BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Core Awareness - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Core Awareness 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/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/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 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:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Monterrey BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20200405T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20201025T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20210404T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20211031T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20220403T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20221030T070000 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:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20210722T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20210725T133000 DTSTAMP:20260430T032334 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:20260430T032334 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:20260430T032334 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:20260430T032334 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:20260430T032334 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:20260430T032334 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:20260430T032334 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:20260430T032334 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:20260430T032334 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:20260430T032334 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:20260430T032334 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 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210415T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210415T130000 DTSTAMP:20260430T032334 CREATED:20210329T114348Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T005123Z UID:10000588-1618484400-1618491600@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:THAWING ~ your core as flowing river DESCRIPTION:Reimagining your spine as a thawing river…emergent themes…bring restorative gestures to awaken the very core of our being…. \nPresented April 2021. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \n \n\n\nThe River Ice Has Begun To Vanish\,\nFamished\, It Yields To The Sun\,\nPiece By Piece Its Body\nSuccumbs To Ripened\nHeat; Slowly It\nIs Devoured By\nThe Current\nUntil It Is\nGone:\nTime\nEats Away\nAt The Winter’s\nImpending Hold\nOn The River’s Bubbling\nLaughter; Sought After Due\nTo Its Delightful Chattering\nWhich Gurgles Peacefully Within The\nTender Summer Nights Beneath The Stars\nby Sydney Victoria\n\n  \n  \nThis Class weaves together imagery\, movement\, and writing \nPhoto Credit: polina-kuzovkova-RIp7W-ms9nk-unsplash.jpg \nPoetry Credit Spring Thaw by Sydney Victoria Hello Poetry  2015 \n  URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/thawing-your-core-is-a-flowing-river/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210408T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210408T100000 DTSTAMP:20260430T032334 CREATED:20210301T032027Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T003439Z UID:10000583-1617876000-1617876000@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:FLUID CORE: Psoas\, Connective Tissue and BONES with Sue Hitzmann DESCRIPTION:Fluid Core \nPsoas\nConnective Tissue \nand \nBONES  \na collaboration with \nSue Hitzmann \nPresented April 2021. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \nJoin our conversation and discover the \nBONE\nPSOAS\nConnection \nand why\nConnective Tissue is key to resiliency and health\nBones\n         Talk\nto our Brain\n&\nto the\nEarth  \n“The human skeleton and our bones are often times considered mere spacers \nand the stuff fascia connects to as a way to leverage force and motion. \nBut it turns out bones may play a significant role in not only our memory and mood \nbut may assist us in preventing anxiety and depression.” \n\n\n\n\nDiscover the role fascia plays in supporting over all health!\nTransporting nutrients and fluids throughout our body\, helping defend our body from microorganism\,\nthe bone-fascia network plays a role in both our immune system and nervous system \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 M.E.L.T. Method® (MELT). A revolutionary approach to pain-free fitness and longevity\, Melt Method is a self help technique for working with the connective tissue. 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. \n\n\n\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/bones-with-sue-hitzmann/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210330T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210427T143000 DTSTAMP:20260430T032334 CREATED:20210116T153731Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210403T171454Z UID:10000428-1617098400-1619533800@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 12) 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\nIdentify and choose a strategy of support\, facilitate and implement basic trauma protocol.\nUtilize somatic tools for supporting the psoas and the sympathetic neuro-core\nFacilitate your client and students ability to resource support.  \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 12 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.  \n  URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/core-awareness-level-one-advanced-course-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:20210326T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210328T133000 DTSTAMP:20260430T032334 CREATED:20210211T212921Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210319T124526Z UID:10000430-1616751000-1616938200@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:BASIC (12-Hr) Psoas Workshop (NCBTMB Approved) Via Zoom DESCRIPTION:3-Day ONLINE Basic Psoas workshop\, open to every body\, limited to 15 participants \nThis course offers a great way to learn through experience how your intelligent Psoas informs you about skeletal integrity\, joint rotation\, muscular tension\, breathing\, emotional expression\, and organ functioning. A healthy Psoas facilitates healing\, movement\, and fitness while reducing over all stress and is a vital step toward resolving injury and trauma.  \n\n\n\n\nDevelop Your Core Awareness: \n\nUnderstand how a healthy Psoas supports movement\, strength\, endurance & well-being\nExperience practical ways of sensing your own Psoas\nLearn to soften\, lengthen and revitalize your Psoas\nGain tools for recovering and maintaining a healthy Psoas\nExplore the energetic/emotional/spiritual dynamics of your physical core\nImprove neurological proprioception and skeletal balance\nApply concepts to everyday movement i.e. sitting\, driving\, and walking\n\nDeepen and broaden your practice whether that be Pilates\, Gyrotonic\, Massage\, Bodywork\, Somatic Movement\, Fitness\, Athletics\, Dance\, Yoga\, Martial Arts\, Psychology… \nRECOMMENDED READING: The Psoas Book \nCANCELLATION POLICY:  Please read my complete cancellation policy available online before registering. Online courses can not be canceled once you have received access to online course material and link. \n \nNational Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB) Approved \nThis is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork for 12 hours of continuing education credit (CEU). For more information on the NCBTMB\, please visit their website. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/basic-zoom-march-2021/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/psoas-featured.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210318T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210318T130000 DTSTAMP:20260430T032334 CREATED:20210225T182010Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T004951Z UID:10000582-1616065200-1616072400@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:FLUID CORE ~ Feeling Lost on the Way to Core Integrity (2-hr zoom) DESCRIPTION:F L U I D  C O R E \nFeeling Lost on the Way to Core Integrity  \nPresented March 2021. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \n                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          \n\n\n\nFeeling lost she does not know how to proceed.\nI sense a mix of emotions within her – as if something inside simply has to give.\nAlthough she is beginning to recognize her vulnerability\, the feeling is unfamiliar and\, truthfully\, quite terrifying to her. \n\n\n\nStalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence \n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe sense of feeling lost within a somatic inquiry can easily evoke looking outward for answers…but it is by getting lost that our sensory system awakens and new capabilities open up that foster innovating responses. We discover our knowing that which is invisible begins to unfold… Catching a fleeting glimpse\, detecting a movement at the perimeter of awareness\, there may be a new sense that something is not yet acknowledged\, or feels lost\, and yet is on the cutting edge of consciousness. Perhaps this is what hunting or being hunted feels like in the wild kingdom. Quick moving\, it can be too difficult to catch an impulse that sets our being into reaction: a desire to jump and escape as well as a longing to connect and be found. Following initiation of an expression requires a patient slowing of pace and a quieting receptivity in the heart to perceive the impulse just before it comes into being. It takes a bifurcating focus of awareness that moves inward and concurrently outward toward a larger field of influence. In this way\, we can stay present to feel the origins of our fear and the impulses of our longing. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLiz Koch  is an international educator\, author\, and creator of CoreAwareness™ focusing on awareness as key for developing human potential and awakening consciousness. With 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\n\n\n\nPhoto Credit: Patrick Mueller/unsplash URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/feeling-lost-on-the-way-to-core-integrity/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210316T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210316T130000 DTSTAMP:20260430T032334 CREATED:20210225T164007Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240411T234026Z UID:10000431-1615892400-1615899600@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:FUNDAMENTALS: Happy Feet ~ Happy Psoas (Zoom) DESCRIPTION:FUNDAMENTALS \nHappy Feet ~ Happy Psoas \n\n\n\n\n\n\nWith its insistence on streamlining linear thinking\, the dominant power structure of western society\nbegins to loosen its grip\, opening up a multidimensional world where we can think not only on our feet but also with our feet.\nStalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence\n \nPresented March 2021. The video recording available by purchasing a ticket below. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nGrounded through the feet supports a weight-bearing pelvis which offers the spine a rooted base of support\nas well as a profound relationship with the Earth. \n \nWhen bones in the feet and ankle are restricted\, the relationship between ground and space becomes challenged. For example\, putting a rigid shoe on a baby’s foot prevents the foot from freely rolling\, limiting the joint articulation and interrupting a resilient stride. This sets up a conditioned pattern of movement. Over time limited movement in toes and binding around the ankle limits articulation of the ankle joint essential for weight distribution along with the lack of movement in vital proprioception necessary for orientation.  A shoe with a negative heel (lower in the back than the front) for example shifts the skeletal weight back into a static position\, demanding an inappropriate muscular effort to move forward and stifling core psoas. When shoes worn continuously attempt to create an ideal shape or action they impose upon both muscles and bones\, causing imbalances throughout our body. Let’s take our shoes off and begin to awaken our feet. \nWe will spend time exploring the feet and their direct relationship with Core Expression\, Balance\, and all the Diaphragms so essential to our sense of buoyancy (ground force reaction) spacial freedom of our connective tissue and healthy energetic flow of our  meridians. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/happy-feet-happy-psoas/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Monterrey:20210314T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Monterrey:20210314T170000 DTSTAMP:20260430T032334 CREATED:20200109T153606Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200320T173343Z UID:10000525-1615712400-1615741200@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:WiLDING A Moving~Writing Collaboration with Annie Radha Holcombe Melbourne AUS DESCRIPTION:Writing from the Core of Being\n \nJoin Liz Koch and Annie Radha Holcombe for a movement writing collaboration…moving and writing from the core of our being.  Re-Wilding experiences are an opportunity to dive into our purpose\, our potential and be fully present with it all! Meeting our inner wilderness and deeply embodying the elements we are able to fully live the truth of who we are and our lives become an expression of our potential. Being truly at home\, grounded\, earthed we can then explore meeting “the other” in a new deeply soulful way.\n \nAnnie Radha Holcombe\, Mother of Grace Revolution (a healing and movement studio in Melbourne Australia)\, has been teaching Spiritually aware movement\, meditation\, healing and down to earth wisdom  practices for over 25 years. A  yoga therapist and somatic based hands on healer she has spent much of her life as a traveling spiritual seeker looking for ways to be truly at peace and present with all that this life brings. \nAnnie is the author of  THE GIRL IN THE RED SARI \nLiz Koch  is an international educator\, author\, and creator of CoreAwareness™ focusing on awareness as key for developing human potential and awakening consciousness. With over 40 years experience specializing in the human core\, Liz is recognized as an authority on the core tissue called Psoas.  Both nationally and internationally published\, her works include The Psoas Book\, Unraveling Scoliosis CD\, Core Awareness; Enhancing Yoga\, Pilates\, Exercise & Dance\, Psoas & Back Pain CD and Mother\, Maiden\, Crone: Our Pleasure Playlist and her latest book Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence  (2019 North Atlantic Books)  \n  \nREGISTERING: Please sign up at Grace Revolution Studio https://gracerevolutionevents.as.me/WildingWorkshop  20 available spots.  Questions? email info@coreawareness.com URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/collaboration-holcombe-2021/ LOCATION:Grace Revolution Yoga\, 1/462 Smith St\, Collingwood\, 3066\, Australia CATEGORIES:Workshop GEO:-37.794798;144.98521 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Grace Revolution Yoga 1/462 Smith St Collingwood 3066 Australia;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1/462 Smith St:geo:144.98521,-37.794798 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210312T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210313T160000 DTSTAMP:20260430T032334 CREATED:20191215T112233Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200709T003150Z UID:10000369-1615554000-1615651200@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:BASIC (12-Hr) Psoas Workshop Melbourne Australia DESCRIPTION:The 2-day Basic Psoas workshop\, open to every body\, 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… \nNOTE: THIS WORKSHOP TAKES PLACE ON A FRIDAY AND SATUDAY  \n \nRECOMMENDED READING: The Psoas Book \nCANCELLATION POLICY: All International PSOAS workshops registrations are final and have no refunds. Please read my complete cancellation policy available online before registering. If there is a waiting list\, a transfer fee will apply. \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/12-hr-psoas-workshop-melbourne-australia-2021/ LOCATION:Grace Revolution Yoga\, 1/462 Smith St\, Collingwood\, 3066\, Australia CATEGORIES:Workshop GEO:-37.794798;144.98521 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Grace Revolution Yoga 1/462 Smith St Collingwood 3066 Australia;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1/462 Smith St:geo:144.98521,-37.794798 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210226T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210228T133000 DTSTAMP:20260430T032334 CREATED:20210116T152130Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210219T001843Z UID:10000427-1614331800-1614519000@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:BASIC (12-Hr) Psoas Workshop (NCBTMB Approved) Via Zoom DESCRIPTION:3-Day ONLINE Basic Psoas workshop\, open to every body\, limited to 15 participants \nThis course offers a great way to learn through experience how your intelligent Psoas informs you about skeletal integrity\, joint rotation\, muscular tension\, breathing\, emotional expression\, and organ functioning. A healthy Psoas facilitates healing\, movement\, and fitness while reducing over all stress and is a vital step toward resolving injury and trauma.  \n\n\n\n\nDevelop Your Core Awareness: \n\nUnderstand how a healthy Psoas supports movement\, strength\, endurance & well-being\nExperience practical ways of sensing your own Psoas\nLearn to soften\, lengthen and revitalize your Psoas\nGain tools for recovering and maintaining a healthy Psoas\nExplore the energetic/emotional/spiritual dynamics of your physical core\nImprove neurological proprioception and skeletal balance\nApply concepts to everyday movement i.e. sitting\, driving\, and walking\n\nDeepen and broaden your practice whether that be Pilates\, Gyrotonic\, Massage\, Bodywork\, Somatic Movement\, Fitness\, Athletics\, Dance\, Yoga\, Martial Arts\, Psychology… \nRECOMMENDED READING: The Psoas Book \nCANCELLATION POLICY:  Please read my complete cancellation policy available online before registering. Online courses can not be canceled once you have received access to online course material and link. \n \nNational Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB) Approved \nThis is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork for 12 hours of continuing education credit (CEU). For more information on the NCBTMB\, please visit their website. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/basic-zoom-february-2021/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Online Class END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210224T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211221T133000 DTSTAMP:20260430T032334 CREATED:20210103T001103Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210225T181922Z UID:10000426-1614159000-1640093400@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:10-Month Professional Application Course (30-hr NCBTMB Certified) Webinar Course 2021 DESCRIPTION:Each year I offer my PROFESSIONAL APPLICATION COURSE but due to COVID  I’ve postpone this LIVE course in the USA until 2022. Instead\, I will be offering a 10-Month Application Webinar 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: \n10-Month Application Course for Professionals includes \n1) Meeting the 4th Wednesday of every month (4 hours) we will focus on: \n\nConceptual Understanding of the Healthy Psoas\nTraining Your Eye to understand the Dysfunctional Psoas\nFunctional Applications and additional resources for applying to your expertise\nHomework Explorations and one presentation for deepening your Experience\n\n2) Mid-month Peer-Support Group to discuss each Months Conceptual Focus & Explorations \n3) Two 30-minute Private Consultation with Liz Koch (evaluation at beginning and the other at the end of the course)    \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. \nNOTE: Please note there is a live Application Course currently scheduled in Denmark for 2021 and another in the USA for 2022.  \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 being deeply nourished and reslient in 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 20 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 one STALKING Wild Psoas Workshop.  Please register only if qualified.  Please note: You are required to attend all classes to receive NCBTMB certification or be eligible for my online community.  URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/10-month-professional-application-course-30-hr-ncbtmb-certified-webinar-course-2021/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Application Course,Online Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/rio-5-600x533-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210222T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210222T160000 DTSTAMP:20260430T032334 CREATED:20210118T180946Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210213T205303Z UID:10000429-1613995200-1614009600@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Race & Body: Dissolving Whiteness in Core Expression ~ A Collaboration with Kimberly Ann Johnson DESCRIPTION:Race & Body \nDissolving Whiteness in Core Expression \nA Workshop for “White” Women \n \n  \nphoto credit Allyssa Olaviar (unsplash) \nHow does primal expression change our perception and our response to ourselves\, and others\, specifically as it applies to race?  \nHow do we work with our responses to being in the category of “white women” \nand what does it means to be an individual within the group? \nHow can we learn to track individual truths and structural truths within our animal bodies? \nOur wild animal bodies are capable of sensing and moving deeply and in so doing we become conscious of the insidious ways colonization is held and communicated within our flesh and bone. We may squirm and distract ourselves\, but we have what it takes to dissolve these century-old impulses to cage\, control\, and power over  ~ to reclaim our inner Wild and to foster an antiracist culture.  \nWhat “white” posturing and performative expression share in common is a compartmentalization of body splitting us from our felt-sense emotions\, gut instincts\, and essential vitality. This power-over response built in to the Western approach shows up in yoga\, Pilates\, dance\, and fitness.  The idealized white body becomes the standard for which all other bodies are measured. Yet this column of strength is often a “frozen” spine limiting our potential and our capacity for coherent expression.   \n \nPhoto credit: Clem Onojeghuo-unsplash \n By using bio-intelligent fluid movements and sound\, we venture into disassociated responses\, and feelings of fragility to recognize the ancestral rigidity defended within “white-posturing.” Following these primal impulses dissolves distortions while nourishing life-enhancing gestures and expressions. Through insight\, journaling\, and tracking we attend to our authentic self\, discovering different responses than those Western Culture provide for us.  Claiming agency we can participate in co-creating and re-imagining ourselves and our values in the context of race\, justice\, and equity.     \nWe will attend to the questions: \nWhen\, how\, and why do I control myself? \nHow do I move if I am not told what to do? \n  \n \nKimberly Ann Johnson is the author of the  The Fourth Trimester. and her soon to be release Call Of The Wild (due out in April 2021). She is a Sexological Bodyworker\, Somatic Experiencing trauma resolution practitioner\, birth doula\, and single mom. She specializes in helping women prepare for birth\, recover from birth injuries and birth trauma\, and heal from sexual trauma.  She is the founder of Magamama.com\, an international holistic women’s health care resource for expectant and new mothers. A lifelong yoga student and teacher\, Kimberly has lead workshops throughout Thailand\, Malaysia\, Brazil\, Portugal and the US on the intersection of women’s sexuality and spirituality. After living in Brazil for eight years\, she currently resides in San Diego\, CA and teaches Activating Your Inner Jaguar courses online.  \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 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 most recent release (2019) Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence. \n  \n  URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/race-body-dissolving-whiteness-in-core-expression-a-collaboration-with-kimberly-johnson/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210218T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210218T130000 DTSTAMP:20260430T032334 CREATED:20210102T172033Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T014209Z UID:10000423-1613646000-1613653200@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Changing the Language of Body ~ ReWilding Your Psoas DESCRIPTION:Stalking Wild Psoas \nEmbodying Your Core Intelligence  \nPresented February 2021. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \nEssay Nine \n\n\n\nReWilding Your Psoas \n\n\n\nHow Play Impulses Help us Thrive \n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Conceptual Shift Made Potent Through Movement \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRe-wilding ignites unexpected acts of awakening. Redundancy\, whether in our personal life or in our work environment\, happens when expressions become defined and limited. To avoid redundancy\, living systems move inward toward depth perception and outward toward dynamic expression and realtiomship. As biological organisms\, our being-bodies are part of a much larger system that requires regenerative rather than degenerative practices. By consciously participating and contributing to overall sustainability within our own system\, other beings are stirred to thrive. Because our inquisitiveness is a vital source of nourishment\, following our play instincts and honing our somatic impulses is imperative in order to not only survive but also to thrive. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/changing-the-language-of-body-rewilding-your-psoas/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/StalkingWildPsoas3-JPEG.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210216T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210216T130000 DTSTAMP:20260430T032334 CREATED:20210102T175948Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210215T213415Z UID:10000425-1613473200-1613480400@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Gathering on Zoom ~ A FREE Q & A Session  DESCRIPTION:PLEASE \nLet’s Gather on Zoom for a FREE Q & A Session  \nIn Deep Appreciation  \nMY VALENTINES GIFT TO YOU  \nBring your PSOAS Questions and lets the conversation begin… URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/gathering-on-zoom-a-free-q-a-session/ CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Liz-Koch-600-533.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210211T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210211T130000 DTSTAMP:20260430T032334 CREATED:20210102T174624Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T001850Z UID:10000424-1613041200-1613048400@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Fluid Core ~ Metabolizing Fear DESCRIPTION:Whether recoiling in fear or arcing in deep defense\, the psoas is at best referred to as an “emotional” muscle. \nPresented February 2021. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \n \n  \n\n\n\nSignaling survival responses\, this primal messenger relays disruptions and compensations that threaten core integrity. Just as every coherent animal in the wild kingdom sends messages\, humans\, like all mammals\, gesture with the twitch of an ear\, a gleam in the eye\, a hair standing on end\, an arc of the spine. Ignoring the wild nature of psoas can be very dangerous. \n\n\n\nExploring biological expressions of core or what I have coined “stalking wilding psoas\,” awakens a longing for a language akin to our actual somatic lived-experience.  Psoas behaves quite differently than any other tissue that traditional anatomy defines as muscle. More of an organ of perception\, something more akin to our clever tongue\, this primitive tissue signals whether or not we are out of sync with the earth’s gravitational field. Encoded with survival responses that instantaneously ignite a response of danger\, psoas is subtle and nuanced. Our psoas expresses both fear (survival) and pleasure (thriving). Psoas speaks not only to dissociative behaviors resulting from birth but also to an array of other adaptive strategies that can interrupt coherency and direct knowing. \nLearning how to metabolize fear is a process of nourishing our psoas that deepens our connection to earth and community where we find the ability and support to regulate and be deeply held. \n \n  URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/fluid-core-metabolizing-fear/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20210204T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20210207T133000 DTSTAMP:20260430T032334 CREATED:20210102T163943Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210108T192429Z UID:10000422-1612429200-1612704600@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Stalking Wild Psoas Workshop NCBTMB Accredited (zoom) DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\n \nAn ONLINE 4-day process-oriented\, play and re-wilding psoas workshop focused on restoring\, through nourishing\, the bio-intelligent psoas using micro-non-linear\, multi-dimensional\, fluid movement\, and sound frequency. This offering is an opportunity to heal psoas issues and awaken your core integrity. Just as a tree\, grown in a restricted container\, never reaches its full potential\, so too a domesticated and/or overly trained psoas is never dynamically expressive –  our soulful\, animal body..our true nature bound within social decorum\, linear patterns\, and repetitive movement becomes stifled and possibly dry. \nBe moved from deep within and awaken your inner strength and creativity!   \n \n PREREQUISITE:  It is required for this online course to have attended  my BASIC Psoas Workshop. The Basic Psoas workshop provides a foundation that helps build the conceptual understanding for attending Stalking Wild Psoas workshops. I also encourage you to read or listen to my new book Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core intelligence. Wondering if this the workshop for you?   https://coreawareness.com/stalking-wild-psoas-awakening-to-our-creative-self/  \nNOTE: If you are having difficulty with your Psoas and/or your movement is limited\, this workshop can offer you the opportunity to heal.  \nCANCELLATION POLICY:  Please read my complete cancellation policy available online before registering.  Online Courses may not be cancelled once you have received access to the course. \nNational Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB) Approved \nThis is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork for 18 hours of continuing education credit (CEU). For more information on the NCBTMB\, please visit their website. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/stalking-february-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:20210129T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210131T133000 DTSTAMP:20260430T032334 CREATED:20201214T122938Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210127T235223Z UID:10000581-1611912600-1612099800@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:BASIC (12-Hr) Psoas Workshop (NCBTMB Approved) Via Zoom DESCRIPTION:3-Day ONLINE Basic Psoas workshop\, open to every body\, limited to 18 participants \nThis course offers a great way to learn through experience how your intelligent Psoas informs you about skeletal integrity\, joint rotation\, muscular tension\, breathing\, emotional expression\, and organ functioning. A healthy Psoas facilitates healing\, movement\, and fitness while reducing over all stress and is a vital step toward resolving injury and trauma.  \n\n\n\n\nDevelop Your Core Awareness: \n\nUnderstand how a healthy Psoas supports movement\, strength\, endurance & well-being\nExperience practical ways of sensing your own Psoas\nLearn to soften\, lengthen and revitalize your Psoas\nGain tools for recovering and maintaining a healthy Psoas\nExplore the energetic/emotional/spiritual dynamics of your physical core\nImprove neurological proprioception and skeletal balance\nApply concepts to everyday movement i.e. sitting\, driving\, and walking\n\nDeepen and broaden your practice whether that be Pilates\, Gyrotonic\, Massage\, Bodywork\, Somatic Movement\, Fitness\, Athletics\, Dance\, Yoga\, Martial Arts\, Psychology… \nRECOMMENDED READING: The Psoas Book \nCANCELLATION POLICY:  Please read my complete cancellation policy available online before registering. Online courses can not be canceled once you have received access to online course material and link. \n \nNational Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB) Approved \nThis is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork for 12 hours of continuing education credit (CEU). For more information on the NCBTMB\, please visit their website. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/basic-zoom-january-2021/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/psoas-featured.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210124T193000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210130T170000 DTSTAMP:20260430T032334 CREATED:20200203T231607Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210102T234646Z UID:10000390-1611516600-1612026000@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:6-Day (30-hr) Professional Application Course & Psoas Retreat 2021 DESCRIPTION:The 2021 Application Course & Retreat has been Postponed until January 23-29 2022 \nS A V E   T H E   D A T E  \nBe inspired from the inside out! \nEach year I offer my HEALING RETREAT and APPLICATION COURSE for lay persons and professionals. This course is an opportunity to heal your own psoas issues and bring psoas awareness to your personal and professional life.  The Application Course offers those licensed as Somatic Educators\, Yoga Instructors\, Pilates & Gyrotonic Trainers\, Massage Practitioners\, Body & Healing Practitioners; as well as Birth & Fitness Coaches\, Dance Instructors\, Martial Arts Masters\, plus all psychology focused professionals\, to develop into Psoas Savvy Educators\, capable of helping others integrate and resolve psoas related issues. Completing this 30-hr course is a prerequisite for joining my online Community referral page where people can locate Psoas savvy classes and therapists in their community. \nStep away from your dedicated focus to broaden your perspective and experience your bio-intelligent psoas. By doing so\, your psoas becomes a guide for self actualization that informs you from deep within your core being. \nA healthy psoas is the first step towards functional movement. Having a coherent core not only supports the capacity of core strength but is deeply nourishing for every aspect of your life and creativity; essential components for achieving your professional goals. \nInspire your  life and your specialization. Join me! \nGroup size: limited to a maximum of 17 participants  (during your stay\, family & friends are welcome to join you at the Spa Resort) \n \nPrerequisite: To attend the retreat and/or Nationally Certified Application Course you are required to complete one Psoas workshop or Remote Online Course.  To be potentially included on my COMMUNITY referral page requires a minimum of attending a 12 or 18 hour Psoas Workshop plus the 30-Hour Professional Application Course.  Please note: I reserve the right to deny anyone for any reason to be included on my Community Web page. \n \nACCOMMODATIONS: Please see  the Ojo Caliente Mineral Spring Resort & Spa website https://ojocaliente.ojospa.com  for accommodation options and rates from hotel rooms to renting houses\, dining options\, travel plans\, and spa choices. If you wish to share a room please first register for the course and then email me to let me know you are interested.  I can not guarantee a roommate but will be happy to share your email with anyone else looking to share accommodations. There are many choices in rooms\, trailers\, and adobe housing that include kitchens\, fireplaces and access to the private Kiva pool – each has unique possibilities so please feel free to contact me for suggestions as to which will best suit your needs. \nIMPORTANT NOTE: You must stay at the Ojo Caliente resort to attend this course and retreat. No commuters allowed.  \nWe will be in New Mexico in the wintertime.  It is very beautiful but can be cold and it may even snow!  Plan accordingly. For those interested there is skiing options nearby – please direct all your questions about the location to Ojo Caliente Spa. \nWINTER SPECIAL: Accommodations are first come first serve basis. Although there is no group rate Ojo Caliente Spa sometimes Ojo offers a winter special so be sure to ask when booking.  \nIMPORTANT: To be part of the Application Course you must arrive Sunday\, January 24th to join us at 7:30 pm and leave after 5:00pm on Saturday\, January 30th  – this course comes to an end with a full day on Saturday.  To receive a certificate you are required to attend the full workshop portion of this course. \nRETREAT ONLY: You do not have to be a professional to come work/play for 6 days.  You do have to have the pre-requiste of at least a remote online- audio course and to arrive on time. \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 30 hours of continuing education credit (CEU). For more information on the NCBTMB\, please visit their website. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/6-day-professional-application-course-psoas-retreat-2021/ LOCATION:Ojo Caliente Spa\, 50 Los Banos Drive\, Ojo\, NM\, 87549\, United States CATEGORIES:featured,Professional Training,Retreat ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/application600.png GEO:36.3054901;-106.0515957 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Ojo Caliente Spa 50 Los Banos Drive Ojo NM 87549 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=50 Los Banos Drive:geo:-106.0515957,36.3054901 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210114T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210114T130000 DTSTAMP:20260430T032334 CREATED:20201201T155949Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T013856Z UID:10000579-1610622000-1610629200@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Changing The Language Of Body ~ Movement As Medicine DESCRIPTION:Stalking Wild Psoas \nEmbodying Your Core Intelligence  \nEssay Eight \n\n\n\nMOVEMENT AS MEDICINE \nPresented 2020. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \n\n\n\nWe are an extension of a planetary process – moving medicine is our birthright \n~ Emilie Conrad ~ \n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Conceptual Shift Made Potent Through Movement \n\n\n\n\n\nEssay Eight\, Movement as Medicine\, is a tribute to the legacy of Emilie Conrad\nand her contribution to my understanding of body as process. \n  \nEngaging movement as medicine\, Emilie Conrad pioneered a somatic inquiry into the power of the fluid system and its capacity for recapitulating neuro-sensory information in order to regain healthy tissue\, specifically within spinal cords severely damaged by injury. By discovering how activating fluid through sound vibration and micro-movement changes the quality and adaptability of tissue\, Conrad’s sphere of influence and her specific approach reframes concepts of health and consciousness\, including how paralysis is perceived. Conrad was certain that the only thing actually paralyzed is our own process of thinking. \nDecolonizing our static\, mechanistic perspective of body is not only a cognitive process requiring the re-evaluation of language\, assumptions\, and intentions but also a sensory process requiring a shift in our awareness toward subtle impressions that evoke new experiences of self. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/changing-the-language-of-body-movement-as-medicine/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210107T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210107T130000 DTSTAMP:20260430T032334 CREATED:20201201T164215Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T001658Z UID:10000580-1610017200-1610024400@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Awakening Your Fluids: The Power of Buoyancy & Belly Laughing DESCRIPTION:Awakening Your Fluids \nThe Power of Buoyancy & Belly Laughing \n\nBuoyancy (/ˈbɔɪənsi\, ˈbuːjənsi/) or upthrust\,\nis an upward force exerted by a fluid\nthat opposes the weight of a partially or fully immersed object.\n source Wikipedia \n\nPresented January 2021. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nBuoyancy 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. \nDiaphragms 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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlayful and delicious\, our inner fluids is life’s hidden force. \n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU’LL NEED …. bring several size balls:  A large fitness ball\, a 7-10 inch soft inflatable ball\, and a 3 inch soft bouncy ball URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/awakening-your-fluids-the-power-of-buoyancy-belly-laughing/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR