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Hydrating Movements for Spinal Midline and Psoas – Using a Ball
Liz Koch, author of The Psoas Book and Core Awareness: Enhancing Yoga, Pilates, Exercise, and Dance explains and demonstrates a simple exploration for softening and hydrating connective tissue: spine midline, and Psoas. Using an inflatable type of exercise ball, almost fully deflated, Liz shows how this simple tool can help you re-discover primal movement along the body midline.
Unraveling Psoas on Land – Using a Chair
Liz Koch, author of The Psoas Book, explains and demonstrates unraveling the Psoas muscle on land using a simple kitchen chair. Using a chair for unraveling the core Psoas offers a fun, creative way of counteracting every day tension patterns, eliciting a dynamic responsive nervous system, and maintaining a juicy Psoas. (more…)
Core Awareness Exploration: Fetal Curl Expression
Freezing, Curling, and Arcing are three core gestures of the primitive midline and are primal expressions of Psoas (messenger of the midline). (more…)
Core Awareness Exploration: Warding Off Expression
Freezing, Curling, and Arcing are three core gestures of the primitive midline and are primal expressions of Psoas (messenger of the midline). (more…)
Using Balls for Increased Buoyancy and Resiliency
Liz Koch, author of The Psoas Book and Core Awareness: Enhancing Yoga, Pilates, Exercise, and Dance explains and demonstrates 3 simple exploration for softening and hydrating connective tissue using 3 different size balls. Psoas, as fluid tissue, benefits from working with hydrating techniques that increase our sense of buoyancy. Liz introduces each ball for increasing sensing how bones float, experiencing ground reaction force, and dynamically moving diaphragms. See Core Awareness; Enhancing Yoga, Pilates, Exercise & Dance for Liz Koch for more ideas and approaches that nourish psoas, increase proprioception, and hydrate connective tissue. (more…)
Peek into a Movement Exploration and Follow Along
This one and a half hour video is a peek into a Movement Exploration that I taught my participants of the 10-month Professional Application Course. In that course I work with people to refine their movement as well as to work with how they might apply these explorations to their profession. This video is helpful for anyone interested in understanding the complexity of the Psoas. We move right into primal restorative gestures as part of what this tissue, we call Psoas really is about as we focus on vital relationships: Head & Pelvis; Tail to Tongue; Psoas & Trapezius; Mastoid to Sacrum; Psoas & Quadratus Lumborum; Opening Side body for Orbital Psoas; Cross Patterning and Core Awareness.
Core Strength Box Squat to Balance Pelvis with Deric Stockton
Liz Koch author of The Psoas Book explains how to gain core strength while maintaining a supple Psoas by enhancing pelvic integrity. What often appears to be a weak Psoas muscle is really an overused, misused and abused Psoas due to pelvic disruptions. The video shows 3 important steps for balancing your pelvis; good positioning, the right idea, and proprioceptive awareness. (more…)
Hydrating Movements for Hip Socket – Using a Pool
Somatic movement in water benefits a healthy, responsive fluid psoas as it passes over the ball and socket joint.
Unraveling Psoas in Water
Liz Koch, author of The Psoas Book, explains and demonstrates unraveling the core Psoas muscle in water. Returning to warm water (and ones embryonic memory) activates and supports a deep regenerative process within the core. The slow, rhythmic, weightless surrender releases tension, while being moved by the fluid nature of water hydrates the “filet mignon” Psoas. (more…)
Psoas and Women’s Sexual expression, Pleasure and Core Integrity
Sex Educator Connie Eberhart speaks with Liz Koch (author of The Psoas Book and the “crone” in Maiden, Mother, Crone: Our Pleasure Playlist) about women’s sexual expression, pleasure, and core Integrity.
Visual Overview of In-Depth Psoas Workshop – Amsterdam
Nascholing over de Psoas met Liz Koch, Akademie voor Massage en Beweging offers a visual overview of an 18-Hr In-depth Psoas Workshop
Sensory Overload: Valuing Kinesthetic Intelligence for Integration & Coherency
Janine Naccarato recounts her personal, developmental, and soulful process as a child with sensory overload being labeled a behavioral problem to awakening an expansive whole-brain functioning through body intelligence and movement. As a Kinesthetic educator, Janine describes the power of motion as the Great Regulator for increasing our capacity for Creativity, Relationship, Self-Regulation, and Coherency.
Attuning to Fluid Verticality for Coherency, Juicy Psoas, and Creative Potential
Dr. Darrell Sanchez is a licensed somatic psychotherapist, Rolfer, and dancer who has designed a tool for exploring vertical fluidity. By attuning with gravitational flows the Original Tuning Board ™offers a psycho-kinetic tool for activating a free flow of sensory and motor possibilities. Liz Koch and Dr. Sanchez discuss how engaging with our fluid verticality changes our state of being, grows our confidence, and fosters our human potential.
BEING TOO MUCH a conversation with Anasuya Isaacs
Together Liz Koch and Anasuya (BEING TOO MUCH ATM) conjure what it means when women are told they are TOO MUCH… or not enough…and everything in between. Modernity, Patriarchy, Paternalism, Colonization, Capitalism, Racism, Religion all continue to define “Woman” – her value and her place in the world. But what if we unlock the “shoulds” and become truly who we are? What if we as women have the AUDACITY to embrace the immensity of our divine creative possibilities; to nourish the WILD and truly flourish?
