our human potential. Stalking Wild Psoas is her passion and Changing the Language of Body is her mission.