Musings

Honoring Our Reptilian Brain by Bowing Down

July 12, 2021 by lizkoch
Honoring Our Reptilian Brain by Bowing Down
MUSINGS FOUND FROM LONG AGO... …I woke this morning with the realization that what I do is dip intentionally into the limbic reptilian brain. The flow is not just an upward motion into reflection, which for many assumes that reflection is the best place to be…. but to honor the animal... [Read more...]

TRAUMA: CAN IT TRANSFORM OUR CONSCIOUSNESS?

June 28, 2021 by lizkoch
TRAUMA: CAN IT TRANSFORM OUR CONSCIOUSNESS?
              Migrating, adapting, transforming are natural processes of being alive. Turmoil: something every species experiences.  From galaxies to quarks all living and nonliving forms change. What if disruption, devastation and even suffering are simply a natural part of... [Read more...]

POTBOUND ~ Life force bound up becomes a stranglehold

June 17, 2021 by lizkoch
POTBOUND ~ Life force bound up becomes a stranglehold
When our life force becomes all bound up, it can become a stranglehold on our deepest longings and creativity, smothering our human potential. Early this spring I brought home a young fig tree. Here in the heartlands, spring is the very best time to transplant a plotted plant. The... [Read more...]

R A G E…Fear & Psoas

May 25, 2021 by lizkoch
R A G E…Fear & Psoas
  Recently while watching a dad carry his crying 2-year-old son through the airport, I heard him telling this small child to “stop it." Sensing this dad’s frustration, I felt his threatening tone reverberating through my own body. This raised some important questions: what does it... [Read more...]

Coming to Our Senses as White Women

March 23, 2021 by lizkoch
Coming to Our Senses as White Women
I recently taught a zoom class for women titled “Race & Body: Dissolving Whiteness in Core Expression.” I have this belief that sensory explorations can dissolve the dissonance and unintended power over gestures that are being underscored in our society and which are often embodied in our... [Read more...]

Moving Whiteness: Re-Wilding Our Animal Body

February 17, 2021 by lizkoch
Moving Whiteness: Re-Wilding Our Animal Body
Shortly after completing my final manuscript of Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence, a book that focuses on rewilding psoas by changing the language of body from object to living process, I came across My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our... [Read more...]

Welcome to Core Awareness™

Liz Koch is an international educator and author who seeks to dissolve the objectification of “body” in order to re-conceptualize human beings as biologically intelligent, self-organizing, and self-healing. Employing biomorphic and embryonic paradigms, Liz redefines psoas as smart, expressive tissue that is both elemental and universal.

Core Awareness fosters core integrity and self-efficacy as creative and expressive human beings.

Here at Core Awareness you’ll discover new ways of understanding the psoas. In addition to the blogs there is an educationally rich sourcing free for the taking. Explore my videos, articles, podcasts, interviews, FAQ’s and community links and let yourself go wild!