BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Core Awareness - ECPv6.17.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://coreawareness.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Core Awareness REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20190310T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20191103T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20200308T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20201101T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20210314T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20211107T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20220313T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20221106T070000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Indiana/Indianapolis BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Monterrey BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20190407T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20191027T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20200405T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20201025T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20210404T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20211031T070000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210129T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210131T133000 DTSTAMP:20210127T235223Z CREATED:20201214T122938Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210127T235223Z UID:10000581-1611912600-1612099800@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:BASIC (12-Hr) Psoas Workshop (NCBTMB Approved) Via Zoom DESCRIPTION:3-Day ONLINE Basic Psoas workshop\, open to every body\, limited to 18 participants \nThis course offers a great way to learn through experience how your intelligent Psoas informs you about skeletal integrity\, joint rotation\, muscular tension\, breathing\, emotional expression\, and organ functioning. A healthy Psoas facilitates healing\, movement\, and fitness while reducing over all stress and is a vital step toward resolving injury and trauma.  \n\n\n\n\nDevelop Your Core Awareness: \n\nUnderstand how a healthy Psoas supports movement\, strength\, endurance & well-being\nExperience practical ways of sensing your own Psoas\nLearn to soften\, lengthen and revitalize your Psoas\nGain tools for recovering and maintaining a healthy Psoas\nExplore the energetic/emotional/spiritual dynamics of your physical core\nImprove neurological proprioception and skeletal balance\nApply concepts to everyday movement i.e. sitting\, driving\, and walking\n\nDeepen and broaden your practice whether that be Pilates\, Gyrotonic\, Massage\, Bodywork\, Somatic Movement\, Fitness\, Athletics\, Dance\, Yoga\, Martial Arts\, Psychology… \nRECOMMENDED READING: The Psoas Book \nCANCELLATION POLICY:  Please read my complete cancellation policy available online before registering. Online courses can not be canceled once you have received access to online course material and link. \n \nNational Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB) Approved \nThis is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork for 12 hours of continuing education credit (CEU). For more information on the NCBTMB\, please visit their website. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/basic-zoom-january-2021/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/psoas-featured.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20201210T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20201213T133000 DTSTAMP:20201121T025353Z CREATED:20200827T182107Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201121T025353Z UID:10000420-1607590800-1607866200@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Stalking Wild Psoas Workshop NCBTMB Accredited (Zoom) DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\n \nAn 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 repetitive movement becomes stifled and possibly dry. \nBe moved from deep within and awaken your inner strength and creativity!   \n \n PREREQUISITE:  It is required for this online course to have attended  my BASIC Psoas Workshop. The Basic Psoas workshop provides a foundation that helps build the conceptual understanding for attending Stalking Wild Psoas workshops. I also encourage you to read or listen to my new book Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core intelligence. Wondering if this the workshop for you?   https://coreawareness.com/stalking-wild-psoas-awakening-to-our-creative-self/  \nNOTE: If you are having difficulty with your Psoas and/or your movement is limited\, this workshop can offer you the opportunity to heal.  \nCANCELLATION POLICY:  Please read my complete cancellation policy available online before registering.  Online Courses may not be cancelled once you have received access to the course. \nNational Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB) Approved \nThis is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork for 18 hours of continuing education credit (CEU). For more information on the NCBTMB\, please visit their website. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/stalking-wild-zoom-december-2020/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CoreAwareness-Santorini-Greece-2010-05-600x533-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201204T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201206T133000 DTSTAMP:20201113T213952Z CREATED:20200722T215805Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201113T213952Z UID:10000407-1607074200-1607261400@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:BASIC (12-Hr) Psoas Workshop (NCBTMB Approved) Via Zoom DESCRIPTION:3-Day ONLINE Basic Psoas workshop\, open to every body\, limited to 15 participants \nThis course offers a great way to learn through experience how your intelligent Psoas informs you about skeletal integrity\, joint rotation\, muscular tension\, breathing\, emotional expression\, and organ functioning. A healthy Psoas facilitates healing\, movement\, and fitness while reducing over all stress and is a vital step toward resolving injury and trauma.  \n\n\n\n\nDevelop Your Core Awareness: \n\nUnderstand how a healthy Psoas supports movement\, strength\, endurance & well-being\nExperience practical ways of sensing your own Psoas\nLearn to soften\, lengthen and revitalize your Psoas\nGain tools for recovering and maintaining a healthy Psoas\nExplore the energetic/emotional/spiritual dynamics of your physical core\nImprove neurological proprioception and skeletal balance\nApply concepts to everyday movement i.e. sitting\, driving\, and walking\n\nDeepen and broaden your practice whether that be Pilates\, Gyrotonic\, Massage\, Bodywork\, Somatic Movement\, Fitness\, Athletics\, Dance\, Yoga\, Martial Arts\, Psychology… \nRECOMMENDED READING: The Psoas Book \nCANCELLATION POLICY:  Please read my complete cancellation policy available online before registering. Online courses can not be canceled once you have received access to online course material and link. \n \nNational Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB) Approved \nThis is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork for 12 hours of continuing education credit (CEU). For more information on the NCBTMB\, please visit their website. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/basic-zoom-december-2020/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/psoas-featured.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201113T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201115T170000 DTSTAMP:20201108T214725Z CREATED:20200722T214757Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201108T214725Z UID:10000405-1605272400-1605459600@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:BASIC (12-Hr) Psoas Workshop (NCBTMB Approved) Via Zoom DESCRIPTION:3-Day ONLINE Basic Psoas workshop\, open to every body\, limited to 15 participants \nThis course offers a great way to learn through experience how your intelligent Psoas informs you about skeletal integrity\, joint rotation\, muscular tension\, breathing\, emotional expression\, and organ functioning. A healthy Psoas facilitates healing\, movement\, and fitness while reducing over all stress and is a vital step toward resolving injury and trauma.  \n\n\n\n\nDevelop Your Core Awareness: \n\nUnderstand how a healthy Psoas supports movement\, strength\, endurance & well-being\nExperience practical ways of sensing your own Psoas\nLearn to soften\, lengthen and revitalize your Psoas\nGain tools for recovering and maintaining a healthy Psoas\nExplore the energetic/emotional/spiritual dynamics of your physical core\nImprove neurological proprioception and skeletal balance\nApply concepts to everyday movement i.e. sitting\, driving\, and walking\n\nDeepen and broaden your practice whether that be Pilates\, Gyrotonic\, Massage\, Bodywork\, Somatic Movement\, Fitness\, Athletics\, Dance\, Yoga\, Martial Arts\, Psychology… \nRECOMMENDED READING: The Psoas Book \nCANCELLATION POLICY:  Please read my complete cancellation policy available online before registering. Online courses can not be canceled once you have received access to online course material and link. \n \nNational Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB) Approved \nThis is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork for 12 hours of continuing education credit (CEU). For more information on the NCBTMB\, please visit their website. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/basic-zoom-november-2020/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Online Class END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201024T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201024T150000 DTSTAMP:20201017T204426Z CREATED:20200829T162444Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201017T204426Z UID:10000421-1603540800-1603551600@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:MOVING WHITENESS with Resmaa Menakem & Carlin Quinn DESCRIPTION:REPARATIVE COMMUNAL CONSULTATION \nFOR WHITE PEOPLE\n \nPart 4\nA VIRTUAL FUNDRAISER\nSponsored by Education For Racial Equality \nto help create an embodied anti-racist/anti-oppression culture for future generations of BIPOC children.\n \nWITH AUTHOR SOMATIC EDUCATOR RESMAA MENAKEM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIMPORTANT NOTE: If you wish to attend you need to know this fundraiser is an on going proces and so you will need to receive  Part 1\,2\, & 3 to be able to join us on Part 4. \nIf you wish to attend please contact events@educationforracialequity.com.\nResmaa is looking to create a collaborative e-course to support the Movement Of Somatic Abolitionism. \nThe Movement Of Somatic Abolitionism is a body of work which establishes the underpinnings the emergence of a new culture: one that is safe for future generations of Black\, Brown and Indigenous babies and children. This funding will go towards creating a embodied anti-racist/oppression curriculum and free online e-course for community members parents and teachers of culture first\, who provide K-12 guidance. We believe that this will have a foundational impact on Black\, Brown\, and Indigenous Children and there lives. Together\, Resmaa Menakem and Education For Racial Equity \, along with other subject matter experts will also create a educational certification program that will develop the best somatic abolitionists educators\, healers\, and movement leaders of our time; they will lead with the understanding of Black\, Brown\, and Indigenous children\, white body supremacy\, racial weathering\, geopathic stress\, toxic stress\, and they will preserve the resilience and power of the communities which these children come from. This will be made available to community members\, parents and teachers of culture first and then to others across the United States. Help us create a culture change centered in healing and dignity. \n\n\nResmaa Menakem ~ Healer\, Author\, Trauma Specialist\nMoving from race to culture is important\, transformative\, and takes work. A lot of work. I help people\, communities\, and organizations find strength in healing that is holistic and resilient. Together let’s set a course for healing historical and racialized trauma carried in the body and the soul. I am a healer. I help people rise through the suffering’s edge. I am a cultural trauma navigator. I am a communal provocateur and coach. I consider it my job in this moment to make the invisible visible. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCarlin Quinn\, LMFT (She/Her) is the Founder and Director of Education For Racial Equity. She is also a psychotherapist\, equity coach\, facilitator and anti-racist co- conspirator.  Her equity work began when she entered the field of psychotherapy and realized that whiteness was foundational to the field of mental health\, its theories\, and its treatments.  She began teaching and consulting within the mental health community\, developing an understanding of the impact of systemic oppression and intersectionality to western psychology.  In her private practice she specializes in complex trauma and cross racial relationships. In her facilitation and coaching work\, Carlin uses a combination of critical race theory\, psychodynamic theory and humanistic relational approaches to help unearth and address the complexities of whiteness\, white supremacy and racial trauma in our daily human interactions. \n \n  \nLiz Koch  is an international educator\, author\, and the creator of CoreAwareness™ focusing on awareness as key for developing human potential and awakening consciousness. With 43 years experience specializing in the human core\, Liz is recognized in the somatic\, bodywork\, and fitness professions as an authority on the core primal tissue called Psoas.  Both nationally and internationally published\, her works include The Psoas Book\, Unraveling Scoliosis CD\, Core Awareness; Enhancing Yoga\, Pilates\, Exercise & Dance\, Psoas & Back Pain CD\, Mother\, Maiden\, Crone: Our Pleasure Playlist and her newest book  Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence published in 2019 by North Atlantic Books. \n\n\n\n  \n  \n\n \n  \nEducation For Racial Equity is a cross-racial and inter-generational non-profit organization committed to illuminating and dismantling the system of white supremacy\, globally. Guided by the principles of both Anti-Racism and Anti-Racist activism\, we take a multi-faceted approach to systemic change. ERE creates opportunities to develop awareness of the nature and function of whiteness/white supremacy\, its impact on all peoples\, and how it intersects with other systems of oppression. Our intention is to support integrated and embodied change within ourselves and those who work with us. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/moving-whiteness-with-resmaa-menakem-carlin-quinn/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class,Other ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/image-asset-600X533.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201017T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201017T110000 DTSTAMP:20201013T040323Z CREATED:20200831T202922Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201013T040323Z UID:10000566-1602928800-1602932400@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:CORE PSOAS: Regaining Coherency Through Primal Gestures DESCRIPTION:CORE PSOAS \nRegaining Coherency Through Restorative Primal Gestures\nhttps://theembodimentconference.org/#LizKoch\n \n \n  \nCORE PSOAS: Regaining Coherency Through Primal Gestures   \nwith Liz Koch \nResolution and resiliency are found not in getting rid of trauma or releasing psoas\, but through the nourishing capacity to assimilate and integrate\, which grows a coherent sense of core embodiment. \nAlthough trauma is often thought to be the means and measure for transformation and even profound wisdom only when we are in a parasympathetic wave rhythm do we metabolize our experiences and evoke curiosity and creativity. Longing to play\, for example is a gesture that transcends trauma. \nThrough simple primal gestures we will explore core psoas as a bio-intelligent messenger of safety and coherency. \nExpressive and dynamic\, discover how your psoas as messenger informs you about safety and thriving.  Just as every coherent animal in the wild sends messages\, humans\, like all mammals\, gesture with the twitch of an ear\, a gleam in the eye\, a hair standing on end\, an arc of the spine. Regaining or growing coherency always begins with a lush juicy psoas. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/core-psoas-regaining-coherency-through-primal-gestures/ CATEGORIES:Conference,featured,Online Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/conference.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201016T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201016T120000 DTSTAMP:20200926T214141Z CREATED:20200827T175728Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200926T214141Z UID:10000419-1602838800-1602849600@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Primal Psoas & Womb Reclamation Ritual Collaboration with Jessi Mendez DESCRIPTION: New Moon Ritual \nPrimal Psoas & Womb Reclamation \na collaboration with \nJessi Mendez \n \n  During Autumn New Moon  \nReWild Your Primal Core ~ ReClaim Your Wild Womb \nJessi initiates our journey into the primal feminine through an elemental movement practice to honor each of the natural elements ~ ground\, lubricate\, activate\, expand and simmer before dropping in to primal movement and  ceremonial ritual. \nLiz invites listening to our primal messenger who relays disruptions and compensations threatening our core integrity. Just as every animal in the wild sends messages\, humans\, like all mammals\, gesture with the twitch of an ear\, a gleam in the eye\, a hair standing on end\, an arc of the spine. Ignoring the wild nature of our core psoas…can be very dangerous. \nExplore the magic of the new moon energy honoring all we have offered and created as we gently descend back into the primordial womb of the darker seasons to come. \n  \n \n  \nJessi Mendez ERYT500 Sacred Feminine Alchemist | Director of Wild Essence  attunes to wise whispers of Nature for the soul purpose of the embodiment\, activation and reclamation of the Sacred Feminine on the planet. Through intuitively intelligent movement medicine practices\, powerful circle and ceremony\, Jessi calls back what is instinctual – raw – and authentically present in the bones. It is her mission through all of her teachings\, writings and programs to call home the WILD in all who seek to reclaim their birthright. \n  \n  \n  \n \n\n\n\n“In Stalking Wild Psoas\, Liz Koch cradles our collective gasp \nand assumes the role of a trusted guide into the fascinating poetry of embodiment.” \n                                                    Bayo Akomolafe\, Author These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to my Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home \n\n\n\n \n  \nLiz Koch  is an international educator\, author\, mother\, crone\, and creator of CoreAwareness™ focusing on awareness as key for developing human potential and awakening consciousness. With 40 years experience specializing in the human core\, Liz is recognized in the somatic\, bodywork\, and fitness professions as an authority on the core tissue called Psoas.  Both nationally and internationally published\, her works include The Psoas Book\, Unraveling Scoliosis CD\, Core Awareness; Enhancing Yoga\, Pilates\, Exercise & Dance\, Psoas & Back Pain CD\, Mother\, Maiden\, Crone: Our Pleasure Playlist and her latest book Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence.\n \n  \n  URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/womb-reclamation-collaboration-jessi-mendez/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/jessi.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201006T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201020T120000 DTSTAMP:20200918T211411Z CREATED:20200918T211337Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200918T211411Z UID:10000569-1601974800-1603195200@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:October 6 / 13 / 20 Online Course for Physiotherapist (S. Africa) DESCRIPTION:Healthy Psoas\nA Bio-Intelligent Approach for Healing Injuries & Avoiding Dysfunctions\nInstructor Liz Koch \n  \nA unique opportunity to explore both conceptually and somatically the primal responses of psoas as an expressive\, dynamic\, living process. This course is taught by a somatic educator and author with 45 years exploring the Psoas  As a conceptual artist Liz has a unique understanding of healthy psoas. An international educator with no professional training or certifications in physical therapy\, massage\, or bodywork Liz Koch is the author of The Psoas Book ISBN#095794407 / Core Awareness: Enhancing Yoga\, Pilates\, Exercise & Dance ISBN: 978-1583945018 /and Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence ISBN# 978-1623173159 \nPrimary objectives of this course: \n\nThrough personal somatic awareness and movement explorations attendees will build the foundation for educating themselves and their client for how best to foster a healthy psoas.\nParticipant will learn the benefits of non-manipulative\, noninvasive approaches for working with the psoas muscle.\nParticipants will learn the benefits of hydrating the NeuroCore through micro-movements including spine\, psoas and connective tissue.\nParticipants will learn ergonomic and proprioceptive relationships between proper movement patterns in joints and the physical and neurological comfort necessary for sustaining a healthy psoas\n\nCourse content of 3 modules of 3hrs per module: \n1.              Module 1\nChanging The Paradigm: \n\nDiscuss the bio-intelligent premise for working with the psoas\nUnderstand Psoas “muscle” not objectively but as part of a living process\nDefine Fluid Core: A biological embryological model of midline\nSomatic Exploration: Experience the value of hydrating connective tissue & increasing proprioception through movement for gaining a healthy psoas.\n\n2.              Module 2\nTrauma\, Psoas & Primal Expression: \n\nDiscuss why palpation & manipulation should be avoided\nUnderstand why stretching Psoas is counterproductive\nDefine co-regulation and its relationship to proprioception\nSomatic Exploration: Explore primal gestures including fetal curl & warding off\n\n3.              Module 3\nErgonomic & Proprioceptive Psoas Re-education: \n\nDiscuss strategies for resolving dysfunctional psoas\nUnderstand Psoas relationship by establishing head/pelvic core integrity\nDefine articulation\, centrification\, and hydration within the hip sockets & ankle joint for gaining juicy psoas\nSomatic Exploration: Practice everyday support for healthy psoas\n\nOctober 6\, 13 & 20    (3 hours / 3 days) \nLive Zoom 4:00 – 7:00 pm South Africa time URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/october-61320-online-course-for-physiotherapist-s-africa/ LOCATION:ONLINE CATEGORIES:Online Class END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201002T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201004T133000 DTSTAMP:20200823T124440Z CREATED:20200722T214301Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200823T124440Z UID:10000563-1601631000-1601818200@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:BASIC (12-Hr) Psoas Workshop (NCBTMB Approved) Via Zoom DESCRIPTION:3-Day ONLINE Basic Psoas workshop\, open to every body\, limited to 15 participants \nThis course offers a great way to learn through experience how your intelligent Psoas informs you about skeletal integrity\, joint rotation\, muscular tension\, breathing\, emotional expression\, and organ functioning. A healthy Psoas facilitates healing\, movement\, and fitness while reducing over all stress and is a vital step toward resolving injury and trauma.  \n\n\n\n\nDevelop Your Core Awareness: \n\nUnderstand how a healthy Psoas supports movement\, strength\, endurance & well-being\nExperience practical ways of sensing your own Psoas\nLearn to soften\, lengthen and revitalize your Psoas\nGain tools for recovering and maintaining a healthy Psoas\nExplore the energetic/emotional/spiritual dynamics of your physical core\nImprove neurological proprioception and skeletal balance\nApply concepts to everyday movement i.e. sitting\, driving\, and walking\n\nDeepen and broaden your practice whether that be Pilates\, Gyrotonic\, Massage\, Bodywork\, Somatic Movement\, Fitness\, Athletics\, Dance\, Yoga\, Martial Arts\, Psychology… \nRECOMMENDED READING: The Psoas Book \nCANCELLATION POLICY:  Please read my complete cancellation policy available online before registering. Online courses can not be canceled once you have received access to online course material and link. \n \nNational Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB) Approved \nThis is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork for 12 hours of continuing education credit (CEU). For more information on the NCBTMB\, please visit their website. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/basic-zoom-october-2020/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Online Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/94-11-402.600x533.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200920T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200920T110000 DTSTAMP:20200916T195050Z CREATED:20200829T212436Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200916T195050Z UID:10000564-1600592400-1600599600@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:September 20 Inner-Terrain...a moving inquiry of presence (Zoom) DESCRIPTION:Inner-Terrain…a moving inquiry \na time to come together and deepen into our tissue\, fluid\, and presence \nHow to stay present to the workings of our soul while being responsive to and tending the outer needs of our lives? \nFor those who have explored with me and wish to simply be together in a field of curiosity conversation\,  & inner play  URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/inner-terrain-a-moving-inquiry-zoom/ CATEGORIES:Online Class END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20200820T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20200823T173000 DTSTAMP:20200801T010808Z CREATED:20200628T165234Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200801T010808Z UID:10000558-1597928400-1598203800@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:ONLINE - Stalking Wild Psoas Workshop NCBTMB Accredited (Zoom) DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\n \nAn 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 repetitive movement becomes stifled and possibly dry. \nBe moved from deep within and awaken your inner strength and creativity!   \n \n PREREQUISITE:  It is required for this online course to have attended  my BASIC Psoas Workshop.   The Basic Psoas workshop provides a foundation that helps build the conceptual understanding for attending Stalking Wild Psoas workshops. I also encourage you to read or listen to my new book Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core intelligence. Wondering if this the workshop for you?   https://coreawareness.com/stalking-wild-psoas-awakening-to-our-creative-self/  \nNOTE: If you are having difficulty with your Psoas and/or your movement is limited\, this workshop can offer you the opportunity to heal.  \nCANCELLATION POLICY:  Please read my complete cancellation policy available online before registering.  Online Courses may not be cancelled once you have received access to the course. \nNational Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB) Approved \nThis is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork for 18 hours of continuing education credit (CEU). For more information on the NCBTMB\, please visit their website. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/stalking-wild-zoom-august-2020/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CoreAwareness-Santorini-Greece-2010-05-600x533-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200814T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200816T133000 DTSTAMP:20200723T145501Z CREATED:20200628T134251Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200723T145501Z UID:10000555-1597397400-1597584600@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:BASIC (12-Hr) Psoas Workshop (NCBTMB Approved) Via Zoom DESCRIPTION:3-Day ONLINE Basic Psoas workshop\, open to every body\, limited to 15 participants \nThis course offers a great way to learn through experience how your intelligent Psoas informs you about skeletal integrity\, joint rotation\, muscular tension\, breathing\, emotional expression\, and organ functioning. A healthy Psoas facilitates healing\, movement\, and fitness while reducing over all stress and is a vital step toward resolving injury and trauma.  \n\n\n\n\nDevelop Your Core Awareness: \n\nUnderstand how a healthy Psoas supports movement\, strength\, endurance & well-being\nExperience practical ways of sensing your own Psoas\nLearn to soften\, lengthen and revitalize your Psoas\nGain tools for recovering and maintaining a healthy Psoas\nExplore the energetic/emotional/spiritual dynamics of your physical core\nImprove neurological proprioception and skeletal balance\nApply concepts to everyday movement i.e. sitting\, driving\, and walking\n\nDeepen and broaden your practice whether that be Pilates\, Gyrotonic\, Massage\, Bodywork\, Somatic Movement\, Fitness\, Athletics\, Dance\, Yoga\, Martial Arts\, Psychology… \nRECOMMENDED READING: The Psoas Book \nCANCELLATION POLICY:  Please read my complete cancellation policy available online before registering. Online courses can not be canceled once you have received access to online course material and link. \n \nNational Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB) Approved \nThis is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork for 12 hours of continuing education credit (CEU). For more information on the NCBTMB\, please visit their website. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/basic-zoom-august-2020/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Online Class END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200726T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200726T160000 DTSTAMP:20200715T230246Z CREATED:20200203T225603Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200715T230246Z UID:10000388-1595754000-1595779200@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:WiLDING Collaboration: The Primal Feminine with Jessi Mendez Cape Cod MA ONLINE DESCRIPTION:ReWild The Primal Feminine ~ ReClaim Elemental Magic  \nJessi initiates our journey into the primal feminine through an elemental movement practice to honor each of the natural elements. Ground\, lubricate\, activate\, expand and simmer before dropping in to a ceremonial story telling journey of the protectress\, the warrior and wise woman present in all of us.  \nLiz invites listening to our primal messenger who relays disruptions and compensations threatening our core integrity. Just as every animal in the wild sends messages\, humans\, like all mammals\, gesture with the twitch of an ear\, a gleam in the eye\, a hair standing on end\, an arc of the spine. Ignoring the wild nature of our core psoas…can be very dangerous. \nExplore the magic of harvest energy honoring all we have offered and created and the gentle descent back into the primordial womb of the darker seasons to come. \nSoften into your intrinsic knowing through this potent movement and medicine practice. \nDiscover the specific energy that is alive at Lughnasadh \nas we prepare for the first harvest July 31. \nJessi Mendez ERYT500 Sacred Feminine Alchemist | Director of Wild Essence  \nJessi Mendez ERYT500 attunes to wise whispers of Nature for the soul purpose of the embodiment\, activation and reclamation of the Sacred Feminine on the planet. Through intuitively intelligent movement medicine practices\, powerful circle and ceremony\, Jessi calls back what is instinctual – raw – and authentically present in the bones. It is her mission through all of her teachings\, writings and programs to call home the WILD in all who seek to reclaim their birthright. \n \n\n\n\n“In Stalking Wild Psoas\, Liz Koch cradles our collective gasp \nand assumes the role of a trusted guide into the fascinating poetry of embodiment.” \nBayo Akomolafe\, Author These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to my Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home \n\n\n\nLiz Koch  is an international educator\, author\, mother\, crone\, and creator of CoreAwareness™ focusing on awareness as key for developing human potential and awakening consciousness. With 40 years experience specializing in the human core\, Liz is recognized in the somatic\, bodywork\, and fitness professions as an authority on the core tissue called Psoas.  Both nationally and internationally published\, her works include The Psoas Book\, Unraveling Scoliosis CD\, Core Awareness; Enhancing Yoga\, Pilates\, Exercise & Dance\, Psoas & Back Pain CD and Mother\, Maiden\, Crone: Our Pleasure Playlist and her new book  Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence.\n \nFor more clarity about my Stalking Wild Psoas workshop series please read my core awareness blog https://coreawareness.com/stalking-wild-psoas-awakening-to-our-creative-self/  \n  URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/wilding-collaboration-the-primal-feminine-with-jessi-mendez-cape-cod-ma/ LOCATION:GLOW Sanctuary\, 3 Main Street Suite 12\, Eastham\, 02642\, United States CATEGORIES:Online Class,Workshop END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200717T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200719T133000 DTSTAMP:20200716T125204Z CREATED:20200521T131014Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200716T125204Z UID:10000547-1594978200-1595165400@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:BASIC (12-Hr) Psoas Workshop (NCBTMB Approved) Via Zoom DESCRIPTION:3-Day ONLINE Basic Psoas workshop\, open to every body\, limited to 15 participants \nThis course offers a great way to learn through experience how your intelligent Psoas informs you about skeletal integrity\, joint rotation\, muscular tension\, breathing\, emotional expression\, and organ functioning. A healthy Psoas facilitates healing\, movement\, and fitness while reducing over all stress and is a vital step toward resolving injury and trauma.  \n\n\n\n\nDevelop Your Core Awareness: \n\nUnderstand how a healthy Psoas supports movement\, strength\, endurance & well-being\nExperience practical ways of sensing your own Psoas\nLearn to soften\, lengthen and revitalize your Psoas\nGain tools for recovering and maintaining a healthy Psoas\nExplore the energetic/emotional/spiritual dynamics of your physical core\nImprove neurological proprioception and skeletal balance\nApply concepts to everyday movement i.e. sitting\, driving\, and walking\n\nDeepen and broaden your practice whether that be Pilates\, Gyrotonic\, Massage\, Bodywork\, Somatic Movement\, Fitness\, Athletics\, Dance\, Yoga\, Martial Arts\, Psychology… \nRECOMMENDED READING: The Psoas Book \nCANCELLATION POLICY:  Please read my complete cancellation policy available online before registering. Online courses can not be canceled once you have received access to online course material and link. \n \nNational Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB) Approved \nThis is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork for 12 hours of continuing education credit (CEU). For more information on the NCBTMB\, please visit their website. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/basic-12-hr-psoas-online-july-2020/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Online Class END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200714T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200714T160000 DTSTAMP:20200714T184546Z CREATED:20200628T171831Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200714T184546Z UID:10000559-1594735200-1594742400@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:laura & liz lab: Yielding\, Landing\, Rising Up (Zoom) DESCRIPTION:laura & liz lab \nYielding\, Landing\, Rising Up \n \n  \nFALLING TOGETHER…. \n \nHow do we safely yield into the earth? Into the moment?\n\nCome in for a landing\, find ground\, connect to our roots\, and then move upwards and RISE? \nWhat happens in the space of the transition- from this place to that place? From where we are to where we want to be? \nWhere do we find the support to lift ourselves (and others) up\, and develop sustaining practices and relationships? \nCan we use the natural expansion and contraction patterns of life\, breath\, and movement to connect and nurture our resilience? \nHow do we move through this moment in time finding softness and gentleness\, strength and fluidity\, even fluency in being human… \nTogether\, let’s explore what is sustainable?  \n  \nLaura Victoria Ward\, BA\, CMA\, RSME\, an award-winning choreographer\, Laban Movement Analyst & somatic/dance teacher. and th artist director of Octabia Cup Dance theatre\, a multi-generational contemporary ballet co. \nLiz Koch is an international educator\, author and creator of Core Awareness specializing in the primal psoas. Her works include The Psoas Book\, Core Awareness; Enhancing Yoga\, Pilates\, Exercise & Dance and Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/laura-liz-lab-yielding-landing-rising-up-zoom/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Laura-ball.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200709T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200709T170000 DTSTAMP:20200707T123744Z CREATED:20200628T161413Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200707T123744Z UID:10000557-1594299600-1594314000@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Biodynamic Coherency:  Growing Sustenance  ~ Crafting a Life of Meaning collaboration with CEO Janice Cathey DESCRIPTION: Growing Sustenance\nCrafting a Life of Meaning \n \nLife is not a problem to be solved\, but a reality to be experienced\nSoren Kierkegaard  \n\nPreparing our selves as bodies of culture and women entrepreneurs we are standing our ground\, finding our paths\, navigating the terrain of uncertainty\, and cultivating nimbleness. This is a movement of retrieval and a blessing of bounty. Please join Liz Koch and Janice Cathey in exploring\, discovering\, and ruminating how best to weave a life of coherency.  This class includes innovating movements\, self- inquiry\, speaking truth\, all grounded in the rich humus of collaboration. \n\nIntroduction & Ceremony of no regrets ~ recognizing the importance of using literal mythic and energetic techniques for the investigative and transformative nature of change (invite students to arrive with a vessel of water and three stones)  \n\n\nGathering ~ (grounding gesture) \n* including (what do I need to know) \n* feeling (unresolved\, under-resourced patterns)\n* resourcing (where do I land and locate) local\, global \n\n\n\n\nSorting ~  (curling & arcing exploration)\n* trusting (my own authority to emerge)\n* facing (self and the world)\n* nourishing (growing discernment) \n\n\n\n\nPreparing ~ (longing rooting exploration)\n* soul impulses as growth (courage to be myself)\n* what I long for matters (trust and risk)\n* wildly supported (loving myself and sharing it) \n\n\n\n\nTiming ~  (spiraling movement)\n* unfolding (being honest with ourselves about changes that have to happen)\n* infolding (sustaining over time)\n* allowing (giving time for seeds to germinate)  \n\n\n  \n\nSpace Dust\nwritten by Janice Cathey \nEvery single thing I know about birds is housed in a song\nLong ago coded with the liquid twittering of chirp\, chirp\, chirp \nWhat I need at this moment is water \nWater to swim\nLovingly bathing my dried skin in immersive wonder and delight  \nI think my superpower is the act of noticing\nWhere\, How\, What\, When \nWeaving patterns placing a still point to a moving system of whirling arms of space dust surrounded by electrons of primal energy \nWhere do you hear your belonging \nIs it dirt\, soil\, root\nWhere is it that I belong-here\, now\, never\, and forever\nThe reach is within there is no certainty- the sprout takes time to develop\nThe nest has been built with pieces of broken earth placed in sacred geometrical heart space \nVeins of being and nonbeing – wide spread mycelium- the network of the interrelated whole\nWhere\, How\, What\, When \nCrawl to stand\nStand to jump\nJump to launch \nOff into the chirp\, chirp\, chirp\nThe whistle of delicate codes sung in songs not yet understood\nspace dust\nwhistle \ndelight \nnest \ne e e e \nGravity of falling grace gently landing\, space dust …\nPinned gratitude – trauma that behaves like culture \nBefriend the wild\nCraft a life of meaning \nThe crawl of the lizard creeps toward its sanctuary\nSprout\nSpace dust \nDon’t collapse \nSoar \n \n \n\nJanice Cathey CEO of Integrative Health joins me for my Bio-Dynamic Entrepreneurs: A Conversation  on a Body of Culture Paradigm and Woman Centered Approach for Developing A Healthy Business Mode series. You can find our conversation on my YouTube Liz Koch station: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLuxlZfQAr4 URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/crafting-a-life-of-meaning-collaboration/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/JANICE1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200628T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200628T180000 DTSTAMP:20200628T201523Z CREATED:20200526T122228Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200628T201523Z UID:10000551-1593360000-1593367200@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:2-Hr Moving White(ness) Collaboration with Natasha Stovall PhD (ZOOM) DESCRIPTION:“The couch in my therapy office is occupied mostly by white people. Anxious white people and depressed white people. Obsessive white people and compulsive white people. White people who hurt people and white people who hurt themselves. White people who eat too much\, drink too much\, work too much\, shop too much. White people who are bored\, envious\, guilty\, numb. Racist white people and antiracist white people. White people who look across the room and see a white therapist listening. We talk about everything. Except being white.” \n~ Natasha Stovall – Whiteness on the Couch  ~ \n                                                                                                                                              Photo Credit sep–ecxmibgssdm unsplash  \nJoin Somatic educator Liz Koch & clinical Psychologist Natasha Stovall in a 2-hour exploration of our white-ness from both a personal\, social\, physical and even a pandemic perspective. How do we create and live with a newly coherent narrative of ourselves as white bodies and white people? What sort of changes in our selves and in our actions would it take to “live our whiteness” in a new and different\, non-oppressive and less oppressed way?  \nJUNE FOCUS\nExploring Upper Psoas Tension: Expressions of Unintended/Unacknowledged Dissonance \n \nPhoto credit: Clem Onojeghuo-unsplash \nUsing biologically-intelligent movements we will venture into the “frozen” disassociated responses within our own core and invite ourselves to dissolve the historically defended rigidity found within the “white-posturing” spine to discover our inner sense of self as living beings.  Through conceptual and embodiment practices we will awaken a different consciousness from the one society has provided us.                                                                                                                                                      \nAs we begin to dissolve the insistence within the the objectified body we may integrate and participate in a larger conversation of human existence. By creating a multi-layered understanding of our white experience we offer the opportunity to alter the ways cultural whiteness damages our selves\, our fellow human beings\, and life on earth. As we begin imaging reparative ways of being we can create opportunities to generate healing for our world\, our ancestors\, and all future generations. \n  \nNatasha Stovall Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist in private practice working with adults\, adolescents and children. Her essays and cultural criticism have appeared in The New York Times\, Rolling Stone\, and Spin. Her most recent essay\, “Whiteness on the Couch”\, appeared in Longreads in August 2019. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nLiz Koch  is an international educator\, author\, and creator of CoreAwareness™ focusing on awareness as key for developing human potential and awakening consciousness. With 40 years experience specializing in the human core\, Liz is recognized in the somatic\, bodywork\, and fitness professions as an authority on the core tissue called Psoas.  Both nationally and internationally published\, her works include The Psoas Book\, Unraveling Scoliosis CD\, Core Awareness; Enhancing Yoga\, Pilates\, Exercise & Dance\, Psoas & Back Pain CD and Mother\, Maiden\, Crone: Our Pleasure Playlist and her new book  Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence published in 2019 by North Atlantic Books. \n  URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/online-collaboration-moving-whiteness-with-natasha-stovall-phd-zoom-june-2020/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/clem-onojeghuo-n6gnCa77-600x480-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200622T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200701T133000 DTSTAMP:20240220T203402Z CREATED:20240220T203402Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240220T203402Z UID:10000653-1592818200-1593610200@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Biodynamic Coherency: Diving Into Myth & Wild Primary Body - An Advanced Collaboration with Sarah Byrden Copy DESCRIPTION:This Collaboration is an Adventure into the Wildness of Soma & Psyche \nAn exploration\, not for the faint of heart…but the curious \n A soulful calling and responding to life’s sustenance… \nWe’ll begin exploring the power inherent within Myth\, Story\, and Archetype as a portal  into the mutable \n Wild Primary Body\nshapeshifting\, vacillating\,  softening\, tracking…we will be informed\, claimed\, and devoured by the birthright of our own wild fluid terrain \nand re-shaped and supported by the flowing forms of MogaDao Archetypal Qigong\n  \nTracking the edges we interface  soma and psyche… \n pulling a thread of biodynamic coherency through the archetypal and liminal space of being. Join us for this journey into the innate coherence of Soul \n \nPREREQUISITE:   This is an advanced collaboration course and is only for those already with a firm foundation in somatic explorations. Participants  need to know they have the confidence\, physical centering\, and psychic anchoring to hold them in time and space.  A clear sense of containment and a fluent practice in grounding is required. This course is not a fit for those who may be currently feeling destabilized\, traumatized\, struggling to heal\, or in need of reestablishing basic nervous system or life coherency. We will be going deep in this course\, not only conceptually but truly into the live wilderness of psyche and soma.  \n  \n\n\n\nEdges are often where the known is not yet visible but can be just out of sight. Catching a fleeting glimpse\, detecting a movement at the perimeter of awareness\, there may be a sense that something is not yet acknowledged\, or is lost\, and yet is on the cutting edge of consciousness. \nPerhaps this is what hunting or being hunted feels like in the wild kingdom. \nQuick moving\, it can be difficult to catch an impulse that sets our being into reaction: a desire to jump and escape as well as a longing to connect and be caught. Following an initiation of an expression requires a patient slowing of pace and a quiet receptivity in the heart in order to perceive the impulse just before it comes into being. \nIt takes a bifurcating focus of awareness that moves inward and concurrently outward toward a larger field of influence. Only in this way can we stay present in order to feel the origins of our fear and the impulses of our longing. \nStalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your core Intelligence  \n\nSarah Byrden is a two-time TEDx presenter\, a dynamic educator\, speaker and advocate known for her domain-changing work in sexuality education. She has been a leader in the fields of experiential education\, international cross-cultural development\, and body-based healing since 2000 and has worked with thousands of students in the US\, Indonesia and the Himalayas. Sarah is a Santa Fe-based MogaDao QiGong and Depth Sexuality Teacher and holds over 2500 hours of formal training in western and non-western body-based healing modalities.  Her most recent project\, The Body Of Sex is a radical paradigm-shifting approach to sex education and empowerment on college campuses. She is the founder of THE ELEMENTAL SELF \nLiz Koch  is an international educator\, author\, and creator of CoreAwareness™ focusing on awareness as key for developing human potential and awakening consciousness. With 40 years experience specializing in the human core\, Liz is recognized in the somatic\, bodywork\, and fitness professions as an authority on the core tissue called Psoas.  Both nationally and internationally published\, her works include The Psoas Book\, Unraveling Scoliosis CD\, Core Awareness; Enhancing Yoga\, Pilates\, Exercise & Dance\, Psoas & Back Pain CD and Mother\, Maiden\, Crone: Our Pleasure Playlist and her new book  Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence published in 2019 by North Atlantic Books. \nPhoto Credit: Prince David on Unsplash URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/biodynamic-coherency-diving-into-wild-primary-body-copy/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Online Class END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200622T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200701T133000 DTSTAMP:20200630T111428Z CREATED:20200523T222700Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200630T111428Z UID:10000549-1592818200-1593610200@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Biodynamic Coherency: Diving Into Myth & Wild Primary Body - An Advanced Collaboration with Sarah Byrden DESCRIPTION:This Collaboration is an Adventure into the Wildness of Soma & Psyche \nAn exploration\, not for the faint of heart…but the curious \n A soulful calling and responding to life’s sustenance… \nWe’ll begin exploring the power inherent within Myth\, Story\, and Archetype as a portal  into the mutable \n Wild Primary Body\nshapeshifting\, vacillating\,  softening\, tracking…we will be informed\, claimed\, and devoured by the birthright of our own wild fluid terrain \nand re-shaped and supported by the flowing forms of MogaDao Archetypal Qigong\n  \nTracking the edges we interface  soma and psyche… \n pulling a thread of biodynamic coherency through the archetypal and liminal space of being. Join us for this journey into the innate coherence of Soul \n \nPREREQUISITE:   This is an advanced collaboration course and is only for those already with a firm foundation in somatic explorations. Participants  need to know they have the confidence\, physical centering\, and psychic anchoring to hold them in time and space.  A clear sense of containment and a fluent practice in grounding is required. This course is not a fit for those who may be currently feeling destabilized\, traumatized\, struggling to heal\, or in need of reestablishing basic nervous system or life coherency. We will be going deep in this course\, not only conceptually but truly into the live wilderness of psyche and soma.  \n  \n\n\n\nEdges are often where the known is not yet visible but can be just out of sight. Catching a fleeting glimpse\, detecting a movement at the perimeter of awareness\, there may be a sense that something is not yet acknowledged\, or is lost\, and yet is on the cutting edge of consciousness. \nPerhaps this is what hunting or being hunted feels like in the wild kingdom. \nQuick moving\, it can be difficult to catch an impulse that sets our being into reaction: a desire to jump and escape as well as a longing to connect and be caught. Following an initiation of an expression requires a patient slowing of pace and a quiet receptivity in the heart in order to perceive the impulse just before it comes into being. \nIt takes a bifurcating focus of awareness that moves inward and concurrently outward toward a larger field of influence. Only in this way can we stay present in order to feel the origins of our fear and the impulses of our longing. \nStalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your core Intelligence  \n\nSarah Byrden is a two-time TEDx presenter\, a dynamic educator\, speaker and advocate known for her domain-changing work in sexuality education. She has been a leader in the fields of experiential education\, international cross-cultural development\, and body-based healing since 2000 and has worked with thousands of students in the US\, Indonesia and the Himalayas. Sarah is a Santa Fe-based MogaDao QiGong and Depth Sexuality Teacher and holds over 2500 hours of formal training in western and non-western body-based healing modalities.  Her most recent project\, The Body Of Sex is a radical paradigm-shifting approach to sex education and empowerment on college campuses. She is the founder of THE ELEMENTAL SELF \nLiz Koch  is an international educator\, author\, and creator of CoreAwareness™ focusing on awareness as key for developing human potential and awakening consciousness. With 40 years experience specializing in the human core\, Liz is recognized in the somatic\, bodywork\, and fitness professions as an authority on the core tissue called Psoas.  Both nationally and internationally published\, her works include The Psoas Book\, Unraveling Scoliosis CD\, Core Awareness; Enhancing Yoga\, Pilates\, Exercise & Dance\, Psoas & Back Pain CD and Mother\, Maiden\, Crone: Our Pleasure Playlist and her new book  Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence published in 2019 by North Atlantic Books. \nPhoto Credit: Prince David on Unsplash URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/biodynamic-coherency-diving-into-wild-primary-body/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Online Class END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200614T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200614T120000 DTSTAMP:20200607T182314Z CREATED:20200523T122517Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200607T182314Z UID:10000548-1592128800-1592136000@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Fluid Improv: Play As Nourishment a Collaboration with Dr. Michael DeMaria DESCRIPTION:fluid improv as nourishment \n~ core soul singing ~ \n \nDr. Michael DeMaria’s life turned inside out and upside down after the first decade of his professional life when he underwent a life transforming vision quest (lament in the wild) without food or water\, guided by a native teacher. He went there suffering empathy fatigue and burnout after working for many years with severe cases of child abuse as a child protection team psychologist. The experience provided a profound healing\, a course correction and gave him a vision for his life. Ever since his mission has been to help guide others to what he calls\, “The ocean of peace that lies within.”  He does this through his work as an embodied guide of the soul through music\, poetry\, art and training others in what he calls Souling™\, which has emerged out of his 4 decades of working with transformative sound based meditative\, movement and breathwork practices. \n  \nHis healing music is heard a million times a week across the world\, garnering him four Grammy® nominations\, 8 ZMR awards\, 6 #1 albums\, a Native American Music Award and appearing on the Grammy® winning album\, All About Bullies Big and Small.  He is also a Sounds True recording artist with his music being featured on projects with Eckhart Tolle\, Mark Nepo and Noah Levine. He is the author of 5 books\, 3 of which were bestsellers\, and is the creator and author of the Peace Within Process for Integrative Wellness which is the ground school for his Integrative Meditation Teacher Training. His newest book Souling: Birthing\, Weaving and Tending a Soulful Life is due out 2021.  You can find out more about his work at www.michaeldemaria.com and his free 7×7 Meditation Challenge at www.youtube.com/mbdemaria \, where his videos have over 200\,000 views in 180 countries around the world. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/fluid-improv-as-nourishment-collaboration-with-michael-demaria/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/fluid-improv.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200611T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200611T160000 DTSTAMP:20200525T212824Z CREATED:20200511T160216Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200525T212824Z UID:10000544-1591884000-1591891200@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Biodynamic Entrepreneurs: Weaving a Life of Coherency DESCRIPTION:My life’s work emerged from a deep wandering ~ to become an outcrop of sorts in a wilderness of possibilities. I never set out to be an educator\, (although I did have a desire to teach\, and an impulse to be a missionary). The point being is that the uncommon and uncanny way my professional life emerged came not from following others but from a deep listening to an authentic presence that moved me. \nWoven into a full life\, my professional and business DBA has resulted in a life sustaining work that supports and allows me a lifestyle that feels \nakin and congruent with my soul. \nSo how did I “do – dew” that?  And what are the ways to nourish a flourishing life of coherency?  \nI invite you to join me for this 2 hour conversation with the intention of seeding your core integrity\, \ntrusting your deep knowing\, \nand making a path of your own choosing. \n \n  URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/bio-dynamic-entrepreneurs-weaving-a-life-of-coherency/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Screenshot-2020-05-11-10.22.28-1-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200610T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200610T160000 DTSTAMP:20260722T201601Z CREATED:20200519T131045Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260722T201601Z UID:10000545-1591794000-1591804800@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Centering The Pelvis: Instinctive Responses\, Injury\, & Healthy Psoas DESCRIPTION:Instinctive Responses\, Injury\n& A Healthy Pelvic/Psoas Relationship \nPresented June 2020. The video recording available by purchasing a ticket below. \n \nThe psoas muscle is part of our instinctive fear response. When falling in love or propelling through space\, the dynamic psoas surrenders deep within our core. All unresolved fear is communicated through the psoas and directly affects the pelvis. When we feel our integrity is compromised\, it is the constricted psoas that plays havoc on our breath and the natural positioning of the centered pelvis. \nLearn to Center and Heal Your Pelvic/Psoas Relationship \nThe psoas profoundly influences every aspect of our health. If the psoas is called upon to support structural misalignment\, its suppleness is curtailed and over time this dynamic tissue dries and shrinks. If consistently used as a structural or emotional support\, its expressiveness will diminish. \n \nReestablish Core Integrity \n Whenever there is pelvic damage the psoas takes over for the lack of SI joint function and eventually shortens pulling the pelvis forward\, down\, and further off center. When your pelvis is off center and your Sacral Iliac ligaments have micro-tears or are over-stretched due to physical force\, falls\, surgery\, or accidents the psoas will become engaged to help limit movement in an attempt to maintain core integrity. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/centering-the-pelvis-healing-psoas-2/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Online Class END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200605T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200607T133000 DTSTAMP:20200521T131948Z CREATED:20200427T220815Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200521T131948Z UID:10000543-1591349400-1591536600@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:ONLINE - BASIC (12-Hr) Psoas Workshop (NCBTMB Approved) DESCRIPTION:3-Day ONLINE Basic Psoas workshop\, open to every body\, limited to 15 participants \nThis course offers a great way to learn through experience how your intelligent Psoas informs you about skeletal integrity\, joint rotation\, muscular tension\, breathing\, emotional expression\, and organ functioning. A healthy Psoas facilitates healing\, movement\, and fitness while reducing over all stress and is a vital step toward resolving injury and trauma.  \n\n\n\n\nDevelop Your Core Awareness: \n\nUnderstand how a healthy Psoas supports movement\, strength\, endurance & well-being\nExperience practical ways of sensing your own Psoas\nLearn to soften\, lengthen and revitalize your Psoas\nGain tools for recovering and maintaining a healthy Psoas\nExplore the energetic/emotional/spiritual dynamics of your physical core\nImprove neurological proprioception and skeletal balance\nApply concepts to everyday movement i.e. sitting\, driving\, and walking\n\nDeepen and broaden your practice whether that be Pilates\, Gyrotonic\, Massage\, Bodywork\, Somatic Movement\, Fitness\, Athletics\, Dance\, Yoga\, Martial Arts\, Psychology… \nRECOMMENDED READING: The Psoas Book \nCANCELLATION POLICY:  Please read my complete cancellation policy available online before registering. Online courses can not be canceled once you have received access to online course material and link. \n \nNational Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB) Approved \nThis is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork for 12 hours of continuing education credit (CEU). For more information on the NCBTMB\, please visit their website. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/basic-12-hr-psoas-online-june-2020/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Online Class END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200507T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200507T130000 DTSTAMP:20200508T152055Z CREATED:20200427T201318Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200508T152055Z UID:10000542-1588849200-1588856400@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:FLUID CORE ~ A Way Out of Freezing Fear (via Zoom) DESCRIPTION:F L U I D  C O R E \nA Way Out of Freezing Fear \nMAY 7th \n(2-Hr Movement Class via Zoom) \n \nFear is the only instinct that has the power to immobilize us. As an involuntary muscle\, psoas as part of the sympathetic neuro-core* is both a primal mover of our core integrity and part of our fear response.  When we misuse our psoas we ultimately end up energetically depleting our life force and physiologically stressing our adrenals. The upper psoas located in the solar plexus is often referred to in Traditional Chinese Medicine as the “will center\,” is the home of our adrenal glands and our immune system. These glands rest on top of our kidneys while our kidneys float on the juicy psoas.  Both adrenals and kidneys are energetically associated with our vitality. Returning the core to its natural fluid and expressive nature is a subtle but beneficial strategy for dissolving old patterns for achieving safety. When we regain our fluid spine and soften our upper psoas\, rather than manipulate our core\, we offer our kidney/adrenals a juicy\, fluid\, and dynamic support.\nSimultaneously we claim our birthright by discovering our deep-rooted sense of ground within the belly core that is so profoundly nourishing. Moving from within our very bones allows life to support us. By living on the axis of our core\, we nourish a harmonious relationship with gravity that enables us to stand our ground while wholeheartedly expressing our true selves. That is\, we show up fully in life. \nLiz Koch  is an international educator\, author\, and creator of CoreAwareness™ focusing on awareness as key for developing human potential and awakening consciousness. With 45 years experience specializing in the human core\, Liz is recognized in the somatic\, bodywork\, and fitness professions as an authority on the core tissue called the Psoas.  Both nationally and internationally published\, her works include The Psoas Book\, Unraveling Scoliosis CD\, Core Awareness; Enhancing Yoga\, Pilates\, Exercise & Dance\, Psoas & Back Pain CD\, Mother\, Maiden\, Crone: Our Pleasure Playlist and her new book  Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence (2019 North Atlantic Books) URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/fluid-core-a-way-out-of-freezing-fear/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/ball-cover-600x432-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200501T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200503T170000 DTSTAMP:20200501T024050Z CREATED:20200327T181906Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200501T024050Z UID:10000537-1588338000-1588525200@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:ONLINE - BASIC (12-Hr) Psoas Workshop (NCBTMB Approved) DESCRIPTION:3-Day ONLINE Basic Psoas workshop\, open to every body\, limited to 15 participants \nThis course offers a great way to learn through experience how your intelligent Psoas informs you about skeletal integrity\, joint rotation\, muscular tension\, breathing\, emotional expression\, and organ functioning. A healthy Psoas facilitates healing\, movement\, and fitness while reducing over all stress and is a vital step toward resolving injury and trauma.  \n\n\n\n\nDevelop Your Core Awareness: \n\nUnderstand how a healthy Psoas supports movement\, strength\, endurance & well-being\nExperience practical ways of sensing your own Psoas\nLearn to soften\, lengthen and revitalize your Psoas\nGain tools for recovering and maintaining a healthy Psoas\nExplore the energetic/emotional/spiritual dynamics of your physical core\nImprove neurological proprioception and skeletal balance\nApply concepts to everyday movement i.e. sitting\, driving\, and walking\n\nDeepen and broaden your practice whether that be Pilates\, Gyrotonic\, Massage\, Bodywork\, Somatic Movement\, Fitness\, Athletics\, Dance\, Yoga\, Martial Arts\, Psychology… \nRECOMMENDED READING: The Psoas Book \nCANCELLATION POLICY:  Please read my complete cancellation policy available online before registering. Online courses can not be canceled once you have received access to online course material and link. \n \nNational Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB) Approved \nThis is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork for 12 hours of continuing education credit (CEU). For more information on the NCBTMB\, please visit their website. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/basic-12-hr-psoas-online-may-2020/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Online Class END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200426T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200426T180000 DTSTAMP:20200417T134652Z CREATED:20200331T172120Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200417T134652Z UID:10000540-1587916800-1587924000@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:2-Hr Moving White(ness) Collaboration with Natasha Stovall PhD (ZOOM) DESCRIPTION:“The couch in my therapy office is occupied mostly by white people. Anxious white people and depressed white people. Obsessive white people and compulsive white people. White people who hurt people and white people who hurt themselves. White people who eat too much\, drink too much\, work too much\, shop too much. White people who are bored\, envious\, guilty\, numb. Racist white people and antiracist white people. White people who look across the room and see a white therapist listening. We talk about everything. Except being white.” \n~ Natasha Stovall – Whiteness on the Couch  ~ \n                                                                                                                                              Photo Credit sep–ecxmibgssdm unsplash  \nJoin Somatic educator Liz Koch & clinical Psychologist Natasha Stovall in a 2-hour exploration of our white-ness from both a personal\, social\, physical and even a pandemic perspective. How do we create and live with a newly coherent narrative of ourselves as white bodies and white people? What sort of changes in our selves and in our actions would it take to “live our whiteness” in a new and different\, non-oppressive and less oppressed way?  \nUsing biologically-intelligent movements we will venture into the “frozen” disassociated response within our own core and invite ourselves to dissolve the historically defended rigidity found within the “white-posturing” spine to discover our inner sense of self as living beings.  Through conceptual and embodiment practices we will awaken a different consciousness from the one society has provided us.   \n                                                                                                                                                    \n                                                                                                                                                                   Photo credit-Ines Castellano-unsplash \nAs we begin to dissolve the insistence within the the objectified body we may integrate and participate in a larger conversation of human existence. By creating a multi-layered understanding of our white experience we offer the opportunity to alter the ways cultural whiteness damages our selves\, our fellow human beings\, and life on earth. As we begin imaging reparative ways of being we can create opportunities to generate healing for our world\, our ancestors\, and all future generations. \n  \nNatasha Stovall Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist in private practice working with adults\, adolescents and children. Her essays and cultural criticism have appeared in The New York Times\, Rolling Stone\, and Spin. Her most recent essay\, “Whiteness on the Couch”\, appeared in Longreads in August 2019. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nLiz Koch  is an international educator\, author\, and creator of CoreAwareness™ focusing on awareness as key for developing human potential and awakening consciousness. With 40 years experience specializing in the human core\, Liz is recognized in the somatic\, bodywork\, and fitness professions as an authority on the core tissue called Psoas.  Both nationally and internationally published\, her works include The Psoas Book\, Unraveling Scoliosis CD\, Core Awareness; Enhancing Yoga\, Pilates\, Exercise & Dance\, Psoas & Back Pain CD and Mother\, Maiden\, Crone: Our Pleasure Playlist and her new book  Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence published in 2019 by North Atlantic Books. \n  URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/online-collaboration-moving-whiteness-with-natasha-stovall-phd-zoom/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/white-e1677011758158.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200422T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200520T210000 DTSTAMP:20200430T194811Z CREATED:20200331T170238Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200430T194811Z UID:10000539-1587582000-1590008400@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:ONLINE Embodying WiLD Wise Woman A 5-Week Course in Questioning (ZOOM) DESCRIPTION:Embodying The WiLD Wise Woman \nA 5-Week Online Course in Questioning \n                                                                               This is the moment\, this very moment… \nAn invitation to stop tip-toeing around the patriarchal over-culture\, to stop sleepwalking through life\, to stop running from\, or running to\, and to simply p a u s e…. Now is the time to ask the hard questions. To nourish the animal body. To look inward and pick up the key that awakens\nthe WiLD wise woman within you \nNo more waiting for the right moment… the right moment is NOW \nWe are all filled with longing for the wild. \nThere are few culturally sanctioned antidotes for this yearning. \nWe were taught to feel shame for such a desire. \nWe grew our hair long and used it to hide our feelings. \nBut the shadow of the Wild Woman still lurks beneath us during our days and in our nights. \nNo matter where we are\, the shadow that trots behind us is definitely four-footed. \n                                                                                            –Clarissa Pinkola Estés \nThis 5- week course is brewing…as we shape this time together we sense into the aliveness of this moment…the concepts to be explored between three collaborating women and all of you.  This course invites slowing down\, moving within\, and self-questioning as the means of inhabiting the inner Wise Woman. During our work together\, we will examine the various archetypes\, symbols\, motifs\, and life lessons found in the chosen myth Bluebeard to draw a direct line to Wild Woman. As we journey alongside one another\, we will be led through dark lands\, where we too\, will find fragmented parts of our own psyche in order to piece our wild selves back together\, bone by bone.\nLet the explorations begins… \n\nSHRINKING – getting smaller to be the “Bigger Person” (name what you see\, feel\, smell\, hear in the art of discernment). Seeing the story of our own naïve woman and her behavior of fawning\n\nMUZZLING – entrapping the “Good (nice) Girl” (don’t ask questions cause too much trouble; you’ll be nosey\, overwhelming\, pushy) Hearing the story of “still-enabling\,” freezing\, and dismissing – catching a “LIVE” one.\n\nGUTTING – cutting off vital Intuitive Knowing. (the wound of being dis-emboweled). Tasting the wise womb\, learning to listen to our ovaries\, licking our wounds.  Scars stories of C-Sections and Hysterectomies.\n\nNAMING – standing ground\, facing\, longing\, cunning (awakening the animal body). The body never lies…Smelling the blood scent of gut instincts and inner knowing. Stories of igniting the wild womb\, laughing and awaken the creative belly core. \n\nDEVOURING –  feeding and tending the WiLD creative Wise Woman. Movement as medicine and story as tracking. Singing over the bones and other tenacious stories of instinctual power and sweetness. \n\n \nBLUEBEARD tells the tale of sabotage—both from within and from without. It speaks of a predatory force\, known as the Saboteur. This force is in all of us and can make its presence known anywhere\, whether it be in the marketplace\, the local bar\, the classroom\, or in the privacy of one’s own mind. The objects of our desire\, as devised by the Saboteur\, are fool’s gold\, which always proves subversive and destructive. This incredibly powerful force is one we must reckon. \nThere are ways to track the Saboteur\, to discover the key questions that open the doors to knowing.  By discerning approaches\, and discovering our inner resources within the wild body\, we can call into play the forces designed to challenge the Saboteur’s seductive power. In so doing\, we bring the Saboteur out from the shadows of our unawareness and into the light of our better knowing. \nIn a supportive and nurturing environment\, these sessions will explore how the movements within the story and the movements of our bodies work together to provide insight into our life stories and psyches… \nMove from constraint and restriction to expansion in the journey toward knowing \nDeepen your experience with knowing and choice making \nEmbody the capacity to live fully and in your power to prevail against seemingly inevitable habits\, forces\, and conventions \nCOLLABORATORS… \nLiz Koch is a conceptual artist\, international somatic educator\, and the author of Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence.  \nKristy Taylor M.Ed.\, C.C.C. is a Canadian counselor focusing on insight therapy and the Wise Woman’s journey to embody wholeness. \nDeborah Schnitzer Ph.D\, National 3M Teaching Fellow is a teacher\, writer\, filmmaker and retired professor emerita of English at the University of Winnipeg.  Her fiction and film projects can be found at her personal website https://deborahschnitzer.com \n  \nNOTE: this course is a live course and will not be recorded.  Please check your time zone to see if it works.  If not\, please let us know you are  interested as we will be offering this course again for those of you outside this time range.  \n    KEY ~  Photo credit: Michael Dziedzic Unsplash  \n   FOREST ~  Photo by Johannes Plenio Unsplash \n  \n\n \n\n  URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/online-embodying-the-wild-wise-woman-collaboration/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Online Class END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Monterrey:20200418T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Monterrey:20200419T113000 DTSTAMP:20200418T141032Z CREATED:20200331T191345Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200418T141032Z UID:10000541-1587204000-1587295800@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:ONLINE Hydrating Psoas & Resolving Scar Tissue with Nikole Dufelmeier (Zoom) DESCRIPTION:Restoring Your Juicy Psoas \n \nSelf Help Techniques for Resolving Scar Tissue  \nJoin international Somatic Educator Liz Koch & Advanced NeuroStrength™ MELT trainer Nikole Dufelmeier for this two-day online exploration (participants will remain full clothed). Learn the importances of hydrating connective tissue for gaining a juicy responsive psoas and eliminating interruptions in core movement. \nDiscover how best to restore a healthy core psoas by self-help techniques for resolving scar tissue. \nREADING PREPARATION: To receive the most from this workshop it is recommended that you read The Psoas Book and research online  the basics of connective tissue.  \nSATURDAY – DAY ONE ( 1.5 hour) \nPart One: Introduction to why hydrating scar tissue is important to the Psoas – preparing the tissue (Liz) \nPart Two: 3-Self Help Techniques for hydrating core scar tissue (Nikole demonstrates)i.e. birthing scars\, surgery on hip sockets\, abdominal scars \nSUNDAY – DAY TWO (1.5 hour) \nQ & A – open discussion with everyone participating -follow up on practice and technique  \n  \nNikole Dufelmeier\, MDiv is a Pneuma-Somatic Educator.  This unique combination allows her to work with the physical and spiritual aspects of each indidivual. An Advanced Level 5 MELT Instructor\,  Nikole has been teaching MELT since 2014 completing the Advanced Level 2 NeuroStrength training with creator Sue Hitzmann in New York City in 2019.  She is a certified Hatha yoga instructor has completed the Professional Application Course and Advanced Training to incorporate CoreAwareness™ principles into her teaching and her own personal practice of self-care.   \n  \n  \nLiz Koch  is an international educator\, author\, and creator of CoreAwareness™ focusing on awareness as key for developing human potential and awakening consciousness. With over 40 years experience specializing in the human core\, Liz is recognized as an authority on the core tissue called Psoas.  Internationally published\, her works include The Psoas Book\, Unraveling Scoliosis CD\, Core Awareness; Enhancing Yoga\, Pilates\, Exercise & Dance\, Psoas & Back Pain CD and Mother\, Maiden\, Crone: Our Pleasure Playlist and her latest book Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence  (2019 North Atlantic Books)  \n  URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/wilding-juicy-psoas-self-help-techniques-for-resolving-scar-tissue-zoom-collaboration/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/CoreAwareness-ball-300x240-1.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR