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SUMMARY:Private Sessions |June in New York City
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 June 13 & 14 \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/ny-privates-2022/
LOCATION:Moving Body Resources Studio\, 112 W 27th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10001\, United States
CATEGORIES:Private Session
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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(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-2022/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Online Class,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Advanced Core Awareness Course for Laypersons & Professionals via Zoom
DESCRIPTION:The 5-Week Advanced Core Awareness course is designed for both Laypersons & Professionals interested in refining your understanding of the explorations found in my book Core Awareness: Enhancing Yoga\, Pilates\, Exercise\, and Dance. In the intimacy of a small group zoom gathering (max 10) we will integrate the fundamental concepts for maintaining a healthy psoas. Each week I help you articulate and refine your movement using specific explorations from the book to increase proprioception\, gain sensory awareness\, and integrate your understanding of how to support your healthy functional Psoas. You will be working to gain nuance in your own system.\n \nIn partnership\, you will be learning from each other’s experience and expertise\, as we integrate healthy psoas into your practice and/or profession; sharing observations\, and questioning your strategies will deepen your perception of the Psoas. As we focus on one major concept/chapter each week\, you will also study keynote images presented in order to develop a keen eye\, recognize strategies\, compensations\, (dysfunctions & injuries) behaviors\, and expressions while practicing deep listening to foster your inner knowing of Psoas with Heartfelt Compassion. \n\n\n\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 learn to: \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 nourishing the Neurocore.  \nFacilitate your students and client’s ability to resource support\nRecognize disruption and lack of grounding in movement and core expression\nWork alone and together in partnerships in displaying the ability to attend to the healthy psoas  \nConceptualize and communicate the importance of core integrity and its relationship to the psoas.\n\nPREREQUISITE & REQUIREMENTS: You must attend a minimum of  the BASIC 12-hr Psoas Workshop and at least one other workshop or Zoom class.  PLUS have read  The Psoas Book and bring to class: Core Awareness: Enhancing Yoga\, Pilates\, Exercise & Dance.  Expect to be on screen the full class time\, attend to homework assignments week by week\, and work in partnership during 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 15 participants  \nI encourage professionals already on my COMMUNITY page to attend this course to further deepen your understanding of how to utilize the explorations in Core Awareness 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/advanced-core-awareness-june-2022/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Online Class,Professional Training
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SUMMARY:FLUID CORE: Pelvic Integrity ~ A collaboration with Sue Hitzmann
DESCRIPTION:Juicy Psoas \nA  SENSE  OF  WHOLENESS\nPelvic Integrity \na collaboration  \nwith  \nSue Hitzmann \nPresented May 2022. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \n \n\n\n\nThe pelvis is the center of gravity in an upright human. Its stability is what allows force to be transmitted from the trunk to the legs.\nPsoas is at the very heart of this transmission.\nSustaining pelvic integrity is inherently linked to everything from our emotional state to our physical state\nand\nHydrating our Connective Tissue Network is KEY\nLearn to restore your pelvic integrity and juicy psoas\nwhether that be lost due to pregnancy\, injury\, or trauma \n\n\n\n\n \n\nMeet My Guest Collaborator: \nSue Hitzmann\, MS\, CST\, NMT\, is a nationally recognized neuro-fascial manual therapist and teacher whose studies and explorations have culminated in the creation of the MELT Method®. A revolutionary approach to pain-free fitness and longevity\, MELT is a self help technique for working with the connective tissue system called fascia to help restore movement efficiency and overall health span. Because the Psoas is deeply embedded in the sympathetic neuro-core\, hydrating connective tissue is an important key for resolving Psoas inflammation\, pain\, and tension. \nNeuroCore is a termed coined by neuro-fascial therapist Sue Hitzmann creator of The MELT Method® (2006) first heard during a conversation (2010) with author Liz Koch discussing the deepest “fascial bags” that enfold spinal cord\, psoas\, kidney\, adrenals: The NeuroCore System is comprised of a Reflexive Core – the 3D cylinder and the Rooted Core\, the head-to-toe neurofascial connection that allows our brain to sustain more efficient balance of our masses and spaces (another MELT Term) for the bony and joint parts of our body.(2018)
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/pelvic-integrity-sue-hitzmann-2022/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class
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SUMMARY:Spiraling Into the Wild: Integrating Psoas & Polyvagal-Informed Continuum & Dance Therapies - Advanced Collaboration with Amber Gray
DESCRIPTION:A Stalking Wild Psoas Workshop  \n Spiraling Into the Wild \nIntegrating Primal Core Psoas & Polyvagal-Informed Continuum & Dance Therapies  \nAdvanced Professional Collaboration  \nwith Dr Amber Gray Ph.D\nDelve deeper into the entangled dynamics of somatic psychology\, movement therapy\, \nand core integrity \nwithin an embodied dynamic nervous system and coherent primal core \nThis Advanced Professional Course is a unique opportunity available only by invitation (to apply see below). We will be hand-selecting a small group of professionals to delve deeper into the intersectionality of somatic movement and Core Awareness within an embodied dynamic nervous system and primal core psoas. Over the span of 23 years Amber has\, through her immersion into the Polyvagal Theory \nand her work with survivors of human rights abuses globally\, developed an Integrative Body of Dance and Movement work specifically integrating the polyvagal theory so that it can be applied in direct somatic work with clients. Together Amber and I will  explore her integrative work and with the primal core expressions of psoas.  \n \nPRE-REQUISITE: This is an advanced collaboration course for PROFESSIONALS 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.  You must have attended Liz Koch’s 12-Hr Basic and Advanced Core Awareness Course and/or the Professional Application Course and/or studied and trained extensively with Amber Gray. Please reach out to Liz or Amber to discuss whether this course is the right one for you.   \nTO BE INVITED TO ATTEND: You will need to email Liz Koch via www.coreawareness.com contact page. Please include what workshops (and year) you completed the BASIC\, Advanced\, and/or Application Course or training specific to Amber Gray\, your professional expertise\, and a bit about your interest in attending this advanced course. We reserve the right to invite who we believe will gain the most\, add to\, and collaborate with our intentions for this weekend.  \nSIZE: limited to 12 persons \nSTUDIO LOCATION: This 3-day workshop will take place at a private Studio in the countryside approximately 20 minutes outside of the university town of Lawrence. The studio is located on many acres of woods.  Lawrence is easily accessible via the Kansas City Airport (MCI) where you can catch a transporter to downtown Lawrence.  There is a historic hotel right in the heart of downtown\, air b&b’s\, and rooms to rent in walking distance to downtown Lawrence\,  plus an array of restaurants accessible by walking down main street (Massachusetts Ave). There may also be few sleeping accommodations available at the Studio location as well as transportation each day provided from Lawrence to the Studio.  \nCEU: NM counseling CE and ADTA CE\nLiz Koch is a certified provider for NCBTMB \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. \nPhoto Credit: Kevin Bergen/unsplash \n \n \n\n \n  \nAmber Gray Ph.D\, LPCC\, BC-DMT. moves from a diverse landscape of experience. As a dancer\, 30 years studying and teaching Haitian sacred dance and her initiation as a Sevito led her to Continuum. She was mentored by Emilie Conrad\, who authorized her to teach Continuum in 2006. As a human rights and somatic psychotherapist\, she works with survivors of war and political violence in the U.S and is an international consultant\, advising many programs worldwide on trauma-informed staff care and wellness programming. She is an award winning dance movement therapist\, an animal rights activist\, and lover of all things wild. Amber is recognized as a pioneer in soma-movement therapies for trauma. She originated Polyvagal-informed dance/movement therapies through 23 years and ongoing immersion in Polyvagal Theory. She has authored and co-authored\, with Dr. Porges\, several peer-reviewed chapters on this work. A true global citizen\, Amber offers a Continuum mentoring program for students in Australia\, Haiti\, and Santa Fe. \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 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.
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/spiraling-into-the-wild-collaboration-with-amber-gray-2022/
LOCATION:Private address\, TBA\, Lawrence\, KS\, (access via Kansas City MO international airport)\, United States
CATEGORIES:Professional Training
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SUMMARY:Nourishing Wood Element and Liver Energy ~ a collaboration with Sarah Byrden
DESCRIPTION:Nourishing \nWood Element \n& \nLiver Energy\n New Beginnings\, Vision\, Growth and Hope\nPrimal Gesture & Archetypal Qigong\na collaboration\nwith \nSarah Byrden \nNO RECORDING\n\n\nphoto – jeremy bishop unsplash\nMoving into Spring\, we feel the surges of new life bubbling up from below the earth\, budding on tree branches and in our own bodies. In Chinese Medicine it is the Liver that is the expression of the Wood Element\, the element that allows Spring to occur in our bodies and our lives. Wood energy graces us with new vision\, the heart-felt experience of hope\, new beginnings\, growth and individuation after the watery world of Winter.  When we try to take a step into Spring but our Wood Element is weak or overactive\, it can manifest as lack of vision and hope\, anger\, restlessness and an inability to begin anew. Join us for this online class in which we will nourish our Liver and the Wood Element through primal gesture and archetypal qigong forms. \n \n\nSarah Byrden has been a somatic practitioner\, educator and  wilderness guide for over 20 years. She is a two time TEDx presenter\,  has dedicated over 2 decades to deep study and apprenticeship in western and non-western modalities\, and teaches from her own life-long journey in the realms that she offers. She is the founder of The Elemental Self\, and offers her students pathways to remember themselves\, the web in which they belong\, their innate capacities to move and be moved by a Source beyond conditioning.
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/nourishing-wood-element-liver-energy-collaboration-with-sarah-byrden/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class
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ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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SUMMARY:Nourishing The Water Element & Kidney Energy ~ a collaboration with Sarah Byrden
DESCRIPTION:Nourishing \nWater Element \n& \nKidney Energy\nDestiny\, Dreamtime\, and the Foundation of Life\nPrimal Gesture & Archetypal Qigong\na collaboration\nwith \nSarah Byrden\nNO RECORDING \n\nphoto sergey pestered  – unsplash\nOur Kidney energy is quite literally the root of our entire life force\, and an expression of the Water Element in Chinese Medicine. From this well flows our sexual energy\, the deep dreams we were born to bring to bear\, the marrow of our very bones\, and the waters from which we come and one day will return to. Our Kidneys become depleted when we are stressed\, manifesting fear\, lack of energy\, and a loss of faith in life itself. There is no ability to move into the new growth of Spring if our Kidneys are tapped. Join us for a 2-hour movement class to nourish our Kidneys and the Water Element through primal gesture and archetypal qigong forms. \n \n\nSarah Byrden has been a somatic practitioner\, educator and  wilderness guide for over 20 years. She is a two time TEDx presenter\,  has dedicated over 2 decades to deep study and apprenticeship in western and non-western modalities\, and teaches from her own life-long journey in the realms that she offers. She is the founder of The Elemental Self\, and offers her students pathways to remember themselves\, the web in which they belong\, their innate capacities to move and be moved by a Source beyond conditioning.
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/nourishing-the-water-element-kidney-energy-collaboration-with-sarah-byrden/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class
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ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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SUMMARY:ReWilding Animal Body: Waking Up Our Senses
DESCRIPTION:Just as every coherent animal in the wild kingdom sends messages\,\nhumans\, 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.\nIgnoring the wild nature of psoas can be very dangerous.  \n~ stalking wild psoas: embodying your core intelligence \n\nPresented April 2022. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nTracking is the honing of internal and external sensory skills that help us sniff out when something doesn’t feel right. A trust that grows proportionally to developing our perceptual system’s “ways of seeking and extracting information about the environment from the flowing array of ambient energy.” Engaging\, exploring\, as well as being challenged and pushing back is the self-organizing intelligence that brings us toward core balance. Our animal body knows the truth of the matter and becomes the source for locating self within the larger world. \n\nPerception is one kind of\, and indeed the primordial\, and fundamental\, type of knowledge.\nFor the senses are our only source of informational input from the world;\nwithout them we could know nothing.\n \n\n\n\nMarjorie Grene\, “The Understanding of Nature: Essays in the Philosophy of Biology “ Philosophy of Science\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOur senses are living organs intended to receive communications.\nThey connect us to\, interweave us with\, the stream of informational energy that comes to us every moment of every day.\n \n\n\n\nStephen Harrod Buhner\, The Secret Teachings of Plants: The Intelligence of the Heart in the Direct Perception of Nature. \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/rewilding-animal-body-waking-up-our-senses/
CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class,Video Recorded Class
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220404T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220420T203000
DTSTAMP:20260427T100306
CREATED:20220125T124135Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221001T135037Z
UID:32243-1649095200-1650486600@coreawareness.com
SUMMARY:Unapologetically TOO MUCH: Nourishing Our Capacity to be Audacious Women ~ A Collaboration with Anasuya Isaacs
DESCRIPTION:UNAPOLOGETICALLY  \nTOO MUCH\nNourishing Our Capacity to be Audacious Women \nA Collaboration with Anasuya Isaacs\n \nexploring through\, art\, word\, movement\, sound\, and reflection  \n  \nIn the words of Ursula K. Le Guin \n“I know that many men and even women are afraid and angry when women do speak\, because in this barbaric society\, when women speak truly they speak subversively – they can’t help it: if you’re underneath\, if you’re kept down\, you break out\, you subvert. We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth\, as human truth\, all the maps change. There are new mountains. \nThat’s what I want – to hear you erupting. You… who don’t know the power in you – I want to hear you.” \n\nWhether you have been shamed for being TOO ______ MUCH or felt the sting of being NOT_____ ENOUGH\, you have become someone other than the “YOU” you came here to be. Being shunned for being “too___much” or shrinking to not be “too much” in order to fit in and be accepted has had you reinvent yourself to settle for less than you deserve. Living in the “not _____ enough” world of being seen and not heard\, never fully known; of being overlooked and/or taken for granted leaves your precious gifts unseen\, unknown\, and undervalued.   \nENOUGH! \nIn these six sessions\, we will go on a creative\, somatic journey to reclaim our voice\, our power to embody fulfilled lives of our own making that we LOVE. \nSession 1:  What is TOO MUCH? \nSession 2: Voicing Our Stories of Being TOO MUCH\nSession 3: Rooting Rage & Sorrow for Being TOO MUCH (or not enough)\nSession 4: Singing Our Bones: A Declaration to being TOO MUCH\nSession 5: ReWilding Our Womb: Claiming Authenticity\, Integrity & Agency\nSession 6: Becoming Ocean: A Recipe for Being TOO MUCH \nSix Session Course on Mondays and Wednesdays\nApril 4\, 6\, 11\, 13\, 18\, 20 \n4-6:30 pm PST\n6-8:30 pm CST\n7-9:30 pm EST \n2.5 hrs\nRECORDINGS only available for Registered Participants \nOpen to women around the Globe \nMeet my Collaborator… \n \nAnasuya Isaacs is a globetrotting Alchemical Transformation Coach Trainer\, Speaker\, Entrepreneur\, Writer\, and Painter. As a Cultural Ambassador\, she has developed empowerment programs for people to speak the unspeakable\, love their broken selves and own their innate power by combining the power of storytelling\, empathy and the creative arts/theater to teach the power of Words to manifest your desired outcomes now. She has empowered Women and young people through her programs all across New York City as a Teaching Artist as well as in France\, Kenya\, Italy\, South Africa and Germany. Trained in the Stanislavsky Method of acting in Paris\, France\, Anasuya co-founded a theater company in Paris with friends to perform classical French theater in the Commedia dell’Arte style. Returning to the States\, she continued as an actress in her own plays and as a spoken word artist. As a lover of words\, she has edited and been included in several anthologies of poetry and essays. \nAs an advocate for women’s leadership\, Anasuya is also a Certified and Licensed WomanSpeak Circle Leader\, facilitating the unleashing of the brilliance of women’s voices as public speakers. This training expands Anasuya’s healing offering to women and children  ready to liberate their voices stolen by trauma from rape\, sex trafficking\, sexual and physical abuse. As a Certified Intentional Creativity Teacher\, Anasuya creates and leads workshops and programs that lead people into a Vision Quest into the heart of their Soul Work and their innate healing capacity using visual art\, writing and sacred rituals. \nHer longing to be a career diplomat to bring cultures and people together in peace\, led Anasuya to study International Relations and Communication at Oberlin College. As required by the US State Department\, she became bi-lingual in French\, deepening her study of the language at the Sorbonne\, Universite de Paris\, in Paris\, France.  She has traveled to 22 countries and has lived in six countries outside of the United States. Witnessing the need for women’s leadership\, Anasuya created and has been facilitating her Let Love Lead workshops and programs that ignite the sacred alchemy between theater\, poetry\, song and art and healing from trauma. This platform creates safe space for understanding between cultures. Most notable is Anasuya’s work fostering dialogue between Germans and the newly arrived Syrian refugees; between Italians and the African asylum seekers crossing the Mediterranean; and between South Africans and their exiled citizens living with AIDS at the height of the AIDS pandemic.
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/unapologetically-too-much-with-anasuya-isaacs/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Online Class
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ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220317T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220320T143000
DTSTAMP:20260427T100306
CREATED:20220119T162041Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220317T140642Z
UID:32158-1647511200-1647786600@coreawareness.com
SUMMARY:Stalking Wild Psoas Workshop NCBTMB Accredited (Zoom) 2022
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.   \nMarch 17-20\n10-2:30 Central\n$295 \n(small group setting maximum 15) \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!  \nNCBTMB (18-hr) Accredited Course \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. \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-march-2022/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Online Class,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220308T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220308T130000
DTSTAMP:20260427T100306
CREATED:20220214T125911Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240411T235054Z
UID:32620-1646737200-1646744400@coreawareness.com
SUMMARY:FUNDAMENTALS: Sacred Sacrum
DESCRIPTION:Presented March 2022. This video recorded class is available by purchasing a ticket below. \nOne of the\nsacred shapes the triangle\,\nforms the sacrum \n\n\n\nAskeystone of the pelvic bowl\,\nthe sacrum is the heart\nof the essential Navel root Hara\,\nTan Tien of the belly core \n\n\n& \n\n\nSkeletal Balance \nA physical and energetic keystone\, all weight passes through the\nsacrum from one (spine)into two (legs)to form a seaway\ntransporting energy between heaven (gravity) and earth (rebound).\nBelonging to both heaven and earth\, the sacral keystone unifies\nand serves as an organizing force. Suspended between two pelvic\nileum bones\, the sacrum houses one end of the central nervous\nsystem\, where vital electrical and energetic information is\ntransferred via a web of ligaments known as the sacroiliac joints\n(Sl joints). A fascial sheath\, called the dura mater\, wraps around protecting the\nprecious spinal cord. Connecting to both ends of the spinal cord (the\nsacrum and the cranium) the dura assures a direct and\nfundamental coherency between the root sacrum and crown\ncranium – thus the two ends of the primitive brain. \n  \nI loved this workshop! It helped balance my pelvis in the most pleasant way \nand CRP has been much more available for new insights  \n\nMary Borton\, E-RYT 500The Heart of Teaching
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/fundamentals-sacred-sacrum/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Online Class,Video Recorded Class
ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220304T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220306T173000
DTSTAMP:20260427T100306
CREATED:20191212T160417Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220305T125642Z
UID:18780-1646398800-1646587800@coreawareness.com
SUMMARY:Psoas During Pregnancy\, Birth\, & Postpartum - joined by Claire Eccleston
DESCRIPTION: B I R T H  S A V V Y \n \n3-Day (12 Hr) Online Psoas Workshop focusing on Pregnancy\, Birth\, & Postpartum  \nNOTE THIS WORKSHOP TAKES PLACE ON DIFFERENT DAYS \nDEPENDING UPON TIME YOUR ZONE \nMarch 4 – 6  USA  – 1:00 pm – 5:30 pm  US CHICAGO\nMarch 5 – 7  NZ  – 8:00 am – 12:00 pm  NZ AUCKLAND\nthis course will be recorded each day – the recordings are only for those who have sign up  \nA workshop open to EVERY-BODY interested in birthing\, women\, and happy outcomes.  Becoming Psoas Savvy enhances every aspect of a woman’s pregnancy\, birth process\, and postpartum.  This workshop educates not only women but also their midwives\, doulas\, birth-keepers and the partners who tend them.  The importance of listening to your primal Psoas through every phase offers core knowing that can easily be integrated into customary prenatal fitness and birth  preparation. \nA Healthy Psoas: \n\nOffers skeletal support for releasing back pain and tension throughout pregnancy & birth\n\n\nReleases unfounded fear deepening a woman’s instinctual responses\n\n\nIgnites the intuitive belly brain\, centers\, and empowers every aspect of becoming a mother\n\n\nShortens labor and eases birth offering their baby guidance through the spiral descent\n\n\nEnhances a woman shape-shifting; offering an effective alternative to induction\n\n\nSupports the functionally balanced pelvis through each transition and postpartum recovery\n\n\nProvides a core sense of integrity\, trust\, and pleasure through the journey into motherhood\n\n \nRECOMMENDED READING: The Psoas Book (available as download and paper copy)  \nPlus watch for BIRTH SAVVY:A Woman’s Guide to Her Psoas by Liz Koch \nJoining me is Claire Eccleston is a mother and grandmother\, an experienced registered Midwife\, a Spinning Babies® Approved Trainer. Claire is a practicing Biodynamic Craniosacral therapist working within the STREAM philosophy specializing in pelvic work and scar tissue remediation. Claire has been supporting women’s transitions since 2000. Attending births\, offering childbirth education\, pregnancy yoga and providing bodywork sessions.  A dynamic facilitator offering national\, international and online workshops and speaking at conferences and events around the globe\, Claire is passionate about the ancient and sacred arts of birth work\, bodywork and where they meet. Claire has a deep reverence for our bodies and our wild intelligence ~ honoring the rhythms of our physical nature and womb work with deep reverence\, respect and gentleness. Claire is also a wild dancer.  \nWORKSHOP SIZE: Maximum 20 participants /THIS COURSE WILL BE RECORDED \nCANCELATION POLICY: International & Online Co-taught/Special/Retreat \n~ Cancellations may be made up until 60 days prior to the live or online collaborative workshop. NO money will be refunded or substitutions after 60 days before an event. Waiting list protocol may apply – please inquire. REGISTRATION IS FINAL  All registration fees are non-refundable and non-transferable.\n 
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/psoas-during-online-2022/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Online Class,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220225T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220227T133000
DTSTAMP:20260427T100306
CREATED:20220114T130209Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220226T144715Z
UID:32122-1645781400-1645968600@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-february-2022/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Online Class,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220223T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221130T133000
DTSTAMP:20260427T100306
CREATED:20211211T133919Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220217T142039Z
UID:31264-1645608600-1669815000@coreawareness.com
SUMMARY:10-Month Professional Application Course (30-hr NCBTMB Accredited) Online Course 2022
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 \n~    ~    ~    ~    ~    ~    ~ \nEach year I offer my PROFESSIONAL APPLICATION COURSE but due to COVID  I’ve postpone this LIVE course in the USA until 2023. Instead\, I am offering a 10-Month Application Online Course via Zoom.  Please note only 30 of the required 43  participatory hours will be applied to the NCBTMB certification – this course is designed to deepen your experience of psoas \nand yourself as an integral creative expression in the world \n10-Month Application Course for Professionals includes \n1) Meeting the 4th Wednesday every month (4 hours) we will focus on: \n\nConceptual Understanding of Your Healthy Psoas \nThe Primal Brain and Instinctual Psoas in order to hone your ability to track and show up integral in your life and profession  \nFunctional Applications and Foundational Resources for integrating the Conceptual/Paradigm Shifts into your life and expertise\nHomework Explorations and One Presentation for deepening and personalizing your experience\n\n2) Mid-month Peer-Support Group to discuss each Months Conceptual Focus & Explorations \n3) Two 30-minute Private Consultations with Liz Koch (evaluation at beginning and the other at the end of the course)    \n \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. \nCompleting 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.  Please note: You are required to attend all classes to receive NCBTMB certification and/or be eligible for my online community.  \nDATES: February 23/ March 23/ April 27/ May 25/ June 22/ July 27 August 24/ September 28/ October 26/ November 30/ \nNEXT LIVE: Professional Application Course currently scheduled in Denmark for Fall 2022
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/10-month-professional-application-ncbtmb-accredited-2022/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Application Course,Online Class,Professional Training
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ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220208T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220208T130000
DTSTAMP:20260427T100306
CREATED:20220119T170034Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T002341Z
UID:32164-1644318000-1644325200@coreawareness.com
SUMMARY:Dance of the Diaphragm & Psoas ~ 2-hr Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Dance of the Diaphragm & Psoas  \n\n\nPresented February 2022. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below.\n\n \n\n\n\n“Continuing our oceanic journey of reimagining the fluid midline is not complete without re-envisioning and re-languaging diaphragms. Neither a shelf nor a roof\, diaphragms are pulsating and buoyant tissue. Buoyancy is our birthright as foot\, pelvis\, respiratory\, mouth\, skull\, armpit\, and hand all have resilient dome-shaped tissue capable of providing a dynamic support that is not only responsive but also adaptable. \nOur respiratory diaphragm is a fluid bell-shaped tissue with jellyfish-like movements that blossom in multiple directions\, opening up internal spaciousness and volume while simultaneously opening down\, to root deep into the belly core. Diaphragms are naturally resilient and rebound with every step. Through fluid connective tissue and vibrating tensegrity\, ground reaction force is sensed in our floating bone\, supple psoas\, and buoyant diaphragms\, supporting movement and lifting our spirits.” \nStalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Integrity 
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/the-dance-of-the-diaphragm-psoas-2-hr-zoom/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class
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ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220128T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220130T133000
DTSTAMP:20260427T100306
CREATED:20211202T145621Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220121T192724Z
UID:31211-1643362200-1643549400@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-january-2022/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Online Class,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220120T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220120T130000
DTSTAMP:20260427T100306
CREATED:20211218T222021Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240411T234921Z
UID:31312-1642676400-1642683600@coreawareness.com
SUMMARY:STRONG BackBone = Juicy Psoas
DESCRIPTION:Presented January 2022. This video recorded class is available by purchasing a ticket below.What does it really mean to have a strong back bone?  Is it the power of the muscular? \nThe density of Bones?  Is it our strong legs that carry us? Or shoulders for lifting and carrying? \nA Moving Inquiry Into the Dynamics of a Fluid Psoas & A Strong Back Bone
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/strong-backbone-juicy-psoas/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220113T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220113T000000
DTSTAMP:20260427T100306
CREATED:20211215T193648Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T011516Z
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SUMMARY:Using Our Sensory System in Non-Traditional Ways  ~ A Collaboration with Janine Naccarato
DESCRIPTION:Presented January 2022. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \nUsing Our Sensory System in Non-Traditional Ways \nA Collaboration \nbetween \nLiz Koch and Janine Naccarato \n  \nSince my childhood my mother knew that I was not like other children.  Yet\, I did not present with anything back then that professionals could identify only that I was not applying myself… [experiencing] sensory overload…always frightened\, I was looked at as a behavior problem ~ perceived as un-cooperative.   \n We begin with Connecting to Our Senses… Skin\, muscles\, bones\, organs and fluids.  Exploring the senses at their physical locations with special “intell” powers ~ skin and air\, ears as tools for vibration\, eyes as sensing organs\, tongue as tool… Ken-i-sphere: third eye ~ nose ~  tongue ~  ears ~  throat ~ heart ~ belly ~ solar plexus ~ pelvis\, hands ~ feet \nMotion as the Great Regulator …We connect to the outside world of sight sound and touch and taste in new ways. Like drinking in a moment or hearing through touch\, scenting a moment.  Sharpening your kin-e-sphere through sensory deprivation and moving into your wild. \nPracticing Self Regulation…Exploring requires a readiness and awareness to achieve coherency. Touch tapping ~ eye movement ~ imagery ~ rhythmic breathing ~ vibration\, voicing\, hyper-annunciation\, crying\, screaming\, rolling\, sloshing \nUntangling and differentiating... We move between sensory and motor experience in an effort to achieve a new level of awareness about how we are connected.  As a human species\, we are literally shedding our old skin and growing a new more elaborate skin…a neural network that will have extra perceptual capacity to help bring human kind through its next evolution.  By establish sensory motor cues or a daily practice we open up this skill set. Mind body sensitization ~ Vestibular stimulation ~Auditory regulation ~ Kinesthetic mobilization ~ Diaphragmatic Vocalization. \n \n\nJanine Galati Naccarato\, LMT is the owner/founder of Body IQ Life Wellness boutique. A second generation\, Romana trained & certified Pilates Teacher and a graduate of Temple University School of Public Health\, Janine has dedicated her career path to discovering and developing methods which focus on non-surgical intervention for self-healing and self-realization. She crafted her University degree to include dance\, athletic training\, exercise physiology & nutritional wellness. And her post graduate studies include: Yoga training in India with Sri Pattabhi Jois\, various forms of massage & body therapeutics including studies with Master teachers from The Rolfing Institute and more. During her years as a ballet dancer\, Janine recognized the importance of optimal body alignment for injury prevention\, as well as\, the power of energy balancing between mind and body. Janine’s hands on approach and skill set in the areas of orthopedic bodywork\, exercise program & design\, as well as corrective exercise\, shapes her unique approach in her studio for clients at Body IQ Life Wellness Boutique.  @BodyIQGirl is her public profile on social media which represents her brand and is available to answer your health/wellness questions. Janine is available for private and group Skype/Zoom time\, as well as mentorship.  She can be reached at 717-903-3760.
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/using-our-sensory-system-in-non-traditional-ways-a-collaboration-with-janine-naccarato/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class
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ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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SUMMARY:New Year Gathering ~ All About P S O A S
DESCRIPTION:N E W  Y E A R  \nGATHERING \nAll \nAbout \nP S O A S \nBegin your year sensing into your core \nJoin me for this free discussion \nCosy up in your slippers with a cuppa \nand let us talk … all about psoas! \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/new-year-gathering-all-about-p-s-o-a-s/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Online Class
ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20211209T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20211212T143000
DTSTAMP:20260427T100306
CREATED:20210620T173207Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211205T105445Z
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SUMMARY:Stalking Wild Psoas Workshop NCBTMB Accredited (Zoom) 2021
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\n \nAn ONLINE 4-day process-oriented\, play and re-wilding psoas workshop focuses on restoring\, and nourishing your bio-intelligent psoas using micro-non-linear\, multi-dimensional\, fluid movement\, and sound frequency. This creative offering is an opportunity to heal psoas issues and awaken your core integrity. \nJust 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. \n\nBe moved from deep within and awaken your inner strength and creativity!   \n \n PREREQUISITE:   Prerequisite: It is required for this online course to have attended my BASIC Psoas Workshop OR a selection of (a minimum of 3) online Fundamentals/Fluid Core/Stalking Wild Zoom classes. Experience in my approach provides the foundation that helps you develop the conceptual understanding necessary for  self direction when attending Stalking Wild Psoas workshops.. 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-december2021/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Online Class,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211202T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211204T133000
DTSTAMP:20260427T100306
CREATED:20210620T172638Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211106T183157Z
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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(2021 Workshop Participant)\n \n3-Day ONLINE Basic Psoas workshop\, open to every body\, limited to 15 participants \nNOTE ~ THIS 3 DAY WORKSHOP BEGINS ON A THURSDAY \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-2021/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211118T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211121T143000
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CREATED:20210620T172016Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211107T235632Z
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SUMMARY:Stalking Wild Psoas: Womb To World with Anna Verwaal on Zoom
DESCRIPTION:The Journey that Shapes Our Life\n\nJoin Liz Koch and Anna Verwaal for this most extraordinary process oriented workshop \ncombining research\, personal exploration and movement.\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-on-zoom/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class
ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20211115T073000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20211116T210000
DTSTAMP:20260427T100306
CREATED:20200113T001204Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211021T174053Z
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SUMMARY:Private Sessions | November in New York City
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 November 15 & 16 \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/ny-privates-2021/
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:20211105T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211105T130000
DTSTAMP:20260427T100306
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LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T014746Z
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SUMMARY:Blessing the Earth: A Women's Collaboration with Jessi Marino
DESCRIPTION:  Elemental Movement Ritual \nPresented November 2021. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \nEntering The Void \nAs  the Darkness of Winter Approaches \nWe enter a time of liminal space\nwhere we are called to listen\nmore deeply\nto the great mother\nearth\nour\nwomb\nso to\ntend to all kinship\nsensed\nin\nelemental\nbones\nflesh\nheart\nof\nsoma\na collaboration with \nJessi Marino \n  \n \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 – by going into the dark we listen to the call to return once again. Gestation always takes place in the dark\, whether it is the egg in the nest\, the seed in the earth\, or the embryo in the womb. Incubation is a transformative process where growth takes a new shape. This mysterious process requires moist darkness as incubation is a voyage to the underworld. \nExplore the magick of Entering the Void ~ descend back and down into the primordial fluid during this dark season of winter to be held\, nurtured\, and restored \n  \n  \n \n  \nJessi Marino 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 our 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  \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 45 year 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 latest book Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence.\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
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/entering-the-void-jessi-marino/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class
ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211102T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211207T130000
DTSTAMP:20260427T100306
CREATED:20210711T011359Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211105T224753Z
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SUMMARY:Coming To Our Senses as Women
DESCRIPTION:A Kinesthetic Sensory Inquiry For Women \nComing To Our Senses   \n  \n\nWhat is the experience of core integrity if it emerges at this moment within a sensory based woman? \nHow do we\, as women\, embody a lived integrity? \nWhat does integrity sense like within the very core of our being?  \n  \n \nAs one woman wrote “with the impulse to be good is the fear of getting it wrong.”  \nHer words say it all. \nIf we can physically experience our conditioning within our personal core\, \nmaybe women can collectively locate our authenticity within our flesh and bones \nand truly be integral.   \nJoin me for 2.5 hours once a week for 6 weeks and dive under the cultural / historical strangle-hold to sense our animal body’s essential aliveness and potential. Dissolve the density..the fear\, the freeze… fawning responses…discerning brutal or savage from the wild.  \nHonor Our W I L D knowing \ntracking your expression as no longer predicated on inauthentic yet correct behavior. \nEach session includes \nmovement explorations and integration \nAccess impulses of longing \nand what is required to manifest core integrity  \nMicro-fluid movements soften strictures spontaneously evoking emergent experiences that awaken our sensory system and its relationship to a larger field of bio-intelligence \nDive under the cultural and historical strangle-hold \nand sense your animal body’s essential aliveness and potential.
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/coming-to-our-senses-6-weeks-2021/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Online Class
ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211028T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211028T130000
DTSTAMP:20260427T100306
CREATED:20210908T182957Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T002219Z
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SUMMARY:The Gentle Art of Rocking Psoas (2-hr zoom)
DESCRIPTION:Tools & Techniques for Nourishing Your Psoas  \nPresented October 2021. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \n\n\n\nour senses are capable of feeling waves  \n~  curling and uncurling  ~ \nas primordial impulses emerging from the center of our being \n\n\n\n \nMoving tissue in soft wavelike motion begins reimagining body as form\, softening tissue and opening space \nJoin me refining the art of gentle rocking to nourish and hydrate your psoas\nWe will spend time on the floor exploring doing so \nand \nthen explore the many tools that can support gentle rocking \n  \nPhoto credit: elena kloppenburg (unsplash) \n 
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/the-gentle-art-of-rocking-psoas-2-hr-zoom/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class
ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211014T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211216T130000
DTSTAMP:20260427T100306
CREATED:20210831T115238Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211014T132746Z
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SUMMARY:Women + Power = Wild Discernment  (A Moving Media/Bookclub  Fall '21 Edition)
DESCRIPTION:So much has gone on in the last two years that Liz Koch and I believe we have all missed some opportunities to really process\, digest and internalize some powerful pieces of art/media. \nKimberly Ann Johnson \n \nWomen + Power = Wild Discernment \nA Moving Media/Bookclub \nFall 2021 edition \nA moving/writing/reflecting collaboration with Kimberly Ann Johnson and Liz Koch \nPatriarchy has taken different shapes and forms. Yet\, as women\, our animal bodies still hold the stories of how we have and continue to reckon with a top-down\, power-over dynamic. How might we free ourselves from default patterns in our nervous system that are ancestral\, cultural\, familial\, and very personal? Join us on a three-month intergenerational exploration using stories as soulful archetypes in order to maul over and metabolize our strategies with the intent of innovating how best we\, as women\, might meet power at this moment with core integrity. Each three-hour gathering will focus on a movie\, documentary\, or novel as a starting point for tracking our sensory system through somatic movements\, journaling\, small group conversations\, and large group reflections. \nAlthough this class is open to all women\, we want to acknowledge that as two white women we have chosen three particular films that are hetero-normative and represent the reckoning of mostly white females in the overculture\, with little or no representation of women of color. We recognize that the socialization\, conditioning\, and reaction from the overculture differs racially and culturally for women within the United States and the across the globe.\nDATES: Thursdays\, October 14\, November 11\, December 16 \n3- months / 3-hour session /$120 – 40 – 45 women – LIVE experience only/ **no recordings** \nOctober 14: Athlete A \nNovember 11: Bombshell \nDecember 16: Promising Young Woman \nREGISTER AT:https://www.kimberlyannjohnson.com/wild-discernment \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 45 years teaching experience\, 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. \nKimberly Ann Johnson is a somatic sex educator\, trauma guide\, postpartum advocate and single mom. She helps women heal from birth injuries\, gynecological surgeries and sexual boundary violations. She is the author of the early mothering classic The Fourth Trimester and Call of the Wild: How We Heal Trauma\, Awaken Our Own Power\, and Use It for Good. She is the host of the Sex Birth Trauma podcast. \nIMPORTANT: Due to the nature of our focus of the Media/Bookclub\, we will be covering difficult and emotional subjects. We request that you only join if you have a firm foundation in somatic explorations\, preferring women who have studied with one or both of us.  Participants need to know they have the confidence\, physical centering\, and psychic anchoring to hold themselves in time and space with a clear sense of containment and experience in grounding. This course is not a good fit for those who may be currently feeling destabilized\, traumatized\, struggling to heal\, or in need of re-establishing a baseline nervous system and coherency. We may be going deep in this course\, not only conceptually but truly into the lived wilderness of our psyche and soma. with this in mind please be aware that listening to others speak to their deeply personal responses can be difficult. If you find yourself becoming upset\, please be sure to have a support person or therapist to talk to between monthly meetings. \n 
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/women-power-wild-discernment-media-bookclub-fall-2021-edition/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Online Class
ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211013T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211013T130000
DTSTAMP:20260427T100306
CREATED:20210823T153100Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T005613Z
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SUMMARY:Decolonizing Notions of Psoas
DESCRIPTION:Decolonizing Notions of Psoas \nPresented October 2021. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \n \nCore integrity is something I think each of us needs to explore in today’s world.  The agency and integrity of our own being.  Psoas as a vital messenger of core integrity is called by Tao healers “the muscle of the soul.”  Psoas speaks clearly as animal body – communicating primal instincts of being alive and apart of Earth’s kinship with all life.  Decolonizing Notions of Psoas begins with recognizing the top down\, power over systemic construct that is personified by individuating human bodies through isolation and idealizing our beings through concertizing the body as a static form. This is represented through objectified language such as calling our core a “spinal column”. \nI’ve come to understand that the rigidity of the core is in fact a freeze response.  The “frozen” spine indicative of an unresponsive lineage of body.  The colonized white body has been idealized\, and no matter what skin color\, most systems of education focus on body as a structure. \nBy rejecting our animal-body we lose our instinctive knowing and our reciprocal bond with earth.  I see structure as a posturing\, controlled body as performative\, and colonized movement as militaristic – expressing intentionally or unintentionally human dissonance which in turn expresses a profound level of human arrogance.  It speaks to our deep disconnect and lack of reciprocity as part of a larger living system. Incoherent and dismissive the colonized body roams ravenous\, eating up the world and dominating not only other but our own soulful being. \nWhat I will be playing with\, and I hope you’ll join me\, is exploring what it is to re-humanize by integrating expression\, hydrating juicy core psoas and a awakening a supple dynamic spine. I’d like you to experience psoas as rooting into earth rather than lifting up and out of core.  And how inhabiting our earthly elemental terrain we begin remembering our true authenticity and interconnectivity.  Rather than continue performative behavior what is it to embody all aspects of myself?  Recognizing my place in the kinship of life we begin by not dominating my own system and instead access a wise creative bio-intelligence that fosters core integrity. \n  \nLISTEN: https://www.yogajournal.com/lifestyle/decolonize-your-core/
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/october-13-decolonizing-notions-of-psoas/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class
ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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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(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 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-2021/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class,Workshop
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SUMMARY:FLUID CORE ~ Scar Tissue & The Psoas
DESCRIPTION:Fluid Core \nThe Effects of Scar Tissue \non the \nJuicy Psoas \nPresented October 2021. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \na collaboration with  \nSue Hitzmann \n \nJoin our conversation and learn self-help techniques for resolving \nSCAR TISSUE \nand improving\nthe Connective Tissue Network \nScar tissue forming is an amazing process involving the cells found in our connective tissue. The primary cell of connective tissue is called a fibroblast. When we injure our skin (or any part of our body really) these amazing cells transform into myofibroblasts. When a wound needs healing\, these cells deposit collagen fibers and create stress to the tissue. The intracellular contraction these cells create pulls the tissue ends together\, aligning the collagen fibers with something called integrin-mediated pulling onto the collagen bundles. \nThis isn’t magic. You can help yourself and reduce the risk of a scar adhesion or what’s called fibrosis (no matter how old the scar is) from causing more problems later. As initial scar tissue forms\, the continuity of the tissues adjacent to the scar can become affected and over time\, although unnecessary in healing\, the scar tissue expands to healthy tissue slowly growing in size.  \n\n\n\n(Blog – Scarring may have deeper effects on the body) \n\n\n\n\n \n\nMeet My Guest: \nSue Hitzmann\, MS\, CST\, NMT\, is a nationally recognized neuro-fascial manual therapist and teacher whose studies and explorations have culminated in the creation of the MELT Method®. A revolutionary approach to pain-free fitness and longevity\, MELT is a self help technique for working with the connective tissue system called fascia to help restore movement efficiency and overall health span. Because the Psoas is deeply embedded in the sympathetic neuro-core\, hydrating connective tissue is an important key for resolving Psoas inflammation\, pain\, and tension. \nNeuroCore is a termed coined by neuro-fascial therapist Sue Hitzmann creator of The MELT Method® (2006) first heard during a conversation (2010) with author Liz Koch discussing the deepest “fascial bags” that enfold spinal cord\, psoas\, kidney\, adrenals: The NeuroCore System is comprised of a Reflexive Core – the 3D cylinder and the Rooted Core\, the head-to-toe neurofascial connection that allows our brain to sustain more efficient balance of our masses and spaces (another MELT Term) for the bony and joint parts of our body.(2018)
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/fluid-core-scar-tissue-the-psoas-collaboration-with-sue-hitzmann/
CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class
ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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