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:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20190101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20190310T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20191103T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20200308T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20201101T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20210314T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20211107T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20220313T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20221106T070000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/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:America/Indiana/Indianapolis BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD 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/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210312T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210313T160000 DTSTAMP:20260427T232158 CREATED:20191215T112233Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200709T003150Z UID:18862-1615554000-1615651200@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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210226T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210228T133000 DTSTAMP:20260427T232158 CREATED:20210116T152130Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210219T001843Z UID:26488-1614331800-1614519000@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:20260427T232158 CREATED:20210103T001103Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210225T181922Z UID:26260-1614159000-1640093400@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:20260427T232158 CREATED:20210118T180946Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210213T205303Z UID:26525-1613995200-1614009600@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:20260427T232158 CREATED:20210102T172033Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T014209Z UID:26246-1613646000-1613653200@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:20260427T232158 CREATED:20210102T175948Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210215T213415Z UID:26253-1613473200-1613480400@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:20260427T232158 CREATED:20210102T174624Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T001850Z UID:26251-1613041200-1613048400@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:20260427T232158 CREATED:20210102T163943Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210108T192429Z UID:26237-1612429200-1612704600@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:20260427T232158 CREATED:20201214T122938Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210127T235223Z UID:26062-1611912600-1612099800@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:20260427T232158 CREATED:20200203T231607Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210102T234646Z UID:20154-1611516600-1612026000@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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210114T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210114T130000 DTSTAMP:20260427T232158 CREATED:20201201T155949Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T013856Z UID:25833-1610622000-1610629200@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:20260427T232158 CREATED:20201201T164215Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T001658Z UID:25840-1610017200-1610024400@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 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201216T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201216T130000 DTSTAMP:20260427T232158 CREATED:20201028T203645Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T001529Z UID:25325-1608116400-1608123600@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Psoas & Continuum Explorations with Guest Mary Abrams DESCRIPTION:P S O A S \nFlourishing Through Continuum Explorations     \nwith \nGuest Teacher Mary Abrams \nPresented December 2020. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \n \nMary joins me as my guest to bring you Continuum explorations from one of its original students and teachers….from her pure heart Mary carries the thread of Emilie Conrad’s profound teachings in her deeply supportive space in New York City.\nDuring the pandemic the Moving Body Resources (MBR) studio (where Emilie taught for years while in New York) has remained closed but for a few moments that allow community to safely gather.  Together we’ll virtually enter the MBR studio for a deep dive into a field of resonance of fluid movement.  I invoke the present energy of Emile to join us as we enter the Winter Solstice ~ diving into the darkness so needed for healing. My heart and work has thrived at the Moving body Resources for many years and I sorely miss the space it provides me. \nPlease join me.  All class proceeds go to supporting the studio as we enter a second year of limited travel\, participation\, and as we struggle to hold dear to what nourishes our souls. \n  \n\n\n\nMary Abrams\, MA\, RSME founder/director of Moving Body Resources apprenticed in Continuum Movement with its founder Emilie Conrad from 1994-2014 and was among the first group of people Emilie Conrad and Susan Harper Authorized as Continuum Movement Teachers in 1999. She continues to dialogue with Susan Harper (Continuum Montage)\, and explore human being theory (Affect-script theory) and Epistemics\, with Emilie’s long-time collaborator\, Gary David\, PhD.\n\nAll Mary’s  studies are valuable resources for tracking what is\, being open to the emerging unexpected\, and for discovering new meaning\, and learning to extend presence into the world. Since 1984 she has professionally explored her passions as a dancer/choreographer and somatic movement teacher. Mary is a Registered Somatic Movement Educator (RSME) with the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association (ISMETA)\, and holds a masters degree from Goddard College in Consciousness Studies with a focus on embodied movement practice and theory. She served as Co-Chair with Lauren Abramson on the Board of Directors of the Silvan S. Tomkins Institute (SSTI) from 2013-2016.  From 2009-2017 she held a leadership role on the USA section of the MA Dance & Somatic Well-being: Connections to the Living Body from the University of Central Lancashire\, Preston\, England\, and continues to teach on the UK campus.  She also teaches on the Continuum training at the Somatic Academy of Berlin\, Germany and mentors people interested in becoming Somatic Movement Educators and/ or Continuum Teachers\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  URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/psoas-continuum-explorations-with-guest-mary-abrams/ LOCATION:Your home/Moving Body Resources CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20201210T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20201213T133000 DTSTAMP:20260427T232158 CREATED:20200827T182107Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201121T025353Z UID:23806-1607590800-1607866200@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Stalking Wild Psoas Workshop NCBTMB Accredited (Zoom) DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\n \nAn ONLINE 4-day process-oriented\, play and re-wilding psoas workshop focused on restoring\, through nourishing\, the bio-intelligent psoas using micro-non-linear\, multi-dimensional\, fluid movement\, and sound frequency. This offering is an opportunity to heal psoas issues and awaken your core integrity. Just as a tree\, grown in a restricted container\, never reaches its full potential\, so too a domesticated and/or overly trained psoas is never dynamically expressive –  our soulful\, animal body..our true nature bound within social decorum\, linear patterns\, and repetitive movement becomes stifled and possibly dry. \nBe moved from deep within and awaken your inner strength and creativity!   \n \n PREREQUISITE:  It is required for this online course to have attended  my BASIC Psoas Workshop. The Basic Psoas workshop provides a foundation that helps build the conceptual understanding for attending Stalking Wild Psoas workshops. I also encourage you to read or listen to my new book Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core intelligence. Wondering if this the workshop for you?   https://coreawareness.com/stalking-wild-psoas-awakening-to-our-creative-self/  \nNOTE: If you are having difficulty with your Psoas and/or your movement is limited\, this workshop can offer you the opportunity to heal.  \nCANCELLATION POLICY:  Please read my complete cancellation policy available online before registering.  Online Courses may not be cancelled once you have received access to the course. \nNational Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB) Approved \nThis is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork for 18 hours of continuing education credit (CEU). For more information on the NCBTMB\, please visit their website. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/stalking-wild-zoom-december-2020/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CoreAwareness-Santorini-Greece-2010-05-600x533-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201205T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201206T170000 DTSTAMP:20260427T232158 CREATED:20200113T161326Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200115T192901Z UID:19645-1607158800-1607274000@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:WiLDING Deepening Into the Dark New York NY DESCRIPTION:In today’s world\, we simply need to carve out space and devote time \nto descend into our own living system with no agenda\, \nto-do list\, outcome\, or result intended other than\nto simply be receptive to what returns on the tide of an ever-flowing sea. \n  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nTo access the process of dissolving and reemerging whole is to go into the dark. 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 darkness as incubation is a voyage to the underworld.  “It’s a place where animals go into retreat; where they lie motionless\, absolutely still\, hardly breathing. They sleep there\, or they stay in a state similar to sleep\, or they hibernate…a state of suspended animation.”* \nCarving out time in a busy life to go into the dark figuratively and literally\, and preferably without being ill\, creates the conditions needed for the regenerative process to work its magic of inevitable deep renewal – a rendezvous with our own core intelligence. Sleeping is simply not enough. The warm nest\, fertile earth\, and inviting womb must be shaped with all the nourishing elements provided.  \n\n*Peter Kingsley\, In The Dark Places Of Wisdom (Inverness: The Golden Sufi Center 1999) p. 79 URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/wilding-deepening-into-the-dark-new-york-ny/ LOCATION:Moving Body Resources Studio\, 112 W 27th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10001\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201204T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201206T133000 DTSTAMP:20260427T232158 CREATED:20200722T215805Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201113T213952Z UID:23217-1607074200-1607261400@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:BASIC (12-Hr) Psoas Workshop (NCBTMB Approved) Via Zoom DESCRIPTION:3-Day ONLINE Basic Psoas workshop\, open to every body\, limited to 15 participants \nThis course offers a great way to learn through experience how your intelligent Psoas informs you about skeletal integrity\, joint rotation\, muscular tension\, breathing\, emotional expression\, and organ functioning. A healthy Psoas facilitates healing\, movement\, and fitness while reducing over all stress and is a vital step toward resolving injury and trauma.  \n\n\n\n\nDevelop Your Core Awareness: \n\nUnderstand how a healthy Psoas supports movement\, strength\, endurance & well-being\nExperience practical ways of sensing your own Psoas\nLearn to soften\, lengthen and revitalize your Psoas\nGain tools for recovering and maintaining a healthy Psoas\nExplore the energetic/emotional/spiritual dynamics of your physical core\nImprove neurological proprioception and skeletal balance\nApply concepts to everyday movement i.e. sitting\, driving\, and walking\n\nDeepen and broaden your practice whether that be Pilates\, Gyrotonic\, Massage\, Bodywork\, Somatic Movement\, Fitness\, Athletics\, Dance\, Yoga\, Martial Arts\, Psychology… \nRECOMMENDED READING: The Psoas Book \nCANCELLATION POLICY:  Please read my complete cancellation policy available online before registering. Online courses can not be canceled once you have received access to online course material and link. \n \nNational Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB) Approved \nThis is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork for 12 hours of continuing education credit (CEU). For more information on the NCBTMB\, please visit their website. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/basic-zoom-december-2020/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/psoas-featured.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201203 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201204 DTSTAMP:20260427T232158 CREATED:20201107T144244Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T013642Z UID:25498-1606953600-1607039999@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Changing The Language of Body ~ Becoming Integral DESCRIPTION:Stalking Wild Psoas \nEmbodying Your Core Intelligence  \nEssay Seven \n\n\n\nBECOMING INTEGRAL \nboundaries\, edges and thresholds \nPresented 2020. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \n\n\n\nA Conceptual Shift Made Potent Through Movement \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nPsoas reveals the truth about our relationship with the earth…. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nBy exploring my internal edges\, I have found the sensory system capable of multiple levels of articulation. My intention quite literally defines where I place my attention and therefore directly influences my experience. Sensing the edges of a boundary\, such as the shape of a bone or the parameter of a joint\, can help to clarify and contain experience.\nPermeable edges\, such as those exemplified in psoas or skin\, conversely\, are liminal spaces that encompass otherness\, providing transitional openings into a world of reciprocal relationship. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSkin is an organ of perception that expresses our embryological story\, revealing ancestral patterns as well as pre-and-perinatal stresses\, shocks\, and exposures to physical and emotional toxins at the moment of conception\, throughout fetal growth\, and during the journey from our mother’s womb to this world. Turning toward my relationship with my skin\, I began to explore a variety of ways of awakening what felt like a lifeless sack. Inspired by micro-movements and the power of soft puffing “o” sounds\, I begin to explore the internal and external edges and thresholds of my being \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/becoming-integral/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201119T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201119T130000 DTSTAMP:20260427T232158 CREATED:20201025T161822Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240516T203758Z UID:25247-1605783600-1605790800@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:FUNDAMENTALS: Low Back Pain & The Psoas Connection DESCRIPTION:FUNDAMENTALS \nLow Back Pain & The PSOAS Connection \nPresented November 2020. The video recording available by purchasing a ticket below. \n \n\n\n\nDISCOVER SIMPLE WAY TO: Resolve low back pain ~~~ \nRather than being caused by muscular weakness\, low back pain is often due to exhaustion. Gaining core strength begins with softening the deepest layers of tissue\, specifically the psoas. Doing so increases the capacity for reestablishing skeletal and muscular integrity. Symptoms associated with an unstable pelvis include mid-and low-back pain… inability to stand and bear weight on both feet as well as popping and cracking noises\, pain\, and stiffness all signal some type of disruption and instability which can lead to back pain. \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe earliest rudimentary vertebrae is found in the sea squirt\, a 550-million-year-old prevertebral organism. This oceanic creature suggests that the optimal conditions for bringing an injured\, exhausted\, lack-lustered spine back to life as well as for sustaining healthy bone is through regaining fluid movement…Our longing becomes that which shapes our being and our creative gestures as well as our curious contributions. When our core longing is lost or withers\, what appears is often anguish and pain. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/fundamentals-low-back-pain-psoas-connection/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201116T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201116T150000 DTSTAMP:20260427T232158 CREATED:20201021T235753Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T014555Z UID:25191-1605531600-1605538800@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:W I L D ~ Discerning Within: A Collaboration with Kimberly Ann Johnson DESCRIPTION:w i l d \nd i s c e r n m e n t \nDiscerning Within \nWild  ~ Feral ~ Savage ~ Fawning \nA Moving Collaboration between Liz Koch and Kimberly Johnson \nPresented November 2020. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \nSomeone once told me that civilization is the shared obliviousness to the fact that we haven’t gotten rid of wild things\, and that they dwell “within” us—somewhere beneath the threshold of normalcy. This wildness\, this darkness\, is not an “other.” We are continually sourced\, recreated\, and reconfigured here. \nBayo Akomolafe Finding the Dark: Decolonizing Darkness \n \nAlthough the dictionary defines the “wild” as untamable\, feral\, out of control\, riotous\, ridiculous\, rash\, stupid\, impractical\, and tempestuous\, it is by welcoming the wild that we avoid such antonyms as domesticated\, indifferent\, and unenthusiastic. By listening to our deep primal messages\, we reclaim our birthright as expressive\, dynamic\, and innovative beings. As we turn toward the core\, nourishing gestures\, similar to a blossoming flower\, feel lush within and enrich all who witness the splendor. Sustaining every gesture\, our wild psoas speaks the language of the heart\, and communicates what is held most dear within our bone – the felt-sense of being alive. \nSignaling survival responses\, this primal messenger relays disruptions and compensations that threaten our 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(excerpted from Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence) \nHow do we know the difference between wild and ravenous? What happens when our inner wild woman is savage?  Can we be feral and live among each other? What happens when we can not discern our inner wild? What if our inner wild woman is muted or silent?  What if fawning is our first wild impulse?    Join the conversation and the movement…. \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 Certified Sexological bodyworker and Somatic Experiencing practitioner specializing in birth injury\, birth trauma\, and sexual healing. 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 now 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 40 years experience specializing in the human core\, Liz is recognized in the somatic\, bodywork\, and fitness professions as an authority on the core tissue called Psoas.  Both nationally and internationally published\, her works include The Psoas Book\, Unraveling Scoliosis CD\, Core Awareness; Enhancing Yoga\, Pilates\, Exercise & Dance\, Psoas & Back Pain CD\, Mother\, Maiden\, Crone: Our Pleasure Playlist and her latest book Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence.\n \n  URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/wild-discernment-with-kimberly-a-johnson/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201113T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201115T170000 DTSTAMP:20260427T232158 CREATED:20200722T214757Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201108T214725Z UID:23213-1605272400-1605459600@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:BASIC (12-Hr) Psoas Workshop (NCBTMB Approved) Via Zoom DESCRIPTION:3-Day ONLINE Basic Psoas workshop\, open to every body\, limited to 15 participants \nThis course offers a great way to learn through experience how your intelligent Psoas informs you about skeletal integrity\, joint rotation\, muscular tension\, breathing\, emotional expression\, and organ functioning. A healthy Psoas facilitates healing\, movement\, and fitness while reducing over all stress and is a vital step toward resolving injury and trauma.  \n\n\n\n\nDevelop Your Core Awareness: \n\nUnderstand how a healthy Psoas supports movement\, strength\, endurance & well-being\nExperience practical ways of sensing your own Psoas\nLearn to soften\, lengthen and revitalize your Psoas\nGain tools for recovering and maintaining a healthy Psoas\nExplore the energetic/emotional/spiritual dynamics of your physical core\nImprove neurological proprioception and skeletal balance\nApply concepts to everyday movement i.e. sitting\, driving\, and walking\n\nDeepen and broaden your practice whether that be Pilates\, Gyrotonic\, Massage\, Bodywork\, Somatic Movement\, Fitness\, Athletics\, Dance\, Yoga\, Martial Arts\, Psychology… \nRECOMMENDED READING: The Psoas Book \nCANCELLATION POLICY:  Please read my complete cancellation policy available online before registering. Online courses can not be canceled once you have received access to online course material and link. \n \nNational Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB) Approved \nThis is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork for 12 hours of continuing education credit (CEU). For more information on the NCBTMB\, please visit their website. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/basic-zoom-november-2020/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Online Class END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201112 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201113 DTSTAMP:20260427T232158 CREATED:20201025T160646Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T013516Z UID:25243-1605139200-1605225599@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Changing The Language of Body ~ Participating With Your Organizing Intelligence DESCRIPTION:Stalking Wild Psoas \nEmbodying Your Core Intelligence  \nEssay Six \n\n\n\nLanding & Locating \nPresented 2020. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \nParticipating With Your Organizing Intelligence \n\n\n\nA Conceptual Shift Made Potent Through Movement \n\n\n\n\n\n\nPsoas reveals the truth about our relationship with the earth…. \n\n\n\nOur arrival as newborns is a landing felt deep in our bone which continues to shape our flourishing gestures. Like a tuning fork produces a pure tone\, psoas is in resonance with the wisdom of our bone\, vibrating the very essence of life and putting a bounce in our step. Bone offers a lightness of being – a calling from the living earth. In contrast\, muscles are all about doing: fetching water and carrying wood. Marrow at the very center of bone nourishes the brain and spinal cord. To land in the marrow of our bones is to feel the essence of soul. Symbolic of the eternal in both myth and story\, bone is associated with what is lasting and most significant: blood\, power\, and embodiment. When something is felt deep in the bone\, it has landed and will stay with us forever. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe word “landing” is a term I use for feeling grounded and able to locate in space and time. Found within our bones\, the sense of landing is an essential kinetic ignition we share with all mammals. Any disruption confusing our ability to land and locate in time and space is signaled as fear by our primal psoas. As a bio-intelligent messenger\, psoas tracks safety\, every moment of every day. \n\n\n\nListening to and understanding what psoas communicates takes time to develop. If we are connected to ground and can feel the earth’s rhythms\, we are more readily available to be responsive and adaptive to subtle changes But if there is shock still reverberating there will be discord and disorientation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/changing-the-language-of-body-participating-with-your-organizing-intelligence/ 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:20201110T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201110T130000 DTSTAMP:20260427T232158 CREATED:20201025T153919Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T004750Z UID:25237-1605006000-1605013200@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:FLUID CORE ~ Listening to Psoas through the Field of the Heart DESCRIPTION:F L U I D  C O R E \nListening to Psoas through the Field of the Heart \nPresented November 2020. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \n \nWhen life is felt-sensed in our flesh\, bone\, and blood\, the longing for a new way of communicating becomes paramount.\nWhat if instead of identifying myself with static objects\, I felt my heart as a large oscillator emanating far beyond\nmy physical skin: a complex\, nonlinear“ conductor of depth information” receptive to the world to be felt and listened to? \nStalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence \n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThe depths of the human heart and the force of a river are wild and unchartered at their core… \nbest given room to swell and stretch with the tides and seasons. \n\n\n\nRising Appalachia\, “River Song”  \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) URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/fluid-core-listening-to-psoas-through-the-field-of-the-heart/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201106T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201106T120000 DTSTAMP:20260427T232158 CREATED:20201028T200121Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T010143Z UID:25312-1604656800-1604664000@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:W I L D F L O W ~ fast moving dynamic bio-intelligent zoommmmm class DESCRIPTION:WILD FLOW \nPresented November 2021. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \n \nNOVEMBER 6th \njoin me for a dynamic bio-intelligent movement class \nExplore your full range of expression like a flowing river full of all that is  flooding your tissue…from source ~ changing like a river rise up from underground\, springing out of rocks…flowing into wetlands….rushing\, gushing\, washing over\, around\, and exhilarating from within and without…….\nexploring powerful gestures of play… \n \n  \n  URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/w-i-l-d-f-l-o-w-fast-moving-dynamic-bio-intelligent-zoommmmm-class/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201030T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201101T170000 DTSTAMP:20260427T232158 CREATED:20200218T153801Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200815T122558Z UID:20356-1604059200-1604250000@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Advanced Professional Course: A Collaboration with Amber Gray Lawrence KS POSTPONED 2021 DESCRIPTION:This Advanced Professional Course is a unique opportunity available only by invitation (to apply see below). We will be hand-selecting a small group of professionals to delve deeper into the intersectionality of somatic movement and core awareness within the embodied dynamic nervous system and primal core psoas.  Over the span of 23 years Amber has\, through a collegial\, idea sharing\, collaborative relationship with researcher Stephen Porges\, developed a body of movement work specifically integrating the polyvagal theory so that it can be applied in direct somatic work with clients. Together Amber and I will  explore her integrative work and with the primal expressions of psoas. \nPRE-REQUISITE: You must have attended Liz Koch’s Professional Application Course (as a professional not as a layperson) and/or studied and trained extensively with Amber Gray.   \nTO BE INVITED TO ATTEND: You will need to email Liz Koch via www.coreawareness.com contact page. Please include what workshops (and year) you completed the application Course or training specific to Amber Gray\, your professional expertise\, and a bit about your interest in attending this advanced course. We reserve the right to invite who we believe will gain the most\, add to\, and collaborate with our intentions for this weekend.  \nSIZE: limited to 12 persons \nSTUDIO LOCATION: This 3-day workshop will take place at a private Studio in the countryside approximately 20 minutes outside of the university town of Lawrence. The studio is located on many acres of woods.  Lawrence is easily accessible via the Kansas City Airport (MCI) where you can catch a transporter to downtown Lawrence.  There is a historic hotel right in the heart of downtown\, air b&b’s\, and rooms to rent in walking distance to downtown Lawrence\,  plus an array of restaurants accessible by walking down main street (Massachusetts Ave). There may also be few sleeping accommodations available at the Studio location as well as transportation each day provided from Lawrence to the Studio.  \nAmber Elizabeth Gray is a pioneer in the use of Dance Movement Therapy\, Continuum and Soma-movement practices with survivors of trauma\, specifically those who have experienced torture\, war and human rights abuses. Amber’s expertise is represented in many published articles and chapters\, keynote addresses\, professional collaborations and presentations around the world. Amber has provided clinical training on the integration of refugee mental health and  torture treatment with creative arts\, mindfulness\,  and body-based therapies to more than 30 programs worldwide since the late 1990’s.  She has been nominated for the Barbara Chester Award for her work with survivors of torture in challenging contexts\, and is the 2010 ADTA Outstanding Achievement Award recipient. She originated a resiliency-based framework and clinical approach Restorative Movement Psychotherapy and polyvagal-informed movement therapies for mind-heart-spirit\, somatic\, movement and arts-based therapies with survivors of trauma in cross cultural\, low resource contexts. \n  \nLiz Koch  is an international educator\, author\, and the creator of CoreAwareness™ focusing on awareness as key for developing human potential and awakening consciousness. With 43 years experience specializing in the human core\, Liz is recognized in the somatic\, bodywork\, and fitness professions as an authority on the core tissue called Psoas.  Both nationally and internationally published\, her works include The Psoas Book\, Unraveling Scoliosis CD\, Core Awareness; Enhancing Yoga\, Pilates\, Exercise & Dance\, Psoas & Back Pain CD\, Mother\, Maiden\, Crone: Our Pleasure Playlist and her newest book  Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence published in 2019 by North Atlantic Books. \n  \n  \nNational Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB) Approved \nThis is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork for 18 hours of continuing education credit (CEU). For more information on the NCBTMB\, please visit their website. \nCANCELLATION POLICY: Collaborative Workshop Registration is FINAL. Please read the complete cancellation policy available online before registering. If there is a waiting list\, a transfer fee may apply. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/advanced-professional-course-a-collaboration-with-amber-gray-lawrence-ks/ LOCATION:Private address\, TBA\, Lawrence\, KS\, (access via Kansas City MO international airport)\, United States CATEGORIES:Professional Training END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201028T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201125T170000 DTSTAMP:20260427T232158 CREATED:20200108T170540Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201022T144323Z UID:19329-1603900800-1606323600@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Online-Audio Psoas Course | Fall/Winter 2020 DESCRIPTION:Psoas Audio-Course Begins October 28th \n \nWhat Participants Are Saying… \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 length 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 online course designed to help you develop your sensory system through the art of listening. \n\n\nAUDIO PSOAS…learning to listen…STARTS OCTOBER 28th 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 includes updated information. RECEIVE 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 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/skype costs/or sign on via your internet  (i.e. long distance or phone minutes) when attending the live class lecture. Or listen to the class recording each week for free on your computer.  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 downloads and require a flash to listen to on your phone. \n\nClass Day One (October 28\, 2020)\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 (November 4\, 2020)\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 (November 11\, 2020)\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 (November 18\, 2020)\n\nPsoas Injuries: Why they happen and how to avoid them\nResolving Trauma: the difference between release and resolution\n\n\nClass Day Five (November 25\, 2020)\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/online-psoas-fall-winter-2020/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Audio-Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/audio-class.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201024T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201024T150000 DTSTAMP:20260427T232158 CREATED:20200829T162444Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201017T204426Z UID:23835-1603540800-1603551600@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:MOVING WHITENESS with Resmaa Menakem & Carlin Quinn DESCRIPTION:REPARATIVE COMMUNAL CONSULTATION \nFOR WHITE PEOPLE\n \nPart 4\nA VIRTUAL FUNDRAISER\nSponsored by Education For Racial Equality \nto help create an embodied anti-racist/anti-oppression culture for future generations of BIPOC children.\n \nWITH AUTHOR SOMATIC EDUCATOR RESMAA MENAKEM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIMPORTANT NOTE: If you wish to attend you need to know this fundraiser is an on going proces and so you will need to receive  Part 1\,2\, & 3 to be able to join us on Part 4. \nIf you wish to attend please contact events@educationforracialequity.com.\nResmaa is looking to create a collaborative e-course to support the Movement Of Somatic Abolitionism. \nThe Movement Of Somatic Abolitionism is a body of work which establishes the underpinnings the emergence of a new culture: one that is safe for future generations of Black\, Brown and Indigenous babies and children. This funding will go towards creating a embodied anti-racist/oppression curriculum and free online e-course for community members parents and teachers of culture first\, who provide K-12 guidance. We believe that this will have a foundational impact on Black\, Brown\, and Indigenous Children and there lives. Together\, Resmaa Menakem and Education For Racial Equity \, along with other subject matter experts will also create a educational certification program that will develop the best somatic abolitionists educators\, healers\, and movement leaders of our time; they will lead with the understanding of Black\, Brown\, and Indigenous children\, white body supremacy\, racial weathering\, geopathic stress\, toxic stress\, and they will preserve the resilience and power of the communities which these children come from. This will be made available to community members\, parents and teachers of culture first and then to others across the United States. Help us create a culture change centered in healing and dignity. \n\n\nResmaa Menakem ~ Healer\, Author\, Trauma Specialist\nMoving from race to culture is important\, transformative\, and takes work. A lot of work. I help people\, communities\, and organizations find strength in healing that is holistic and resilient. Together let’s set a course for healing historical and racialized trauma carried in the body and the soul. I am a healer. I help people rise through the suffering’s edge. I am a cultural trauma navigator. I am a communal provocateur and coach. I consider it my job in this moment to make the invisible visible. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCarlin Quinn\, LMFT (She/Her) is the Founder and Director of Education For Racial Equity. She is also a psychotherapist\, equity coach\, facilitator and anti-racist co- conspirator.  Her equity work began when she entered the field of psychotherapy and realized that whiteness was foundational to the field of mental health\, its theories\, and its treatments.  She began teaching and consulting within the mental health community\, developing an understanding of the impact of systemic oppression and intersectionality to western psychology.  In her private practice she specializes in complex trauma and cross racial relationships. In her facilitation and coaching work\, Carlin uses a combination of critical race theory\, psychodynamic theory and humanistic relational approaches to help unearth and address the complexities of whiteness\, white supremacy and racial trauma in our daily human interactions. \n \n  \nLiz Koch  is an international educator\, author\, and the creator of CoreAwareness™ focusing on awareness as key for developing human potential and awakening consciousness. With 43 years experience specializing in the human core\, Liz is recognized in the somatic\, bodywork\, and fitness professions as an authority on the core primal tissue called Psoas.  Both nationally and internationally published\, her works include The Psoas Book\, Unraveling Scoliosis CD\, Core Awareness; Enhancing Yoga\, Pilates\, Exercise & Dance\, Psoas & Back Pain CD\, Mother\, Maiden\, Crone: Our Pleasure Playlist and her newest book  Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence published in 2019 by North Atlantic Books. \n\n\n\n  \n  \n\n \n  \nEducation For Racial Equity is a cross-racial and inter-generational non-profit organization committed to illuminating and dismantling the system of white supremacy\, globally. Guided by the principles of both Anti-Racism and Anti-Racist activism\, we take a multi-faceted approach to systemic change. ERE creates opportunities to develop awareness of the nature and function of whiteness/white supremacy\, its impact on all peoples\, and how it intersects with other systems of oppression. Our intention is to support integrated and embodied change within ourselves and those who work with us. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/moving-whiteness-with-resmaa-menakem-carlin-quinn/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class,Other ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/image-asset-600X533.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201022T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201022T130000 DTSTAMP:20260427T232158 CREATED:20200920T194302Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240411T233715Z UID:24346-1603364400-1603371600@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:FUNDAMENTALS: Jaw & Pelvic Connection (Zoom) DESCRIPTION:FUNDAMENTALS \nJaw & Pelvic Connection \nPresented October 2020. The video recording available by purchasing a ticket below. \n \n  \n\n\n\nHip socket pain\, sacral dysfunction\, and low back issues often find resolution in the Jaw/Pelvic Connection.\nThe jaw and pelvis\, reflect one another\, and when disrupted can cause our psoas to message disharmony whether that originates from injury\, anger\, frustration\, willfulness\, scar tissue\, poor ergonomics or dental issues. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nThinking and languaging spine as separate thoracic\, lumbar\, and cervical parts that move independently diminish the power of our core. From one end to the other\, all core movement is an expression of wholeness. Like a fish\, or for that matter a caterpillar\, our head to our tail moves as one. Stabilizing one end of the caterpillar by pressing down your finger only makes the other end of the caterpillar flail. The same is true for the head and pelvis. When one end of the spine is over stabilized (or unstable)\, the other end will become disorganized.\nTo either end\, our psoas messages all core disruptions.\nBy returning core to its fluid primal origins\, compensatory behaviors involving psoas often find resolution. \nStalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/jaw-pelvic-connection/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201017T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201017T110000 DTSTAMP:20260427T232158 CREATED:20200831T202922Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201013T040323Z UID:23881-1602928800-1602932400@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:CORE PSOAS: Regaining Coherency Through Primal Gestures DESCRIPTION:CORE PSOAS \nRegaining Coherency Through Restorative Primal Gestures\nhttps://theembodimentconference.org/#LizKoch\n \n \n  \nCORE PSOAS: Regaining Coherency Through Primal Gestures   \nwith Liz Koch \nResolution and resiliency are found not in getting rid of trauma or releasing psoas\, but through the nourishing capacity to assimilate and integrate\, which grows a coherent sense of core embodiment. \nAlthough trauma is often thought to be the means and measure for transformation and even profound wisdom only when we are in a parasympathetic wave rhythm do we metabolize our experiences and evoke curiosity and creativity. Longing to play\, for example is a gesture that transcends trauma. \nThrough simple primal gestures we will explore core psoas as a bio-intelligent messenger of safety and coherency. \nExpressive and dynamic\, discover how your psoas as messenger informs you about safety and thriving.  Just as every coherent animal in the wild sends messages\, humans\, like all mammals\, gesture with the twitch of an ear\, a gleam in the eye\, a hair standing on end\, an arc of the spine. Regaining or growing coherency always begins with a lush juicy psoas. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/core-psoas-regaining-coherency-through-primal-gestures/ CATEGORIES:Conference,featured,Online Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/conference.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201016T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201016T120000 DTSTAMP:20260427T232158 CREATED:20200827T175728Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200926T214141Z UID:23799-1602838800-1602849600@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Primal Psoas & Womb Reclamation Ritual Collaboration with Jessi Mendez DESCRIPTION: New Moon Ritual \nPrimal Psoas & Womb Reclamation \na collaboration with \nJessi Mendez \n \n  During Autumn New Moon  \nReWild Your Primal Core ~ ReClaim Your Wild Womb \nJessi initiates our journey into the primal feminine through an elemental movement practice to honor each of the natural elements ~ ground\, lubricate\, activate\, expand and simmer before dropping in to primal movement and  ceremonial ritual. \nLiz invites listening to our primal messenger who relays disruptions and compensations threatening our core integrity. Just as every animal in the wild sends messages\, humans\, like all mammals\, gesture with the twitch of an ear\, a gleam in the eye\, a hair standing on end\, an arc of the spine. Ignoring the wild nature of our core psoas…can be very dangerous. \nExplore the magic of the new moon energy honoring all we have offered and created as we gently descend back into the primordial womb of the darker seasons to come. \n  \n \n  \nJessi Mendez ERYT500 Sacred Feminine Alchemist | Director of Wild Essence  attunes to wise whispers of Nature for the soul purpose of the embodiment\, activation and reclamation of the Sacred Feminine on the planet. Through intuitively intelligent movement medicine practices\, powerful circle and ceremony\, Jessi calls back what is instinctual – raw – and authentically present in the bones. It is her mission through all of her teachings\, writings and programs to call home the WILD in all who seek to reclaim their birthright. \n  \n  \n  \n \n\n\n\n“In Stalking Wild Psoas\, Liz Koch cradles our collective gasp \nand assumes the role of a trusted guide into the fascinating poetry of embodiment.” \n                                                    Bayo Akomolafe\, Author These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to my Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home \n\n\n\n \n  \nLiz Koch  is an international educator\, author\, mother\, crone\, and creator of CoreAwareness™ focusing on awareness as key for developing human potential and awakening consciousness. With 40 years experience specializing in the human core\, Liz is recognized in the somatic\, bodywork\, and fitness professions as an authority on the core tissue called Psoas.  Both nationally and internationally published\, her works include The Psoas Book\, Unraveling Scoliosis CD\, Core Awareness; Enhancing Yoga\, Pilates\, Exercise & Dance\, Psoas & Back Pain CD\, Mother\, Maiden\, Crone: Our Pleasure Playlist and her latest book Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence.\n \n  \n  URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/womb-reclamation-collaboration-jessi-mendez/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/jessi.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201014T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201014T110000 DTSTAMP:20260427T232158 CREATED:20200911T222700Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T003045Z UID:24145-1602666000-1602673200@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:FLUID CORE: Coherency & Connective Tissue DESCRIPTION:Fluid Core \nCoherency & Connective Tissue  \nPresented October 2020. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \na collaboration with \nSue Hitzmann \nJoin our conversation to learn why healthy Connective Tissue\nis KEY to a resilient coherent nervous system. \nDiscover how self-help hydrating techniques\nhelp your nervous system function more efficiently\,\nreduce stress and anxiety\,\nand improve diaphragmatic and pelvic motion.  \n\n\n\n Rebalance Your Sympathetic NeuroCore \n\n\n\nIn my professional inquiry with psoas re-hydrating the sympathetic NeuroCore\nby playing with micro-undulations\, sound shaping\, and biomorphic expression\, I began nourishing the deepest layers of buoyant connective tissue. I discovered that over time what senses as dry\, tight\, or inflamed psoas can plump up and feel supple\, juicy\, and alive. \n\n\n\nLiz Koch ~ Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence \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/coherency-connective-tissue-with-sue-hitzmann/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR