BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Core Awareness - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://coreawareness.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Core Awareness REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20200308T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20201101T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20210314T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20211107T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20220313T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20221106T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20230312T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20231105T070000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Indiana/Indianapolis BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20220313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20221106T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20200101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220113T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220113T000000 DTSTAMP:20260501T031849 CREATED:20211215T193648Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T011516Z UID:10000607-1642032000-1642032000@coreawareness.com 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/BRAIN-dave-hoefler-lsoogGC_5dg-unsplash-feature-2.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220104T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220104T130000 DTSTAMP:20260501T031849 CREATED:20211205T123111Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211217T210115Z UID:10000604-1641294000-1641301200@coreawareness.com 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20211209T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20211212T143000 DTSTAMP:20260501T031849 CREATED:20210620T173207Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211205T105445Z UID:10000593-1639044000-1639319400@coreawareness.com 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CoreAwareness-Santorini-Greece-2010-05-600x533-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211202T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211204T133000 DTSTAMP:20260501T031849 CREATED:20210620T172638Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211106T183157Z UID:10000592-1638437400-1638624600@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 \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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/warding-600x533-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211118T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211121T143000 DTSTAMP:20260501T031849 CREATED:20210620T172016Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211107T235632Z UID:10000441-1637233200-1637505000@coreawareness.com 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20211115T073000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20211116T210000 DTSTAMP:20260501T031849 CREATED:20200113T001204Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211021T174053Z UID:10000534-1636961400-1637096400@coreawareness.com 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/LIZ-photo-600x533-1.jpg GEO:40.7455447;-73.9918225 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Moving Body Resources Studio 112 W 27th Street New York NY 10001 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=112 W 27th Street:geo:-73.9918225,40.7455447 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211105T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211105T130000 DTSTAMP:20260501T031849 CREATED:20210830T160431Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T014746Z UID:10000600-1636110000-1636117200@coreawareness.com 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211102T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211207T130000 DTSTAMP:20260501T031849 CREATED:20210711T011359Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211105T224753Z UID:10000595-1635849000-1638882000@coreawareness.com 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211028T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211028T130000 DTSTAMP:20260501T031849 CREATED:20210908T182957Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T002219Z UID:10000602-1635418800-1635426000@coreawareness.com 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211014T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211216T130000 DTSTAMP:20260501T031849 CREATED:20210831T115238Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211014T132746Z UID:10000601-1634205600-1639659600@coreawareness.com 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211013T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211013T130000 DTSTAMP:20260501T031849 CREATED:20210823T153100Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T005613Z UID:10000599-1634122800-1634130000@coreawareness.com 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211008T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211010T133000 DTSTAMP:20260501T031849 CREATED:20210620T170314Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211001T231330Z UID:10000440-1633685400-1633872600@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 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/94-11-402.600x533.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211007T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211007T120000 DTSTAMP:20260501T031849 CREATED:20210627T115341Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T003725Z UID:10000594-1633600800-1633608000@coreawareness.com 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210928T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211026T143000 DTSTAMP:20260501T031849 CREATED:20210620T165049Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210928T235722Z UID:10000439-1632823200-1635258600@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Core Awareness: Advanced Course for Laypersons & Professionals via 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. In the intimacy of a small group gathering (max 15) on Zoom we will integrate the fundamental concepts for maintaining a healthy psoas. Each week we will refine and articulate movement\, increase proprioception\, and integrate our results by working together in zoom room partnerships. 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 two Psoas Workshops/and/or 3 Zoom Classes Combination such as = the  5-week Audio Psoas course and the BASIC workshop/ the BASIC & 3 Zoom classes / the BASIC workshop and Stalking Wild Psoas Workshop.  Both read and bring to class: Core Awareness: Enhancing Yoga\, Pilates\, Exercise & Dance.  Expect and be available to have a homework assignment and to work in partnership 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 15 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-fall-2021/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Online Class,Professional Training ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/coreawareness-cover-600x533-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210921T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210921T130000 DTSTAMP:20260501T031849 CREATED:20210723T213658Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240411T234707Z UID:10000597-1632222000-1632229200@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:LATS ~ Wings of Support DESCRIPTION:  \nThe latissimus dorsi is a partner to the psoas!\nEmerging from the pelvic rim and out from the buttocks up into each arm\,\nthis large\, versatile\, and expressive tissue opens our hearts to long for and reach toward the stars. \nPresented September 2021. The video recording available by purchasing a ticket below. \n \n\n\n\n \nThe latissimus dorsi (Latin for broadest muscle of the back) has a unique relationship with the psoas; like lovers\, they complement each other. Yet like all couples\, they are completely different and unique. The psoas is central to the core\, while the “lat” expands laterally up and away from the core. The psoas is very deep and the lat is very superficial. The psoas connects spine to leg while the lat connects spine and pelvis to arm. The psoas takes us into our core; the lat takes us out toward the world. The psoas is all about core integrity; the lat is all about reaching out into the world and bringing the world back to the core. The tango they dance together is a beautiful balance of yin and yang\, male and female\, personal and communal energies\, and interwoven dynamics. The freedom of one depends upon the freedom of the other; flowing in harmony together\, they support wholeness and congruent behavior. When dry and dense\, the latissimus can restrain even simple arm movements and arm move- ments can pull on the pelvic basin. Thus\, opening this tissue is essen- tial for maintaining a centered pelvis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n  URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/lats-wings-of-support/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210918T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210918T110000 DTSTAMP:20260501T031849 CREATED:20210822T140900Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210824T172640Z UID:10000598-1631955600-1631962800@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Keen on Yoga Presents Juicy Psoas DESCRIPTION:Adam Keen hosts  Juicy Psoas…  \n \n2 hours | 14 day replay  Juicy Psoas Class… \nWe are delighted to be hosting Liz Koch for the first time for this 2-hour workshop on the mysterious psoas. \nIf we redefined psoas\, not as a muscle but as perceptive\, sensitive\, and responsive tissue that is communicating safety and coherency\, then we are going to want to support our healthy psoas.  If the psoas is in fact a fluid orbital tissue that supports our floating kidneys\, adrenals\, and immune system attributed to survival then we are going to want to tend to juicy\, responsive psoas to fully thrive within our life. Changing the language of body changes our understanding of health. \nLiz 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 CoreAwareness and the author of The Psoas Book; Core Awareness: Enhancing Yoga\, Pilates\, Exercise & Dance; Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence\, and the upcoming book Birth Savvy. \nLiz focuses on kinesthetic intelligence and somatic awareness as a means for developing our human potential. Stalking Wild Psoas is her passion and Changing the Language of Body is her mission. You can find more about her on her website coreawareness.com  \nCost €30 approx £25 | $36 \nSIGN UP: https://keenonyoga.com/liz-koch-juicy-psoas/ \nKeen on Yoga is an online Ashtanga led yoga studio created during lockdown by Adam and Theresa Keen\, a married couple dedicated to Ashtanga Yoga.  URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/keen-on-yoga-presents-juicy-psoas/ LOCATION:Your home ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210916T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210916T130000 DTSTAMP:20260501T031849 CREATED:20210721T173550Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210827T153120Z UID:10000596-1631790000-1631797200@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Weights & Fluid Movement DESCRIPTION:“The primary characteristic of any fluid system is in its ability to keep transforming itself.” \nEmilie Conrad \nExploring the use of weights in movement\,  as both a support and an energizing effect on our fluid system\, is the focus of this class. \nBy hydrating all tissue including the juicy psoas our potential for increasing strength and resiliency is benefited by exploring weight.  \n \nVal Loeffner modeled for Core Awareness: Enhancing Yoga Pilates Exercise & Dance \nand teaches jungle gym classes https://innerdance.com/class-descriptions/ \nIMPORTANT: Each person will explore at their own pace and only with a small amount of weight to activate the juicy psoas. Please come prepared with small arm and ankle weights (see photos below) .  If you also happen to have a weighted vest or weighted waist belt please bring it along to show off more possibilities. \nDISCLAIMER: I am not associated with the Continuum Teachers Association or with www.Continuummovement.com.  I was a student and colleague of Emilie Conrad.  I had the opportunity to work with her\, teach together\, and explore her ideas in writing (see Dem Bones article). What I will be teaching is a personal integrated approach  to playing with weights and movement to hydrate the juicy psoas.  \nNOTE: The photo’s below are borrowed from the Continuum Teachers Associated website: https://www.continuumteachers.com/about/playground  –  I highly recommend the site for finding ongoing classes in Continuum Play (i.e. Jungle Gym) all around the world.  The purpose of the following photos is to show an example of arm and ankle weights that you can purchase at Fitness/Sports stores and big box stores such as Target.  Slide on or Wrap Around (velcro) styles work well.   \n \n \n  \n  \n  \n  URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/weights-fluid-movement/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Class,featured,Online Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/jungle-val-f.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210820T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210822T133000 DTSTAMP:20260501T031849 CREATED:20210620T145112Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210624T202456Z UID:10000438-1629451800-1629639000@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 your intelligent Psoas informs you about skeletal integrity\, joint rotation\, muscular tension\, breathing\, emotional expression\, and organ functioning. A healthy Psoas facilitates healing\, movement\, and fitness while reducing over all stress and is a vital step toward resolving injury and trauma.  \n\n\n\n\nDevelop Your Core Awareness: \n\nUnderstand how a healthy Psoas supports movement\, strength\, endurance & well-being\nExperience practical ways of sensing your own Psoas\nLearn to soften\, lengthen and revitalize your Psoas\nGain tools for recovering and maintaining a healthy Psoas\nExplore the energetic/emotional/spiritual dynamics of your physical core\nImprove neurological proprioception and skeletal balance\nApply concepts to everyday movement i.e. sitting\, driving\, and walking\n\nDeepen and broaden your practice whether that be Pilates\, Gyrotonic\, Massage\, Bodywork\, Somatic Movement\, Fitness\, Athletics\, Dance\, Yoga\, Martial Arts\, Psychology… \nRECOMMENDED READING: The Psoas Book \nCANCELLATION POLICY:  Please read my complete cancellation policy available online before registering. Online courses can not be canceled once you have received access to online course material and link. \n \nNational Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB) Approved \nThis is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork for 12 hours of continuing education credit (CEU). For more information on the NCBTMB\, please visit their website. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/basic-zoom-august-2021/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/CoreAwareness-Psoas-Release-featured.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210729T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210729T130000 DTSTAMP:20260501T031849 CREATED:20210620T144717Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240411T234523Z UID:10000437-1627556400-1627563600@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Re-Awakening Your Spinal Curves DESCRIPTION:Re-Awakening Your Spinal Curves\nMovement Explorations for Regaining Spinal Resiliency \nPresented July 2021. The video recording available by purchasing a ticket below. \n \n\n\n\nIn the western perspective\, it is often thought best to avoid collapsing and curling inward. There are abundant techniques for stabilizing the spine that provide support like an angle or a cable used to reinforce a center-post. Shaping tissue surrounding the spinal vertebrae like armor commanding control\, spine is concretized into a column. The spinal column is then carried forth by the two legs. Inadvertently involving psoas\, this mechanistic view of spine justifies imbedding rods for reinforcement\, limiting movement with fusion\, and utilizing dense materials to reconstruct vertebral disks. The mysterious process of life’s in-folding and un- folding is perceived as faulty and dismissed.  In doing so the spine becomes dry and begins to lose its undulating shape.  Regaining natural curves is a process of dissolving and re-awakening the living dynamic spine.  Please be sure to have an inflatable soft ball ( 7-10 inches)\, large bath towel and face towel. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/re-awakening-your-spinal-curves/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20210722T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20210725T133000 DTSTAMP:20260501T031849 CREATED:20210527T205350Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210629T141015Z UID:10000434-1626944400-1627219800@coreawareness.com 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 focused on restoring\, through nourishing\, the bio-intelligent psoas using micro-non-linear\, multi-dimensional\, fluid movement\, and sound frequency. This offering is an opportunity to heal psoas issues and awaken your core integrity. Just as a tree\, grown in a restricted container\, never reaches its full potential\, so too a domesticated and/or overly trained psoas is never dynamically expressive –  our soulful\, animal body..our true nature bound within social decorum\, linear patterns\, and repetitive movement becomes stifled and possibly dry. \nBe moved from deep within and awaken your inner strength and creativity!   \n \n PREREQUISITE:   It is required for this online course to have attended  my BASIC Psoas Workshop 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 develop the conceptual understanding and the needed self direction for attending Stalking Wild Psoas workshops. I also encourage you to read or listen to my new book Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core intelligence. Wondering if this the workshop for you?   https://coreawareness.com/stalking-wild-psoas-awakening-to-our-creative-self/  \nNOTE: If you are having difficulty with your Psoas and/or your movement is limited\, this workshop can offer you the opportunity to heal.  \nCANCELLATION POLICY:  Please read my complete cancellation policy available online before registering.  Online Courses may not be cancelled once you have received access to the course. \nNational Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB) Approved \nThis is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork for 18 hours of continuing education credit (CEU). For more information on the NCBTMB\, please visit their website. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/stalking-wild-zoom-july-2021/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CoreAwareness-Santorini-Greece-2010-05-600x533-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210713T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210713T130000 DTSTAMP:20260501T031849 CREATED:20210620T143329Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240411T234347Z UID:10000436-1626174000-1626181200@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Resolving One-sided Psoas Issues DESCRIPTION:Presented July 2021. The video recording available by purchasing a ticket below. \n \n  \nThroughout 45 years of teaching most students and clients come to see me with one sided psoas problems.  But resolving this dilemma is never just one sided. The psoas is a whole complex and needs to be understood as part of the NeuroCore™ or center of movement. \n\n\n\nThe importance of reestablishing core integrity cannot be emphasized enough. A centered pelvis is the most important step in reestablishing core integrity. Proper positioning of bones\, increasing proprioception\, and maintaining muscular balance are vital tools for healing one-sided psoas problems. \n\n\n\n  \nNOTE: NeuroCore™ 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 (a MELT term) for the bony and joint parts of our body.(2018) \n  URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/resolving-one-sided-psoas-issues/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210708T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210708T130000 DTSTAMP:20260501T031849 CREATED:20210620T141121Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240411T234204Z UID:10000435-1625742000-1625749200@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Looking at Trauma through the Lens of Psoas DESCRIPTION:Looking at Trauma through the Lens of Psoas adds an essential piece to the conversation. \nAs mammals our healthy psoas moves us through metabolizing our experiences. \n Our Wild Primal Expressions are essential for both survival and thriving. \nHow do we freeze? How do we flee or fight? What curls us into a ball for protection or stretches us to expand and ward off ? \nPresented July 2021. The video recording available by purchasing a ticket below. \n \nTrauma is defined as any short or long term overwhelming experience that ignites the fight/flight survival response without resolution. Trauma can include but is not limited to prenatal and birth trauma\, childhood abuse (physical and emotional)\, neglect\, sexual violations and experiences such as surgery\, dental work\, accidents\, natural disasters\, violence\, war\, torture\, all forms of shock and living under the threat of eminent danger. \nYou will discover the Healthy Psoas is: \n\nMessenger of the Central Nervous System\nPart of the Fear Reflex (flee\, fight and freeze response) and the Autonomic Nervous System\nDynamic for organ functioning\, breath & movement as part of the Sympathetic Neurocore\nPowerful and Expressive of our WILD animal body called the primitive (reptilian) brain\nSupple\, dynamic\, resilient and responsive for supporting coherent expression understood within the Polyvagal Theory\n\n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/looking-at-trauma-through-the-lens-of-psoas/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210625T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210627T133000 DTSTAMP:20260501T031849 CREATED:20210417T132706Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210627T115619Z UID:10000432-1624613400-1624800600@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 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-june-2021/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Online Class,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/94-11-402.600x533.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210615T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210701T130000 DTSTAMP:20260501T031849 CREATED:20210323T133957Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210627T115540Z UID:10000586-1623753000-1625144400@coreawareness.com 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 six session (2.5 hr) over three weeks and dive under the cultural and historical strangle-hold to sense your animal body’s essential aliveness and potential. Dissolve the density..the fear\, the freeze\, and the fawning responses. Honor your wild and know its power. Discern the W I L D from  brutal or savage.  Enable your expression to no longer be predicated on inauthentic yet correct behavior. Each session includes movement explorations\, journaling\, and connection. Begin accessing the impulses of longing deep within and what is required to manifest core integrity.  Employing micro-fluid movements\, which soften the freeze response and strictures in our spine\, can spontaneously evoke emergent experiences that help us to access a larger field of bio-intelligent knowing. By not promoting exclusivity of movement but rather allowing bio-morphic expression\, we discover our kinship with all living systems. Going deeper within our own biological terrain\, we dive under the cultural and historical strangle-hold to sense our animal body’s essential aliveness and potential.  URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/coming-to-our-senses/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Online Class ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210610T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210610T130000 DTSTAMP:20260501T031849 CREATED:20210527T194728Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T002045Z UID:10000433-1623322800-1623330000@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Psoas & The Energy Systems DESCRIPTION:Presented June 2021. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \nWithin the Taoist tradition the Psoas is spoken of as the “muscle of the soul”. Merriam-Webster defines the word soul as the immaterial essence\, animating principle\, a person’s total self\, active and essential; the moral and emotional nature of human beings. Expressing our deepest desire for integrity\, passion\, and possibility\, our Psoas reveals soul qualities imbued within our very own flesh and blood. \n \n \n\n\n\nEmerging from a central channel\, psoas is intimately located near the Conception and Governing vessels reflecting a self-actualizing gesture of individuated becoming.16 Orbiting through the core\, these two essential channels reflect balance and the complimentary flow of polarities referred to as Yin and Yang. From the perspective of core energy\, direct manipulation of posture seems like a superficial attempt to control the dynamic expression of Qi flowing through and within our being. To find an energetic balance in the ecosystem of a living organism requires a conscious differentiation between demanding levels of control and igniting maturation within the whole system. \nOverlaying the energetic Chakra System\, Chinese Five Element Theory\, and Meridian Model  with the Primordial Psoas helps us correlate and track the emotional/feeling qualities of the Psoas while inviting an opportunity for awakening its true nature. Rather than minimizing the Psoas by defining it as a hip flexor\, it behooves us to recognize that this smart tissue is a sensory source of primordial energy\,  not to be manipulated but respected. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/psoas-the-energy-systems/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210602T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210630T170000 DTSTAMP:20260501T031849 CREATED:20210323T140944Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210619T011506Z UID:10000587-1622649600-1625072400@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Audio Psoas Course |June 2021 DESCRIPTION:Spring/Summer Psoas Audio-Course Begins June 2  \n \nWhat Participants Are Saying… \nI have a daily practise which developed over the classes I did with you…..especially working with getting into my bones\, hydrating tissue and centring my pelvis.  I really enjoy this deep quiet time every day\, it’s such an important part of my nourishment – and It’s incredible what a huge shift I feel on every level.  Working with resolving deep core tension and trauma…slowly unravelling the layers….so profound and nourishing.  Much gratitude….I feel like a butterfly slowly emerging…. \nFrom the very first class\, learning how to think about the psoas as bio-intelligent tissue\, something has ignited in me. \nMy work these past 8 years with Chi Nei Tsang has been geared towards that with the whole body\, but something in the way you teach brought it more imminent. \nYour voice and actual delivery of information is the best way to release a tight Psoas! \nAbsolutely loving your teleclasses\, really validating the movement practices I’m so into (rolling\, grounding\, unraveling\, authentic movement etc) and backing it all up in the bio-intelligent paradigm. I’m learning loads! \nThis has been the best thing I have done for my Psoas. I am just sorry I did not do it sooner. \nI wanted to thank you for a truly enlightening class. I LOVE your investigations\, understanding of the psoas and integrative\, eye-opening perspectives. I really enjoyed this teleclass and hope to learn more from you in the near future! \nI just listened to the class recording and it is excellent\, I was especially moved by the details\, like your deft address of the word “attached”…as in “the Psoas is attached to…”  that is just lovely and restful to hear. \nI am finding your Psoas teleclass very useful and juicy – can’t wait to hear the next class! \nI want you to know that your words have such a resonance with my view of how enormous are the manifestations of the body beyond elemental anatomy.  Your clarity has affected how I begin the invitation to experience the movement of weight\, tissue\, and breath as one healing self; your clarity transforms (as a yoga teacher) my beginning into each person’s own inviting. This transformation has been remarkable to see. Coming upon your work is a magnificent meal for my begging bowl!  May I share this vitality\, and my thanks” \nInformative & practical: Exercises were assigned that were actually possible to do at home without personal contact with the instructor\, and I could do these exercises within the first day. \nValuable insight into how to work with a muscle that is a common problem for many of my clients. \nA most valuable class for postural and pelvic awareness – I learned how to sit more comfortably\, and I learned how to avoid exacerbating some SI joint problems I have. The physical therapy exercises I’d been given had only worsened my back/pelvic pain\, but I found Liz’s exercises and skillful observations to be profoundly helpful in reducing my pain and correcting my pelvic alignment. \nI’m really enjoying it very much and learning heaps. I love your languaging around all the issues and topics you are raising – inspirational. As a yoga teacher\, it seems that more and more I am moving towards an understanding and learning about neutrality\, equanimity\, balance\, and that my practice is about embodying that. Gradually I am finding that my yoga practice and teaching is not about mastering a particular shape with my body\, but more of an exploration of dynamic movement\, resolving towards balance\, presence\, and ease. \nGreat class\, I am excited by this fresh take on the core. \nListen LIVE or Listen to the class recording at your leisure after each class for the  duration of the course. \nFive consecutive Wednesdays\, from 4 pm to 5 pm PDT\, 6 pm to 7 pm CDT\, and 7 pm to 8 pm EDT (and to all international students – enjoy the recording on your timeline).  Listen to each one-hour virtual class\, from the comfort of your own home. Plus receive free coaching support for the entire 5-week course via email.  Registration cost is $220.00 (no early/or late dates to sign up) \nATTENTION – this course is NOT a webinar. It is an audio course designed to help you develop your sensory system through the art of listening.  You can call in on a phone or use computer VoIP dialer \n\n\nAUDIO PSOAS…learning to listen…STARTS June 2  NCBTMB Nationally Certified 5-Weeks class covers ALL aspects of the Psoas\, its functioning\, relationships\, and plenty of resources\, plus recommended explorations each week. No two series are alike as each series is live\, uniquely shaped for the group attending\, and always including updated information and resources. \n \nRECEIVE a recording and/or attend live to ask questions\, explore problems\, and discover new emerging ideas after each class.\n\n\n \n\n\nYou’ll also receive personal email coaching with premium email access to Liz Koch throughout the length of the 5-week course. Email me your personal or professional psoas questions\, problems\, and concerns. I will attempt to provide a quick response each time and support your healing and educational process. \n\n\nShould you wish to join me you are responsible for your telephone (i.e. long distance or phone minutes) or sign on via your internet us the VoIP dialer I provide. Or listen to the class recording each week for free.  The recorded class will be sent to you within 24 hours after each class by email. Each recorded class may be listened to throughout the length of the series with the last class having 5 additional weeks for review after the live class ends…10 weeks total. \nIMPORTANT NOTE: The recordings are NOT permenant downloads. \n  \nSCHEDULE: \n\nClass Day One (June 02\, 2021)\n\nIntroduction\nDiscover all about your Psoas\nLocation\nFunction\nHip flexor\nTensile structure\nPsoatic shelf (supports organs)\nHydraulic pump (massages)\nFear reflex (flee/fight)\n\n\nClass Day Two (June 09\, 2021)\n\nConnecting The Psoas: Relationships\nSkeletal support\nJoint rotation\nMuscle flexibility\nOrgan functioning/ breathing\nPregnancy and birth\nEarly movement patterns\nEmotional well-being\n\n\nClass Day Three (June 16\, 2021)\n\nSimple Ways of Understanding The Complex Psoas\nTrauma and the Sympathetic Nervous System\nWhy Palpation & Manipulation Should Be Avoided\n\n\nClass Day Four (June 23\, 2021)\n\nPsoas Injuries: Why they happen and how to avoid them\nResolving Trauma: the difference between release and resolution\n\n\nClass Day Five (June 30\, 2021)\n\nHow to maintain a healthy vibrant dynamic Psoas\nSupportive fitness/bodywork protocols\nSumming It all Up\n\n\n\n \nNational Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB) Approved \nThis is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork for 5 hours of continuing education credit (CEU). For more information on the NCBTMB\, please visit their website. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/audio-psoas-june-2021/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Audio-Class END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210521T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210523T133000 DTSTAMP:20260501T031849 CREATED:20210308T132602Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210426T105158Z UID:10000584-1621589400-1621776600@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 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-may-2021/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Online Class,Workshop END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210503T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210503T130000 DTSTAMP:20260501T031849 CREATED:20210416T185552Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220217T134854Z UID:10000591-1620039600-1620046800@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Soulful Psoas ~ A Language of Knowing  DESCRIPTION:Powerful soul-full stories emanate from the Psoas centered deep within a person’s core.\nThe psoas is always ready to reveal its mystery to anyone willing and capable of bearing witness to the truth. \nPresented May 2021. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \n \n  \nWhat mysteries the Psoas unfolds to those willing listeners! \nThe psoas speaks of the very heart of our existence as human beings.\nOur journey thus far and the profound longing each and every one of us feels through our journey. The story of our earthly existence.  \n \nFor more than 40 years I’ve held space for the psoas to tell its tale. I’ve named the psoas the messenger of the midline not simply because of its physical location (emerging directly from the center axis of the human core) but also because of its power within each of us. Profound and sensitive\, the Psoas never lies.  This bio-intelligent tissue resonates the truth as it is right now. Like the precious new born or a wizened sage\, our Psoas is a messenger asking nothing of us but to hear and respond to the moment. \nI’ve had the privilege of listening to personal stories while sitting with another person’s psoas. Stories that if I am willing to hear help to reveal the inner life with all its vulnerabilities\, insights\, and deep felt emotions. By sharing these stories with you the reader\, I hope to offer the practitioner a window into the felt sensed\, unresolved dynamic found within the human core. Each story offers the practitioner and educator not only insight but also challenges our creative ability to truly help another person. \n  \n  URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/soulful-psoas-a-language-of-knowing/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210425T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210425T200000 DTSTAMP:20260501T031849 CREATED:20210329T122531Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210403T172340Z UID:10000590-1619334000-1619380800@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Embodied Yoga Summit ~ Juicy Psoas DESCRIPTION:Join me Sunday April 25th \n \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\nJ U I C Y   P S O A S \n\n\n\n\n\nRe~Wilding Core Expression \nAt the very core of our being is a river of bio-intelligence and a primal tissue called psoas that flows out as a messenger of agency and core integrity. By striving for control\, perfection\, and superiority over our core expression\, our psoas becomes captured and recruited resulting not only in exhaustion but also a constricted\, dry tissue. Rewilding psoas is a journey of dissolving our willful engagement of the upper psoas in order to embody our bones by returning once again to root deep within and back down to the ground. \nIn this session\, you will: \n\n\nRe-imagine Psoas beyond bio-mechanical language to sense the core tissue as a bio-intelligent messenger \n\n\nExperience the value of micro-movements to hydrate spinal vertebrae and connective tissue for gaining lush juicy psoas \n\n\nDiscover how skeletal proprioception supports neuro-coherency ground fluid psoas and ignite core integrity. \n\n\n\n\n\n5am PDT (Los Angeles) / 8am EDT (New York) / 1pm GMT (London) / 2pm CET (Paris) / 10pm AEST (Sydney) URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/embodied-yoga-summit-your-juicy-psoas/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Conference,featured,Online Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/EYS-2021-Event-Thumbnail-feature.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210422T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210422T130000 DTSTAMP:20260501T031849 CREATED:20210329T121052Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T005248Z UID:10000589-1619089200-1619096400@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Valuing Constructive Rest through Reciprocity DESCRIPTION:“Sometimes I wish I could photosynthesize so that just by being\,\njust by shimmering at the meadow’s edge or floating lazily on a pond\,\nI could be doing the work of the world while standing silent in the sun.” \n― Robin Wall Kimmerer \nPresented April 2021. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below.\n\n \n  \nToday is Earth Day and I can’t think of a better way to celebrate than landing and locating.  Feeling the ground under my body\, sinking into the land I belong to\, and thanking her for all her support and nourishment.  Asking her what she needs this moment\, how best may I show her my love and appreciation. She (like all women) does not need fixing ~ she needs to be seen\, cherished ~ she needs love and gratitude…the rest will come… \nTo land is to awaken my responsibility and my longing for reciprocity \n  \n  \nPOEM SOURCE: Robin Wall Kimmerer is the author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom\, Scientific Knowledge\, and the Teachings of Plants \n  URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/the-value-of-constructive-rest-exploring-reciprocity/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR