BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Core Awareness - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://coreawareness.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Core Awareness REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART: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 END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20190101T000000 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 END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200813T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200813T130000 DTSTAMP:20260428T102723 CREATED:20200722T212908Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T012217Z UID:10000562-1597316400-1597323600@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Changing The Language of Body ~ Biomorphic Expressions  DESCRIPTION:Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence \nEssay Three: Biomorphic Expression\n\n\n\nThe Universal Movement of all Living Beings \nPresented 2020. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \n\n\n\nOur languaging of body is rapidly changing. The limited\, isolated biomechanical language that once defined and shaped our perception of self and other is dissolving. Burgeoning is a biologically rich vocabulary based on a wild calling; coaxing and inviting us to deconstruct and decolonize our static conceptual framework so we can be “claimed” and emerge from isolation to embrace life as cooperative\, expressive\, and creative. Now is the time to dissolve the old story and inhabit the new paradigm of body as a living process. You and I have a part to play. This new paradigm is paramount as it supports what always has been and always will be: an awakening of coherent life on Earth. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhether we look through a lens of psychology\, biology\, physics\, or mathematics\, there are recognizable universal patterns which reveal the capacity of nature to self-organize and self- regulate. These self-organizing principles are what is referred to as bio-intelligence. The word bio-intelligence has recently been hijacked by the biotech and artificial intelligence community as they too attempt to understand and simulate how living systems self-regulate. Geometrical patterns revealed through spirals exemplified in shells\, shoulders\, and river beds make tangible the inner connectedness and the invisible processes of life. \n\n\n\nBoth personal and universal\, patterns are the result of biomorphic movement. The self- similarity in form and gesture seen in the curling of a leaf\, caterpillar\, spine\, rivulet\, embryo\, horn\, pinecone\, hair follicle\, and galaxy reveal expressions that we all share as living processes. Biomorphic movements\, found throughout nature in diverse species and in the scale of the universe\, are synonymous with the expressions of living water. Playful and delicious\, water is life’s hidden force. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/biomorphic-expressions-august-2020/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200811T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200811T000000 DTSTAMP:20260428T102723 CREATED:20200722T210050Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T000912Z UID:10000561-1597104000-1597104000@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:FLUID CORE ~ Articulating & Hydrating Hip Joints DESCRIPTION:F L U I D  C O R E \nArticulating & Hydrating Hip Joints \nPresented August 2020. The video recording available by purchasing a ticket below. \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n“To be in balance\, the bones must be aligned along the axis of gravity\, with the weight supported by the largest possible number of bones.” \nThe value of keeping one’s original hip sockets is rarely  discussed\, which is unfortunate as there are many benefits to never needing surgery (such as financial savings\, having integral connective tissue\, avoiding scar tissue\, and pleasure of movement to name a few). But we are currently under the cultural spell of thinking that the human body is an object; mechanizing living systems still rules. People assume that the hip socket similar to car tires need replacing. Better to just update to the newest bionic model than consider how best to maintain healthy hip sockets for your whole life and how we might avoid and/or recover from such a breakdown. Discover ways of keeping your hip sockets healthy\, articulated and lubricated….yummm  \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/hip-sockets-august-2020/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200726T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200726T160000 DTSTAMP:20260428T102723 CREATED:20200203T225603Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200715T230246Z UID:10000388-1595754000-1595779200@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:WiLDING Collaboration: The Primal Feminine with Jessi Mendez Cape Cod MA ONLINE DESCRIPTION:ReWild The Primal Feminine ~ ReClaim Elemental Magic  \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 a ceremonial story telling journey of the protectress\, the warrior and wise woman present in all of us.  \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 harvest energy honoring all we have offered and created and the gentle descent back into the primordial womb of the darker seasons to come. \nSoften into your intrinsic knowing through this potent movement and medicine practice. \nDiscover the specific energy that is alive at Lughnasadh \nas we prepare for the first harvest July 31. \nJessi Mendez ERYT500 Sacred Feminine Alchemist | Director of Wild Essence  \nJessi Mendez ERYT500 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“In Stalking Wild Psoas\, Liz Koch cradles our collective gasp \nand assumes the role of a trusted guide into the fascinating poetry of embodiment.” \nBayo Akomolafe\, Author These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to my Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home \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 and Mother\, Maiden\, Crone: Our Pleasure Playlist and her new book  Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence.\n \nFor more clarity about my Stalking Wild Psoas workshop series please read my core awareness blog https://coreawareness.com/stalking-wild-psoas-awakening-to-our-creative-self/  \n  URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/wilding-collaboration-the-primal-feminine-with-jessi-mendez-cape-cod-ma/ LOCATION:GLOW Sanctuary\, 3 Main Street Suite 12\, Eastham\, 02642\, United States CATEGORIES:Online Class,Workshop END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200725T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200725T150000 DTSTAMP:20260428T102723 CREATED:20200628T153813Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T014407Z UID:10000556-1595682000-1595689200@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Schooling & The Many Forms Of Learning: Bringing Kids into the Conversation with Lily Oberdorfer DESCRIPTION:Presented July 2020. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \n \nAs a mother of three very unique adult children\, I have been inspired by John Holts Unschooling philosophy. As a parent\, I sought to encourage child-led learning. Witnessing the burgeoning of my children’s soul tasks and observing each of them flourish as happy\, independent adults has been an inspiring process. My approach has always surrounded the concept of tracking…tracking myself\, my partner\, and each of my children in order to support emerging ideas that reshape our lives and futures. I invited my youngest daughter\, Lily\, to bring her unique adventure in learning and schooling into this conversation. She has graciously accepted… \n \nLily has been involved in unschooling\, homeschooling\, charter programs (local and remote)\, and standard public school. She created her own curriculum\, used pro and con lists for making important decisions (such as attending high school or community college)\, and completed her bachelor’s degree in 1.5 years. When she was accepted to UCLA for undergraduate studies\, she was honored but chose to track what was most important to her: attending a much smaller\, private university. This eventually led to her decision to attend a prestigious Medieval History MA/Ph.D. program in St Louis\, MO with a full-tuition remission scholarship and teaching assistantship stipend. While studying in St. Louis\, Lily found\, purchased\, and renovated a rowhouse. After earning her master’s degree with distinction\, Lily returned to California to begin a 3-year MFT-track counseling psychology graduate program where her previous research on the origins of punitive confinement merged with her interest in forensic psychology. She recently graduated with a master’s in counseling psychology after completing an intensive clinical internship at Santa Clara County Juvenile Hall. As Lily writes\, “My educational path has not been linear; however\, an unwavering theme has been my commitment to social justice.” URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/schooling-learning-bringing-kids-conversation/ CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200721T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200721T130000 DTSTAMP:20260428T102723 CREATED:20200628T123715Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T000503Z UID:10000554-1595329200-1595336400@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:FLUID CORE ~ Landing & Locating Bones DESCRIPTION:F L U I D  C O R E \nLanding & Locating Bones \nPresented July 2020. The video recording available by purchasing a ticket below. \n \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n“To be in balance\, the bones must be aligned along the axis of gravity\, with the weight supported by the largest possible number of bones.” \nKnowing the origin of bone illuminates why hydration is vital and can help create new ways of sourcing healthy\, mineral-rich bone and spine. The earliest rudimentary vertebrae is found in the sea squirt\, a 550-million-year-old prevertebral organism.7 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. Bone is breathing\, fluid connective tissue that is nourished through micro-movements and shaped by gravity. Because bone first came into being in the ocean depths and in the sea of our mother’s womb\, replicating wave motion returns this tissue to its primordial waters where lush nourishment re-awakens the vitality of bone. Once on dry land\, aligned with the earth’s axis\, gravitational fields of information take over to shape and organize our bone. It is the sense of being in bone that increases our sense of embodiment. \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/bones-july-2020/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200717T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200719T160000 DTSTAMP:20260428T102723 CREATED:20200110T172511Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200712T145847Z UID:10000528-1594990800-1595174400@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Stalking Wild Psoas Workshop Brighton UK DESCRIPTION: Taste The Wild Waters of Wholeness\n \nA 3-day process-oriented re-wilding psoas workshop focused on restoring and 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 never fully expressive –  our soulful\, animal body and true nature bound within social decorum\, linear patterns\, and repetitive movement becomes stifled and dry. \nBe moved from deep within to awaken your inner strength and creativity!   \nWondering if this the workshop for me?  https://coreawareness.com/stalking-wild-psoas-awakening-to-our-creative-self/  \nNo experience necessary. Every one is welcome. \nNOTE: If you are having difficulty with your Psoas and/or your movement is limited\, this workshop can offer you the opportunity to heal.  \n \nNational Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB) Approved \nThis is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork for 18 hours of continuing education credit (CEU). For more information on the NCBTMB\, please visit their website URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/stalking-wild-psoas-brighton-uk-2020/ LOCATION:THE STUDIO\, 39 Whippingham Road\, Brighton\, BN2 3PF\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Workshop END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200717T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200719T133000 DTSTAMP:20260428T102723 CREATED:20200521T131014Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200716T125204Z UID:10000547-1594978200-1595165400@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-12-hr-psoas-online-july-2020/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Online Class END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200716T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200716T120000 DTSTAMP:20260428T102723 CREATED:20200628T171948Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T011956Z UID:10000560-1594893600-1594900800@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Changing The Language of Body ~ Living A Model of Emerging and Thriving DESCRIPTION:Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence \nEssay Two: Living A Model of Emerging and Thriving \nPresented 2020. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \nOur languaging of body is rapidly changing. The limited\, isolated biomechanical language that once defined and shaped our perception of self and other is dissolving. Burgeoning is a biologically rich vocabulary based on a wild calling; coaxing and inviting us to deconstruct and decolonize our static conceptual framework so we can be “claimed” and emerge from isolation to embrace life as cooperative\, expressive\, and creative. Now is the time to dissolve the old story and inhabit the new paradigm of body as a living process. You and I have a part to play. This new paradigm is paramount as it supports what always has been and always will be: an awakening of coherent life on Earth. \n\n\n\nThe embryological model offers a challenge to our insistence on maintaining form. Theories on posture no longer hold up as static structures have no place within a living paradigm. Form is a momentary aspect of a process\, a continual re-shaping of being…As a spine-based organism\, all movement emerges out from this primal source of intelligence whether it is functioning organs\, metabolic processes\, fingers and toes\, or emotional gestures. Engaging in these emerging themes suggests that psoas is no longer a muscle to be strengthened or released\, but an essential messenger to be heard and understood as a living reflection of core. Signaling coherent or incoherent\, integral or compromised\, and safe or not safe\, psoas as messenger communicates both our longing to survive and our desire to thrive. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/living-emerging-thriving/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200714T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200714T160000 DTSTAMP:20260428T102723 CREATED:20200628T171831Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200714T184546Z UID:10000559-1594735200-1594742400@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:laura & liz lab: Yielding\, Landing\, Rising Up (Zoom) DESCRIPTION:laura & liz lab \nYielding\, Landing\, Rising Up \n \n  \nFALLING TOGETHER…. \n \nHow do we safely yield into the earth? Into the moment?\n\nCome in for a landing\, find ground\, connect to our roots\, and then move upwards and RISE? \nWhat happens in the space of the transition- from this place to that place? From where we are to where we want to be? \nWhere do we find the support to lift ourselves (and others) up\, and develop sustaining practices and relationships? \nCan we use the natural expansion and contraction patterns of life\, breath\, and movement to connect and nurture our resilience? \nHow do we move through this moment in time finding softness and gentleness\, strength and fluidity\, even fluency in being human… \nTogether\, let’s explore what is sustainable?  \n  \nLaura Victoria Ward\, BA\, CMA\, RSME\, an award-winning choreographer\, Laban Movement Analyst & somatic/dance teacher. and th artist director of Octabia Cup Dance theatre\, a multi-generational contemporary ballet co. \nLiz Koch is an international educator\, author and creator of Core Awareness specializing in the primal psoas. Her works include The Psoas Book\, Core Awareness; Enhancing Yoga\, Pilates\, Exercise & Dance and Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/laura-liz-lab-yielding-landing-rising-up-zoom/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Laura-ball.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200714T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200715T170000 DTSTAMP:20260428T102723 CREATED:20200110T170032Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200630T112230Z UID:10000527-1594720800-1594832400@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:BASIC (12-Hr) Psoas Workshop London England DESCRIPTION:The 12-Hour (2 -day) Workshop is open to everybody and offers a great way to learn\, through experience\, how a healthy dynamic Psoas enhances the skeletal integrity\, joint rotation\, and muscular tone;  improving breathing\, balancing emotions (fear response)\, and supporting organ functioning. \nPLEASE NOTE THIS WORKSHOP TAKES PLACE ON A TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY \nDevelop Your Core Awareness by: \n\nUnderstanding the influence of a healthy Psoas on movement\, strength\, endurance\, and well-being\nExperiencing practical ways of sensing your own Psoas\nLearning to soften\, lengthen and revitalize your Psoas\nGaining tools for recovering and maintaining a healthy Psoas\nExploring the energetic/emotional/spiritual dynamics of your physical core\nImproving neurological proprioception and skeletal balance\nApplying 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:   All International 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/basic-psoas-london-uk-2020/ LOCATION:Skylight Centre\, 49 CORSICA STREET\, London\, N5 1JT\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Workshop GEO:51.5490788;-0.1005974 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Skylight Centre 49 CORSICA STREET London N5 1JT United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=49 CORSICA STREET:geo:-0.1005974,51.5490788 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200709T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200709T170000 DTSTAMP:20260428T102723 CREATED:20200628T161413Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200707T123744Z UID:10000557-1594299600-1594314000@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Biodynamic Coherency:  Growing Sustenance  ~ Crafting a Life of Meaning collaboration with CEO Janice Cathey DESCRIPTION: Growing Sustenance\nCrafting a Life of Meaning \n \nLife is not a problem to be solved\, but a reality to be experienced\nSoren Kierkegaard  \n\nPreparing our selves as bodies of culture and women entrepreneurs we are standing our ground\, finding our paths\, navigating the terrain of uncertainty\, and cultivating nimbleness. This is a movement of retrieval and a blessing of bounty. Please join Liz Koch and Janice Cathey in exploring\, discovering\, and ruminating how best to weave a life of coherency.  This class includes innovating movements\, self- inquiry\, speaking truth\, all grounded in the rich humus of collaboration. \n\nIntroduction & Ceremony of no regrets ~ recognizing the importance of using literal mythic and energetic techniques for the investigative and transformative nature of change (invite students to arrive with a vessel of water and three stones)  \n\n\nGathering ~ (grounding gesture) \n* including (what do I need to know) \n* feeling (unresolved\, under-resourced patterns)\n* resourcing (where do I land and locate) local\, global \n\n\n\n\nSorting ~  (curling & arcing exploration)\n* trusting (my own authority to emerge)\n* facing (self and the world)\n* nourishing (growing discernment) \n\n\n\n\nPreparing ~ (longing rooting exploration)\n* soul impulses as growth (courage to be myself)\n* what I long for matters (trust and risk)\n* wildly supported (loving myself and sharing it) \n\n\n\n\nTiming ~  (spiraling movement)\n* unfolding (being honest with ourselves about changes that have to happen)\n* infolding (sustaining over time)\n* allowing (giving time for seeds to germinate)  \n\n\n  \n\nSpace Dust\nwritten by Janice Cathey \nEvery single thing I know about birds is housed in a song\nLong ago coded with the liquid twittering of chirp\, chirp\, chirp \nWhat I need at this moment is water \nWater to swim\nLovingly bathing my dried skin in immersive wonder and delight  \nI think my superpower is the act of noticing\nWhere\, How\, What\, When \nWeaving patterns placing a still point to a moving system of whirling arms of space dust surrounded by electrons of primal energy \nWhere do you hear your belonging \nIs it dirt\, soil\, root\nWhere is it that I belong-here\, now\, never\, and forever\nThe reach is within there is no certainty- the sprout takes time to develop\nThe nest has been built with pieces of broken earth placed in sacred geometrical heart space \nVeins of being and nonbeing – wide spread mycelium- the network of the interrelated whole\nWhere\, How\, What\, When \nCrawl to stand\nStand to jump\nJump to launch \nOff into the chirp\, chirp\, chirp\nThe whistle of delicate codes sung in songs not yet understood\nspace dust\nwhistle \ndelight \nnest \ne e e e \nGravity of falling grace gently landing\, space dust …\nPinned gratitude – trauma that behaves like culture \nBefriend the wild\nCraft a life of meaning \nThe crawl of the lizard creeps toward its sanctuary\nSprout\nSpace dust \nDon’t collapse \nSoar \n \n \n\nJanice Cathey CEO of Integrative Health joins me for my Bio-Dynamic Entrepreneurs: A Conversation  on a Body of Culture Paradigm and Woman Centered Approach for Developing A Healthy Business Mode series. You can find our conversation on my YouTube Liz Koch station: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLuxlZfQAr4 URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/crafting-a-life-of-meaning-collaboration/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/JANICE1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200707T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200707T130000 DTSTAMP:20260428T102723 CREATED:20200628T115319Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240411T235852Z UID:10000553-1594119600-1594126800@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:FLUID CORE ~ Awakening Your Primal Tubes DESCRIPTION:F L U I D  C O R E \nAwakening Your Primal Tubes \nPresented on July 2020. video recording available with purchase of ticket below \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. To either end\, our psoas messages all core disruptions. By returning core to its fluid primal origins\, compensatory behaviors involving psoas often find resolution. \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/primaltubes-july-2020/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200628T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200628T180000 DTSTAMP:20260428T102723 CREATED:20200526T122228Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200628T201523Z UID:10000551-1593360000-1593367200@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:2-Hr Moving White(ness) Collaboration with Natasha Stovall PhD (ZOOM) DESCRIPTION:“The couch in my therapy office is occupied mostly by white people. Anxious white people and depressed white people. Obsessive white people and compulsive white people. White people who hurt people and white people who hurt themselves. White people who eat too much\, drink too much\, work too much\, shop too much. White people who are bored\, envious\, guilty\, numb. Racist white people and antiracist white people. White people who look across the room and see a white therapist listening. We talk about everything. Except being white.” \n~ Natasha Stovall – Whiteness on the Couch  ~ \n                                                                                                                                              Photo Credit sep–ecxmibgssdm unsplash  \nJoin Somatic educator Liz Koch & clinical Psychologist Natasha Stovall in a 2-hour exploration of our white-ness from both a personal\, social\, physical and even a pandemic perspective. How do we create and live with a newly coherent narrative of ourselves as white bodies and white people? What sort of changes in our selves and in our actions would it take to “live our whiteness” in a new and different\, non-oppressive and less oppressed way?  \nJUNE FOCUS\nExploring Upper Psoas Tension: Expressions of Unintended/Unacknowledged Dissonance \n \nPhoto credit: Clem Onojeghuo-unsplash \nUsing biologically-intelligent movements we will venture into the “frozen” disassociated responses within our own core and invite ourselves to dissolve the historically defended rigidity found within the “white-posturing” spine to discover our inner sense of self as living beings.  Through conceptual and embodiment practices we will awaken a different consciousness from the one society has provided us.                                                                                                                                                      \nAs we begin to dissolve the insistence within the the objectified body we may integrate and participate in a larger conversation of human existence. By creating a multi-layered understanding of our white experience we offer the opportunity to alter the ways cultural whiteness damages our selves\, our fellow human beings\, and life on earth. As we begin imaging reparative ways of being we can create opportunities to generate healing for our world\, our ancestors\, and all future generations. \n  \nNatasha Stovall Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist in private practice working with adults\, adolescents and children. Her essays and cultural criticism have appeared in The New York Times\, Rolling Stone\, and Spin. Her most recent essay\, “Whiteness on the Couch”\, appeared in Longreads in August 2019. \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 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 and Mother\, Maiden\, Crone: Our Pleasure Playlist and her new book  Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence published in 2019 by North Atlantic Books. \n  URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/online-collaboration-moving-whiteness-with-natasha-stovall-phd-zoom-june-2020/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/clem-onojeghuo-n6gnCa77-600x480-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200627T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200627T120000 DTSTAMP:20260428T102723 CREATED:20200526T131025Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T011814Z UID:10000552-1593252000-1593259200@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Changing The Language of Body ~ A Conceptual Shift made Potent through Movement (Zoom) DESCRIPTION:Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence \nEssay One: Changing The Language of Body \nPresented  2020. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \nOur languaging of body is rapidly changing. The limited\, isolated biomechanical language that once defined and shaped our perception of self and other is dissolving. Burgeoning is a biologically rich vocabulary based on a wild calling; coaxing and inviting us to deconstruct and decolonize our static conceptual framework so we can be “claimed” and emerge from isolation to embrace life as cooperative\, expressive\, and creative. Now is the time to dissolve the old story and inhabit the new paradigm of body as a living process. You and I have a part to play. This new paradigm is paramount as it supports what always has been and always will be: an awakening of coherent life on Earth. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/changing-the-language-of-body-a-conceptual-shift-made-potent-through-movement-zoom/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200622T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200701T133000 DTSTAMP:20260428T102723 CREATED:20240220T203402Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240220T203402Z UID:10000653-1592818200-1593610200@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Biodynamic Coherency: Diving Into Myth & Wild Primary Body - An Advanced Collaboration with Sarah Byrden Copy DESCRIPTION:This Collaboration is an Adventure into the Wildness of Soma & Psyche \nAn exploration\, not for the faint of heart…but the curious \n A soulful calling and responding to life’s sustenance… \nWe’ll begin exploring the power inherent within Myth\, Story\, and Archetype as a portal  into the mutable \n Wild Primary Body\nshapeshifting\, vacillating\,  softening\, tracking…we will be informed\, claimed\, and devoured by the birthright of our own wild fluid terrain \nand re-shaped and supported by the flowing forms of MogaDao Archetypal Qigong\n  \nTracking the edges we interface  soma and psyche… \n pulling a thread of biodynamic coherency through the archetypal and liminal space of being. Join us for this journey into the innate coherence of Soul \n \nPREREQUISITE:   This is an advanced collaboration course and is only for those already with a firm foundation in somatic explorations. Participants  need to know they have the confidence\, physical centering\, and psychic anchoring to hold them in time and space.  A clear sense of containment and a fluent practice in grounding is required. This course is not a fit for those who may be currently feeling destabilized\, traumatized\, struggling to heal\, or in need of reestablishing basic nervous system or life coherency. We will be going deep in this course\, not only conceptually but truly into the live wilderness of psyche and soma.  \n  \n\n\n\nEdges are often where the known is not yet visible but can be just out of sight. Catching a fleeting glimpse\, detecting a movement at the perimeter of awareness\, there may be a sense that something is not yet acknowledged\, or is lost\, and yet is on the cutting edge of consciousness. \nPerhaps this is what hunting or being hunted feels like in the wild kingdom. \nQuick moving\, it can be 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 caught. Following an initiation of an expression requires a patient slowing of pace and a quiet receptivity in the heart in order to perceive the impulse just before it comes into being. \nIt takes a bifurcating focus of awareness that moves inward and concurrently outward toward a larger field of influence. Only in this way can we stay present in order to feel the origins of our fear and the impulses of our longing. \nStalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your core Intelligence  \n\nSarah Byrden is a two-time TEDx presenter\, a dynamic educator\, speaker and advocate known for her domain-changing work in sexuality education. She has been a leader in the fields of experiential education\, international cross-cultural development\, and body-based healing since 2000 and has worked with thousands of students in the US\, Indonesia and the Himalayas. Sarah is a Santa Fe-based MogaDao QiGong and Depth Sexuality Teacher and holds over 2500 hours of formal training in western and non-western body-based healing modalities.  Her most recent project\, The Body Of Sex is a radical paradigm-shifting approach to sex education and empowerment on college campuses. She is the founder of THE ELEMENTAL SELF \nLiz Koch  is an international educator\, author\, 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 and Mother\, Maiden\, Crone: Our Pleasure Playlist and her new book  Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence published in 2019 by North Atlantic Books. \nPhoto Credit: Prince David on Unsplash URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/biodynamic-coherency-diving-into-wild-primary-body-copy/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Online Class ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200622T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200701T133000 DTSTAMP:20260428T102723 CREATED:20200523T222700Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200630T111428Z UID:10000549-1592818200-1593610200@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Biodynamic Coherency: Diving Into Myth & Wild Primary Body - An Advanced Collaboration with Sarah Byrden DESCRIPTION:This Collaboration is an Adventure into the Wildness of Soma & Psyche \nAn exploration\, not for the faint of heart…but the curious \n A soulful calling and responding to life’s sustenance… \nWe’ll begin exploring the power inherent within Myth\, Story\, and Archetype as a portal  into the mutable \n Wild Primary Body\nshapeshifting\, vacillating\,  softening\, tracking…we will be informed\, claimed\, and devoured by the birthright of our own wild fluid terrain \nand re-shaped and supported by the flowing forms of MogaDao Archetypal Qigong\n  \nTracking the edges we interface  soma and psyche… \n pulling a thread of biodynamic coherency through the archetypal and liminal space of being. Join us for this journey into the innate coherence of Soul \n \nPREREQUISITE:   This is an advanced collaboration course and is only for those already with a firm foundation in somatic explorations. Participants  need to know they have the confidence\, physical centering\, and psychic anchoring to hold them in time and space.  A clear sense of containment and a fluent practice in grounding is required. This course is not a fit for those who may be currently feeling destabilized\, traumatized\, struggling to heal\, or in need of reestablishing basic nervous system or life coherency. We will be going deep in this course\, not only conceptually but truly into the live wilderness of psyche and soma.  \n  \n\n\n\nEdges are often where the known is not yet visible but can be just out of sight. Catching a fleeting glimpse\, detecting a movement at the perimeter of awareness\, there may be a sense that something is not yet acknowledged\, or is lost\, and yet is on the cutting edge of consciousness. \nPerhaps this is what hunting or being hunted feels like in the wild kingdom. \nQuick moving\, it can be 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 caught. Following an initiation of an expression requires a patient slowing of pace and a quiet receptivity in the heart in order to perceive the impulse just before it comes into being. \nIt takes a bifurcating focus of awareness that moves inward and concurrently outward toward a larger field of influence. Only in this way can we stay present in order to feel the origins of our fear and the impulses of our longing. \nStalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your core Intelligence  \n\nSarah Byrden is a two-time TEDx presenter\, a dynamic educator\, speaker and advocate known for her domain-changing work in sexuality education. She has been a leader in the fields of experiential education\, international cross-cultural development\, and body-based healing since 2000 and has worked with thousands of students in the US\, Indonesia and the Himalayas. Sarah is a Santa Fe-based MogaDao QiGong and Depth Sexuality Teacher and holds over 2500 hours of formal training in western and non-western body-based healing modalities.  Her most recent project\, The Body Of Sex is a radical paradigm-shifting approach to sex education and empowerment on college campuses. She is the founder of THE ELEMENTAL SELF \nLiz Koch  is an international educator\, author\, 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 and Mother\, Maiden\, Crone: Our Pleasure Playlist and her new book  Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence published in 2019 by North Atlantic Books. \nPhoto Credit: Prince David on Unsplash URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/biodynamic-coherency-diving-into-wild-primary-body/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Online Class ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200618T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200618T130000 DTSTAMP:20260428T102723 CREATED:20200525T142309Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240411T235722Z UID:10000550-1592478000-1592485200@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:FLUID CORE ~ A Way Out of Freezing Fear (via Zoom) DESCRIPTION:F L U I D  C O R E \nA Way Out of Freezing Fear \nPresented on June 2020 – video recording available for purchase via tickets below \n \nFear is the only instinct that has the power to immobilize us. As an involuntary muscle\, psoas as part of the sympathetic neuro-core* is both a primal mover of our core integrity and part of our fear response.  When we misuse our psoas we ultimately end up energetically depleting our life force and physiologically stressing our adrenals. The upper psoas located in the solar plexus is often referred to in Traditional Chinese Medicine as the “will center\,” is the home of our adrenal glands and our immune system. These glands rest on top of our kidneys while our kidneys float on the juicy psoas.  Both adrenals and kidneys are energetically associated with our vitality. Returning the core to its natural fluid and expressive nature is a subtle but beneficial strategy for dissolving old patterns for achieving safety. When we regain our fluid spine and soften our upper psoas\, rather than manipulate our core\, we offer our kidney/adrenals a juicy\, fluid\, and dynamic support.\nSimultaneously we claim our birthright by discovering our deep-rooted sense of ground within the belly core that is so profoundly nourishing. Moving from within our very bones allows life to support us. By living on the axis of our core\, we nourish a harmonious relationship with gravity that enables us to stand our ground while wholeheartedly expressing our true selves. That is\, we show up fully in life. \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-a-way-out-of-freezing-fear-june-2020/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200614T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200614T120000 DTSTAMP:20260428T102723 CREATED:20200523T122517Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200607T182314Z UID:10000548-1592128800-1592136000@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Fluid Improv: Play As Nourishment a Collaboration with Dr. Michael DeMaria DESCRIPTION:fluid improv as nourishment \n~ core soul singing ~ \n \nDr. Michael DeMaria’s life turned inside out and upside down after the first decade of his professional life when he underwent a life transforming vision quest (lament in the wild) without food or water\, guided by a native teacher. He went there suffering empathy fatigue and burnout after working for many years with severe cases of child abuse as a child protection team psychologist. The experience provided a profound healing\, a course correction and gave him a vision for his life. Ever since his mission has been to help guide others to what he calls\, “The ocean of peace that lies within.”  He does this through his work as an embodied guide of the soul through music\, poetry\, art and training others in what he calls Souling™\, which has emerged out of his 4 decades of working with transformative sound based meditative\, movement and breathwork practices. \n  \nHis healing music is heard a million times a week across the world\, garnering him four Grammy® nominations\, 8 ZMR awards\, 6 #1 albums\, a Native American Music Award and appearing on the Grammy® winning album\, All About Bullies Big and Small.  He is also a Sounds True recording artist with his music being featured on projects with Eckhart Tolle\, Mark Nepo and Noah Levine. He is the author of 5 books\, 3 of which were bestsellers\, and is the creator and author of the Peace Within Process for Integrative Wellness which is the ground school for his Integrative Meditation Teacher Training. His newest book Souling: Birthing\, Weaving and Tending a Soulful Life is due out 2021.  You can find out more about his work at www.michaeldemaria.com and his free 7×7 Meditation Challenge at www.youtube.com/mbdemaria \, where his videos have over 200\,000 views in 180 countries around the world. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/fluid-improv-as-nourishment-collaboration-with-michael-demaria/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/fluid-improv.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200611T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200611T160000 DTSTAMP:20260428T102723 CREATED:20200511T160216Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200525T212824Z UID:10000544-1591884000-1591891200@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Biodynamic Entrepreneurs: Weaving a Life of Coherency DESCRIPTION:My life’s work emerged from a deep wandering ~ to become an outcrop of sorts in a wilderness of possibilities. I never set out to be an educator\, (although I did have a desire to teach\, and an impulse to be a missionary). The point being is that the uncommon and uncanny way my professional life emerged came not from following others but from a deep listening to an authentic presence that moved me. \nWoven into a full life\, my professional and business DBA has resulted in a life sustaining work that supports and allows me a lifestyle that feels \nakin and congruent with my soul. \nSo how did I “do – dew” that?  And what are the ways to nourish a flourishing life of coherency?  \nI invite you to join me for this 2 hour conversation with the intention of seeding your core integrity\, \ntrusting your deep knowing\, \nand making a path of your own choosing. \n \n  URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/bio-dynamic-entrepreneurs-weaving-a-life-of-coherency/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Screenshot-2020-05-11-10.22.28-1-2.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200610T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200610T160000 DTSTAMP:20260428T102723 CREATED:20200519T131045Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240516T200835Z UID:10000545-1591794000-1591804800@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Centering The Pelvis: Instinctive Responses\, Injury\, & Healthy Psoas DESCRIPTION:Instinctive Responses\, Injury\n& A Healthy Pelvic/Psoas Relationship \nPresented June 2020. The video recording available by purchasing a ticket below. \n \nThe psoas muscle is part of our instinctive fear response. When falling in love or propelling through space\, the dynamic psoas surrenders deep within our core. All unresolved fear is communicated through the psoas and directly affects the pelvis. When we feel our integrity is compromised\, it is the constricted psoas that plays havoc on our breath and the natural positioning of the centered pelvis. \nLearn to Center and Heal Your Pelvic/Psoas Relationship \nThe psoas profoundly influences every aspect of our health. If the psoas is called upon to support structural misalignment\, its suppleness is curtailed and over time this dynamic tissue dries and shrinks. If consistently used as a structural or emotional support\, its expressiveness will diminish. \n \nReestablish Core Integrity \n Whenever there is pelvic damage the psoas takes over for the lack of SI joint function and eventually shortens pulling the pelvis forward\, down\, and further off center. When your pelvis is off center and your Sacral Iliac ligaments have micro-tears or are over-stretched due to physical force\, falls\, surgery\, or accidents the psoas will become engaged to help limit movement in an attempt to maintain core integrity. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/centering-the-pelvis-healing-psoas-2/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Online Class ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200605T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200607T133000 DTSTAMP:20260428T102723 CREATED:20200427T220815Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200521T131948Z UID:10000543-1591349400-1591536600@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:ONLINE - BASIC (12-Hr) Psoas Workshop (NCBTMB Approved) 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-12-hr-psoas-online-june-2020/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Online Class END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200603T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200603T120000 DTSTAMP:20260428T102723 CREATED:20200520T133351Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T010324Z UID:10000546-1591178400-1591185600@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Psoas Savvy Birth ~ A Movement Class for Pregnant Women DESCRIPTION:Presented June 2020. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \n \nThis 2-hour movement course offers a range of explorations for supporting a healthy psoas.\nGet the basics for a healthy psoas and explore ways that pregnancy can be an opportunity to nourish this primal tissue. \n\nLearn to Hydrate Your Juicy Psoas\nDiscover Why a Centered Pelvis Supports a Functional Psoas\nExplore Centering Your Pelvis\nIncrease Your Skeletal Awareness for Support\nMake Room for Baby & Mom\nBenefits for Birth Outcomes and Happy Mommy \n\n  URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/psoas-savvy-birth-a-movement-class-for-pregnant-women/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200602T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200630T170000 DTSTAMP:20260428T102723 CREATED:20200108T164506Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200606T120018Z UID:10000372-1591113600-1593536400@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Online-Audio Psoas Course | Summer 2020 DESCRIPTION:  \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. \nThe class covers basic aspects of the Psoas\, its functioning\, effects\, and recommended explorations for weekly homework. No two series are exactly alike as each series is  live\, unique\, and includes updated information. If you attend live your time to ask questions\, explore problems\, and discover new emerging ideas after each class. \nYou’ll receive personal email coaching with premium email access to me throughout the length of the 5-week course.  Email me your personal or professional psoas questions\, problems\, and concerns.  I will attempt to provide with a quick response each time and to support your healing and educational process. \nShould you wish to join me you are responsible for your telephone/skype costs (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 weeks for review after the live class ends. \nIMPORTANT NOTE: The recordings are NOT downloads and require a flash to listen to on your phone. \n\nClass Day One (June 2\, 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 (June 9\, 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 (June 16\, 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 (June 23 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 (June 30\, 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-summer-2020/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Audio-Class END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20200518T073000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20200518T210000 DTSTAMP:20260428T102723 CREATED:20200113T142112Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200115T000427Z UID:10000375-1589787000-1589835600@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Private Sessions | May in St Paul MN DESCRIPTION:At the very core of every well-executed movement is somatic awareness that ultimately leads to inner freedom. Cultivating your Core Awareness will enrich your sense of flexibility\, suppleness\, strength\, and stability so that with fluid motion your vital life force becomes increasingly tangible.” \nLiz Koch – Core Awareness: Enhancing Yoga\, Pilates\, Exercise & Dance \n \nI am offering Private Psoas Sessions at  TULA Yoga & Wellness Studio in St Paul Monday May 4th  \nNOTE: Only if you have already attended a previous Psoas workshop may you make an appointment  \nEmail me via my contact page to reserve your time and receive an invoice by email to secure your appointment. \nPre-payment is required for a 90 minutes session $275.00 USD \nCANCELLATION: Because of this rare and limited opportunity payment for your appointment is due in advance – payment is in full with no refunds available (please check for waiting list replacement– a $30 service fee may apply for substitutions). If I am unable to meet your appointment a full refund will be given. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/privates-may-st-paul-mn-2020/ LOCATION:TULA Yoga & Wellness\, 99 Snelling Avenue N.\, St Paul\, MN\, 55104\, United States CATEGORIES:Private Session ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/LIZ-photo-2018.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com GEO:44.9444328;-93.1674943 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=TULA Yoga & Wellness 99 Snelling Avenue N. St Paul MN 55104 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=99 Snelling Avenue N.:geo:-93.1674943,44.9444328 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20200514T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20200517T173000 DTSTAMP:20260428T102723 CREATED:20200327T211209Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200501T210238Z UID:10000538-1589461200-1589736600@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:ONLINE - Stalking Wild Psoas Workshop NCBTMB Accredited 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-online-course-2020/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:featured,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Stalking-scaled-e1677012587350.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200507T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200507T130000 DTSTAMP:20260428T102723 CREATED:20200427T201318Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200508T152055Z UID:10000542-1588849200-1588856400@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:FLUID CORE ~ A Way Out of Freezing Fear (via Zoom) DESCRIPTION:F L U I D  C O R E \nA Way Out of Freezing Fear \nMAY 7th \n(2-Hr Movement Class via Zoom) \n \nFear is the only instinct that has the power to immobilize us. As an involuntary muscle\, psoas as part of the sympathetic neuro-core* is both a primal mover of our core integrity and part of our fear response.  When we misuse our psoas we ultimately end up energetically depleting our life force and physiologically stressing our adrenals. The upper psoas located in the solar plexus is often referred to in Traditional Chinese Medicine as the “will center\,” is the home of our adrenal glands and our immune system. These glands rest on top of our kidneys while our kidneys float on the juicy psoas.  Both adrenals and kidneys are energetically associated with our vitality. Returning the core to its natural fluid and expressive nature is a subtle but beneficial strategy for dissolving old patterns for achieving safety. When we regain our fluid spine and soften our upper psoas\, rather than manipulate our core\, we offer our kidney/adrenals a juicy\, fluid\, and dynamic support.\nSimultaneously we claim our birthright by discovering our deep-rooted sense of ground within the belly core that is so profoundly nourishing. Moving from within our very bones allows life to support us. By living on the axis of our core\, we nourish a harmonious relationship with gravity that enables us to stand our ground while wholeheartedly expressing our true selves. That is\, we show up fully in life. \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-a-way-out-of-freezing-fear/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/ball-cover-600x432-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200506T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200506T150000 DTSTAMP:20260428T102723 CREATED:20200108T165546Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201001T010821Z UID:10000373-1588773600-1588777200@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Psoas During Pregnancy\, Birth & Postpartum (Audio Download) DESCRIPTION:Presented in May. Video recording available by purchasing a ticket below. \nPsoas Remote Audio-Class Downloads: \nThis 3-Part Psoas Remote Audio Class focuses on Pregnancy\, Birth\, & Postpartum took place in May 2020. The recordings are available. \nOpen to everyone interested in birth\, women\, and happy outcomes.  Psoas work enhances every aspect of a woman’s pregnancy\, the birth process\, and postpartum integration.  Educating women\, midwives\, doulas\, birth-keepers and their partners about the psoas can be vital to increasing healthy normal vaginal births. Participants will learn the importance of the Psoas through every phase and discover tools that can easily be integrated into prenatal exercise and self-help relaxation routines.  \nA Healthy Psoas: \n\nOffers skeletal support for releasing back pain and tension throughout pregnancy & birth\nReleases unfounded fear deepening a woman’s instinctual responses\nIgnites the intuitive belly brain\, centers\, and empowers every aspect of becoming a mother\nShortens labor and eases birth offering their baby guidance through the spiral descent\nEnhances a woman’s ability to shape-shift and open; offering an effective alternative to induction\nSupports the functionally balanced pelvis through each transition and postpartum recovery\nProvides a core sense of integrity\, trust\, and pleasure through the journey into motherhood\n\nATTENDING: You do not need to attend live for this course is recorded and you will receive a permanent download with each weeks notes via email.  \nRECOMMENDED READING: The Psoas Book \nONLINE ZOOM BONUS: Free pass to Q & A on Psoas Savvy Birth June 3rd (1:00-2:00 pm central) URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/psoas-during-pregnancy-birth-postpartum-2020/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Audio-Class END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200501T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200503T170000 DTSTAMP:20260428T102723 CREATED:20200327T181906Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200501T024050Z UID:10000537-1588338000-1588525200@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:ONLINE - BASIC (12-Hr) Psoas Workshop (NCBTMB Approved) 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-12-hr-psoas-online-may-2020/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Online Class END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200428T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200428T170000 DTSTAMP:20260428T102723 CREATED:20200123T170638Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200331T194522Z UID:10000384-1588078800-1588093200@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:WiLDING Collaboration: The Real-Evolution Will Be MOVING with Laura Ward New York NY DESCRIPTION:A movement-based journey of expression\, meaning\, and reflection \nthrough simple posture and gesture explorations. \n \nWhat does it take to GET BIG\, to take up space\, to get small… to shrink or back off\, to brace and resist\, or to flow and let go??? \nThese themes will be explored in relationship with ourselves and with others through the use of geometric space\, expansion\,  contraction\, growing\, shrinking\, yielding\, pushing\,  pulling\, and resolving. \nThrough guided movement\, sensation\, and discussion we will forage for new insights and develop patterning that supports our growth and agency. \n \nLaura Victoria Ward\, BA\, CMA\, RSME\, an award-winning choreographer\, Laban Movement Analyst\, and teacher. In conjunction with dance and somatics\, her special interests are the movement and health of fascia and group dynamics. She is the artistic director of Octavia Cup Dance Theatre and a founding member of the Glam Rock Cabaret. Laura splits her time between Kingston\, NY\, and NYC much in the way her body shares time within classical and somatic movement forms. \nLiz Koch  is an international educator\, author\, 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 and Mother\, Maiden\, Crone: Our Pleasure Playlist and her new book  Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence published in 2019 by North Atlantic Books. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/wilding-collaboration-the-real-evolution-will-be-moving-with-laura-ward-new-york-ny/ LOCATION:Moving Body Resources Studio\, 112 W 27th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10001\, United States GEO:40.7455447;-73.9918225 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Moving Body Resources Studio 112 W 27th Street New York NY 10001 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=112 W 27th Street:geo:-73.9918225,40.7455447 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20200427T073000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20200504T220000 DTSTAMP:20260428T102723 CREATED:20200111T144548Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200111T144947Z UID:10000531-1587972600-1588629600@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Private Sessions | Spring in New York City DESCRIPTION:At the very core of every well-executed movement is somatic awareness that ultimately leads to inner freedom. Cultivating your Core Awareness will enrich your sense of flexibility\, suppleness\, strength\, and stability so that with fluid motion your vital life force becomes increasingly tangible.” \nLiz Koch – Core Awareness: Enhancing Yoga\, Pilates\, Exercise & Dance \n \nI am offering Private Psoas Sessions in my studio at Moving Body Resources in New York City April 27-May 4 \nEmail me via my contact page to reserve your time and receive an invoice by email to secure your appointment. \nPre-payment is required for a 90 minutes session $275.00 USD \nCANCELLATION: Because of this rare and limited opportunity payment for your appointment is due in advance – payment is in full with no refunds available (please check for waiting list replacement– a $30 service fee may apply for substitutions). If I am unable to meet your appointment a full refund will be given. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/spring-ny-privates-2020/ CATEGORIES:Private Session ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/LIZ-photo-2018.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR