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SUMMARY:Psoas Healing Retreat & Professional Application Course COSTA RICA POSTPONED
DESCRIPTION:Be moved & inspired from within!\nJoin me in\nOSA PENINSULA\, COSTA RICA\nJuly 19-26\, 2025\n \nMy PROFESSIONAL APPLICATION COURSE as an opportunity to heal your own Psoas and bring Core Awareness to your professional life.. \nThe Application Course offers those trained and licensed in a variety of professions such as Movement & Somatic Educators\, Yoga Instructors\, Pilates & Gyrotonic Trainers\, Massage Practitioners\, Body & Healing Practitioners; as well as Birth & Fitness Coaches\, Dance Therapists\, Martial Arts Instructors\, and Psychologists\, Trauma and Embodiment Educators the opportunity to become Psoas Savvy\, capable of helping others integrate\, resolve\, and restore core integrity. \nCompleting this 30-hr USA Nationally Certified Course is a prerequisite for joining my online Community and referral page where people can locate psoas savvy classes and a variety of therapists in their local communities. \nStep away from your dedicated focus to deepen and broaden your perspective and experience your bio-intelligence through this core tissue. Doing so\, your own psoas becomes a guide for self-actualization that informs your work and deepens your core integrity. A healthy psoas is the first step towards functional movement and a coherent nervous system. Having a coherent core not only supports your capacity for core strength and integrity but also deeply nourishes a resilient life ~ offering essential components for achieving your professional goals. \nJoin me for a restorative &  inspiring 6 days/7 night in the Wilds of Costa Rica where we have a salt water pool and the ocean to dissolve and reappear… \nGROUP SIZE: This Application Course is limited to a maximum of 14 participants (should you wish to bring a partner\,\,  remember you will need personal time to metabolize and integrate our course  experience)\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 completing a BASIC workshop and arrive on time. \nPREREQUISITE & REQUIREMENTS: You must be a professional: certified and/or licensed in your field (no laypersons. Please contact me if you are wondering if you are qualified) and have attended a minimum of one BASIC 12-hr Psoas Workshop. \n\nPlease register only if qualified.  \n\nWEATHER IN JULY :”July is a sweet spot in the calendar for visiting Costa Rica: Hot and sunny\, not too rainy\, and glowing with greenery. It’s a busy month\, but not crazy-busy like the peak season at the end and beginning of the year. It’s busy enough not to be boring. The wildlife is visible and the beaches are perfect. The Osa Peninsula\, located on the Southern Pacific Coast of Costa Rica\, is a world premier rainforest destination dubbed one of the most biologically intense places on earth by National Geographic. The pristine peninsula is bound on the northwest by Drake Bay\, on the west by the Pacific Ocean\, and on the east by the Golfo Dulce. The Osa Peninsula offers breathtaking\, untouched scenery\, secluded beaches and abundant wildlife encompassing lush primary rainforest and a complex system of freshwater and marine resources.”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOUR HOST IS NEREUS RETREAT CENTER\nYou are required to stay at the Nereus. No one is allowed to commute or stay elsewhere. \n\n  \nACCOMMODATION PRICE: Your accommodation cost is separate from the price of  the course and must be paid directly.: \n● Accommodation is available in single\, double and triple rooms\n○ Triples x 5 with private bathrooms\n■ $125pp/night\n○ Doubles x 3 with private bathrooms\n■ $150pp/night\n○ Singles with queen beds and shared bathrooms x 4\n■ $145pp/night\n○ Triple and Double rooms can be allocated as single rooms (one king bed)\n■ $200pp/night\n○ Shared rooms can be booked by the bed \nPrices for the 7 Nights Including Meals: ONCE REGISTERED FOR THE COURSE AND APPROVED TO ATTEND I WILL SEND A DIRECT LINK TO SECURE YOUR ACCOMMODATIONS  \n\nDouble Occupancy “Rainforest” with en-suite bathroom – $1\,050.00\nSingle Occupancy “Jungle” with shared exterior bathroom – $1\,015.00\nSingle Occupancy “Rainforest” with en-suite bathroom – $1\,400.00\nTriple Occupancy “Rainforest” with en-suite bathroom – $875.00\n\n\nWhen  making your room reservation you may request a specific roommate or share a room with another participate you are meeting for the first time.\n● 25% deposit is required upon booking\n● Remaining balance to be paid 30 days before arrival \nROOMS:Core Awareness pricing for accommodations includes  3 meals a  day:  \n MEALS: Breakfast\, lunch\, and dinner are freshly prepared daily local cusine in a health-supportive\, gluten-free kitchen. Served family-style in an open-plan dining area\, all dietary requirements are catered to.  \n\n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \nTRAVEL: Juan Santamaria airport in San Jose (SJO) is a well-served with flights around the world and offers the easiest connections to travel onward to Nereus Retreats. The retreat center offers. extensive  guidance for the best way to arrive on time and from wherever you maybe arriving from ( email core awareness for details) \nCANCELLATION POLICY: All International workshop registrations are FINAL and offer no refunds or substitutes.. Please read my complete cancellation policy available online before registering. If there is a waiting list\, a transfer fee may apply.\n.\nNational Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB) Approved. This 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/application-course-costa-rica-2025/
LOCATION:Nereus Retreats\, Puerto Jiménez\, Osa Pennisula\, Costa Rica
CATEGORIES:Application Course,Professional Training,Retreat
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SUMMARY:A Conversation: Capturing the Wild ~ The Dangers of Modern Day Self Regulation
DESCRIPTION:Join me for a conversation with Wilderness guide Sarah Byrden \nThursday July 10\, 2025\nTUNE IN 11:00 Pacific | 12:00 Mountain | 1:00 Central | 2:00 Eastern \n FREE &  open to everyone!\nPlease bring your own refreshments\, inquiries and curiosity… \nSarah & I will discuss and chew over what Emilie Conrad called\nthe Insistence on Homeostasis\n  \nCapturing the Wild\nThe Dangers of Modern Day Self Regulation\nwe’ll be speaking to the elemental power of desire emerging from the kidney (destiny) and what happens in domestication that suffocates our impulses and innate expressions (primal gestures).\nTill we meet on Zoom….
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/free-conversation-july-2025/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Conversations,featured
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SUMMARY:Private Sessions | Sunday June 29 Santa Cruz
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 Synergy Studio in Santa Cruz California \nSunday June 29\, 2025 \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 $230 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/private-santa-cruz-ca-june-29/
LOCATION:Studio on Westside of Santa Cruz – to be announced
CATEGORIES:featured,Private Session
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SUMMARY:Stalking Wild Sound with Co-conspirator Kim Scanlon Seattle
DESCRIPTION:3-Day Stalking Wild Workshop\nSound & Movement with co-conspirator Kim Scanlon \nLakewood Seward Community Center \nSeattle Washington – June 20 – 22\, 2025 \n \nWhy are “voice” and “music” separate from the somatic world?\n\nWhat if Sound\, \nwhether it’s\nvibration\,\nword\,\nnote\,\nscale\,\nchord\,\nor\nrhythm \nhas its own intelligence? \nInwardly accessing simple fluid wave\, we’ll unfold from pure sound on the floor to SONG! Working with the ancestral sound of the guttural “O” we begin by letting our primal tube play us. \nWhat emerges is our conditioning: scolding\, shrinking\, avoiding: silence.\nExploring the possibilities of sounding offers us the opportunity to notice our tendency to contract—physically\, imaginatively\, and spiritually. \nMore provocatively\, Singing\, in a creaturely way\, lets us come into a full relationship to self and most importantly Community.\nMoving into deeper terrain\, sensing bones\, we flesh out our animal body.\nBy playing with the intelligence of sound\, rhythm\, breath\, scales\, grammar\, and words all at once— sensation and imagination come alive! With the intelligence/sensuality/shapeliness of pure vibration we keep that awareness and move into vowel and then simple song. \n  \n \n\nKim Scanlon is a jazz singer\, writer\, mentor\, and teacher\, fascinated by the human voice\, the invisible instrument. She’s been developing her unique approach to vernacular (non-classical) singing for forty years. Kim’s investigations are informed by broad study—of music\, of course\, but also: depth psychology\, Continuum Movement ™\, Steiner’s approach to grammar & punctuation\, North Indian scales\, communal grief rituals. The point is to restore our birthright to sing\, and to be rendered by sound. She works and consults with a wide variety of individuals\, groups\, and organizations. For over a decade\, she was a faculty member at Wisdombridge in San Francisco where she helped to develop programs and curricula combining community development\, poetics\, eco- and archetypal psychologies. Presently\, she serves as a depth coach to women artists and is writing a book about singing.  A Compass Records recording artist\, in 2025\, Kim’s band\, The Palace Thieves\, will release their first album\, When We Were Swans. Kim lives in Seattle with her husband. \n  \n\n \n Liz Koch is a conceptual artist exploring the deep sensory system and bio-intelligence of our primal core. An international educator\, author\, mother\, grandmother\, and creator of Core Awareness™ her work focuses on awareness for developing human potential. Her teaching includes racial\, social\, and cultural explorations of BODY as Process (not object). Direct perception and kinesthetic intelligence is her passion and Changing the Language of Body is her mission. With over 45 years specializing in the psoas\, Liz is recognized in the somatic\, bodywork\, and fitness professions as an authority on the Psoas. Nationally and internationally published\, her works includes: The Psoas Book\, Unraveling Scoliosis CD\, Core Awareness; Enhancing Yoga\, Pilates\, Exercise & Dance\, Psoas & Back Pain CD\, Mother\, Maiden\, Crone: Our Pleasure Playlist and Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence. Liz Koch is approved by the USA National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB)\, as a continuing education provider.. \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 18 hours of continuing education credit (CEU). For more information on the NCBTMB\, please visit their website.
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/seattle-2025/
LOCATION:Lakewood Seward Park Community Club\, 4916 South Angeline Street\, Seattle\, WA\, 98118\, United States
CATEGORIES:featured,Workshop
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SUMMARY:BASIC (12-Hr) Psoas Workshop (NCBTMB Approved) via Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Thank you so much for the workshop over the weekend. \nIt was the most amazing\, eye opening and inspiring workshop… \nIt answered a lot of my questions and made me think about a whole lot more! \nI also really appreciate your generosity with your knowledge and not rushing through any answers to our questions.\nI know this is just the beginning of my journey with your training.\n(Workshop Participant)\n \n3-Day ONLINE Basic Psoas workshop\, open to every body\, limited to 15 participants \nThis course offers a great way to learn through experience how intelligent Psoas informs your skeletal integrity\, joint rotation\, muscular tension\, breathing\, emotional expression\, and organ functioning. A healthy Psoas facilitates functional movement and improves fitness while reducing over all stress vital for resolving injuries and trauma. Healthy Psoas ignites your core creative flourishing and nourishes your innovative possibilities. \n\n\n\n\nDevelop Your Core Awareness: \n\nUnderstand how healthy Psoas supports movement\, strength\, endurance & well-being\nExperience practical ways of sensing your Psoas\nLearn to soften\, lengthen and revitalize your Psoas\nGain tools for recovering and maintaining a healthy Psoas\nExplore the energetic/emotional/spiritual/ living dynamics of your physical core\nImprove neurological proprioception and skeletal balance\nApply concepts to everyday movement such as sitting\, driving\, and walking\n\nDeepen and broaden your practice whether that be Pilates\, Gyrotonic\, Massage\, Bodywork\, Somatic Movement\, Fitness\, Athletics\, Dance\, Yoga\, Martial Arts\, and/or Psychology… \nRECOMMENDED READING: The Psoas Book \nCANCELLATION POLICY:  Please read my complete cancellation policy available online before registering. Online courses can not be canceled once you have received access to online course material and link. \n \nNational Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB) Approved \nThis is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork for 12 hours of continuing education credit (CEU). For more information on the NCBTMB\, please visit their website.
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/basic-zoom-june-2025/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class,Professional Training,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Join me for a Conversation with Susan Harper (Continuum Montage)
DESCRIPTION:Join me for a conversation with Susan Harper \ncreator of Continuum Montage \nWednesday May 7\, 2025\nTUNE IN 11:00 Pacific | 1:00 Central | 2:00 Eastern \nJoin Liz Koch for a  FREE Conversation open to everyone!  Please bring your own refreshments\, inquiries and curiosity… \nSusan Harper is a continuum teacher\, a heart-soul-counselor\, creative instigator\, inspired teacher of perceptual and movement inquiry\nMeeting Emilie Conrad in 1975 she has continued to follow and carry on lifes’ creative playful impulse of inquiry… \n“My mother introduced me [to Emilie Conrad] …\,  I took a workshop January of 1975 with Emily and I was just blown away in that first week of work with what began to open in me. For the first time there was a a way of exploring with a kinesthetic sensuous and sacred listening.  A kind of a way that didn’t depend on counts – it didn’t depend on choreography\, or steps…the sense of prayer the sense of being in this place of discovery opened so much.” \nphotos sourced from Susan Harper\, Heart of Continuum film produced by Watermark Arts (available on Continuum Montage)
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/free-conversation-with-susan-harper/
LOCATION:Your home
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SUMMARY:Advanced Core Awareness Mentorship - NCBTMB Zoom Approved
DESCRIPTION:A 5-Week Advanced Course designed for both Laypersons &  Professionals to refine your understanding of the explorations found in my book Core Awareness  \n5 participant mentorship \nIn the intimacy of a small group gathering (max 5) on Zoom we will integrate the fundamental concepts for maintaining a healthy psoas. Each week we refine and articulate movement\, increase proprioception\, and integrate our results by working together. Learning from each other’s expertise\, sharing our observations\, questioning our strategies we’ll explore each chapter\, encouraging a keen eye\, nuanced sensing\, and deep listening while fostering our inner knowing. \n \nFOR EVERYONE: Integrate the Core Awareness explorations into your own practice in order to be able to gain refinement as well as to successfully guide your clients and students through a natural process for regaining and maintaining a healthy psoas. \nCourse Participants will also gain: \n\nDevelop observational skills for supporting the healthy psoas.\nBecome cognizant of the signs of an overactive sympathetic fear response and disrupted proprioception\nIdentify and choose a strategy of support\, facilitate and implement basic trauma protocol\nUtilize somatic tools for supporting the healthy psoas and sensing the core expression (Neurocore)\nFacilitate your client and students ability to resource support\nLearn to recognize lack of grounding in movement and expression\nWork together in partnerships that will display the ability for self help or to lead students through explorations that support the healthy psoas\nConceptualize and communicate the importance of core integrity and its relationship to the psoas.\n\n  \nPREREQUISITE & REQUIREMENTS: You must  have attended a minimum of One BASIC  Psoas Workshops and/or a combination of the 5-week Audio Psoas course plus  3 Zoom classes.  Please read and bring to class: Core Awareness: Enhancing Yoga\, Pilates\, Exercise & Dance.\nExpect and be available to have a homework assignment and to discuss the concepts during each class. \nNOTE: This course is an educational process designed for people interested in the field of Bodywork\, Yoga\, Pilates\, Dance\, and Fitness to increase their understanding and experience of the healthy psoas.  It is NOT for those needing to heal from trauma or major injuries. Please register only if qualified. This course is limited to 5 participants. \nI encourage professionals already on my COMMUNITY page to attend to further deepen your understanding of how to utilize the explorations and develop skills in discerning the healthy psoas. \nCANCELLATION POLICY: Cancellation Policy\nUSA Psoas Workshop Cancellation Policy: Cancellations may be made up until 30 days prior to the workshop. NO money will be refunded 30 days before the workshop date. Workshop deposits are non-refundable. Registration for the ADVANCED COURSE is FINAL and can not be transferred or deferred. \nNational Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB) Approved \nThis is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork for 20 hours of continuing education credit (CEU). For more information on the NCBTMB\, please visit their website.
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/core-awareness-advanced-course-may-2025/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class,Professional Training
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SUMMARY:Joining Hands Together in the Mystery with Anasuya Isaacs
DESCRIPTION:Joining Hands Together in the Mystery  \nA Collaboration with\nLiz Koch & Anasuya Isaacs \nexploring this moment through movement and creativity   \n“The times are urgent; let us slow down. Slowing down is losing our way… it is the invitations that are now in the world-at-large\, inviting us to listen deeply\, to be keen\, to be fresh\, to be quick with our heels\, to follow the sights and sounds and smells of the world.”\nIn the Tradition of the Yoruba People told to us by Bayo Akomolafe \nLet us come together for 2.5 hours of deep soulful presence to tap into our inner bone knowing\nLet us join hands as we enter the dark womb of wonder\, and emerging possibilities…\nSoftening the lights and blurring our gaze\nwe put our ear to the ground for what is summoning us \nWith pen and crayon in hand\, we PAUSE in this time of fertile darkness…\nto hear our inner guidance and be responsive to what is needed now \nLet us gather in a moving exploration of creative play \nSaturday April 26 \n10:00 –  12:30 pm Pacific\n12:00 – 2:30 pm Central\n1:00 – 3:30 pm Eastern \nA recording will be available if you cannot attend live. \nOpen to every B O D Y  around the Globe \nMeet Your Collaborators… Anasuya and Liz met at We Will Dance With Mountains a monthly course presented by Bayo Akolomafe over several years. Continuing to study with Bayo our worlds not only collided\, but also have become rich loom seeding creative collaborations; entangling and rooting us deeper into life’s mystery. \nAnasuya Isaacs: is a globetrotting Alchemical Transformation Coach Trainer\, Speaker\, Entrepreneur\, Writer\, and Painter. As a Cultural Ambassador\, she has developed empowerment programs for people to speak the unspeakable\, love their broken selves and own their innate power by combining the power of storytelling\, empathy and the creative arts/theater to teach the power of Words to manifest your desired outcomes now. She has empowered Women and young people through her programs all across New York City as a Teaching Artist as well as in France\, Kenya\, Italy\, South Africa and Germany. Trained in the Stanislavsky Method of acting in Paris\, France\, Anasuya co-founded a theater company in Paris with friends to perform classical French theater in the Commedia dell’Arte style. \nAs an advocate for women’s leadership\, Anasuya is a Certified and Licensed WomanSpeak Circle Leader\, facilitating the unleashing of the brilliance of women’s voices as public speakers. This training expands Anasuya’s healing offering to women and children  ready to liberate their voices stolen by trauma from rape\, sex trafficking\, sexual and physical abuse. As a Certified Intentional Creativity Teacher\, Anasuya creates and leads workshops and programs that lead people into a Vision Quest into the heart of their Soul Work and their innate healing capacity using visual art\, writing and sacred rituals. She is currently training with AVR-Alternatives to Violence Project.  \nAnasuya to study International Relations and Communication at Oberlin College. As required by the US State Department\, she became bi-lingual in French\, deepening her study of the language at the Sorbonne\, Universite de Paris\, in Paris\, France.   Traveling to 22 countries and living in six countries outside of the United States she has been facilitating her Let Love Lead workshops and programs that ignite the sacred alchemy between theater\, poetry\, song and art and healing from trauma. This platform creates safe space for understanding between cultures. Most notable is Anasuya’s work fostering dialogue between Germans and the newly arrived Syrian refugees; between Italians and the African asylum seekers crossing the Mediterranean; and between South Africans and their exiled citizens living with AIDS at the height of the AIDS pandemic.\n\n \nLiz Koch: is a conceptual artist exploring the deep sensory system and the wild wisdom and bio-intelligence of our primal core. An international educator\, author\, mother\, crone\, and creator of CoreAwareness™ focusing on awareness is key for developing human potential and awakening consciousness. With 45 years experience specializing in the tissue called Psoas\, Liz is recognized in the somatic\, bodywork\, and fitness professions as an authority on what is referred to as The Muscle of The Soul.  Her teaching includes developing racial\, social\, and cultural awareness of BODY as process not object.  Her courses include Moving Whiteness\, Coming to Our Senses and Nourishing the Female Soul Together.  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 Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence. Valuing kinesthetic intelligence and somatic awareness as a means for developing human potential. Stalking Wild Psoas is her passion and Changing the Language of Body is her mission. \n\n…“In this book\, Stalking Wild Psoas\, Liz Koch cradles our collective gasp and assumes the role of a trusted guide into the fascinating poetry of embodiment.\nTracking an emerging tradition that re-emphasizes entanglement in a new materialist terrain\, and resituating bodies as the polyvocal agency of a surprisingly\nintelligent and animated world (instead of as separable units set against a mute backdrop)\,\nLiz Koch weaves a story of healing\, of surprise\, and of hope.\nThe psoas – a major core muscle that has a story to tell – is her main protagonist.\nAnd her lilting and warm invitation rapturous voices of a world suddenly alive.\n~ Bayo Akolomafe ~
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/together-in-the-mystery-2025/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class,Video Recorded Class
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SUMMARY:BASIC (12-Hr) Psoas Workshop (NCBTMB Approved) via Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Thank you so much for the workshop over the weekend. \nIt was the most amazing\, eye opening and inspiring workshop… \nIt answered a lot of my questions and made me think about a whole lot more! \nI also really appreciate your generosity with your knowledge and not rushing through any answers to our questions.\nI know this is just the beginning of my journey with your training.\n(Workshop Participant)\n \n3-Day ONLINE Basic Psoas workshop\, open to every body\, limited to 15 participants \nThis course offers a great way to learn through experience how intelligent Psoas informs your skeletal integrity\, joint rotation\, muscular tension\, breathing\, emotional expression\, and organ functioning. A healthy Psoas facilitates functional movement and improves fitness while reducing over all stress vital for resolving injuries and trauma. Healthy Psoas ignites your core creative flourishing and nourishes your innovative possibilities. \n\n\n\n\nDevelop Your Core Awareness: \n\nUnderstand how healthy Psoas supports movement\, strength\, endurance & well-being\nExperience practical ways of sensing your Psoas\nLearn to soften\, lengthen and revitalize your Psoas\nGain tools for recovering and maintaining a healthy Psoas\nExplore the energetic/emotional/spiritual/ living dynamics of your physical core\nImprove neurological proprioception and skeletal balance\nApply concepts to everyday movement such as sitting\, driving\, and walking\n\nDeepen and broaden your practice whether that be Pilates\, Gyrotonic\, Massage\, Bodywork\, Somatic Movement\, Fitness\, Athletics\, Dance\, Yoga\, Martial Arts\, and/or Psychology… \nRECOMMENDED READING: The Psoas Book \nCANCELLATION POLICY:  Please read my complete cancellation policy available online before registering. Online courses can not be canceled once you have received access to online course material and link. \n \nNational Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB) Approved \nThis is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork for 12 hours of continuing education credit (CEU). For more information on the NCBTMB\, please visit their website.
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/basic-zoom-april-2025/
LOCATION:Your home
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SUMMARY:Private Sessions | Spring in New York City 2025
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 Thursday and Friday March 27 & 28 \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 $285.00 USD \n \n  \nCANCELLATION: Because of this rare and limited opportunity payment for your appointment is due in advance – payment is in full with no refunds available (please check for waiting list replacement– a $30 service fee may apply for substitutions). If I am unable to meet your appointment a full refund will be given.
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/ny-privates-march-2025/
LOCATION:Moving Body Resources Studio\, 112 W 27th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10001\, United States
CATEGORIES:featured,Private Session
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SUMMARY:BASIC (12-Hr) Psoas Workshop (NCBTMB Approved) via Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Thank you so much for the workshop over the weekend. \nIt was the most amazing\, eye opening and inspiring workshop… \nIt answered a lot of my questions and made me think about a whole lot more! \nI also really appreciate your generosity with your knowledge and not rushing through any answers to our questions.\nI know this is just the beginning of my journey with your training.\n(Workshop Participant)\n \n3-Day ONLINE Basic Psoas workshop\, open to every body\, limited to 15 participants \nThis course offers a great way to learn through experience how intelligent Psoas informs your skeletal integrity\, joint rotation\, muscular tension\, breathing\, emotional expression\, and organ functioning. A healthy Psoas facilitates functional movement and improves fitness while reducing over all stress vital for resolving injuries and trauma. Healthy Psoas ignites your core creative flourishing and nourishes your innovative possibilities. \n\n\n\n\nDevelop Your Core Awareness: \n\nUnderstand how healthy Psoas supports movement\, strength\, endurance & well-being\nExperience practical ways of sensing your Psoas\nLearn to soften\, lengthen and revitalize your Psoas\nGain tools for recovering and maintaining a healthy Psoas\nExplore the energetic/emotional/spiritual/ living dynamics of your physical core\nImprove neurological proprioception and skeletal balance\nApply concepts to everyday movement such as sitting\, driving\, and walking\n\nDeepen and broaden your practice whether that be Pilates\, Gyrotonic\, Massage\, Bodywork\, Somatic Movement\, Fitness\, Athletics\, Dance\, Yoga\, Martial Arts\, and/or Psychology… \nRECOMMENDED READING: The Psoas Book \nCANCELLATION POLICY:  Please read my complete cancellation policy available online before registering. Online courses can not be canceled once you have received access to online course material and link. \n \nNational Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB) Approved \nThis is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork for 12 hours of continuing education credit (CEU). For more information on the NCBTMB\, please visit their website.
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/basic-zoom-feb-march-2025/
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SUMMARY:10-Month Professional Application CourseOnline Course 2025 CANCELED
DESCRIPTION:  \n \n“Indeed\, this course created another path to take me into the infinite within\, where there is no bottom or goal. I shall continue on this journey\, it has just begun.”\n~ Yoko Yasui _ Cranial Sacral Massage therapist – Australia \n“Thank you for your impressive way of sharing your being and showing us how to land into our ground\, where our NS can rest deeply\, and we start to experience authenticity and integrity. For me it is only a beginning\, but so inviting that once on this path\, one is eager to discover more. What I can integrate during this application course\, I can surely bring alive with myself and my clients.            \n~ Hilde Naedts – Psychotherapist – Belgium\n“Working with Liz brought me in contact with myself\, who I truly am\, from my inner being.  Meeting for 10 months gave me time to integrate. In addition\, the individual sessions\, midmonth gatherings\, and all the material really enriched the process!”\n~ Désirée Bourgonje – Healing Tao – Netherlands\n\n“As a bodyworker for 34 years\, the 10-month Application course with Liz Koch for me was a journey of self-exploration into transformation.  It deepened my relationship with my clients’ needs and enabled me to meet them where they are in the moment\, without an agenda of my own. I came out of the course with valuable\, tangible\, easy-to-implement tools to share with my clients that deepens their own bodies’ innate healing capacity.”\n~ Lori Rizzuto\, Lic. MsT\, Bowen Practitioner – USA\n~    ~    ~    ~    ~    ~    ~ \nOffering my PROFESSIONAL APPLICATION COURSE as a 10-Month Online Course via Zoom brought my attention to the need and value of integrating concepts and experiences over space and time. This course is designed to deepen your experience of psoas and locate core knowing within yourself so that you show up fully\, bringing your integral creative expression into the world. \n10-Month Application Course for Professionals includes \n1) Meeting the 3rd Wednesday of the month\, for 4 hours\, for 10 months (plus one make up month the following January). \n2) Mid-month Peer Group Support \n3) Two 30-minute Private Consultations with Liz Koch (evaluation at beginning and end of the course or 1 hour when you choose) \nOur focus: \n\nConceptual & Experiential Understanding of Healthy Psoas\nAwakening the Primal Brain and Instinctual Psoas in order to hone your ability to track and show up integral in your personal & profession life.\nFunctional Applications and Foundational Resources for integrating Conceptual/Paradigm & Language shifts into your life  & profession.\nHomework Explorations and One Presentation required to deepen and personalize your experience.\n\nPlease note only 30 of the required 43 participatory hours will be applied to the NCBTMB certification \n \n The Application Course offers those licensed as Somatic Educators\, Yoga Instructors\, Pilates & Gyrotonic Trainers\, Massage Practitioners\, Body & Healing Practitioners; as well as Birth & Fitness Coaches\, Dance Therapists\, Martial Arts Instructors\, plus all psychologists\, trauma and embodiment educators to develop into Psoas Savvy educators\, capable of helping others integrate and resolve psoas related issues. This course is an opportunity to heal your own psoas issues while bringing psoas awareness to your professional life. \nAlong with this course when possible I highly recommend joining an in-person course to establish a relationship with me. Completing the Application Course is a prerequisite but not necessarily a guarantee for joining my online Community and referral page where people can locate Psoas savvy classes and therapists in their community. \n ~     ~    ~    ~      ~ \nStep away from your dedicated focus to deepen and broaden your perspective and experience your bio-intelligent core tissue called psoas. By doing so\, your own psoas becomes a guide for self actualization that informs your work from deep within your core being.  A healthy psoas is the first step towards functional movement and a coherent nervous system. Having a coherent core not only supports our capacity for core strength and integrity but also nourishing a resilient life; thus offering essential components for achieving your professional goals. \nInspire your  personal and professional life \n \nGROUP SIZE: This ONLINE Application Course is limited to a maximum of 15 participants \nPREREQUISITE & REQUIREMENTS: You must be a professional: certified and/or licensed in your field (no laypersons please) and have attended a minimum of one BASIC 12-hr Psoas Workshop and preferably one Stalking Wild Psoas Workshop or 3 FLUID CORE Zoom Classes.  Please register only if qualified.  Note: You are required to attend all classes to receive NCBTMB certification and/or be eligible for my online community.  \nDATES: February 19/ March 19/ April 16/ May 21/ June 18/ July 16 August 20/ September 18/ October 15/ November is tentatively scheduled for  December 3rd  (NOTE: this last month’s date will need to be rescheduled due to my international travel but will be a date everyone can attend). \nPhoto Credit Albrecht Dietz (Pixabay) \n2025 IN_PERSON Professional Application Courses  are scheduled for Costa Rica (July) and Denmark (October)
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LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Application Course,Online Class,Professional Training
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SUMMARY:Psoas Healing Retreat (Professional Application Course) Ojo Caliente NM 2026
DESCRIPTION:Be inspired from the inside out! \nThe APPLICATION COURSE & Healing Retreat is 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 12 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 BASIC Psoas Workshop (online or in person)  To be potentially included on my LINKS referral page requires a minimum of attending a 12 or 18 hour Psoas Workshop plus this 30-Hour 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 the Ojo Caliente Mineral Spring Resort & Spa https://ojosparesorts.com/ojo-caliente/stay/  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 and each has unique possibilities so please feel free to contact me for suggestions as to which will best suit your needs. NOTE: if Ojo website says they are sold out call to confirm dates 877-977-8212 \nIMPORTANT: I encourage everyone to stay at the Ojo Caliente resort to attend this course. You will have easy access to the water and to me. However\, as Ojo Caliente is a popular destination prices have gone up and accommodations are limited I am opening to commuters. I still discourage getting in a car each day – it breaks the ability to deeply relax to be car free and walk…but if you wish to come and this is your only way possible then go ahead and register. \nTo be part of the Application Course you must arrive Sunday\, January 25th and join us at 7:30 pm and depart after 6:00pm on Saturday\, January 31st  – 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. \nWe will be in New Mexico in the wintertime.  It is very beautiful but may be cold and might even snow!  Plan accordingly. \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 completing a BASIC workshop and arrive on time. \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-2026-2/
LOCATION:Ojo Caliente Spa\, 50 Los Banos Drive\, Ojo\, NM\, 87549\, United States
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SUMMARY:Psoas Healing Retreat (Professional Application Course) Ojo Caliente NM 2025
DESCRIPTION:Be inspired from the inside out! \nThe APPLICATION COURSE & Healing Retreat is 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 12 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 BASIC Psoas Workshop (online or in person)  To be potentially included on my LINKS referral page requires a minimum of attending a 12 or 18 hour Psoas Workshop plus this 30-Hour 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 the Ojo Caliente Mineral Spring Resort & Spa https://ojosparesorts.com/ojo-caliente/stay/  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 and each has unique possibilities so please feel free to contact me for suggestions as to which will best suit your needs. NOTE: if Ojo website says they are sold out call to confirm dates 877-977-8212 \nIMPORTANT: I encourage everyone to stay at the Ojo Caliente resort to attend this course. You will have easy access to the water and to me. However\, as Ojo Caliente is a popular destination prices have gone up and accommodations are limited I am opening to commuters. I still discourage getting in a car each day – it breaks the ability to deeply relax to be car free and walk…but if you wish to come and this is your only way possible then go ahead and register. \nTo be part of the Application Course you must arrive Sunday\, January 26th and join us at 7:30 pm and depart after 6:00pm on Saturday\, February 1st  – 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. \nWe will be in New Mexico in the wintertime.  It is very beautiful but may be cold and might even snow!  Plan accordingly. \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 completing a BASIC workshop and arrive on time. \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-2025/
LOCATION:Ojo Caliente Spa\, 50 Los Banos Drive\, Ojo\, NM\, 87549\, United States
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SUMMARY:BASIC (12-Hr) Psoas Workshop (NCBTMB Approved) via Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Thank you so much for the workshop over the weekend. \nIt was the most amazing\, eye opening and inspiring workshop… \nIt answered a lot of my questions and made me think about a whole lot more! \nI also really appreciate your generosity with your knowledge and not rushing through any answers to our questions.\nI know this is just the beginning of my journey with your training.\n(Workshop Participant)\n \n3-Day ONLINE Basic Psoas workshop\, open to every body\, limited to 15 participants \nThis course offers a great way to learn through experience how intelligent Psoas informs your skeletal integrity\, joint rotation\, muscular tension\, breathing\, emotional expression\, and organ functioning. A healthy Psoas facilitates functional movement and improves fitness while reducing over all stress vital for resolving injuries and trauma. Healthy Psoas ignites your core creative flourishing and nourishes your innovative possibilities. \n\n\n\n\nDevelop Your Core Awareness: \n\nUnderstand how healthy Psoas supports movement\, strength\, endurance & well-being\nExperience practical ways of sensing your Psoas\nLearn to soften\, lengthen and revitalize your Psoas\nGain tools for recovering and maintaining a healthy Psoas\nExplore the energetic/emotional/spiritual/ living dynamics of your physical core\nImprove neurological proprioception and skeletal balance\nApply concepts to everyday movement such as sitting\, driving\, and walking\n\nDeepen and broaden your practice whether that be Pilates\, Gyrotonic\, Massage\, Bodywork\, Somatic Movement\, Fitness\, Athletics\, Dance\, Yoga\, Martial Arts\, and/or Psychology… \nRECOMMENDED READING: The Psoas Book \nCANCELLATION POLICY:  Please read my complete cancellation policy available online before registering. Online courses can not be canceled once you have received access to online course material and link. \n \nNational Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB) Approved \nThis is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork for 12 hours of continuing education credit (CEU). For more information on the NCBTMB\, please visit their website.
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/basic-zoom-january-2025/
LOCATION:Your home
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SUMMARY:Join me for Sunday Tea and a Conversation about Core Integrity
DESCRIPTION:Join me for Sunday Tea \nSunday January 5\, 2025\nTUNE IN 1:00 Eastern | 12:00 Central | 10:00 Pacific \nJoin Liz Koch for a  FREE Conversation open to everyone!  Please bring your own refreshments\, inquiries and curiosity… \nWhat is Core Integrity?   Why is Psoas a ground swell of  flow that  like a river is shaping the terrain of our very being? How do we enter into a loving relationship with our living breathing core being ? \n \nTracking our animal body instincts is primary for making  deep bone knowing decisions. sniffing out what feeds our soul\, and reckoning with our unfolding  lives. Core Integrity is a way of rooting deeply into community\, our chosen family\, and the core of a living Earth. \nStalking Wild Psoas is a flesh sensing  journey back home\, unfolding layers of being that is fragmented. \nChanging the language of body is a tendering\, a remember-ing we are earth bodies\, made of dirt\, water and sky – by slowing down\, pausing to sense the seeds of our being we find ground to  root; moving through layers of dominant cultural perceptions of body which set us up for failure…to discover how direct perception offers nourishment sustaining our meandering curious awareness and heartfelt longing to reshape us through this time of emerging gestures.
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/free-core-integrity/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Conversations
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SUMMARY:BASIC (12-Hr) Psoas Workshop (NCBTMB Approved) via Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Thank you so much for the workshop over the weekend. \nIt was the most amazing\, eye opening and inspiring workshop… \nIt answered a lot of my questions and made me think about a whole lot more! \nI also really appreciate your generosity with your knowledge and not rushing through any answers to our questions.\nI know this is just the beginning of my journey with your training.\n(Workshop Participant)\n \n3-Day ONLINE Basic Psoas workshop\, open to every body\, limited to 15 participants \nThis course offers a great way to learn through experience how intelligent Psoas informs your skeletal integrity\, joint rotation\, muscular tension\, breathing\, emotional expression\, and organ functioning. A healthy Psoas facilitates functional movement and improves fitness while reducing over all stress vital for resolving injuries and trauma. Healthy Psoas ignites your core creative flourishing and nourishes your innovative possibilities. \n\n\n\n\nDevelop Your Core Awareness: \n\nUnderstand how healthy Psoas supports movement\, strength\, endurance & well-being\nExperience practical ways of sensing your Psoas\nLearn to soften\, lengthen and revitalize your Psoas\nGain tools for recovering and maintaining a healthy Psoas\nExplore the energetic/emotional/spiritual/ living dynamics of your physical core\nImprove neurological proprioception and skeletal balance\nApply concepts to everyday movement such as sitting\, driving\, and walking\n\nDeepen and broaden your practice whether that be Pilates\, Gyrotonic\, Massage\, Bodywork\, Somatic Movement\, Fitness\, Athletics\, Dance\, Yoga\, Martial Arts\, and/or Psychology… \nRECOMMENDED READING: The Psoas Book \nCANCELLATION POLICY:  Please read my complete cancellation policy available online before registering. Online courses can not be canceled once you have received access to online course material and link. \n \nNational Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB) Approved \nThis is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork for 12 hours of continuing education credit (CEU). For more information on the NCBTMB\, please visit their website.
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/basic-zoom-december-2024/
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CATEGORIES:Online Class,Professional Training,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Private Sessions | November 10 Santa Cruz CA
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 Synergy Studio in Santa Cruz California \nSunday November 10\, 2024 \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 $230 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/private-santa-cruz-ca-november-2024/
LOCATION:Studio on Westside of Santa Cruz – to be announced
CATEGORIES:Private Session
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SUMMARY:Advanced Core Awareness Course - NCBTMB Zoom Approved  (Level One)
DESCRIPTION:A 5-Week Advanced Course designed for both Laypersons &  Professionals to refine your understanding of the explorations found in my book Core Awareness  \n5 participant mentorship \nIn the intimacy of a small group gathering (max 5) on Zoom we will integrate the fundamental concepts for maintaining a healthy psoas. Each week we refine and articulate movement\, increase proprioception\, and integrate our results by working together. Learning from each other’s expertise\, sharing our observations\, questioning our strategies we’ll explore each chapter\, encouraging a keen eye\, nuanced sensing\, and deep listening while fostering our inner knowing. \n \nFOR EVERYONE: Integrate the Core Awareness explorations into your own practice in order to be able to gain refinement as well as to successfully guide your clients and students through a natural process for regaining and maintaining a healthy psoas. \nCourse Participants will also gain: \n\nDevelop observational skills for supporting the healthy psoas.\nBecome cognizant of the signs of an overactive sympathetic fear response and disrupted proprioception\nIdentify and choose a strategy of support\, facilitate and implement basic trauma protocol\nUtilize somatic tools for supporting the healthy psoas and sensing the core expression (Neurocore)\nFacilitate your client and students ability to resource support\nLearn to recognize lack of grounding in movement and expression\nWork together in partnerships that will display the ability for self help or to lead students through explorations that support the healthy psoas\nConceptualize and communicate the importance of core integrity and its relationship to the psoas.\n\n  \nPREREQUISITE & REQUIREMENTS: You must  have attended a minimum of One BASIC  Psoas Workshops and/or a combination of the 5-week Audio Psoas course plus  3 Zoom classes.  Please read and bring to class: Core Awareness: Enhancing Yoga\, Pilates\, Exercise & Dance.\nExpect and be available to have a homework assignment and to discuss the concepts during each class. \nNOTE: This course is an educational process designed for people interested in the field of Bodywork\, Yoga\, Pilates\, Dance\, and Fitness to increase their understanding and experience of the healthy psoas.  It is NOT for those needing to heal from trauma or major injuries. Please register only if qualified. This course is limited to 5 participants. \nI encourage professionals already on my COMMUNITY page to attend to further deepen your understanding of how to utilize the explorations and develop skills in discerning the healthy psoas. \nCANCELLATION POLICY: Cancellation Policy\nUSA Psoas Workshop Cancellation Policy: Cancellations may be made up until 30 days prior to the workshop. NO money will be refunded 30 days before the workshop date. Workshop deposits are non-refundable. Registration for the ADVANCED COURSE is FINAL and can not be transferred or deferred. \nNational Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB) Approved \nThis is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork for 20 hours of continuing education credit (CEU). For more information on the NCBTMB\, please visit their website.
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/core-awareness-advanced-course-level-one-oct-nov-2024/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Online Class,Professional Training
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SUMMARY:Private Sessions | Fall in New York City 2024
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 Tuesday October 15-17 \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 \n \n  \nCANCELLATION: Because of this rare and limited opportunity payment for your appointment is due in advance – payment is in full with no refunds available (please check for waiting list replacement– a $30 service fee may apply for substitutions). If I am unable to meet your appointment a full refund will be given.
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/ny-privates-october-2024/
LOCATION:Moving Body Resources Studio\, 112 W 27th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10001\, United States
CATEGORIES:featured,Private Session
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SUMMARY:Myth & Bone Knowing Collaboration with Sarah Byrden London
DESCRIPTION:Myth & Bone Knowing \nMOVEMENT AS MEDICINE \nPrimal Gesture & Archetypal Qigong \nTHURSDAY OCTOBER 10 \nA day of Moving Story \nGo out in the woods\, go out. If you don’t go out in the woods nothing will ever happen and your life will never begin.\n~ Clarissa Pibkola Estes ~ \nWe begin exploring the power inherent within Myth and Archetype as a portal into our mutable inner knowing. Softening\, Shapeshifting\, Tracking we’ll sense into our birthright of our animal body\nand into the wild fluid terrain of inner power. \nThere is movement to our personal mythology as well as the myths that guide and are unfolding in our lives. There is a mythology to the innate gestures that rise from our tissue\, and can be touched in specific archetypal flows of qigong as well as in returning to the biomorhic movement of our fluid primal body. All contain a unique and brilliant holographic intelligence that contain maps to show us where we are\, where we have been and where to go next\, mirrors within which to see ourselves and understand our states and conditions\, and the medicine to nourish and instruct us in regards to what is really the matter and where to go from here. \nLiz Koch & Sarah Byrden. \nLONDON \n  \nSarah Byrden is a somatic practitioner\, Qigong practitioner\, educator and wilderness guide. A two time TEDx presenter\, Sarah has dedicated over twenty years to the deep study and apprenticeship of nature-based movement modalities. Teaching from her own life-long journey\, she is the founder of The Elemental Self\, which offers pathways for remembering our true self\, the web in which we belong\, and our innate capacity to move and be moved by a source beyond our conditioning. \n  \n  \n  \nLiz Koch is a conceptual artist exploring the deep sensory system and the wild wisdom of core Psoas. An international somatic educator and author with 45 years of experience\, she is the creator of Core Awareness™ and the author of The Psoas Book; Core Awareness: Enhancing Yoga\, Pilates\, Exercise & Dance; Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence; and her upcoming book Birth Savvy. Liz focuses on kinesthetic intelligence and somatic awareness as a means for unfolding our human potential. Stalking Wild Psoas is her passion and Changing the Language of Body is her mission. \nphoto credit: francesco-ungaro_pexel
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/myth-bone-knowing-collaboration-london-2024/
LOCATION:Skylight Centre\, 49 CORSICA STREET\, London\, N5 1JT\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:12-Hr BASIC Psoas Workshop London UK 2024 Copy
DESCRIPTION:  \nBASIC PSOAS WORKSHOP\n THIS WORKSHOP TAKES PLACE ON A TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY \n \nThe BASIC 12-Hour Psoas 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. \nDevelop Your Core Awareness: \n\nUnderstand the influence of a healthy Psoas on movement\, strength\, endurance\, and 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 \nLiz Koch is a conceptual artist exploring the deep sensory system and the wild wisdom of core Psoas. An international somatic educator and author with 45 years of experience\, she is the creator of Core Awareness™ and the author of The Psoas Book; Core Awareness: Enhancing Yoga\, Pilates\, Exercise & Dance; Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence; and her upcoming book Birth Savvy. Liz focuses on kinesthetic intelligence and somatic awareness as a means for unfolding our human potential. Stalking Wild Psoas is her passion and Changing the Language of Body is her mission. \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-2024-copy/
LOCATION:Skylight Centre\, 49 CORSICA STREET\, London\, N5 1JT\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:12-Hr BASIC Psoas Workshop London UK 2024
DESCRIPTION:  \nBASIC PSOAS WORKSHOP\n THIS WORKSHOP TAKES PLACE ON A TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY \n \nThe BASIC 12-Hour Psoas 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. \nDevelop Your Core Awareness: \n\nUnderstand the influence of a healthy Psoas on movement\, strength\, endurance\, and 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 \nLiz Koch is a conceptual artist exploring the deep sensory system and the wild wisdom of core Psoas. An international somatic educator and author with 45 years of experience\, she is the creator of Core Awareness™ and the author of The Psoas Book; Core Awareness: Enhancing Yoga\, Pilates\, Exercise & Dance; Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence; and her upcoming book Birth Savvy. Liz focuses on kinesthetic intelligence and somatic awareness as a means for unfolding our human potential. Stalking Wild Psoas is her passion and Changing the Language of Body is her mission. \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-2024/
LOCATION:Skylight Centre\, 49 CORSICA STREET\, London\, N5 1JT\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:FIERCE FEMININE Collaboration with Sarah Byrden Amsterdam
DESCRIPTION:THE FIERCE FEMININE\na collaboration\nLiz Koch & Sarah Byrden \n\nSaturday & Sunday October 5 & 6\, 2024 \nA  somatic exploration for inhabiting the fierce feminine.\nThis workshop is open to every body.\nThrough flows of archetypal qigong\, primal expression\, and landing in our bones we call forth the fierce motions of inner life required to guard and protect the female soul\, our truth\, and our integrity. \nWe come together to cut through. To inhabit ourselves more truly.\nMoving out of the false feminine feigning of “not knowing”\ninto the deep visceral knowing of a fierce kind of love. \nFierceness in the feminine soul is too often kept under wraps\, hidden from view\, and relegated to unexpressed territories. In most myths\, fairy tales and real-life scenarios depicting a feminine protagonist\, it is the embodiment and expression of this fierceness that is needed to free her from her own capture\, domestication\, and disappearance toward a life and path of sovereignty and true power. \nThe fierceness of the feminine has long been socialized out of us – relegated to the shadowlands in Western postcolonial contexts. Qualities\, expressions and embodiments of assertion\, boundaries\, directness\, precision\, discernment\, immovable resolve\, deep and direct knowing\, surety\, saying no\, protection\, differentiation\, separation\, severing\, cutting through\, sharp tongue\, truth-telling\, shrewdness\, clarity\, action\, agency\, and power…these movements and energies carry profound wisdom and transformative power in our lives and in our world. \nToo often the qualities of ferocious integrity live in the shadows and become distorted and ineffective versions of themselves as they twist into knots of anger\, rage\, and resentment…or become so hidden that they seem unfindable altogether\, rendering us falsely passive\, self-doubting\, tentative\, demure\, disembodied and dissociated. \nThe aspects and qualities of the ferocious feminine are part of our instinctual animal body containing profound integrity when not repressed\, hidden\, or avoided. \nA fundamental truth of the wild feminine soul is that we know what must live and what must die. It is not only within our reach but within our biological intelligence to be the keepers of cycles and the actors of this agency. \nWhen we are not landed in our bones\, nor close to the somatic gestures of this fierce instinct\, it is difficult to use our voice\, to say a full no or a full yes\, to stand up for ourselves and each other. \nThis workshop is open to all genders and every BODY wishing to explore the qualities of fierceness within the context of the modern socialization of the feminine soul. \nSarah Byrden is a somatic practitioner\, Qigong practitioner\, educator and wilderness guide. A two time TEDx presenter\, Sarah has dedicated over twenty years to the deep study and apprenticeship of nature-based movement modalities. Teaching from her own life-long journey\, she is the founder of The Elemental Self\, which offers pathways for remembering our true self\, the web in which we belong\, and our innate capacity to move and be moved by a source beyond our conditioning. \n  \n  \n Liz Koch is a conceptual artist exploring the deep sensory system and the wild wisdom of core Psoas. An international somatic educator and author with 45 years of experience\, she is the creator of Core Awareness™ and the author of The Psoas Book; Core Awareness: Enhancing Yoga\, Pilates\, Exercise & Dance; Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence; and her upcoming book Birth Savvy. Liz focuses on kinesthetic intelligence and somatic awareness as a means for unfolding our human potential. Stalking Wild Psoas is her passion and Changing the Language of Body is her mission.
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/the-fierce-feminine-amsterdam-2024/
LOCATION:De Neiuwe Yoga School Amsterdam\, Laurierstraat 109\, Amsterdam\, 1016PL \, Netherlands
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SUMMARY:12-Hr BASIC Psoas Workshop Amsterdam 2024
DESCRIPTION:THIS WORKSHOP TAKES PLACE ON A THURSDAY & FRIDAY \nThe 12-Hour BASIC Psoas Workshop is open to everybody and offers a great way to learn\, through experience\, how a healthy dynamic Psoas enhances skeletal integrity\, joint rotation\, and muscular tone;  improving breath\, balancing emotions (the fear response)\, and supporting organ functioning. \nDevelop Your Core Awareness: \n\nUnderstand the influence of a healthy Psoas on movement\, strength\, endurance\, and 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\n \nDeepen and broaden your practice whether it 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. \n\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/12-hr-psoas-workshop-amsterdam-netherlands-2024/
LOCATION:De Neiuwe Yoga School Amsterdam\, Laurierstraat 109\, Amsterdam\, 1016PL \, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Renewal for Professionals: Replenishing Self ~ A Collaboration with Alice Steuerwald
DESCRIPTION:2 Day Replenishing Workshop\n Explorations for Professionals wanting to re-discover and deepen\nSelf Awareness through Sensation\nLAWRENCE  KANSAS\nwith\nLiz Koch & Alice Steuerwald\n\n\n\n\nComing Home to Earth\n \nREVIVE SELF! \nWhether you are a practitioner\,  instructor\, therapist\,\nstep out of your role and tend to your animal body. \nCalling all Yoga\, Pilates\, Gyrotonic\, Massage\, Bodywork\, Somatic\, Movement\, Fitness\, Athletic\, Dance\, Martial Arts\, Psychology\, Acupuncture Professionals \nRESTORE by working all your systems through sensory based explorations to awaken and replenish. Awaken your potential through opening up your systems: respiratory\, nervous\, visceral and fluid transport.\nMotility supports Mobility. \nREFOCUS let go of your identity as a professional and the performative behaviors of your profession and attend to your True Self \nHeld by a supportive field of Earth Based Nourishment join us on this open spacious land.\nThe 2-day country workshop is set in a rich sensory plethora of bird sounds and earthy fragrances …\,\nyou’ll experience the deliciousness of  slowing down\nand the sustenance of clear air\, fresh water\, local plants and herbs\nHere in the Heartlands be met by the heat of a wood sauna\, dark nights\, and spaciousness of open sky \n~ ~ ~ \nVENUE: The Country Studio is 20 minutes from Lawrence offering a tranquil location for a sensory reset. \nNOTE: Should you want to stay over night on the land there are several bedrooms available for rent . Staying overnight is a separate fee from registering for the workshop. You can reach Alice directly for reservations. Email Core Awareness for details. \nCANCELLATION POLICY: Please read my complete cancellation policy available online before registering. \n \nAlice Steuerwald  is a steward of a 60 acre forest\, where she practices the wise woman tradition and lives a yogic life. She’s a seasoned bodyworker who weaves bio-dynamics\, neural fascial\, structural integration hands on.  Alice shares how to support the visceral\, respiratory\, nervous system along with fluid transport with self-care techniques to awaken your inner potential and discover a sense of self through sensation.  Our  body\, mind\, spirit complex is wholeness. \n ~  Embodiment is Empowerment  ~  \n 
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/renewal-for-professionals2024/
LOCATION:TBA – Country Studio
CATEGORIES:Retreat,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Psoas and The Actor ~ Los Angeles CA  - POSTPONED
DESCRIPTION:Deepen and Broaden into Your Art\n Psoas and The Actor is a 2-Day Workshop open to every Body working in the Creative Arts\n\nAs Actors we live and breathe the psychological\, examining the motivations and histories of the characters we portray. When I began exploring Psoas\, I began to sense something beyond the mind and beyond psychology. We are animal body\, designed for a direct unmediated experience of our lives and the abundant world around us.\nCore Awareness has changed my experiential perceptions in a deep and lasting way.\n~ Judith Scott ~ \n Psoas is a primal tissue whose bio-intelligence influences all movement and expression. By exploring our primal gestures we disentangle from our conditioning and begin innovating in new and surprising ways to show up\, shape shift and flourish. Attending to biomorphic expression is a process of attuning one self to a different mode of perception. Rather than focusing on accomplishment it requires fostering a softening of control. This process frees our attention to move from a narrow focus to a wide field of receptivity. \nCANCELLATION POLICY:  Please read my complete cancellation policy available online before registering. \nPhoto Credit: Leon Liu. (Unsplash) and Gesel (Pixels)
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/psoas-for-actors/
LOCATION:LA CENTRAL ARTS STUDIO Venue to be announced.\, Los Angeles\, California
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:BEAR Myth & Bone Knowing ~ Sarah Byrden Joins Us in Discerning the Fierce Feminine
DESCRIPTION:SUNDAY AUGUST 25TH\n1:00 EASTERN | 12:00 CENTRAL| 11:00 MOUNTAIN | 10:00 PACIFIC\nMoving Beyond Social Constructs\n \nI’ve invited Sarah to join me in discerning the mysteries of uncertain times…through the archetypal movement of yin and yang. \nMyth and Movement nourish our Soul. With the cycles of rising energy\, zenith\, entropy\, decline and incubation and into rising energy and creation again we find rhythms vital for deepening our relationships to life. \n“The longing we feel toward the wild\, and the journey it sets us on requires not only deep listening but also a force of desire. A longing of the soul that moves us along. It is not given freely but requires that we inhabit the fullness of our Self.  This is where the power of archetypal gestures comes into play. In traditional Chinese Philosophy (as I’ve learned it) longing is a Yin aspect of the heart\, risk is the Yang aspect. When in the archetypal warrior form we draw the bow but do not immediately look where we are aiming\, this is the iconography of risk  – of aiming our hearts toward a place we cannot fully see. We cannot know how it is all going to work out or what will happen\, but we do know we MUST aim and risk our hearts in the direction of our desire in order to stay alive. Conversely\, in the Yin heart form\, when  we make the shape of.the flame  in front of our bodies and reach slightly\, toward the horizon and then pull back in\, this is the acknowledgement and cultivation of longing toward a circumstance that has not yet arrived\, yet feeling it’s possibility we stretch our heart into its potential. Our feminine reach for the wild necessitates that we must also return to a true expression of yang”  ~ Sarah Byrden\n\n  \nOur starting point is a story given to us by Mythologist Martin Shaw known as  Valemon the Bear (see and listen to it here: https://emergencemagazine.org/feature/valemon-the-bear/) \nBears and women in the woods is a very old motif. The great contadora Dr. Pinkola Estes speaks about Bears as the ultimate creature of cycles representing the Great Mother.  \nSarah Byrden is an Elemental Archetypal Qigong Teacher\, Somatic Educator and Women’s Wilderness Guide. A two time TEDx presenter\, Sarah has dedicated over twenty years to the deep study and apprenticeship of nature-based movement modalities. Teaching from her own life-long journey\, she is the founder of The Elemental Self\, which offers pathways for remembering our true self\, the web in which we belong\, and our innate capacity to move and be moved by a source beyond our conditioning.
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/bear-myth-bone-knowing-discerning-the-fierce-feminine/
LOCATION:NM
ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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SUMMARY:BASIC (12-Hr) Psoas Workshop (NCBTMB Approved) via Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Thank you so much for the workshop over the weekend. \nIt was the most amazing\, eye opening and inspiring workshop… \nIt answered a lot of my questions and made me think about a whole lot more! \nI also really appreciate your generosity with your knowledge and not rushing through any answers to our questions.\nI know this is just the beginning of my journey with your training.\n(Workshop Participant)\n \n3-Day ONLINE Basic Psoas workshop\, open to every body\, limited to 15 participants \nThis course offers a great way to learn through experience how intelligent Psoas informs your skeletal integrity\, joint rotation\, muscular tension\, breathing\, emotional expression\, and organ functioning. A healthy Psoas facilitates functional movement and improves fitness while reducing over all stress vital for resolving injuries and trauma. Healthy Psoas ignites your core creative flourishing and nourishes your innovative possibilities. \n\n\n\n\nDevelop Your Core Awareness: \n\nUnderstand how healthy Psoas supports movement\, strength\, endurance & well-being\nExperience practical ways of sensing your Psoas\nLearn to soften\, lengthen and revitalize your Psoas\nGain tools for recovering and maintaining a healthy Psoas\nExplore the energetic/emotional/spiritual/ living dynamics of your physical core\nImprove neurological proprioception and skeletal balance\nApply concepts to everyday movement such as sitting\, driving\, and walking\n\nDeepen and broaden your practice whether that be Pilates\, Gyrotonic\, Massage\, Bodywork\, Somatic Movement\, Fitness\, Athletics\, Dance\, Yoga\, Martial Arts\, and/or Psychology… \nRECOMMENDED READING: The Psoas Book \nCANCELLATION POLICY:  Please read my complete cancellation policy available online before registering. Online courses can not be canceled once you have received access to online course material and link. \n \nNational Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB) Approved \nThis is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork for 12 hours of continuing education credit (CEU). For more information on the NCBTMB\, please visit their website.
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/basic-zoom-august-2024/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class,Professional Training,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Working with PSOAS: Hands-on Techniques for Massage Practitioners  ~ Sonoma CA & Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Working with PSOAS: Hands-on Techniques for Massage & Bodyworkers \n5-hr Workshop in Person – Sonoma\, CA\nOnline Zoom \n Tuesday August 13 \n  \n \nShaped by personal\, social\, and global flows of information\, the psoas responds to not only stress signals but also impulses that stir our hearts and resonate deep within our bones.\nBy having respect and support for our biological intelligence\, the psoas emerges as a messenger that reveals deeply moving stories about compromise and sourcing as well as depletion and nourishment. \nMassage & Bodywork Magazine (2019) The Psoas  by Liz Koch\n~  ~  ~ \nBio-mechanical methods\, which include direct palpation and manipulative techniques traditionally taught in most massage schools and bodywork programs do not provide the iliopsoas muscle complex with the respect crucial for gaining and recovering dynamic function. As an instinctually reflexive and emotionally expressive tissue\, PSOAS\, with all its intricate interdependent relationships\, neurological and chemical expression of trauma  requires an insightful approach for resolving “core”  tension patterns. This 5 hour hands on workshop covers the basics of supporting healthy Psoas without further exacerbating cathartic or engaging in manipulative overwhelm. Whether working with clients on a table or the floor you will learn and practice the essentials for integrating a bio-intelligent approach to PSOAS. \nNational Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB) Approved\nThis is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork for 5 hour(s) of continuing education credit (CEU). For more information on the NCBTMB\, please visit their website. \n  \nPsoas is a not the problem  ~  it is the messenger  ~  hear its message  \n  \n \nRegina Gregor graduated from massage school in 1989 and has been a certified massage therapist for 35 years. A Psoas savvy practitioner\, Regina completed the 30 hr Core Awareness Application course for Professionals. As a movements educator she is both an Essentrics Instructor\, and an Advanced Level 5 MELT Instructor. \n  \nAfter working consistently for 35 years\, from chiropractor’s offices to backstage at concerts\, I am happy to say I still loving giving massage. To bear witness to my clients finding rest and relaxation through massage is a gift\, and I consider myself lucky to be a part of this process.  \n\n~  ~  ~ \nLiz Koch is an international teacher and author with 45 years of experience\, focusing on kinesthetic intelligence andsomatic awareness for developing human potential. The creator of Core Awareness™\, Liz is dedicated to educating both laypersons and professionals about the core psoas. She is the author of The Psoas Book\, Unraveling Scoliosis CD\, The Psoas & Back Pain CD\, Core Awareness: Enhancing Yoga\, Pilates\, Exercise and Dance\, and Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence. Koch is an NCBTMB-approved continuing education provider.
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/working-with-psoas-hands-on-techniques-for-massage-bodyworkers-sonoma-ca/
LOCATION:Sonoma Community Center\, 276 East Napa Street\, Sonoma\, CA\, 95476\, United States
CATEGORIES:featured,Workshop
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