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SUMMARY:12-Hr BASIC Psoas Workshop (NCBTMB) Lawrence Kansas
DESCRIPTION:Thank you so much for the workshop over the weekend. \nIt was the most amazing\, eye opening and inspiring workshop… \nIt answered a lot of my questions and made me think about a whole lot more! \nI also really appreciate your generosity with your knowledge and not rushing through any answers to our questions.\nI know this is just the beginning of my journey with your training.\n(2021 Workshop Participant)\n \n2-Day Basic Psoas Workshop \nopen to every body\, limited to 12 participants \nThis course offers a great way to learn through experience how intelligent Psoas informs your skeletal integrity\, joint rotation\, muscular tension\, breathing\, emotional expression\, and organ functioning. A healthy Psoas facilitates functional movement and improves fitness while reducing over all stress vital for resolving injuries and trauma. Healthy Psoas ignites your core creative flourishing and nourishes your innovative possibilities. \n\n\n\n\nDevelop Your Core Awareness: \n\nUnderstand how healthy Psoas supports movement\, strength\, endurance & well-being\nExperience practical ways of sensing your Psoas\nLearn to soften\, lengthen and revitalize your Psoas\nGain tools for recovering and maintaining a healthy Psoas\nExplore the energetic/emotional/spiritual/ living dynamics of your physical core\nImprove neurological proprioception and skeletal balance\nApply concepts to everyday movement such as sitting\, driving\, and walking\n\n \nDeepen and broaden your practice whether that be Pilates\, Gyrotonic\, Massage\, Bodywork\, Somatic Movement\, Fitness\, Athletics\, Dance\, Yoga\, Martial Arts\, and/or Psychology… \nVENUE: Country Studio 20 minutes from Lawrence offers a tranquil location for exploring Psoas. \n \n  \n  \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-2024-lawrence-ks/
LOCATION:TBA – Country Studio
CATEGORIES:featured,Professional Training,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Private Sessions | May in Lawrence KS
DESCRIPTION:At the very core of every well-executed movement is somatic awareness that ultimately leads to inner freedom. Cultivating your Core Awareness will enrich your sense of flexibility\, suppleness\, strength\, and stability so that with fluid motion your vital life force becomes increasingly tangible.” \nLiz Koch – Core Awareness: Enhancing Yoga\, Pilates\, Exercise & Dance \n \nI am offering Private Psoas Sessions at  Country Studio in Lawrence Ks MAY 3 & 6\, 2024 \nNOTE: Only if you have already attended a previous Psoas workshop may you make an appointment  \nEmail me via my contact page to reserve your time and receive an invoice by email to secure your appointment. \nPre-payment is required for a 90 minutes session $275.00 USD \nCANCELLATION: Because of this rare and limited opportunity payment for your appointment is due in advance – payment is in full with no refunds available (please check for waiting list replacement– a $30 service fee may apply for substitutions). If I am unable to meet your appointment a full refund will be given.
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/privates-may-lawrence-2024/
LOCATION:TBA – Country Studio
CATEGORIES:Private Session
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SUMMARY:Private Sessions | Spring in New York City 2024
DESCRIPTION:At the very core of every well-executed movement is somatic awareness that ultimately leads to inner freedom. Cultivating your Core Awareness will enrich your sense of flexibility\, suppleness\, strength\, and stability so that with fluid motion your vital life force becomes increasingly tangible.” \nLiz Koch – Core Awareness: Enhancing Yoga\, Pilates\, Exercise & Dance \n \nI am offering Private Psoas Sessions in my studio at Moving Body Resources in New York City Tuesday October 31 – Friday November 4 \nEmail me via my contact page to reserve your time and receive an invoice by email to secure your appointment. \nPre-payment is required for a 90 minutes session $295.00 USD \n \n  \nCANCELLATION: Because of this rare and limited opportunity payment for your appointment is due in advance – payment is in full with no refunds available (please check for waiting list replacement– a $30 service fee may apply for substitutions). If I am unable to meet your appointment a full refund will be given.
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/ny-privates-april-may-2024/
LOCATION:Moving Body Resources Studio\, 112 W 27th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10001\, United States
CATEGORIES:featured,Private Session
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SUMMARY:18-Hr Psoas Depths Workshop Neptune Beach\, FLORIDA
DESCRIPTION:3-Day Psoas Depths Workshop\nCobalt Moon Center’s Water Studio \nNeptune Beach\, FLORIDA APRIL 26-28\, 2024 \nOPEN TO EVERY BODY \n \nDive deep within your core and explore the healthy\, dynamic Psoas. This workshop employs a bio-intelligent paradigm exploring the inter-relationships of core integrity\, self-actualization\, and innovative expression available within your fluid core. Nurturing coherent interplay between psoas\, bone\, heart\, and gut you’ll experience the role psoas plays in stress regulation\, dynamic expression\, and neuroplasticity. Discover how a fluid\, nourished iliopsoas complex can resolve trauma\, improve well-being\, refine functional movement and invite creativity. \nThe workshop includes: \n\nUnderstanding the psoas as a core messenger for well-being\nNurturing the sensory experience of your own psoas\nExploring the energetic/emotional/spiritual dynamics of the physical core\nListening to the deep animal body as revealed by your core intelligence.\nRecognizing the dysfunctional psoas as an expression of complex trauma\nGaining tools for nourishing and sustaining healthy\, functional Psoas\n\n \nLiz Koch is an international educator\, author\, and creator of CoreAwareness™ focusing on awareness for developing human potential. With 45 years experience specializing in the psoas\, Liz is recognized in the somatic\, bodywork\, and fitness professions as an authority on 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 Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence. Liz Koch is approved by the USA National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB)\, as a continuing education provider. \n  \nACCOMMODATIONS IN WALKING DISTANCE: \nThe Neptune Beach studio website shows some lodging options. https://continuummovement.com/accommodations-travel-florida/ \nWalking distance:\n – One Ocean\n – Seahorse\n – Palms\n – Salt Air Inn & Suites  (not shown on webpage)\nThe others are a mile or more away but might offer lower rates.\n\n\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/18-hr-psoas-depths-workshop-neptune-beach-florida/
LOCATION:Cobalt Blue Water Studio\, 214 Orange St\, Neptune Beach\, FL\, 32266\, United States
CATEGORIES:featured,Workshop
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SUMMARY:BASIC (12-Hr) Psoas Workshop (NCBTMB Approved) via Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Thank you so much for the workshop over the weekend. \nIt was the most amazing\, eye opening and inspiring workshop… \nIt answered a lot of my questions and made me think about a whole lot more! \nI also really appreciate your generosity with your knowledge and not rushing through any answers to our questions.\nI know this is just the beginning of my journey with your training.\n(Workshop Participant)\n \n3-Day ONLINE Basic Psoas workshop\, open to every body\, limited to 15 participants \nThis course offers a great way to learn through experience how intelligent Psoas informs your skeletal integrity\, joint rotation\, muscular tension\, breathing\, emotional expression\, and organ functioning. A healthy Psoas facilitates functional movement and improves fitness while reducing over all stress vital for resolving injuries and trauma. Healthy Psoas ignites your core creative flourishing and nourishes your innovative possibilities. \n\n\n\n\nDevelop Your Core Awareness: \n\nUnderstand how healthy Psoas supports movement\, strength\, endurance & well-being\nExperience practical ways of sensing your Psoas\nLearn to soften\, lengthen and revitalize your Psoas\nGain tools for recovering and maintaining a healthy Psoas\nExplore the energetic/emotional/spiritual/ living dynamics of your physical core\nImprove neurological proprioception and skeletal balance\nApply concepts to everyday movement such as 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\, and/or 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-april-2024/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class,Professional Training,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Holding Paradox: Becoming Our Own Collaboration with Jorja Rivero
DESCRIPTION:Holding Paradox: Becoming Our Own\nTHREE MONDAY CLASSES  –  MARCH 11\, 18\, 25 \n10:00 AM – 1:00 PM CENTRAL/Chicago USA \n 8:00 Pacific| 9:00 Mountain | 10:00 Central | 11:00 Eastern \nNOTE THIS COURSE TAKES PLACE DURING DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME CHANGE \nWomen Exploring Together \na moving collaboration with relational therapist\nJorja Rivero LCSW\n\n  \nWhat to Expect \nA combination of rich movement and reflective inquiry\nin the company of other women\nwho share a longing to deepen our center of being. \nT  A S K \ncalling forth courage\nto face ourselves with vulnerable curiosity. \n  and  stop being at odds with ourselves \ndevelop a rooted core\nthat hold us beyond good and bad is the \nP L A Y \nDeveloping this new capacity as a Sweet Holding is the \nP A R A D O X \nNourishing our own from within is a life-long journey\nHere we meet for three sessions\nto inspire and create a supportive container for your own self-discovery. \n  \nInternalized Misogyny is neither Personal\, nor just Happens to us – \nit is an Ancestral and Familiar Conditioning that we too uphold.\nYou know this deep inside when you observe your limiting beliefs and the many frustrating ways you undermine and override your feelings. Desperate to find a solution\, you often feel the urge to hurry up and just feel good. Rather than develop the humble art of listening and nourishing to that which is in pain or in joy in you -to that which is deeply alive. No matter how much you try to convince yourself that life can’t change\, something within keeps calling your attention…\nbut it feels so dangerous because it is. It is dangerous to believe it’s possible \n~ Jorja Rivero \nTo grow our discernment and flourish\, we start by slowing down\, showing up\, and tenderly receiving ourselves wherever we are in each moment. Only then do genuine feelings arise and creative possibilities unfold. \nReferred to by Daoist Healers as The Muscle of the Soul\, the core tissue of our physical body\, Psoas\, lives deep within the center of our being and is akin to our unique gifts. Often sensed as frozen or sedated this tissue alerts us to how we have been cut off from innate wisdom. \nRooting into Core Integrity requires that we sense our own being as well as the container that has shaped us. Only then do we begin attuning to a different way of being. Our birthright and capacity to feel and receive the sensorial language of Earth’s pleasures goes hand in hand with honoring our True Self. \n  \n \nJorja Rivero\, LCSW is a bilingual  Relational Life Therapist in practice in NYC and available Online. Working since 2003 and in Private Practice since 2008\, Jorja has a Masters in Social Work from NYU\, Clinical Training in Gestalt Psychotherapy\, and certification as a Relational Life Therapist. She taught yoga for many years and continues to teach guided meditation inspired from the practices she trained in. Jorja works individually with clients\, does couple’s work\, group work\, and offers workshops. \n  \nCONVERSATION: Available at Liz Koch YouTube Rejuvenating Our Inner Knowing As Women\nAuthor of  The Psoas Book\, Core Awareness\, and Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Our Core Intelligence\, Liz Koch invites  Jorja to traverse the terrain of “internalized misogyny” as it tethers women to Being Too Much\, or not enough. How do these stories live within our flesh\, blood\, and bones? And how does the colonized top-down mandate shrink our worth and our capacity to flourish? \nRecognizing that although WOMAN is a force of nature and the portal of all human life\, she carries a legacy of profound dissatisfaction. How can we awaken to the self-sabotaging internalized patriarchal constructs that literally live in our Soma? What can rejuvenate our inner knowing? Reflecting on our basic goodness and the innate goodness of life on Earth we discuss how nourishing our capacity moves us fully into our dynamic relational being.
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/women-holding-paradox-2024/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Online Class,Video Recorded Class
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SUMMARY:Advanced Core Awareness Course - NCBTMB Zoom Approved  (Level One)
DESCRIPTION:A 5-Week Advanced Course designed for both Laypersons &  Professionals to refine your understanding of the explorations found in my book Core Awareness  \n5 participant mentorship \nIn the intimacy of a small group gathering (max 5) on Zoom we will integrate the fundamental concepts for maintaining a healthy psoas. Each week we refine and articulate movement\, increase proprioception\, and integrate our results by working together. Learning from each other’s expertise\, sharing our observations\, questioning our strategies we’ll explore each chapter\, encouraging a keen eye\, nuanced sensing\, and deep listening while fostering our inner knowing. \n \nFOR EVERYONE: Integrate the Core Awareness explorations into your own practice in order to be able to gain refinement as well as to successfully guide your clients and students through a natural process for regaining and maintaining a healthy psoas. \nCourse Participants will also gain: \n\nDevelop observational skills for supporting the healthy psoas.\nBecome cognizant of the signs of an overactive sympathetic fear response and disrupted proprioception\nIdentify and choose a strategy of support\, facilitate and implement basic trauma protocol\nUtilize somatic tools for supporting the healthy psoas and sensing the core expression (Neurocore)\nFacilitate your client and students ability to resource support\nLearn to recognize lack of grounding in movement and expression\nWork together in partnerships that will display the ability for self help or to lead students through explorations that support the healthy psoas\nConceptualize and communicate the importance of core integrity and its relationship to the psoas.\n\n  \nPREREQUISITE & REQUIREMENTS: You must  have attended a minimum of One BASIC  Psoas Workshops and/or a combination of the 5-week Audio Psoas course plus  3 Zoom classes.  Please read and bring to class: Core Awareness: Enhancing Yoga\, Pilates\, Exercise & Dance.\nExpect and be available to have a homework assignment and to discuss the concepts during each class. \nNOTE: This course is an educational process designed for people interested in the field of Bodywork\, Yoga\, Pilates\, Dance\, and Fitness to increase their understanding and experience of the healthy psoas.  It is NOT for those needing to heal from trauma or major injuries. Please register only if qualified. This course is limited to 5 participants. \nI encourage professionals already on my COMMUNITY page to attend to further deepen your understanding of how to utilize the explorations and develop skills in discerning the healthy psoas. \nCANCELLATION POLICY: Cancellation Policy\nUSA Psoas Workshop Cancellation Policy: Cancellations may be made up until 30 days prior to the workshop. NO money will be refunded 30 days before the workshop date. Workshop deposits are non-refundable. Registration for the ADVANCED COURSE is FINAL and can not be transferred or deferred. \nNational Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB) Approved \nThis is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork for 20 hours of continuing education credit (CEU). For more information on the NCBTMB\, please visit their website.
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/core-awareness-advanced-course-level-one-feb-march-2024/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Online Class,Professional Training
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SUMMARY:10-Month Professional Application Course (30-hr NCBTMB Accredited) Online Course 2024
DESCRIPTION:  \n \n“Thank you for your impressive way of sharing your being and showing us how to land into our ground\, where our NS can rest deeply\, and we start to experience authenticity and integrity. For me it is only a beginning\, but so inviting that once on this path\, one is eager to discover more. What I can integrate during this application course\, I can surely bring alive with myself and my clients.             ~ Hilde Naedts – Psychotherapist – Belgium (2021) \n“Working with Liz brought me in contact with myself\, who I truly am\, from my inner being.  Meeting for 10 months gave me time to integrate. In addition\, the individual sessions\, midmonth gatherings\, and all the material really enriched the process!”            ~ Désirée Bourgonje – Healing Tao – Netherlands (2021)\n\n“As a bodyworker for 34 years\, the 10-month Application course with Liz Koch for me was a journey of self-exploration into transformation.  It deepened my relationship with my clients’ needs and enabled me to meet them where they are in the moment\, without an agenda of my own. I came out of the course with valuable\, tangible\, easy-to-implement tools to share with my clients that deepens their own bodies’ innate healing capacity.”       ~ Lori Rizzuto\, Lic. MsT\, Bowen Practitioner – Maine USA (2021) \n~    ~    ~    ~    ~    ~    ~ \nOffering my PROFESSIONAL APPLICATION COURSE as a 10-Month Online Course via Zoom brought my attention to the need and value of integrating concepts and experiences over space and time. This course is designed to deepen your experience of psoas and locate core knowing within yourself so that you show up fully\, bringing your integral creative expression into the world. \n10-Month Application Course for Professionals includes \n1) Meeting the 3rd Wednesday of the month\, for 4 hours\, for 10 months (plus one make up month the following January). \n2) Mid-month Peer Group Support \n3) Two 30-minute Private Consultations with Liz Koch (evaluation at beginning and end of the course or 1 hour when you choose) \nOur focus: \n\nConceptual & Experiential Understanding of Healthy Psoas\nAwakening the Primal Brain and Instinctual Psoas in order to hone your ability to track and show up integral in your personal & profession life.\nFunctional Applications and Foundational Resources for integrating Conceptual/Paradigm & Language shifts into your life  & profession.\nHomework Explorations and One Presentation required to deepen and personalize your experience.\n\nPlease note only 30 of the required 43 participatory hours will be applied to the NCBTMB certification \n \n The Application Course offers those licensed as Somatic Educators\, Yoga Instructors\, Pilates & Gyrotonic Trainers\, Massage Practitioners\, Body & Healing Practitioners; as well as Birth & Fitness Coaches\, Dance Therapists\, Martial Arts Instructors\, plus all psychologists\, trauma and embodiment educators to develop into Psoas Savvy educators\, capable of helping others integrate and resolve psoas related issues. This course is an opportunity to heal your own psoas issues while bringing psoas awareness to your professional life. \nAlong with this course when possible I highly recommend joining an in-person course to establish a relationship with me. Completing the Application Course is a prerequisite but not necessarily a guarantee for joining my online Community and referral page where people can locate Psoas savvy classes and therapists in their community. \n ~     ~    ~    ~      ~ \nStep away from your dedicated focus to deepen and broaden your perspective and experience your bio-intelligent core tissue called psoas. By doing so\, your own psoas becomes a guide for self actualization that informs your work from deep within your core being.  A healthy psoas is the first step towards functional movement and a coherent nervous system. Having a coherent core not only supports our capacity for core strength and integrity but also nourishing a resilient life; thus offering essential components for achieving your professional goals. \nInspire your  personal and professional life \n \nGROUP SIZE: This ONLINE Application Course is limited to a maximum of 15 participants \nPREREQUISITE & REQUIREMENTS: You must be a professional: certified and/or licensed in your field (no laypersons please) and have attended a minimum of one BASIC 12-hr Psoas Workshop and preferably one Stalking Wild Psoas Workshop or 3 FLUID CORE Zoom Classes.  Please register only if qualified.  Note: You are required to attend all classes to receive NCBTMB certification and/or be eligible for my online community.  \nDATES: February 21/ March 20/ April 17/ May 15/ June 19/ July 17 August 21/ September 18/ October 16/ November 20 \nNEXT LIVE: Professional Application Course currently scheduled in USA Ojo Caliente New Mexico January 21-28 2024
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/10-month-professional-application-ncbtmb-accredited-2024/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Application Course,featured,Online Class,Professional Training
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SUMMARY:BASIC (12-Hr) Psoas Workshop (NCBTMB Approved) via Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Thank you so much for the workshop over the weekend. \nIt was the most amazing\, eye opening and inspiring workshop… \nIt answered a lot of my questions and made me think about a whole lot more! \nI also really appreciate your generosity with your knowledge and not rushing through any answers to our questions.\nI know this is just the beginning of my journey with your training.\n(Workshop Participant)\n \n3-Day ONLINE Basic Psoas workshop\, open to every body\, limited to 15 participants \nThis course offers a great way to learn through experience how intelligent Psoas informs your skeletal integrity\, joint rotation\, muscular tension\, breathing\, emotional expression\, and organ functioning. A healthy Psoas facilitates functional movement and improves fitness while reducing over all stress vital for resolving injuries and trauma. Healthy Psoas ignites your core creative flourishing and nourishes your innovative possibilities. \n\n\n\n\nDevelop Your Core Awareness: \n\nUnderstand how healthy Psoas supports movement\, strength\, endurance & well-being\nExperience practical ways of sensing your Psoas\nLearn to soften\, lengthen and revitalize your Psoas\nGain tools for recovering and maintaining a healthy Psoas\nExplore the energetic/emotional/spiritual/ living dynamics of your physical core\nImprove neurological proprioception and skeletal balance\nApply concepts to everyday movement such as 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\, and/or 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-february-2024/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Online Class,Professional Training,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Psoas Healing Retreat (Professional Application Course) Ojo Caliente NM 2024
DESCRIPTION:Be inspired from the inside out! \nThe APPLICATION COURSE & Healing Retreat is for lay persons and professionals. This course is an opportunity to heal your own psoas issues and bring psoas awareness to your personal and professional life.  The Application Course offers those licensed as Somatic Educators\, Yoga Instructors\, Pilates & Gyrotonic Trainers\, Massage Practitioners\, Body & Healing Practitioners; as well as Birth & Fitness Coaches\, Dance Instructors\, Martial Arts Masters\, plus all psychology focused professionals\, to develop into Psoas Savvy Educators\, capable of helping others integrate and resolve psoas related issues. Completing this 30-Hr course is a prerequisite for joining my online Community referral page where people can locate Psoas savvy classes and therapists in their community. \nStep away from your dedicated focus to broaden your perspective and experience your bio-intelligent psoas. By doing so\, your psoas becomes a guide for self actualization that informs you from deep within your core being. \nA healthy psoas is the first step towards functional movement. Having a coherent core not only supports the capacity of core strength but is deeply nourishing for every aspect of your life and creativity; essential components for achieving your professional goals. \nInspire your  life and your specialization. Join me! \nGroup size: limited to a maximum of 12 participants  (during your stay\, family & friends are welcome to join you at the Spa Resort) \n \nPrerequisite: To attend the retreat and/or Nationally Certified Application Course you are required to complete one BASIC Psoas Workshop (online or in person)  To be potentially included on my LINKS referral page requires a minimum of attending a 12 or 18 hour Psoas Workshop plus this 30-Hour Application Course.  Please note: I reserve the right to deny anyone for any reason to be included on my Community Web page. \n \nACCOMMODATIONS: Please the Ojo Caliente Mineral Spring Resort & Spa https://ojosparesorts.com/ojo-caliente/stay/  for accommodation options and rates from hotel rooms to renting houses\, dining options\, travel plans\, and spa choices. If you wish to share a room please first register for the course and then email me to let me know you are interested.  I can not guarantee a roommate but will be happy to share your email with anyone else looking to share accommodations. There are many choices in rooms and each has unique possibilities so please feel free to contact me for suggestions as to which will best suit your needs. \nIMPORTANT: I encourage everyone to stay at the Ojo Caliente resort to attend this course. You will have easy access to the water and to me. However\, as Ojo Caliente is a popular destination prices have gone up and accommodations are limited I am opening to commuters. I still discourage getting in a car each day – it breaks the ability to deeply relax to be car free and walk…but if you wish to come and this is your only way possible then go ahead and register. \nTo be part of the Application Course you must arrive Sunday\, January 21st and join us at 7:30 pm and depart after 6:00pm on Saturday\, January 27th  – this course comes to an end with a full day on Saturday.  To receive a certificate you are required to attend the full workshop portion of this course. \nWe will be in New Mexico in the wintertime.  It is very beautiful but may be cold and might even snow!  Plan accordingly. \nRETREAT ONLY: You do not have to be a professional to come work/play for 6 days.  You do have to have the pre-requiste of completing a BASIC workshop and arrive on time. \n \n \nNational Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB) Approved \nThis is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork for 30 hours of continuing education credit (CEU). For more information on the NCBTMB\, please visit their website.
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/6-day-professional-application-course-psoas-retreat-2024/
LOCATION:Ojo Caliente Spa\, 50 Los Banos Drive\, Ojo\, NM\, 87549\, United States
CATEGORIES:featured,Professional Training,Retreat
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SUMMARY:Coming To Our Senses as Women - Monthly Group 2024
DESCRIPTION:A Kinesthetic Sensory Inquiry For Women \nComing To Our Senses\na monthly dive into words that shape our beliefs \nChanging the Language of Body\, Culture & Community  \nWhat is the experience of core integrity when it emerges at this moment within a sensory based woman? \nHow do we\, as women live from our vibrant core integrity? \nWhat does integrity sense like within the very core of our being?  \n \n~  WHO THIS MONTHLY MEET IS FOR  ~ \n\n\nBeing sensory aware of cultural constructs of conditioning living in our wild flesh loosens the binds that tie. \nWe begin with a word – our reaction and assumptions – we move with that word and claim our truth.  Playing locates the authenticity that lives within our flesh and bones to show up and flourish as integral beings. \nJoin us once a month for 12 months and dive under the cultural/historical stranglehold to sense your animal body’s essential aliveness. Sensing into the fear\, the freeze\, the fawning responses cultivates discernment. \nThis GATHERING of possibilities is unrecognizable but if you play or you’ve joined Coming to Our Senses or my WILD Discernment class; participated in the Wise Woman Course or Stalking Wild Psoas…this might be a place of nourishment. \n\n\ntracking your expression is no longer predicated on inauthentic correct behavior. \nlimited for intimacy to 20 Women \nAs one woman articulated “with the impulse to be good is the fear of getting it wrong.”\nHer words say it all. \nIt was so valuable to participate all year long with you and the wonderful women in the group.\nIt gave me a deeper realization that what I sense and feel in the depth of my being matters\, and can be shared.\nI am deeply thankful  for that. \n Every time it was so refreshing to feel your deep consciousness of how women are colonized\,\nand how we can get rid of this.\nSo it was indeed very rich. Thank you ~ 2023 participant
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/coming-to-our-senses-monthly-2024/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Online Class
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240114T150000
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SUMMARY:THE FIERCE FEMININE Liz Koch and Sarah Byrden - On Zoom
DESCRIPTION:THE FIERCE FEMININE\na collaboration\nLiz Koch & Sarah Byrden \nONLINE\nSaturday & Sunday January  13 & 14\, 2024 \n$275  (Recordings Available for 72 hours after the two day workshop) \nEconomic Justice Scale Discounts (email Sarah directly) and Payment Plans- 4 bi-weekly payments- are available (at check out). REGISTER AT: theelementalself.com \nWorkshop as follows: Saturday & Sunday  11:00  am – 3:00 pm Central\n| 9:00 am Pacific | 10:00 am Mountain | 12:00 pm Eastern | 17:00 London | 18:00 Amsterdam \nA  somatic exploration for inhabiting the fierce feminine.\nThrough flows of archetypal qigong\, primal expression\, and landing in our bones we call forth the fierce motions of inner life that are required to guard and protect the female soul\, our truth\, and our integrity. \nWe come together to cut through. To inhabit ourselves more truly.\nMoving out of the false feminine feigning of “not knowing”\ninto the deep visceral knowing of a fierce kind of love. \nFierceness in the feminine soul is too often kept under wraps\, hidden from view\, and relegated to unexpressed territories. In most myths\, fairy tales and real-life scenarios depicting a feminine protagonist\, it is the embodiment and expression of this fierceness that is needed to free her from her own capture\, domestication\, and disappearance toward a life and path of sovereignty and true power. \nThe fierceness of the feminine has long been socialized out of us – relegated to the shadowlands in Western postcolonial contexts. Qualities\, expressions and embodiments of assertion\, boundaries\, directness\, precision\, discernment\, immovable resolve\, deep and direct knowing\, surety\, saying no\, protection\, differentiation\, separation\, severing\, cutting through\, sharp tongue\, truth-telling\, shrewdness\, clarity\, action\, agency\, and power…these movements and energies carry profound wisdom and transformative power in our lives and in our world. \nToo often the qualities of ferocious integrity live in the shadows and become distorted and ineffective versions of themselves as they twist into knots of anger\, rage\, and resentment…or become so hidden that they seem unfindable altogether\, rendering us falsely passive\, self-doubting\, tentative\, demure\, disembodied and dissociated. \nThe aspects and qualities of the ferocious feminine are part of our instinctual animal body containing profound integrity when not repressed\, hidden\, or avoided. \nA fundamental truth of the wild feminine soul is that we know what must live and what must die. It is not only within our reach but within our biological intelligence to be the keepers of cycles and the actors of this agency. \nWhen we are not landed in our bones\, nor close to the somatic gestures of this fierce instinct\, it is difficult to use our voice\, to say a full no or a full yes\, to stand up for ourselves and each other. \nThis workshop is open to all genders and every BODY wishing to explore the qualities of fierceness within the context of the modern socialization of the feminine soul. \nSarah Byrden is a somatic practitioner\, Qigong practitioner\, educator and wilderness guide. A two time TEDx presenter\, Sarah has dedicated over twenty years to the deep study and apprenticeship of nature-based movement modalities. Teaching from her own life-long journey\, she is the founder of The Elemental Self\, which offers pathways for remembering our true self\, the web in which we belong\, and our innate capacity to move and be moved by a source beyond our conditioning. \n Liz Koch is a conceptual artist exploring the deep sensory system and the wild wisdom of core Psoas. An international somatic educator and author with 45 years of experience\, she is the creator of Core Awareness™ and the author of The Psoas Book; Core Awareness: Enhancing Yoga\, Pilates\, Exercise & Dance; Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence; and her upcoming book Birth Savvy. Liz focuses on kinesthetic intelligence and somatic awareness as a means for unfolding our human potential. Stalking Wild Psoas is her passion and Changing the Language of Body is her mission.
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/the-fierce-feminine-on-zoom-2024/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class,Workshop
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SUMMARY:FREE TALK: Psoas & Gut Health
DESCRIPTION:F R E E   T A L K \nPsoas & Gut Health \nBegin your year sensing into your core \nJoin me \nCosy up in your slippers with a cuppa \nto explore Psoas & Gut Health …! \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/free-talk-psoas-gut-health-2024/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Online Class
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20231214T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20231217T133000
DTSTAMP:20260424T173857
CREATED:20230719T195844Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231211T150413Z
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SUMMARY:Stalking Wild Psoas Workshop NCBTMB Accredited (Zoom)
DESCRIPTION:  \nS t a l k i n g  \n  W  i  l d   P s o a s \nA time for healing \nP A U S E \nGive your self  4-days to re-wild\, restore\, and nourish your bio-intelligent Psoas!  Using micro\, non-linear\, multi-dimensional\, fluid movement\, sound  you have the opportunity to metabolize and regenerate.   \nDECEMBER 14-17 \n9:00 – 1:30 Central\n$295 \n(small group setting maximum 10) \nThis creative offering is a nourishing opportunity to heal Psoas issues and awaken your core integrity. Our soulful\, animal body and true nature bound within the current social decorum\, linear patterns\, and repetitive movement becomes stifled and dry.   \nGET JUICY – RESTORE – BE MOVED  \nfrom the fluids of life deep within \nAwaken your inner strength and creativity!  \n \nLiz Koch is approved by the USA National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB)\, as a continuing education provider. \n \n PREREQUISITE:  I recommend a BASIC Psoas Workshop OR a selection of online Fluid Core Zoom classes. Contact me if you want to know if you can attend. Experiencing and participating in my approach provides a foundation that helps you develop the conceptual understanding necessary for  self directive inquiry.  This is essential when attending a Stalking Wild Psoas workshop. \n 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: NO RECORDING – Cancellations in full may be made up until 30 days prior to an online workshop date.  After 30 days you may check the office to see if there is a waiting list for someone who can take your place. Should you be sick\, have an accident or personal crisis or simply can not attend the workshop for whatever reason no money will be refunded but you can apply your registration toward another Stalking Wild Psoas workshop.  Your no show may be applied towards a future-like workshop.  If you leave the workshop early for any reason no part of your registration fee will be returned or applied to another workshop.  Should you cancel or not show up for the rescheduled make-up workshop/course for whatever reason\, no further arrangements will be made. If I am unable to teach the workshop I will reschedule the workshop and you will have the option to attend the makeup workshop or have your money fully refunded.
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/stalking-wild-zoom-december-2023/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Online Class,Professional Training,Workshop
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231210T140000
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SUMMARY:BASIC (12-Hr) Psoas Workshop (NCBTMB Approved) via Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Thank you so much for the workshop over the weekend. \nIt was the most amazing\, eye opening and inspiring workshop… \nIt answered a lot of my questions and made me think about a whole lot more! \nI also really appreciate your generosity with your knowledge and not rushing through any answers to our questions.\nI know this is just the beginning of my journey with your training.\n(Workshop Participant)\n \n3-Day ONLINE Basic Psoas workshop\, open to every body\, limited to 15 participants \nThis course offers a great way to learn through experience how intelligent Psoas informs your skeletal integrity\, joint rotation\, muscular tension\, breathing\, emotional expression\, and organ functioning. A healthy Psoas facilitates functional movement and improves fitness while reducing over all stress vital for resolving injuries and trauma. Healthy Psoas ignites your core creative flourishing and nourishes your innovative possibilities. \n\n\n\n\nDevelop Your Core Awareness: \n\nUnderstand how healthy Psoas supports movement\, strength\, endurance & well-being\nExperience practical ways of sensing your Psoas\nLearn to soften\, lengthen and revitalize your Psoas\nGain tools for recovering and maintaining a healthy Psoas\nExplore the energetic/emotional/spiritual/ living dynamics of your physical core\nImprove neurological proprioception and skeletal balance\nApply concepts to everyday movement such as 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\, and/or 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-2023/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Online Class,Professional Training,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Stalking Wild Psoas: Womb To World with Anna Verwaal on Zoom
DESCRIPTION:The Journey that Shapes Our Life\nNovember 16-19 \n\nJoin Liz Koch and Anna Verwaal for this most extraordinary process oriented workshop\ncombining research\, personal exploration and movement\n4.5 HOURS EACH DAY \nNO RECORDINGS \n\nMore than four decades of findings in the field of pre-and-perinatal psychology has shown that the moment of conception\, the time in our mothers’ womb\, and how we are born are foundational experiences that affect us for the rest of our lives. Our health\, belief system\, fears\, and ability to form healthy relationships are profoundly shaped by early non-verbal\, emotional\, and somatic imprints created during this primal period. \nThis online workshop is for anyone seeking to explore and understand how conception\, prenatal experience\, and birth-related imprints might still play out in their day-to-day life. \nAnna and Liz work collaboratively to provide a comprehensive container of information\, personal experiences\, and nourishment in order to create a space to explore preverbal memories without experiencing cathartic reenactments. \nEach day will include a specially prepared audio-visual presentation\, a guided movement exploration\, and a break-out room sharing session and/or creative processing session through artwork. Anna will help participants recognize their own early imprints and how they may be related to their conception\, prenatal period\, or birth experience. Using micro-movement and sound-breath techniques\, Liz will help participants access fluid movement to dissolve\, integrate\, and awaken. \nGroup Size: 20 \n\nA creative collaboration: \nInternational Pre & Perinatal Educator Anna Verwaal\, combines the latest findings in the field of pre and perinatal psychology with her decades of preconception to post-natal counseling and professional work experience in all areas of maternal-child health. Anna weaves her extensive personal and professional experience\, with her stunning photography and storytelling to help you understand the long-term effects of your own conception\, time in your mother’s womb\, birth experience and early postnatal experience in order to discover how these experiences might still be affecting you physically\, emotionally\, and relationally. If your conception was unplanned\, your birth induced\, or you were born with a tight umbilical cord around your neck or spent time in an incubator\, you might feel more like you are surviving than thriving. But this does not have to be the way forward. Experience how becoming conscious of your earliest imprints can improve the relationship with yourself\, with loved ones\, and how it can help support your human potential and creative expression throughout life. \nInternational Author & Somatic Educator Liz Koch focuses on integrating your somatic expressions and experiences as you witness Verwaal’s photographs of the interventions and life experiences that babies have lived through and begin remembering your own birth story.  Liz brings her 45 years as a somatic educator to encourage integration and innovation. Using subtle primal movements you’ll begin to dissolve personal dynamics of conception\, womb memory\, and birth impressions held and expressed within cellular memory without eliciting cathartic reactions. Holding a container of nourishment our prenatal imprints\, which may be playing out in a variety of expressions are able to find resolution. You will discover how insistent patterns reveal your life assumptions\, strategies\, and desires. Using micro-movement and sound-breath you’ll access fluid movements to dissolve\, integrate\, and awaken. Revitalizing the very core of your being to restore and nourish our full capacity for becoming dynamic\, creative\, heartfelt beings. \nBiographies:\nAnna Verwaal\, RN\, CLE is a maternal-child health nurse\, conscious conception & birth consultant\, primal period educator\, midwife & doula instructor\, UCLA certified lactation educator and birth photographer from the Netherlands.  After a 25-year nursing career in various countries in obstetric\, pediatric\, neonatal hospital care\, and home-health settings\, working with families and babies as an educator/consultant Anna started her own private birth consulting practice. Anna is the presenter of a TEDx Talk by the same name\, travels internationally giving lectures to groups and conventions\, as well as offering workshops to professionals and laypeople about the long-term effects of the conception/prenatal/birth experience\, the hormonal physiology of childbirth\, breastfeeding\, bonding\, and the deeply psychological\, emotional and spiritual aspects of giving birth. Anna is a long-term member of APPPAH\, the Association of Pre and Perinatal Psychology & Health. \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 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) \n\n  \n  \nCANCELLATION POLICY:  FINAL – 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-psoas-womb-to-world-with-anna-verwaal-zoom23/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class
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SUMMARY:Re-Wilding Psoas - A Healing Retreat in Tuscany Italy 2023
DESCRIPTION:Nourish ~ Awaken ~ Be Vitalized \n \n\n This 4-night Retreat at the 5 star Adler Hotel is a package that includes access to all the pools and multiple steam rooms\, rest and play areas\, plus beautiful accommodations throughout\, bikes for adventures and an amazing full range of breakfast delights and a 4 course dinner beyond your wildest imagination.  Locally sourced\, most often the food is organic\, with an incredible selection\, and exquisitely prepared – you will be nourished to the core of your being.   \nOur time together offers community and support to nourish your primordial Psoas using micro\, non-linear\, multi-dimensional\, fluid movement we will explore in land and the the warm healing waters\,  You are encouraged to explore at your own pace\, and be moved from the biological-intelligence within you to explore in any way you are called.  \nThe Adler thermal springs offers healing water 37° C sourced from natural springs.  \nMonday\, Tuesday & Wednesday I will be available for movement explorations in our studio space available from 1:00 – 5:00 for both group sessions and personal explorations. I will also be available to explore movement in water every morning\, meet for a walk or conversations\, cocktail hour\, and gather for long delicious  dinners together. \nYour time and choices will be yours to dip in and  enjoy the many opportunities the spa and local area has to offer! \nI will be available to work with each of you in water and on land.  \nPrerequisite minimum: attending one BASIC Psoas workshop on zoom or in-person workshop. This is not a course it is a retreat and you will be deepening your ability to listen to the call from deep within…the messenger of the midline\, your bio-intelligent Psoas.  \n \nACCOMMODATIONS (Special 4-night Package):\nPlease reach out to me:\nYou will need to either share a room or bring a partner (who does not have to be involved in the retreat).\nThere is also the option of sharing up to 3 participants in a family suite that is quite large and spacious. \nOnce you are registered for the retreat below – I will email you the contact person for securing your  specific accommodation request.\nDO NOT CONTACT THE ADLER \n\nDouble Room: 927 each/ 1854 € per room (for 2 persons)\n\nFamily Suite 927 each / 2.781 €  per room (for  3 persons)  \nSingle Room –  1207 €  (only 2 available  first come first serve)  
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/stalking-wild-psoas-healing-retreat-tuscany-italy-2023/
LOCATION:Hotel Adler Thermae Spa & Relax Resort\, Strada di Bagno Vignoni 1\, San Quirico d'Orcia SI\, Tuscany\, 53027\, Italy
CATEGORIES:Retreat
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20231031T073000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20231103T190000
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CREATED:20230719T205453Z
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UID:38297-1698737400-1699038000@coreawareness.com
SUMMARY:Private Sessions | Oct/November in New York City 2023
DESCRIPTION:At the very core of every well-executed movement is somatic awareness that ultimately leads to inner freedom. Cultivating your Core Awareness will enrich your sense of flexibility\, suppleness\, strength\, and stability so that with fluid motion your vital life force becomes increasingly tangible.” \nLiz Koch – Core Awareness: Enhancing Yoga\, Pilates\, Exercise & Dance \n \nI am offering Private Psoas Sessions in my studio at Moving Body Resources in New York City Tuesday October 31 – Friday November 4 \nEmail me via my contact page to reserve your time and receive an invoice by email to secure your appointment. \nPre-payment is required for a 90 minutes session $275.00 USD \n \n  \nCANCELLATION: Because of this rare and limited opportunity payment for your appointment is due in advance – payment is in full with no refunds available (please check for waiting list replacement– a $30 service fee may apply for substitutions). If I am unable to meet your appointment a full refund will be given.
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/ny-privates-november-23/
LOCATION:Moving Body Resources Studio\, 112 W 27th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10001\, United States
CATEGORIES:featured,Private Session
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SUMMARY:Stalking Wild Psoas: THE FIERCE FEMININE Liz Koch & Sarah Byrden Boulder CO
DESCRIPTION:A Stalking Wild Psoas Workshop\nTHE FIERCE FEMININE\na collaboration\nLiz Koch & Sarah Byrden \nIn-Person Workshop\nOctober 27-29\nBoulder\, CO\n$550 Early Bird by October 20/ $630 Regular \nEconomic Justice Scale Discounts (email Sarah directly) and Payment Plans- 4 bi-weekly payments- are available (at check out). REGISTER AT: https://theelementalself.com/product/stalking-wild-psoas-collaboration/ \n*Workshop times are as follows: Friday: 6-9 pm\, Saturday: 9 am – 5 pm\, Sunday: 9 am-4 pm\nThis is not a residential workshop. Meals and accommodation are not included in the price. \nBOULDER COLORADO \nThis workshop is a somatic exploration for inhabiting the fierce feminine.\nThrough flows of archetypal qigong\, primal expression\, and landing in our bones we call forth the fierce motions of inner life that are required to guard and protect the female soul\, our truth\, and our integrity. \nWe come together to cut through. To inhabit ourselves more truly.\nMoving out of the false feminine feigning of “not knowing”\ninto the deep visceral knowing of a fierce kind of love. \nFierceness in the feminine soul is too often kept under wraps\, hidden from view\, and relegated to unexpressed territories. In most myths\, fairy tales and real-life scenarios depicting a feminine protagonist\, it is the embodiment and expression of this fierceness that is needed to free her from her own capture\, domestication\, and disappearance toward a life and path of sovereignty and true power. \nThe fierceness of the feminine has long been socialized out of us – relegated to the shadowlands in Western postcolonial contexts. Qualities\, expressions and embodiments of assertion\, boundaries\, directness\, precision\, discernment\, immovable resolve\, deep and direct knowing\, surety\, saying no\, protection\, differentiation\, separation\, severing\, cutting through\, sharp tongue\, truth-telling\, shrewdness\, clarity\, action\, agency\, and power…these movements and energies carry profound wisdom and transformative power in our lives and in our world. \nToo often the qualities of ferocious integrity live in the shadows and become distorted and ineffective versions of themselves as they twist into knots of anger\, rage\, and resentment…or become so hidden that they seem unfindable altogether\, rendering us falsely passive\, self-doubting\, tentative\, demure\, disembodied and dissociated. \nThe aspects and qualities of the ferocious feminine are part of our instinctual animal body containing profound integrity when not repressed\, hidden\, or avoided. \nA fundamental truth of the wild feminine soul is that we know what must live and what must die. It is not only within our reach but within our biological intelligence to be the keepers of cycles and the actors of this agency. \nWhen we are not landed in our bones\, nor close to the somatic gestures of this fierce instinct\, it is difficult to use our voice\, to say a full no or a full yes\, to stand up for ourselves and each other. \nThis workshop is open to all genders and every BODY wishing to explore the qualities of fierceness within the context of the modern socialization of the feminine soul. \nSarah Byrden is a somatic practitioner\, Qigong practitioner\, educator and wilderness guide. A two time TEDx presenter\, Sarah has dedicated over twenty years to the deep study and apprenticeship of nature-based movement modalities. Teaching from her own life-long journey\, she is the founder of The Elemental Self\, which offers pathways for remembering our true self\, the web in which we belong\, and our innate capacity to move and be moved by a source beyond our conditioning. \n Liz Koch is a conceptual artist exploring the deep sensory system and the wild wisdom of core Psoas. An international somatic educator and author with 45 years of experience\, she is the creator of Core Awareness™ and the author of The Psoas Book; Core Awareness: Enhancing Yoga\, Pilates\, Exercise & Dance; Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence; and her upcoming book Birth Savvy. Liz focuses on kinesthetic intelligence and somatic awareness as a means for unfolding our human potential. Stalking Wild Psoas is her passion and Changing the Language of Body is her mission.
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/a-stalking-wild-psoas-workshop-the-fierce-feminine-liz-koch-sarah-byrden-boulder-co/
LOCATION:Boulder Colorado
CATEGORIES:Professional Training,Workshop
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230929T230830Z
UID:37582-1697191200-1697378400@coreawareness.com
SUMMARY:BASIC (12-Hr) Psoas Workshop (NCBTMB Approved) via Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Thank you so much for the workshop over the weekend. \nIt was the most amazing\, eye opening and inspiring workshop… \nIt answered a lot of my questions and made me think about a whole lot more! \nI also really appreciate your generosity with your knowledge and not rushing through any answers to our questions.\nI know this is just the beginning of my journey with your training. \n(Workshop Participant) \n \n3-Day ONLINE Basic Psoas workshop\, open to every body\, limited to 15 participants \nThis course offers a great way to learn through experience how intelligent Psoas informs your skeletal integrity\, joint rotation\, muscular tension\, breathing\, emotional expression\, and organ functioning. A healthy Psoas facilitates functional movement and improves fitness while reducing over all stress vital for resolving injuries and trauma. Healthy Psoas ignites your core creative flourishing and nourishes your innovative possibilities. \nDevelop Your Core Awareness: \n\nUnderstand how healthy Psoas supports movement\, strength\, endurance & well-being\nExperience practical ways of sensing your Psoas\nLearn to soften\, lengthen and revitalize your Psoas\nGain tools for recovering and maintaining a healthy Psoas\nExplore the energetic/emotional/spiritual/ living dynamics of your physical core\nImprove neurological proprioception and skeletal balance\nApply concepts to everyday movement such as 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\, and/or 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-2023/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Online Class,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Paralysis of Indecision: Exploring Internalized Misogyny with Jorja Rivero LCSW (3-hr Zoom)
DESCRIPTION:The Paralysis of Indecision\nWorking Together as Women  \nExploring Internalized Misogyny\n  \na moving collaboration with relational therapist\nJorja Rivero LCSW\n\n \nBeing indecisive in our adult lives can be understood as child-learned self-betrayal. As children\, in our attempt to appease\, be safe\, accepted\, and loved as children we inevitably adapt to expectations by freezing or bypassing our senses and deep emotions. Continuing to do so now is at the expense of our innate knowing\, autonomy\, creativity\, and mobility. \nAs grown women we still may find ourselves colluding with this “bad deal” in hopes of obtaining safety and acceptance even though it keeps us small and unable to move through our lives with clarity. \nIn this journey we’ll be moving against the cultural agreements that tell us we should be at odds with ourselves\, know that authority is always outside\, make no demands\, wait to be given to\, and hate ourselves for even having needs. \nTo dissolve our childhood and culturally conditioned strategies requires an ever-present awakening that asks us to tenderly face our undeveloped potential and call it back home. \nThis in-depth somatic and reflective inquiry will begin moving us from paralysis to aliveness as we learn to not only befriend but take ourselves seriously. \nThe Paralysis of Indecision \nexplores how self-betrayal is a conditioned habit that interrupts our sense of Core Integrity\, our wild knowing\, juicy Psoas\, and genuine expression. Living cut-off from ourselves and our agency we remains underdeveloped\, dependent\, and tethered to the dominate cultural. \nInternalized Misogyny is not Personal\, or just happens to us – \nit is an Ancestral and Familiar Conditioning that we too uphold.\nYou know this deep inside when you observe your limiting beliefs and the many frustrating ways you undermine and override your feelings. Desperate to find a solution\, you often feel the urge to hurry up and just feel good. Rather than develop the humble art of listening and nourishing to that which is in pain or in joy in you -to that which is deeply alive. No matter how much you try to convince yourself that life can’t change\, something within keeps calling your attention…\nbut it feels so dangerous because it is. It is dangerous to believe it’s possible \n~ Jorja Rivero \nTo grow our discernment and flourish\, we start by slowing down\, showing up\, and tenderly receiving ourselves wherever we are in each moment. Only then do genuine feelings arise and creative possibilities unfold. \nReferred to by Daoist Healers as The Muscle of the Soul\, the core tissue of our physical body\, Psoas\, lives deep within the center of our being and is akin to our unique gifts. Often sensed as frozen or sedated this tissue alerts us to how we have been cut off from innate wisdom. \nRooting into Core Integrity requires that we sense our own being as well as the container that has shaped us. Only then do we begin attuning to a different way of being. Our birthright and capacity to feel and receive the sensorial language of Earth’s pleasures goes hand in hand with honoring our True Self. \n  \n \nJorja Rivero\, LCSW has a Masters in Social Work from NYU\, clinical training in Gestalt Psychotherapy and is a certified Relational Life Therapist. She taught yoga for many years and continues to teach guided meditation inspired from the practices she trained in. Jorja works individually with clients\, does couple’s work\, group work\, and offers workshops. \n  \nCONVERSATION: Available at Liz Koch YouTube Rejuvenating Our Inner Knowing As Women\nAuthor of  The Psoas Book\, Core Awareness\, and Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Our Core Intelligence\, Liz Koch invites  Jorja to traverse the terrain of “internalized misogyny” as it tethers women to Being Too Much\, or not enough. How do these stories live within our flesh\, blood\, and bones? And how does the colonized top-down mandate shrink our worth and our capacity to flourish? Recognizing that although WOMAN is a force of nature and the portal of all human life\, she carries a legacy of profound dissatisfaction. How can we awaken to the self-sabotaging internalized patriarchal constructs that literally live in our Soma? What can rejuvenate our inner knowing? Reflecting on our basic goodness and the innate goodness of life on Earth we discuss how nourishing our capacity moves us fully into our dynamic relational being.
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/paralysis-of-indecision-exploring-internalized-misogyny/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class,Video Recorded Class
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UID:37577-1695290400-1697725800@coreawareness.com
SUMMARY:Advanced Core Awareness Course (NCBTMB Approved)on Zoom (Level One)
DESCRIPTION:A 5-Week Advanced Course designed for both Laypersons &  Professionals to refine your understanding of the explorations found in my book Core Awareness. \nIn the intimacy of a small group gathering (max 10) on Zoom we will integrate the fundamental concepts for maintaining a healthy psoas. Each week we refine and articulate movement\, increase proprioception\, and integrate our results by working together. Learning from each other’s expertise\, sharing our observations\, questioning our strategies we’ll explore each chapter\, encouraging a keen eye\, nuanced sensing\, and deep listening while fostering our inner knowing. \n \nFOR EVERYONE: Integrate the Core Awareness explorations into your own practice in order to be able to gain refinement as well as to successfully guide your clients and students through a natural process for regaining and maintaining a healthy psoas. \nCourse Participants will also gain: \n\nDevelop observational skills for supporting the healthy psoas.\nBecome cognizant of the signs of an overactive sympathetic fear response and disrupted proprioception\nIdentify and choose a strategy of support\, facilitate and implement basic trauma protocol\nUtilize somatic tools for supporting the healthy psoas and sensing the core expression (Neurocore)\nFacilitate your client and students ability to resource support\nLearn to recognize lack of grounding in movement and expression\nWork together in partnerships that will display the ability for self help or to lead students through explorations that support the healthy psoas\nConceptualize and communicate the importance of core integrity and its relationship to the psoas.\n\n  \nPREREQUISITE & REQUIREMENTS: You must  have attended a minimum of One BASIC  Psoas Workshops and/or a combination of the 5-week Audio Psoas course plus  3 Zoom classes.  Please read and bring to class: Core Awareness: Enhancing Yoga\, Pilates\, Exercise & Dance.\nExpect and be available to have a homework assignment and to discuss the concepts during each class. \nNOTE: This course is an educational process designed for people interested in the field of Bodywork\, Yoga\, Pilates\, Dance\, and Fitness to increase their understanding and experience of the healthy psoas.  It is NOT for those needing to heal from trauma or major injuries. Please register only if qualified. This course is limited to 10 participants. \nI encourage professionals already on my COMMUNITY page to attend to further deepen your understanding of how to utilize the explorations and develop skills in discerning the healthy psoas. \nCANCELLATION POLICY: Cancellation Policy\nUSA Psoas Workshop Cancellation Policy: Cancellations may be made up until 30 days prior to the workshop. NO money will be refunded 30 days before the workshop date. Workshop deposits are non-refundable. Registration for the ADVANCED COURSE is FINAL and can not be transferred or deferred. \nNational Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB) Approved \nThis is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork for 20 hours of continuing education credit (CEU). For more information on the NCBTMB\, please visit their website.
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/core-awareness-advanced-course-level-one-sept-oct-2023/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Online Class,Professional Training
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230912T180000
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SUMMARY:Tea & Talk A FREE Conversation ~ The Fierce Feminine with Liz Koch & Sarah Byrden on Zoom
DESCRIPTION:TEA & Talk \nTuesday September 12\nTUNE IN 6:00 Eastern | 5:00 Central | 4:00 Mountain | 3:00 Pacific \nA FREE Conversation open to everyone! Please bring your own refreshment\, inquiries and curiosity…\nJoin Liz Koch & Sarah Byrden \n \n  \nSarah and I are in conversation around what disrupts core integrity and holds women back from manifesting their hearts desire; moving from a place of innate knowing\, and being moved from a discerning fierceness that knows how to cut through as a force of change\, support and inspiration. Come join us in what we believe is an essential conversation … \nThe Fierce Feminine \nA fundamental truth of the wild feminine soul is that we know what must live and what must die. It is not only within our reach but within our biological intelligence to be the keepers of cycles and the actors of this agency.\n~ Sarah Byrden \nSarah Byrden and I met in Colorado at a Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estés Singing Over the Bones 5-day training. Sarah was in an in-depth study with Dr E’s work (author of Women Who Run With the Wolves) bringing it to life through story and movement as a Women’s Wilderness Guide.  As soon as we met we began organizing a workshop. We knew immediately we wanted to collaborate. We returned to Colorado the following year and taught our first very successful Stalking Wild Collaboration: Sexual Expression & Core Integrity. Throughout Covid Sarah and I found ways of exploring our mutual love of the Wild on Zoom and last year we came together to teach in-person in Oslo Norway. \nIN PERSON WORKSHOP COMING UP: October 27-29 we return once again to Colorado to offer a 3-day Stalking Wild Psoas Collaboration ~ THE FIERCE FEMININE. Our synergistic relationship\, where primal movement meets elemental qigong\, is a confluence of  two bodies of work that creates a unique alchemy! Together we touch\, awaken\, and nourish a longed for place\, returning to the truth of our fluidity\, to the steady knowing in our bones\, and to the mystery\, miracle\, and intelligence of our human life on Earth. \n 
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/free-eventseptember-12/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:featured
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230910T133000
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CREATED:20230603T110441Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230906T165436Z
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SUMMARY:Stalking Wild Psoas: Tracking Embryonic Gestures as Creative Adults collaboration with Franke Carbone on Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Stalking Wild Psoas\nTracking Embryonic Gestures as Creative Adults\nwith\nLiz Koch & Franke Carbone \nTracking Embryonic Expression focuses on birth sequencing and the early subtle movement patterns and gestures that continue to show up within our daily lives. PLAYING in the present moment allows new possibilities of presence moving us from our embryonic origins into fully capable and creative adults. Within this dynamic field of connection emerges our larger sense of support and wholeness. \nThis process-oriented workshop nourishes the bio-intelligent Psoas. Employing micro-fluid\, non-linear\, multi-layered fluid movement\, awareness\, and sound by providing a rich terrain for healing and awakening core integrity. \nFrank Carbone is a Continuum Movement Teacher trained by Emilie Conrad\, and a prenatal and perinatal practitioner trained by Ray Castellino. A singer\, songwriter & producer Frank is a certified Womb Surround Process Workshop Facilitator in The Ray Castellino Method\, and the creator of Womb Continuum™.\nFrank is a Facilitator at BEBA\, where he supports families\, babies\, and adults as a Pre And Peri-Natal Consultant. a Gyrotonic Practitioner\, Sivananda Yoga teacher\, Reiki Master\, and Bio-Dynamic Cranial Sacral Therapist. He has assisted  leaders in the PPN field for years\, including Ray Castellino\, Mary Jackson\, and Tara Blasco.\n \nLiz Koch is an international educator\, author\, conceptual artist\, mother\, crone\, and creator of CoreAwareness™ focusing on awareness as key for developing human potential and awakening creativity. With 45 years teaching\, 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 most recent book Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence.
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/stalking-wild-psoas-tracking-embryonic-gestures/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Online Class,Professional Training,Workshop
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230820T140000
DTSTAMP:20260424T173857
CREATED:20230513T175258Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230728T233216Z
UID:37580-1692352800-1692540000@coreawareness.com
SUMMARY:BASIC (12-Hr) Psoas Workshop (NCBTMB Approved) via Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Thank you so much for the workshop over the weekend. \nIt was the most amazing\, eye opening and inspiring workshop… \nIt answered a lot of my questions and made me think about a whole lot more! \nI also really appreciate your generosity with your knowledge and not rushing through any answers to our questions.\nI know this is just the beginning of my journey with your training. \n\n(2021 Workshop Participant) \n\n \n3-Day ONLINE Basic Psoas workshop\, open to every body\, limited to 15 participants \nThis course offers a great way to learn through experience how intelligent Psoas informs your skeletal integrity\, joint rotation\, muscular tension\, breathing\, emotional expression\, and organ functioning. A healthy Psoas facilitates functional movement and improves fitness while reducing over all stress vital for resolving injuries and trauma. Healthy Psoas ignites your core creative flourishing and nourishes your innovative possibilities. \nDevelop Your Core Awareness: \n\nUnderstand how healthy Psoas supports movement\, strength\, endurance & well-being\nExperience practical ways of sensing your Psoas\nLearn to soften\, lengthen and revitalize your Psoas\nGain tools for recovering and maintaining a healthy Psoas\nExplore the energetic/emotional/spiritual/ living dynamics of your physical core\nImprove neurological proprioception and skeletal balance\nApply concepts to everyday movement such as 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\, and/or 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-2023/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class,Workshop
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230810T120000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T005821Z
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SUMMARY:Exhaling the Sound of Inner Wisdom Collaboration with Frank Carbone on Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Movements of Your Shape\nPresented August 2023. The video recording is now available for purchase \nExhaling the Sound of Inner Wisdom\ncollaboration with\nFrank Carbone\nFrank Carbone brings a deep relationship between embryological gestures\, mico-movements\, and how these moments or gestures shape us in our adult lives. \nThis is a rich exploration of relating our everyday movements to the original field of knowing ~ slowing down to feel the sensations and patterns that emerge and then being curious about how those gestures play out in our adult lives. \nWe begin with whatever entry points/sounds and sequence bring us into the present moment.  Noticing what is showing up… as we sense waves of creative pulses moving us into. \nExhale the Sounds of Our Inner Wisdom \nSimple micro movements release gentle pleasurable shapes.\nWe emerge in our internal essence of safety and support.\nEntering a fluid blueprint field as we blossom towards the sun\, and easily root into the mother ground.\n~ Frank Carbone \nFrank Carbone is a Continuum Movement Teacher trained by Emilie Conrad\, and a prenatal and perinatal practitioner trained by Ray Castellino. A singer\, songwriter & producer Frank is a certified Womb Surround Process Workshop Facilitator in The Ray Castellino Method\, and the creator of Womb Continuum™.\nFrank is a Facilitator at BEBA\, where he supports families\, babies\, and adults as a Pre And Peri-Natal Consultant. a Gyrotonic Practitioner\, Sivananda Yoga teacher\, Reiki Master\, and Bio-Dynamic Cranial Sacral Therapist. He has assisted  leaders in the PPN field for years\, including Ray Castellino\, Mary Jackson\, and Tara Blasco.\n \nLiz Koch is an international educator\, author\, conceptual artist\, mother\, crone\, and creator of CoreAwareness™ focusing on awareness as key for developing human potential and awakening creativity. With 45 years teaching\, 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 most recent book Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence.
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/movements-of-your-shape-with-frank-carbone-2023/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230623T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230625T133000
DTSTAMP:20260424T173857
CREATED:20230504T110727Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230525T110703Z
UID:37444-1687512600-1687699800@coreawareness.com
SUMMARY:BASIC (12-Hr) Psoas Workshop (NCBTMB Approved) via Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Thank you so much for the workshop over the weekend. \nIt was the most amazing\, eye opening and inspiring workshop… \nIt answered a lot of my questions and made me think about a whole lot more! \nI also really appreciate your generosity with your knowledge and not rushing through any answers to our questions.\nI know this is just the beginning of my journey with your training.\n(2021 Workshop Participant)\n \n3-Day ONLINE Basic Psoas workshop\, open to every body\, limited to 15 participants \nThis course offers a great way to learn through experience how intelligent Psoas informs your skeletal integrity\, joint rotation\, muscular tension\, breathing\, emotional expression\, and organ functioning. A healthy Psoas facilitates functional movement and improves fitness while reducing over all stress vital for resolving injuries and trauma. Healthy Psoas ignites your core creative flourishing and nourishes your innovative possibilities. \n\n\n\n\nDevelop Your Core Awareness: \n\nUnderstand how healthy Psoas supports movement\, strength\, endurance & well-being\nExperience practical ways of sensing your Psoas\nLearn to soften\, lengthen and revitalize your Psoas\nGain tools for recovering and maintaining a healthy Psoas\nExplore the energetic/emotional/spiritual/ living dynamics of your physical core\nImprove neurological proprioception and skeletal balance\nApply concepts to everyday movement such as 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\, and/or 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-june-2023/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class,Workshop
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SUMMARY:The Root of Our Impossibilities: Exploring Internalized Misogyny with Jorja Rivero LCSW (3-hr Zoom)
DESCRIPTION:The Root of Our Impossibilities\nExploring Internalized Misogyny \na collaboration with relational therapist Jorja Rivero LCSW\n\n \nThe Root of Our Impossibilities explores how self-betrayal is a conditioned habit that interrupts our sense of Core Integrity.\nLimiting our self-nourishing capacity as women keeps us underdeveloped\, dependent\, and tethered to the dominate cultural \nInternalized Misogyny is not Personal\,\nit is an Ancestral and Familiar Conditioning \nYou know this for yourself by observing your limiting beliefs and the frustrating ways you find yourself undermining and overriding your feelings. Desperate to find a solution you often feel the urge to hurry up and just feel good. Rather than listen to that which is alive deep within\, you convince yourself that life can’t change. Yet something within keeps calling your attention…\nbut it feels so dangerous.\nTo grow our discernment\, integrity and flourish we start by slowing down\, showing up\, and tenderly receiving ourselves wherever we are in each moment. Only then do genuine feelings arise and creative possibilities unfold. \nReferred to by Daoist Healers as The Muscle of the Soul\, the core tissue of our physical body\, called Psoas\, lives deep within the center of our being and is akin to our Real Self. Often sensed as frozen or sedated this tissue alerts us to how we have been cut off from our innate wisdom. \nRooting into Core Integrity requires that we sense our own being as well as the container that has shaped us. Only then do we begin attuning to a different way of being. Our birthright and capacity to feel and receive the sensorial language of Earth’s pleasures goes hand in hand with honoring our True Self. \n  \n \n  \nJorja Rivero\, LCSW has a Masters in Social Work from NYU\, clinical training in Gestalt Psychotherapy and is a certified Relational Life Therapist. She taught yoga for many years and continues to teach guided meditation inspired from the practices she trained in. Jorja works individually with clients\, does couple’s work\, group work\, and offers workshops. \n  \nCONVERSATION: Available at Liz Koch YouTube Rejuvenating Our Inner Knowing As Women\nAuthor of  The Psoas Book\, Core Awareness\, and Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Our Core Intelligence\, Liz Koch invites  Jorja to traverse the terrain of “internalized misogyny” as it tethers women to Being Too Much\, or not enough. How do these stories live within our flesh\, blood\, and bones? And how does the colonized top-down mandate shrink our worth and our capacity to flourish? Recognizing that although WOMAN is a force of nature and the portal of all human life\, she carries a legacy of profound dissatisfaction. How can we awaken to the self-sabotaging internalized patriarchal constructs that literally live in our Soma? What can rejuvenate our inner knowing? Reflecting on our basic goodness and the innate goodness of life on Earth we discuss how nourishing our capacity moves us fully into our dynamic relational being.
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/the-root-of-our-impossibilities-exploring-internalized-misogyny-zoom/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class,Video Recorded Class
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20230501T073000
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SUMMARY:Private Sessions | MAY in New York City 2023
DESCRIPTION:At the very core of every well-executed movement is somatic awareness that ultimately leads to inner freedom. Cultivating your Core Awareness will enrich your sense of flexibility\, suppleness\, strength\, and stability so that with fluid motion your vital life force becomes increasingly tangible.” \nLiz Koch – Core Awareness: Enhancing Yoga\, Pilates\, Exercise & Dance \n \nI am offering Private Psoas Sessions in my studio at Moving Body Resources in New York CityMay 1 & 2 \nEmail me via my contact page to reserve your time and receive an invoice by email to secure your appointment. \nPre-payment is required for a 90 minutes session $275.00 USD \n \n  \nCANCELLATION: Because of this rare and limited opportunity payment for your appointment is due in advance – payment is in full with no refunds available (please check for waiting list replacement– a $30 service fee may apply for substitutions). If I am unable to meet your appointment a full refund will be given.
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/ny-privates-may-2023/
LOCATION:Moving Body Resources Studio\, 112 W 27th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10001\, United States
CATEGORIES:featured,Private Session
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230429T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230430T153000
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SUMMARY:BASIC (12-Hr) Psoas Workshop (NCBTMB Approved) New York 2023
DESCRIPTION:Thank you so much for the workshop over the weekend. \nIt was the most amazing\, eye opening and inspiring workshop… \nIt answered a lot of my questions and made me think about a whole lot more! \nI also really appreciate your generosity with your knowledge and not rushing through any answers to our questions.\nI know this is just the beginning of my journey with your training.\n(2020 Workshop Participant)\n\nN E W  Y O R K  C I T Y\nA P R I L  29 & 30\n \n2-Day LIVE  InPerson – Basic Psoas Workshop \nopen to every body\, limited to 15 participants \nThis course offers a great way to learn through experience how intelligent Psoas informs your skeletal integrity\, joint rotation\, muscular tension\, breathing\, emotional expression\, and organ functioning. A healthy Psoas facilitates functional movement and improves fitness while reducing over all stress vital for resolving injuries and trauma. Healthy Psoas ignites your core creative flourishing and nourishes your innovative possibilities. \n\n\n\n\nDevelop Your Core Awareness: \n\nUnderstand how healthy Psoas supports movement\, strength\, endurance & well-being\nExperience practical ways of sensing your Psoas\nLearn to soften\, lengthen and revitalize your Psoas\nGain tools for recovering and maintaining a healthy Psoas\nExplore the energetic/emotional/spiritual/ living dynamics of your physical core\nImprove neurological proprioception and skeletal balance\nApply concepts to everyday movement such as sitting\, driving\, and walking\n\n \nDeepen and broaden your practice whether that be Pilates\, Gyrotonic\, Massage\, Bodywork\, Somatic Movement\, Fitness\, Athletics\, Dance\, Yoga\, Martial Arts\, and/or 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-2023-nyc/
LOCATION:Moving Body Resources\, Moving Body Resources 112 West 27th Street Ste. 400\, New York\, NY\, 10001\, United States
CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class,Workshop
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