July 2021
Looking at Trauma through the Lens of Psoas
Looking at Trauma through the Lens of Psoas adds an essential piece to the conversation. As mammals our healthy psoas moves us through metabolizing our experiences. Our Wild Primal Expressions are essential for both survival and thriving. How do we freeze? How do we flee or fight? What curls us into a ball for protection or stretches us to expand and ward off ? Trauma is defined as any short or long term overwhelming experience that ignites the…
Find out more »Resolving One-sided Psoas Issues
Throughout 45 years of teaching most students and clients come to see me with one sided psoas problems. But resolving this dilemma is never just one sided. The psoas is a whole complex and needs to be understood as part of the NeuroCore™ or center of movement. The importance of reestablishing core integrity cannot be emphasized enough. A centered pelvis is the most important step in reestablishing core integrity. Proper positioning of bones, increasing proprioception, and maintaining muscular balance are vital…
Find out more »Stalking Wild Psoas Workshop NCBTMB Accredited (Zoom) 2021
An ONLINE 4-day process-oriented, play and re-wilding psoas workshop focused on restoring, through nourishing, the bio-intelligent psoas using micro-non-linear, multi-dimensional, fluid movement, and sound frequency. This offering is an opportunity to heal psoas issues and awaken your core integrity. Just as a tree, grown in a restricted container, never reaches its full potential, so too a domesticated and/or overly trained psoas is never dynamically expressive - our soulful, animal body..our true nature bound within social decorum, linear patterns, and…
Find out more »Re-Awakening Your Spinal Curves
Re-Awakening Your Spinal Curves Movement Explorations for Regaining Spinal Resiliency In the western perspective, it is often thought best to avoid collapsing and curling inward. There are abundant techniques for stabilizing the spine that provide support like an angle or a cable used to reinforce a center-post. Shaping tissue surrounding the spinal vertebrae like armor commanding control, spine is concretized into a column. The spinal column is then carried forth by the two legs. Inadvertently involving psoas, this mechanistic view…
Find out more »August 2021
BASIC (12-Hr) Psoas Workshop (NCBTMB Approved) via Zoom
Thank you so much for the workshop over the weekend. It was the most amazing, eye opening and inspiring workshop... It answered a lot of my questions and made me think about a whole lot more! I also really appreciate your generosity with your knowledge and not rushing through any answers to our questions. I know this is just the beginning of my journey with your training. (2021 Workshop Participant) 3-Day ONLINE Basic Psoas workshop, open to every body, limited…
Find out more »September 2021
Weights & Fluid Movement
“The primary characteristic of any fluid system is in its ability to keep transforming itself.” Emilie Conrad Exploring the use of weights in movement, as both a support and an energizing effect on our fluid system, is the focus of this class. By hydrating all tissue including the juicy psoas our potential for increasing strength and resiliency is benefited by exploring weight. Val Loeffner modeled for Core Awareness: Enhancing Yoga Pilates Exercise & Dance and teaches jungle gym classes https://innerdance.com/class-descriptions/…
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