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SUMMARY:October 6 / 13 / 20 Online Course for Physiotherapist (S. Africa)
DESCRIPTION:Healthy Psoas\nA Bio-Intelligent Approach for Healing Injuries & Avoiding Dysfunctions\nInstructor Liz Koch \n  \nA unique opportunity to explore both conceptually and somatically the primal responses of psoas as an expressive\, dynamic\, living process. This course is taught by a somatic educator and author with 45 years exploring the Psoas  As a conceptual artist Liz has a unique understanding of healthy psoas. An international educator with no professional training or certifications in physical therapy\, massage\, or bodywork Liz Koch is the author of The Psoas Book ISBN#095794407 / Core Awareness: Enhancing Yoga\, Pilates\, Exercise & Dance ISBN: 978-1583945018 /and Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence ISBN# 978-1623173159 \nPrimary objectives of this course: \n\nThrough personal somatic awareness and movement explorations attendees will build the foundation for educating themselves and their client for how best to foster a healthy psoas.\nParticipant will learn the benefits of non-manipulative\, noninvasive approaches for working with the psoas muscle.\nParticipants will learn the benefits of hydrating the NeuroCore through micro-movements including spine\, psoas and connective tissue.\nParticipants will learn ergonomic and proprioceptive relationships between proper movement patterns in joints and the physical and neurological comfort necessary for sustaining a healthy psoas\n\nCourse content of 3 modules of 3hrs per module: \n1.              Module 1\nChanging The Paradigm: \n\nDiscuss the bio-intelligent premise for working with the psoas\nUnderstand Psoas “muscle” not objectively but as part of a living process\nDefine Fluid Core: A biological embryological model of midline\nSomatic Exploration: Experience the value of hydrating connective tissue & increasing proprioception through movement for gaining a healthy psoas.\n\n2.              Module 2\nTrauma\, Psoas & Primal Expression: \n\nDiscuss why palpation & manipulation should be avoided\nUnderstand why stretching Psoas is counterproductive\nDefine co-regulation and its relationship to proprioception\nSomatic Exploration: Explore primal gestures including fetal curl & warding off\n\n3.              Module 3\nErgonomic & Proprioceptive Psoas Re-education: \n\nDiscuss strategies for resolving dysfunctional psoas\nUnderstand Psoas relationship by establishing head/pelvic core integrity\nDefine articulation\, centrification\, and hydration within the hip sockets & ankle joint for gaining juicy psoas\nSomatic Exploration: Practice everyday support for healthy psoas\n\nOctober 6\, 13 & 20    (3 hours / 3 days) \nLive Zoom 4:00 – 7:00 pm South Africa time
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/october-61320-online-course-for-physiotherapist-s-africa/
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SUMMARY:The Journey That Shapes Your Life ~ Audio Conversation with Anna Verwaal
DESCRIPTION:Join Our Audio Conversation ~ The Journey That Shapes Your Life \nexplore how your conception\, pregnancy\, and birth continues to shape your adult life. \nThree Days in September : 90-minute each day  \n \n“Our relation to our cosmic mother closely parallels that to our physical mother  \nin that first connection is the seed of all later expectations and fulfillments.”  \nRon Kurtz and Hector MD\, The Body Reveals  \nAn educational conversation between USA-born Liz Koch and Dutch-born Anna Verwaal concerning the assumptions\, imprints\, and traumas reflected in the cellular matrix of human beings that are expressed in the core tissue of Psoas. \nWorking alongside perinatologists\, obstetricians\, and indigenous midwives\, Anna Verwaal RN\, CLE has attended hundreds of high-risk hospital deliveries and natural births at home. Her research on the long-term effects of conception\, nine months in the womb\, and birth experience have evolved into an educational and healing perspective regarding the journey. \nInternational educator\, author\, and the creator of CoreAwareness™ Liz Koch focusing on awareness as key for developing human potential and awakening consciousness. With 43 years of experience specializing in the human core\, Liz is recognized in the somatic\, bodywork\, and fitness professions as an authority on the core tissue called Psoas.  Both nationally and internationally published\, her works include The Psoas Book\, Unraveling Scoliosis CD\, Core Awareness; Enhancing Yoga\, Pilates\, Exercise & Dance\, Psoas & Back Pain CD\, Mother\, Maiden\, Crone: Our Pleasure Playlist\, and Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence published in 2019 by North Atlantic Books. \nPrerequisite: 
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/the-journey-that-shapes-your-life-audio-collaboration-with-anna-verwaal/
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SUMMARY:September 20 Inner-Terrain...a moving inquiry of presence (Zoom)
DESCRIPTION:Inner-Terrain…a moving inquiry \na time to come together and deepen into our tissue\, fluid\, and presence \nHow to stay present to the workings of our soul while being responsive to and tending the outer needs of our lives? \nFor those who have explored with me and wish to simply be together in a field of curiosity conversation\,  & inner play 
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/inner-terrain-a-moving-inquiry-zoom/
CATEGORIES:Online Class
ORGANIZER;CN="TAOS ART SCOOL":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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SUMMARY:FLUID CORE: Juicy Menopause (Zoom)
DESCRIPTION:FLUID CORE \nj u i c y  m e n o p a u s e \nbeing spit out of the moon cycle changes just about everything….and reveals so much needed nourishment  \nPresented September 2020. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \n \nRose Oil \nfresh rose petals gathered under the early summer sun\nsteeped with wild clover and amber in jojoba oil\nand kissed to completion with pure rose essential oil \n  \nThe blossoming sexuality of the mature woman and the succulent fruiting of sexual health in the vitality of the crone…. \nSlippery When Wet ~ Staying Juicy ~ ~~ When I turned 42\, I gave birth to my 3rd child. Being an avid breastfeeding mom\, postpartum and peri-menopause collided head on one into the other.  I felt all the bliss of being a source of nourishment while simultaneously finding myself grieving the end of my moon cycles.  Unresponsive scare tissue along my perineum\, a result of a tear during my first birth\, retore with each consecutive vaginal birth\, was now beginning to thin and become a source of irritation. I didn’t know with each healthy birth what I know now; scare tissue needs to be addressed immediately and continually until it dissolves back into healthy tissue. Fortunately I was introduced to the concept of fluid movement and the work of Somatic Pioneer Emilie Conrad’s Continuum Movement.  Emilie is known in her field for her work with the fluid system as it applies to spinal cord injury.Well into in her mid seventies Emilie is one juicy woman; her skin vibrates with lushness\, her mind is incredibly alert\, and she exudes a living Eros\, which tends to send goosebumps through every woman and man that watches her move. She taught me that all tissue needs hydrating (including our brains!) not simply through monitoring liquid intake but by actually igniting the natural wave motion of cells\, organs\, and connective tissue...I learned that aging is not the same thing as drying out and that what most of us assume is aging is really the result of drying out.  By accessing the mysterious substance of fluid within our  own system we enter a boundless source of pleasure and nourishment…. far reaching consequences affect our consciousness far beyond our personal boundaries…we enter a universal consciousnesses that recognizes pleasure not as isolated titillation but as life’s mysterious and transformative substance….  \n                                                                                                                                                                          Excerpted from Maiden\, Mother\, Crone: Our Pleasure Play List
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/fluid-core-juicy-menopause-zoom/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class
ORGANIZER;CN="TAOS ART SCOOL":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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SUMMARY:FUNDAMENTALS: The Hip\, Knee\, Foot\, Psoas Connection (Zoom)
DESCRIPTION:FUNDAMENTALS \n The Hip\, Knee\, Foot\, Psoas Connection\n \nPresented September 2020. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \n \n\n\n\nJoints articulate and transfer weight from one bone to another\, creating range of motion\, cushioning the force of gravity\, and reverberating ground force reaction (rebound). Energetically\, the joints link together like pearls on a string. When bones are not centered in their axis\, the individual joint (like the pearl) is stressed and therefore so are all the other joints in the body. Just as pulling on one pearl affects all the other pearls in a necklace\, a dysfunctional joint that is compressed\, unstable\, or stressed disrupts the whole skeletal system. A problem in a knee or shoulder socket\, for example\, is never an isolated problem. Stress on one joint not only causes other joints to be dysfunctional\, but also causes compensations of muscular and connective tissue through- out the body. \nIf we want core integrity\, a relationship between all of the joints is crucial. A supple psoas supports the continuum and informs us when proprioception is diminished. Discover the relationship between the ankle\, knee\, hip and a dynamic fluid psoas  throughout WALKING
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/fundamentals-the-hip-knee-foot-psoas-connection-zoom/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class
ORGANIZER;CN="TAOS ART SCOOL":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200914T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200914T120000
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SUMMARY:FITNESS: Psoas Savvy Exercise (Zoom)
DESCRIPTION:F I T N E S S  \nPresented September 2020. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \nPsoas Savvy Exercise  \n \nIt is not what you do but how you do it \nBeing Fit & Exercising Can be Fun and Psoas Savvy \nbring a roller (or rolled yoga mat) and join me \nPresented in Sept 14. Video recording available by purchasing a ticket below.
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/fitness-psoas-savvy-exercise-zoom/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class
ORGANIZER;CN="TAOS ART SCOOL":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200912T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200914T130000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T010700Z
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SUMMARY:Unraveling Scoliosis Workshop (Zoom)
DESCRIPTION:Unraveling Scoliosis Workshop  \nPresented September 2020. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \n \n  \nMy goal in this 3-hour introduction workshop is  to shift our attention from fixing a problem to becoming curious about a living process of inquiry. \nThe pattern of spiraling tension in the body is like untying a knot.  Force from the outward does not immediately work; rather one must go into the center of the knot and soften to release and resolve the tension patterns.  The unraveling process\, is an inner path that winds down and around the deepest emotions of fears\, sorrow\, frustration and despairs. \nToday there are many alternatives to surgery that bring structural integrity\, increased awareness\, emotional stability and offer our selves a positive experience of our being body. \nFreeing the spine from the manifestations of scoliosis entails reconnecting to our inner sensations.  Rather than recoil from feelings\, it requires learning to foster the courage to explore physical and emotional tension and core expressions. To discover the paradox that becoming soft inside creates the strength needed to unravel and offers the dynamic potential for change. \nPersonal health becomes synonymous with empowerment and the ability to recognize our choices.  This process of self-discovery offers a significant life experience. By hydrating all tissue we sense feelings of resiliency. By nourishing our energy and nervous system we provide a deep relationship to gravity and belonging. By sensing the balance and  support found within our bones\, a sense of self  literally becomes a core of integrity capable of standing balanced and firm on our own two feet.
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/unraveling-scoliosis-workshop-zoom/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class
ORGANIZER;CN="TAOS ART SCOOL":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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SUMMARY:Changing The Language of Body ~ Your Fluid Midline (ZOOM)
DESCRIPTION:Stalking Wild Psoas \nEmbodying Your Core Intelligence  \nEssay Four \nDissolving the Spinal Column to Reappear Resilient \nPresented 2020. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \nA Conceptual Shift Made Potent Through Movement \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.\nYou 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\nOur spine as a living river is not an imaginary enchantment or a contrived self-expression but a direct sensory experience – a rolling earth movement in the epicenter of our being that can feel like a sweeping tsunami or a tiny rivulet of movement. Osteopath Andrew Still illuminates“the soul of man with all its pure living water seems to dwell in the fascia of his body.”18 Living water activated within our tissue is a magic potion\, a potent elixir accessible through the vastness of our own fluid system. The stirring of a wave motion can be witnessed in the flow of an unfurling leaf\, the gesture of an octopus\, and it can be felt-sensed within our lush spine. The undulating wave motion is a sacred re-emergence conveying that all life is essential. Fluid movement holds the power to dissolve the familiar and dilute social conditioning. No dismantling required: we simply allow fluid waves to spread through tissue and soften our old thought forms and outmoded patterns of behavior. By utilizing embryological and biomorphic motifs\, the power inherent in water can be received as a pulse of renewal. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/your-fluid-midline/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class
ORGANIZER;CN="TAOS ART SCOOL":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20200818T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20200818T130000
DTSTAMP:20260525T202208
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SUMMARY:FUNDAMENTALS: Self Care for Your Psoas
DESCRIPTION:Self Care for Your Psoas\n \nPresented August 2020. The video recording available by purchasing a ticket below. \n  \n \n  \nThe best way to sustain or regain a healthy psoas is by listening to its message and resolving dysfunctional patterns and habits. By creating coherency through somatic awareness\, you can revitalize the psoas thus gaining a deeper level of core integrity. Working with\, not against\, the psoas may bring you into direct contact with your deepest fears\, but it will also connect you with an instinctive wisdom and deep relaxation within your belly core that increases functional movement and self-expression. \nLearn the fundamentals of self-care for a healthy psoas
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/fundamentals-self-care-for-your-psoas/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class
ORGANIZER;CN="TAOS ART SCOOL":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200813T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200813T130000
DTSTAMP:20260525T202208
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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="TAOS ART SCOOL":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200811T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200811T000000
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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="TAOS ART SCOOL":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200725T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200725T150000
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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="TAOS ART SCOOL":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200721T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200721T130000
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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="TAOS ART SCOOL":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200716T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200716T120000
DTSTAMP:20260525T202208
CREATED:20200628T171948Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T011956Z
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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="TAOS ART SCOOL":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200714T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200714T160000
DTSTAMP:20260525T202208
CREATED:20200628T171831Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200714T184546Z
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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="TAOS ART SCOOL":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200709T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200709T170000
DTSTAMP:20260525T202208
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="TAOS ART SCOOL":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200707T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200707T130000
DTSTAMP:20260525T202208
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="TAOS ART SCOOL":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200627T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200627T120000
DTSTAMP:20260525T202208
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="TAOS ART SCOOL":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200622T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200701T133000
DTSTAMP:20260525T202208
CREATED:20240220T203402Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240220T203402Z
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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="TAOS ART SCOOL":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200622T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200701T133000
DTSTAMP:20260525T202208
CREATED:20200523T222700Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200630T111428Z
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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="TAOS ART SCOOL":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200618T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200618T130000
DTSTAMP:20260525T202208
CREATED:20200525T142309Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240411T235722Z
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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="TAOS ART SCOOL":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200614T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200614T120000
DTSTAMP:20260525T202208
CREATED:20200523T122517Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200607T182314Z
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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
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ORGANIZER;CN="TAOS ART SCOOL":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200611T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200611T160000
DTSTAMP:20260525T202208
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
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ORGANIZER;CN="TAOS ART SCOOL":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200610T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200610T160000
DTSTAMP:20260525T202208
CREATED:20200519T131045Z
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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="TAOS ART SCOOL":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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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="TAOS ART SCOOL":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20200518T073000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20200518T210000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200507T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200507T130000
DTSTAMP:20260525T202208
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20200427T073000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20200504T220000
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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
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200520T210000
DTSTAMP:20260525T202208
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SUMMARY:ONLINE Embodying WiLD Wise Woman A 5-Week Course in Questioning (ZOOM)
DESCRIPTION:Embodying The WiLD Wise Woman \nA 5-Week Online Course in Questioning \n                                                                               This is the moment\, this very moment… \nAn invitation to stop tip-toeing around the patriarchal over-culture\, to stop sleepwalking through life\, to stop running from\, or running to\, and to simply p a u s e…. Now is the time to ask the hard questions. To nourish the animal body. To look inward and pick up the key that awakens\nthe WiLD wise woman within you \nNo more waiting for the right moment… the right moment is NOW \nWe are all filled with longing for the wild.  \nThere are few culturally sanctioned antidotes for this yearning.  \nWe were taught to feel shame for such a desire. \nWe grew our hair long and used it to hide our feelings.  \nBut the shadow of the Wild Woman still lurks beneath us during our days and in our nights. \nNo matter where we are\, the shadow that trots behind us is definitely four-footed. \n                                                                                            –Clarissa Pinkola Estés \nThis 5- week course is brewing…as we shape this time together we sense into the aliveness of this moment…the concepts to be explored between three collaborating women and all of you.  This course invites slowing down\, moving within\, and self-questioning as the means of inhabiting the inner Wise Woman. During our work together\, we will examine the various archetypes\, symbols\, motifs\, and life lessons found in the chosen myth Bluebeard to draw a direct line to Wild Woman. As we journey alongside one another\, we will be led through dark lands\, where we too\, will find fragmented parts of our own psyche in order to piece our wild selves back together\, bone by bone.\nLet the explorations begins… \n\nSHRINKING – getting smaller to be the “Bigger Person” (name what you see\, feel\, smell\, hear in the art of discernment). Seeing the story of our own naïve woman and her behavior of fawning\n\nMUZZLING – entrapping the “Good (nice) Girl” (don’t ask questions cause too much trouble; you’ll be nosey\, overwhelming\, pushy) Hearing the story of “still-enabling\,” freezing\, and dismissing – catching a “LIVE” one.\n\nGUTTING – cutting off vital Intuitive Knowing. (the wound of being dis-emboweled). Tasting the wise womb\, learning to listen to our ovaries\, licking our wounds.  Scars stories of C-Sections and Hysterectomies.\n\nNAMING – standing ground\, facing\, longing\, cunning (awakening the animal body). The body never lies…Smelling the blood scent of gut instincts and inner knowing. Stories of igniting the wild womb\, laughing and awaken the creative belly core. \n\nDEVOURING –  feeding and tending the WiLD creative Wise Woman. Movement as medicine and story as tracking. Singing over the bones and other tenacious stories of instinctual power and sweetness. \n\n \nBLUEBEARD tells the tale of sabotage—both from within and from without. It speaks of a predatory force\, known as the Saboteur. This force is in all of us and can make its presence known anywhere\, whether it be in the marketplace\, the local bar\, the classroom\, or in the privacy of one’s own mind. The objects of our desire\, as devised by the Saboteur\, are fool’s gold\, which always proves subversive and destructive. This incredibly powerful force is one we must reckon. \nThere are ways to track the Saboteur\, to discover the key questions that open the doors to knowing.  By discerning approaches\, and discovering our inner resources within the wild body\, we can call into play the forces designed to challenge the Saboteur’s seductive power. In so doing\, we bring the Saboteur out from the shadows of our unawareness and into the light of our better knowing. \nIn a supportive and nurturing environment\, these sessions will explore how the movements within the story and the movements of our bodies work together to provide insight into our life stories and psyches… \nMove from constraint and restriction to expansion in the journey toward knowing \nDeepen your experience with knowing and choice making \nEmbody the capacity to live fully and in your power to prevail against seemingly inevitable habits\, forces\, and conventions \nCOLLABORATORS… \nLiz Koch is a conceptual artist\, international somatic educator\, and the author of Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence.  \nKristy Taylor M.Ed.\, C.C.C. is a Canadian counselor focusing on insight therapy and the Wise Woman’s journey to embody wholeness. \nDeborah Schnitzer Ph.D\, National 3M Teaching Fellow is a teacher\, writer\, filmmaker and retired professor emerita of English at the University of Winnipeg.  Her fiction and film projects can be found at her personal website https://deborahschnitzer.com \n  \nNOTE: this course is a live course and will not be recorded.  Please check your time zone to see if it works.  If not\, please let us know you are  interested as we will be offering this course again for those of you outside this time range.  \n    KEY ~  Photo credit: Michael Dziedzic Unsplash  \n   FOREST ~  Photo by Johannes Plenio Unsplash \n  \n\n \n\n 
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/online-embodying-the-wild-wise-woman-collaboration/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Online Class
ORGANIZER;CN="TAOS ART SCOOL":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Monterrey:20200312T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Monterrey:20200312T160000
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SUMMARY:Psoas During Pregnancy\, Birth & Postpartum (5-hr) Sonoma CA
DESCRIPTION:A healthy Psoas 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\nNOTE: Workshop takes place on a Thursday \nVENUE: I will be joining Shiela VanDerveer\, Founder & Primary Midwife of Comadres Midwifery\, a home birth\, wellness and healing practice in Sonoma County at Brigid’s Well Center Sebastopol CA.  Location address will be sent upon registering.   \nRECOMMENDED READING: The Psoas Book
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/psoas-during-pregnancy-birth-postpartum-one-day-sonoma-ca/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
ORGANIZER;CN="TAOS ART SCOOL":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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