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SUMMARY:LATS ~ Wings of Support
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe latissimus dorsi is a partner to the psoas!\nEmerging from the pelvic rim and out from the buttocks up into each arm\,\nthis large\, versatile\, and expressive tissue opens our hearts to long for and reach toward the stars. \nPresented September 2021. The video recording available by purchasing a ticket below. \n \n\n\n\n \nThe latissimus dorsi (Latin for broadest muscle of the back) has a unique relationship with the psoas; like lovers\, they complement each other. Yet like all couples\, they are completely different and unique. The psoas is central to the core\, while the “lat” expands laterally up and away from the core. The psoas is very deep and the lat is very superficial. The psoas connects spine to leg while the lat connects spine and pelvis to arm. The psoas takes us into our core; the lat takes us out toward the world. The psoas is all about core integrity; the lat is all about reaching out into the world and bringing the world back to the core. The tango they dance together is a beautiful balance of yin and yang\, male and female\, personal and communal energies\, and interwoven dynamics. The freedom of one depends upon the freedom of the other; flowing in harmony together\, they support wholeness and congruent behavior. When dry and dense\, the latissimus can restrain even simple arm movements and arm move- ments can pull on the pelvic basin. Thus\, opening this tissue is essen- tial for maintaining a centered pelvis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/lats-wings-of-support/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class
ORGANIZER;CN="TAOS ART SCOOL":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210918T090000
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SUMMARY:Keen on Yoga Presents Juicy Psoas
DESCRIPTION:Adam Keen hosts  Juicy Psoas…  \n \n2 hours | 14 day replay  Juicy Psoas Class… \nWe are delighted to be hosting Liz Koch for the first time for this 2-hour workshop on the mysterious psoas. \nIf we redefined psoas\, not as a muscle but as perceptive\, sensitive\, and responsive tissue that is communicating safety and coherency\, then we are going to want to support our healthy psoas.  If the psoas is in fact a fluid orbital tissue that supports our floating kidneys\, adrenals\, and immune system attributed to survival then we are going to want to tend to juicy\, responsive psoas to fully thrive within our life. Changing the language of body changes our understanding of health. \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 CoreAwareness and the author of The Psoas Book; Core Awareness: Enhancing Yoga\, Pilates\, Exercise & Dance; Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence\, and the upcoming book Birth Savvy. \nLiz focuses on kinesthetic intelligence and somatic awareness as a means for developing our human potential. Stalking Wild Psoas is her passion and Changing the Language of Body is her mission. You can find more about her on her website coreawareness.com  \nCost €30 approx £25 | $36 \nSIGN UP: https://keenonyoga.com/liz-koch-juicy-psoas/ \nKeen on Yoga is an online Ashtanga led yoga studio created during lockdown by Adam and Theresa Keen\, a married couple dedicated to Ashtanga Yoga. 
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/keen-on-yoga-presents-juicy-psoas/
LOCATION:Your home
ORGANIZER;CN="TAOS ART SCOOL":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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SUMMARY:Weights & Fluid Movement
DESCRIPTION:“The primary characteristic of any fluid system is in its ability to keep transforming itself.” \nEmilie Conrad \nExploring the use of weights in movement\,  as both a support and an energizing effect on our fluid system\, is the focus of this class. \nBy hydrating all tissue including the juicy psoas our potential for increasing strength and resiliency is benefited by exploring weight.  \n \nVal Loeffner modeled for Core Awareness: Enhancing Yoga Pilates Exercise & Dance \nand teaches jungle gym classes https://innerdance.com/class-descriptions/ \nIMPORTANT: Each person will explore at their own pace and only with a small amount of weight to activate the juicy psoas. Please come prepared with small arm and ankle weights (see photos below) .  If you also happen to have a weighted vest or weighted waist belt please bring it along to show off more possibilities. \nDISCLAIMER: I am not associated with the Continuum Teachers Association or with www.Continuummovement.com.  I was a student and colleague of Emilie Conrad.  I had the opportunity to work with her\, teach together\, and explore her ideas in writing (see Dem Bones article). What I will be teaching is a personal integrated approach  to playing with weights and movement to hydrate the juicy psoas.  \nNOTE: The photo’s below are borrowed from the Continuum Teachers Associated website: https://www.continuumteachers.com/about/playground  –  I highly recommend the site for finding ongoing classes in Continuum Play (i.e. Jungle Gym) all around the world.  The purpose of the following photos is to show an example of arm and ankle weights that you can purchase at Fitness/Sports stores and big box stores such as Target.  Slide on or Wrap Around (velcro) styles work well.   \n \n \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/weights-fluid-movement/
LOCATION:Your home
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SUMMARY:Re-Awakening Your Spinal Curves
DESCRIPTION:Re-Awakening Your Spinal Curves\nMovement Explorations for Regaining Spinal Resiliency \nPresented July 2021. The video recording available by purchasing a ticket below. \n \n\n\n\nIn the western perspective\, it is often thought best to avoid collapsing and curling inward. There are abundant techniques for stabilizing the spine that provide support like an angle or a cable used to reinforce a center-post. Shaping tissue surrounding the spinal vertebrae like armor commanding control\, spine is concretized into a column. The spinal column is then carried forth by the two legs. Inadvertently involving psoas\, this mechanistic view of spine justifies imbedding rods for reinforcement\, limiting movement with fusion\, and utilizing dense materials to reconstruct vertebral disks. The mysterious process of life’s in-folding and un- folding is perceived as faulty and dismissed.  In doing so the spine becomes dry and begins to lose its undulating shape.  Regaining natural curves is a process of dissolving and re-awakening the living dynamic spine.  Please be sure to have an inflatable soft ball ( 7-10 inches)\, large bath towel and face towel.
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/re-awakening-your-spinal-curves/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class
ORGANIZER;CN="TAOS ART SCOOL":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210713T110000
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SUMMARY:Resolving One-sided Psoas Issues
DESCRIPTION:Presented July 2021. The video recording available by purchasing a ticket below. \n \n  \nThroughout 45 years of teaching most students and clients come to see me with one sided psoas problems.  But resolving this dilemma is never just one sided. The psoas is a whole complex and needs to be understood as part of the NeuroCore™ or center of movement. \n\n\n\nThe importance of reestablishing core integrity cannot be emphasized enough. A centered pelvis is the most important step in reestablishing core integrity. Proper positioning of bones\, increasing proprioception\, and maintaining muscular balance are vital tools for healing one-sided psoas problems. \n\n\n\n  \nNOTE: NeuroCore™ is a termed coined by neuro-fascial therapist Sue Hitzmann\, creator of The MELT Method® (2006) first heard during a conversation (2010) with author Liz Koch discussing the deepest “fascial bags” that enfold spinal cord\, psoas\, kidney\, adrenals: The NeuroCore System is comprised of a Reflexive Core – the 3D cylinder and the Rooted Core\, the head-to-toe neurofascial connection that allows our brain to sustain more efficient balance of our masses and spaces (a MELT term) for the bony and joint parts of our body.(2018) \n 
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/resolving-one-sided-psoas-issues/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class
ORGANIZER;CN="TAOS ART SCOOL":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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SUMMARY:Looking at Trauma through the Lens of Psoas
DESCRIPTION:Looking at Trauma through the Lens of Psoas adds an essential piece to the conversation. \nAs mammals our healthy psoas moves us through metabolizing our experiences. \n Our Wild Primal Expressions are essential for both survival and thriving. \nHow do we freeze? How do we flee or fight? What curls us into a ball for protection or stretches us to expand and ward off ? \nPresented July 2021. The video recording available by purchasing a ticket below. \n \nTrauma is defined as any short or long term overwhelming experience that ignites the fight/flight survival response without resolution. Trauma can include but is not limited to prenatal and birth trauma\, childhood abuse (physical and emotional)\, neglect\, sexual violations and experiences such as surgery\, dental work\, accidents\, natural disasters\, violence\, war\, torture\, all forms of shock and living under the threat of eminent danger. \nYou will discover the Healthy Psoas is: \n\nMessenger of the Central Nervous System\nPart of the Fear Reflex (flee\, fight and freeze response) and the Autonomic Nervous System\nDynamic for organ functioning\, breath & movement as part of the Sympathetic Neurocore\nPowerful and Expressive of our WILD animal body called the primitive (reptilian) brain\nSupple\, dynamic\, resilient and responsive for supporting coherent expression understood within the Polyvagal Theory\n\n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/looking-at-trauma-through-the-lens-of-psoas/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class
ORGANIZER;CN="TAOS ART SCOOL":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210615T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210701T130000
DTSTAMP:20260525T151446
CREATED:20210323T133957Z
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SUMMARY:Coming To Our Senses as Women
DESCRIPTION:A Kinesthetic Sensory Inquiry For Women \nComing To Our Senses   \n  \n\nWhat is the experience of core integrity if it emerges at this moment within a sensory based woman? \nHow do we\, as women\, embody a lived integrity? \nWhat does integrity sense like within the very core of our being?  \n  \n \nAs one woman wrote “with the impulse to be good is the fear of getting it wrong.”  \nHer words say it all. \nIf we can physically experience our conditioning within our personal core\, \nmaybe women can collectively locate our authenticity within our flesh and bones \nand truly be integral.   \nJoin me for six session (2.5 hr) over three weeks and dive under the cultural and historical strangle-hold to sense your animal body’s essential aliveness and potential. Dissolve the density..the fear\, the freeze\, and the fawning responses. Honor your wild and know its power. Discern the W I L D from  brutal or savage.  Enable your expression to no longer be predicated on inauthentic yet correct behavior. Each session includes movement explorations\, journaling\, and connection. Begin accessing the impulses of longing deep within and what is required to manifest core integrity.  Employing micro-fluid movements\, which soften the freeze response and strictures in our spine\, can spontaneously evoke emergent experiences that help us to access a larger field of bio-intelligent knowing. By not promoting exclusivity of movement but rather allowing bio-morphic expression\, we discover our kinship with all living systems. Going deeper within our own biological terrain\, we dive under the cultural and historical strangle-hold to sense our animal body’s essential aliveness and potential. 
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/coming-to-our-senses/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Online Class
ORGANIZER;CN="TAOS ART SCOOL":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210610T110000
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SUMMARY:Psoas & The Energy Systems
DESCRIPTION:Presented June 2021. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \nWithin the Taoist tradition the Psoas is spoken of as the “muscle of the soul”. Merriam-Webster defines the word soul as the immaterial essence\, animating principle\, a person’s total self\, active and essential; the moral and emotional nature of human beings. Expressing our deepest desire for integrity\, passion\, and possibility\, our Psoas reveals soul qualities imbued within our very own flesh and blood. \n \n \n\n\n\nEmerging from a central channel\, psoas is intimately located near the Conception and Governing vessels reflecting a self-actualizing gesture of individuated becoming.16 Orbiting through the core\, these two essential channels reflect balance and the complimentary flow of polarities referred to as Yin and Yang. From the perspective of core energy\, direct manipulation of posture seems like a superficial attempt to control the dynamic expression of Qi flowing through and within our being. To find an energetic balance in the ecosystem of a living organism requires a conscious differentiation between demanding levels of control and igniting maturation within the whole system. \nOverlaying the energetic Chakra System\, Chinese Five Element Theory\, and Meridian Model  with the Primordial Psoas helps us correlate and track the emotional/feeling qualities of the Psoas while inviting an opportunity for awakening its true nature. Rather than minimizing the Psoas by defining it as a hip flexor\, it behooves us to recognize that this smart tissue is a sensory source of primordial energy\,  not to be manipulated but respected.
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/psoas-the-energy-systems/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class
ORGANIZER;CN="TAOS ART SCOOL":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210503T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210503T130000
DTSTAMP:20260525T151446
CREATED:20210416T185552Z
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SUMMARY:Soulful Psoas ~ A Language of Knowing 
DESCRIPTION:Powerful soul-full stories emanate from the Psoas centered deep within a person’s core.\nThe psoas is always ready to reveal its mystery to anyone willing and capable of bearing witness to the truth. \nPresented May 2021. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \n \n  \nWhat mysteries the Psoas unfolds to those willing listeners! \nThe psoas speaks of the very heart of our existence as human beings.\nOur journey thus far and the profound longing each and every one of us feels through our journey. The story of our earthly existence.  \n \nFor more than 40 years I’ve held space for the psoas to tell its tale. I’ve named the psoas the messenger of the midline not simply because of its physical location (emerging directly from the center axis of the human core) but also because of its power within each of us. Profound and sensitive\, the Psoas never lies.  This bio-intelligent tissue resonates the truth as it is right now. Like the precious new born or a wizened sage\, our Psoas is a messenger asking nothing of us but to hear and respond to the moment. \nI’ve had the privilege of listening to personal stories while sitting with another person’s psoas. Stories that if I am willing to hear help to reveal the inner life with all its vulnerabilities\, insights\, and deep felt emotions. By sharing these stories with you the reader\, I hope to offer the practitioner a window into the felt sensed\, unresolved dynamic found within the human core. Each story offers the practitioner and educator not only insight but also challenges our creative ability to truly help another person. \n  \n 
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/soulful-psoas-a-language-of-knowing/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class
ORGANIZER;CN="TAOS ART SCOOL":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210425T070000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210425T200000
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SUMMARY:Embodied Yoga Summit ~ Juicy Psoas
DESCRIPTION:Join me Sunday April 25th \n \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\nJ U I C Y   P S O A S \n\n\n\n\n\nRe~Wilding Core Expression \nAt the very core of our being is a river of bio-intelligence and a primal tissue called psoas that flows out as a messenger of agency and core integrity. By striving for control\, perfection\, and superiority over our core expression\, our psoas becomes captured and recruited resulting not only in exhaustion but also a constricted\, dry tissue. Rewilding psoas is a journey of dissolving our willful engagement of the upper psoas in order to embody our bones by returning once again to root deep within and back down to the ground. \nIn this session\, you will: \n\n\nRe-imagine Psoas beyond bio-mechanical language to sense the core tissue as a bio-intelligent messenger \n\n\nExperience the value of micro-movements to hydrate spinal vertebrae and connective tissue for gaining lush juicy psoas \n\n\nDiscover how skeletal proprioception supports neuro-coherency ground fluid psoas and ignite core integrity. \n\n\n\n\n\n5am PDT (Los Angeles) / 8am EDT (New York) / 1pm GMT (London) / 2pm CET (Paris) / 10pm AEST (Sydney)
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/embodied-yoga-summit-your-juicy-psoas/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Conference,featured,Online Class
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ORGANIZER;CN="TAOS ART SCOOL":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210422T130000
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CREATED:20210329T121052Z
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SUMMARY:Valuing Constructive Rest through Reciprocity
DESCRIPTION:“Sometimes I wish I could photosynthesize so that just by being\,\njust by shimmering at the meadow’s edge or floating lazily on a pond\,\nI could be doing the work of the world while standing silent in the sun.” \n― Robin Wall Kimmerer \nPresented April 2021. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below.\n\n \n  \nToday is Earth Day and I can’t think of a better way to celebrate than landing and locating.  Feeling the ground under my body\, sinking into the land I belong to\, and thanking her for all her support and nourishment.  Asking her what she needs this moment\, how best may I show her my love and appreciation. She (like all women) does not need fixing ~ she needs to be seen\, cherished ~ she needs love and gratitude…the rest will come… \nTo land is to awaken my responsibility and my longing for reciprocity \n  \n  \nPOEM SOURCE: Robin Wall Kimmerer is the author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom\, Scientific Knowledge\, and the Teachings of Plants \n 
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/the-value-of-constructive-rest-exploring-reciprocity/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class
ORGANIZER;CN="TAOS ART SCOOL":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210415T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210415T130000
DTSTAMP:20260525T151446
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SUMMARY:THAWING ~ your core as flowing river
DESCRIPTION:Reimagining your spine as a thawing river…emergent themes…bring restorative gestures to awaken the very core of our being…. \nPresented April 2021. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \n \n\n\nThe River Ice Has Begun To Vanish\,\nFamished\, It Yields To The Sun\,\nPiece By Piece Its Body\nSuccumbs To Ripened\nHeat; Slowly It\nIs Devoured By\nThe Current\nUntil It Is\nGone:\nTime\nEats Away\nAt The Winter’s\nImpending Hold\nOn The River’s Bubbling\nLaughter; Sought After Due\nTo Its Delightful Chattering\nWhich Gurgles Peacefully Within The\nTender Summer Nights Beneath The Stars\nby Sydney Victoria\n\n  \n  \nThis Class weaves together imagery\, movement\, and writing \nPhoto Credit: polina-kuzovkova-RIp7W-ms9nk-unsplash.jpg \nPoetry Credit Spring Thaw by Sydney Victoria Hello Poetry  2015 \n 
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/thawing-your-core-is-a-flowing-river/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class
ORGANIZER;CN="TAOS ART SCOOL":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210408T100000
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SUMMARY:FLUID CORE: Psoas\, Connective Tissue and BONES with Sue Hitzmann
DESCRIPTION:Fluid Core \nPsoas\nConnective Tissue \nand \nBONES  \na collaboration with  \nSue Hitzmann \nPresented April 2021. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \nJoin our conversation and discover the \nBONE\nPSOAS\nConnection \nand why\nConnective Tissue is key to resiliency and health\nBones\n         Talk\nto our Brain\n&\nto the\nEarth  \n“The human skeleton and our bones are often times considered mere spacers \nand the stuff fascia connects to as a way to leverage force and motion. \nBut it turns out bones may play a significant role in not only our memory and mood \nbut may assist us in preventing anxiety and depression.” \n\n\n\n\nDiscover the role fascia plays in supporting over all health!\nTransporting nutrients and fluids throughout our body\, helping defend our body from microorganism\,\nthe bone-fascia network plays a role in both our immune system and nervous system \n\n\n\n\nMeet My Guest: \nSue Hitzmann\, MS\, CST\, NMT\, is a nationally recognized neuro-fascial manual therapist and teacher whose studies and explorations have culminated in the creation of the M.E.L.T. Method® (MELT). A revolutionary approach to pain-free fitness and longevity\, Melt Method is a self help technique for working with the connective tissue. Because the Psoas is deeply embedded in the sympathetic neuro-core\, hydrating connective tissue is an important key for resolving Psoas inflammation\, pain\, and tension. \n\n\n\nNeuroCore is a termed coined by neuro-fascial therapist Sue Hitzmann creator of The MELT Method® (2006) first heard during a conversation (2010) with author Liz Koch discussing the deepest “fascial bags” that enfold spinal cord\, psoas\, kidney\, adrenals: The NeuroCore System is comprised of a Reflexive Core – the 3D cylinder and the Rooted Core\, the head-to-toe neurofascial connection that allows our brain to sustain more efficient balance of our masses and spaces (another MELT Term) for the bony and joint parts of our body.(2018)
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/bones-with-sue-hitzmann/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class
ORGANIZER;CN="TAOS ART SCOOL":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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SUMMARY:FLUID CORE ~ Feeling Lost on the Way to Core Integrity (2-hr zoom)
DESCRIPTION:F L U I D  C O R E \nFeeling Lost on the Way to Core Integrity  \nPresented March 2021. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \n                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          \n\n\n\nFeeling lost she does not know how to proceed.\nI sense a mix of emotions within her – as if something inside simply has to give.\nAlthough she is beginning to recognize her vulnerability\, the feeling is unfamiliar and\, truthfully\, quite terrifying to her. \n\n\n\nStalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence \n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe sense of feeling lost within a somatic inquiry can easily evoke looking outward for answers…but it is by getting lost that our sensory system awakens and new capabilities open up that foster innovating responses. We discover our knowing that which is invisible begins to unfold… Catching a fleeting glimpse\, detecting a movement at the perimeter of awareness\, there may be a new sense that something is not yet acknowledged\, or feels lost\, and yet is on the cutting edge of consciousness. Perhaps this is what hunting or being hunted feels like in the wild kingdom. Quick moving\, it can be too difficult to catch an impulse that sets our being into reaction: a desire to jump and escape as well as a longing to connect and be found. Following initiation of an expression requires a patient slowing of pace and a quieting receptivity in the heart to perceive the impulse just before it comes into being. It takes a bifurcating focus of awareness that moves inward and concurrently outward toward a larger field of influence. In this way\, we can stay present to feel the origins of our fear and the impulses of our longing. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLiz Koch  is an international educator\, author\, and creator of CoreAwareness™ focusing on awareness as key for developing human potential and awakening consciousness. With 45 years experience specializing in the human core\, Liz is recognized in the somatic\, bodywork\, and fitness professions as an authority on the core tissue called the Psoas.  Both nationally and internationally published\, her works include The Psoas Book\, Unraveling Scoliosis CD\, Core Awareness; Enhancing Yoga\, Pilates\, Exercise & Dance\, Psoas & Back Pain CD\, Mother\, Maiden\, Crone: Our Pleasure Playlist and her new book  Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence (2019 North Atlantic Books) \n\n\n\n\n\n\nPhoto Credit: Patrick Mueller/unsplash
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/feeling-lost-on-the-way-to-core-integrity/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class
ORGANIZER;CN="TAOS ART SCOOL":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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SUMMARY:FUNDAMENTALS: Happy Feet ~ Happy Psoas (Zoom)
DESCRIPTION:FUNDAMENTALS \nHappy Feet ~ Happy Psoas \n\n\n\n\n\n\nWith its insistence on streamlining linear thinking\, the dominant power structure of western society\nbegins to loosen its grip\, opening up a multidimensional world where we can think not only on our feet but also with our feet.\nStalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence\n \nPresented March 2021. The video recording available by purchasing a ticket below. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nGrounded through the feet supports a weight-bearing pelvis which offers the spine a rooted base of support\nas well as a profound relationship with the Earth. \n \nWhen bones in the feet and ankle are restricted\, the relationship between ground and space becomes challenged. For example\, putting a rigid shoe on a baby’s foot prevents the foot from freely rolling\, limiting the joint articulation and interrupting a resilient stride. This sets up a conditioned pattern of movement. Over time limited movement in toes and binding around the ankle limits articulation of the ankle joint essential for weight distribution along with the lack of movement in vital proprioception necessary for orientation.  A shoe with a negative heel (lower in the back than the front) for example shifts the skeletal weight back into a static position\, demanding an inappropriate muscular effort to move forward and stifling core psoas. When shoes worn continuously attempt to create an ideal shape or action they impose upon both muscles and bones\, causing imbalances throughout our body. Let’s take our shoes off and begin to awaken our feet. \nWe will spend time exploring the feet and their direct relationship with Core Expression\, Balance\, and all the Diaphragms so essential to our sense of buoyancy (ground force reaction) spacial freedom of our connective tissue and healthy energetic flow of our  meridians.
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/happy-feet-happy-psoas/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class
ORGANIZER;CN="TAOS ART SCOOL":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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SUMMARY:10-Month Professional Application Course (30-hr NCBTMB Certified) Webinar Course 2021
DESCRIPTION:Each year I offer my PROFESSIONAL APPLICATION COURSE but due to COVID  I’ve postpone this LIVE course in the USA until 2022. Instead\, I will be offering a 10-Month Application Webinar Course via Zoom.  Please note only 30 of the required 43  participatory hours will be applied to the NCBTMB certification – this course is designed to deepen your experience of psoas: \n10-Month Application Course for Professionals includes \n1) Meeting the 4th Wednesday of every month (4 hours) we will focus on: \n\nConceptual Understanding of the Healthy Psoas\nTraining Your Eye to understand the Dysfunctional Psoas\nFunctional Applications and additional resources for applying to your expertise\nHomework Explorations and one presentation for deepening your Experience\n\n2) Mid-month Peer-Support Group to discuss each Months Conceptual Focus & Explorations \n3) Two 30-minute Private Consultation with Liz Koch (evaluation at beginning and the other at the end of the course)    \n The Application Course offers those licensed as Somatic Educators\, Yoga Instructors\, Pilates & Gyrotonic Trainers\, Massage Practitioners\, Body & Healing Practitioners; as well as Birth & Fitness Coaches\, Dance Therapists\, Martial Arts Instructors\, plus all psychologists\, trauma and embodiment educators to develop into Psoas Savvy educators\, capable of helping others integrate and resolve psoas related issues. This course is an opportunity to heal your own psoas issues while bringing psoas awareness to your professional life. \nCompleting the Application Course is a prerequisite but not necessarily a guarantee for joining my online Community and referral page where people can locate Psoas savvy classes and therapists in their community. \nNOTE: Please note there is a live Application Course currently scheduled in Denmark for 2021 and another in the USA for 2022.  \nStep away from your dedicated focus to deepen and broaden your perspective and experience your bio-intelligent core tissue called psoas. By doing so\, your own psoas becomes a guide for self actualization that informs your work from deep within your core being.  A healthy psoas is the first step towards functional movement and a coherent nervous system. Having a coherent core not only supports our capacity for core strength and integrity but also being deeply nourished and reslient in life; thus offering essential components for achieving your professional goals. \nInspire your  personal and professional life  \n \nGROUP SIZE: This ONLINE Application Course is limited to a maximum of 20 participants  \nPREREQUISITE & REQUIREMENTS: You must be a professional: certified and/or licensed in your field (no laypersons please) and have attended a minimum of one BASIC 12-hr Psoas Workshop and one STALKING Wild Psoas Workshop.  Please register only if qualified.  Please note: You are required to attend all classes to receive NCBTMB certification or be eligible for my online community. 
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/10-month-professional-application-course-30-hr-ncbtmb-certified-webinar-course-2021/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Application Course,Online Class
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ORGANIZER;CN="TAOS ART SCOOL":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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SUMMARY:Race & Body: Dissolving Whiteness in Core Expression ~ A Collaboration with Kimberly Ann Johnson
DESCRIPTION:Race & Body \nDissolving Whiteness in Core Expression \nA Workshop for “White” Women \n \n  \nphoto credit Allyssa Olaviar (unsplash) \nHow does primal expression change our perception and our response to ourselves\, and others\, specifically as it applies to race?  \nHow do we work with our responses to being in the category of “white women” \nand what does it means to be an individual within the group? \nHow can we learn to track individual truths and structural truths within our animal bodies? \nOur wild animal bodies are capable of sensing and moving deeply and in so doing we become conscious of the insidious ways colonization is held and communicated within our flesh and bone. We may squirm and distract ourselves\, but we have what it takes to dissolve these century-old impulses to cage\, control\, and power over  ~ to reclaim our inner Wild and to foster an antiracist culture.  \nWhat “white” posturing and performative expression share in common is a compartmentalization of body splitting us from our felt-sense emotions\, gut instincts\, and essential vitality. This power-over response built in to the Western approach shows up in yoga\, Pilates\, dance\, and fitness.  The idealized white body becomes the standard for which all other bodies are measured. Yet this column of strength is often a “frozen” spine limiting our potential and our capacity for coherent expression.   \n \nPhoto credit: Clem Onojeghuo-unsplash \n By using bio-intelligent fluid movements and sound\, we venture into disassociated responses\, and feelings of fragility to recognize the ancestral rigidity defended within “white-posturing.” Following these primal impulses dissolves distortions while nourishing life-enhancing gestures and expressions. Through insight\, journaling\, and tracking we attend to our authentic self\, discovering different responses than those Western Culture provide for us.  Claiming agency we can participate in co-creating and re-imagining ourselves and our values in the context of race\, justice\, and equity.     \nWe will attend to the questions: \nWhen\, how\, and why do I control myself? \nHow do I move if I am not told what to do? \n  \n \nKimberly Ann Johnson is the author of the  The Fourth Trimester. and her soon to be release Call Of The Wild (due out in April 2021). She is a Sexological Bodyworker\, Somatic Experiencing trauma resolution practitioner\, birth doula\, and single mom. She specializes in helping women prepare for birth\, recover from birth injuries and birth trauma\, and heal from sexual trauma.  She is the founder of Magamama.com\, an international holistic women’s health care resource for expectant and new mothers. A lifelong yoga student and teacher\, Kimberly has lead workshops throughout Thailand\, Malaysia\, Brazil\, Portugal and the US on the intersection of women’s sexuality and spirituality. After living in Brazil for eight years\, she currently resides in San Diego\, CA and teaches Activating Your Inner Jaguar courses online.  \n  \n  \nLiz Koch  is an international educator\, author\, mother\, crone\, and creator of CoreAwareness™ focusing on awareness as key for developing human potential and awakening consciousness. With 45 years experience specializing in the human core\, Liz is recognized in the somatic\, bodywork\, and fitness professions as an authority on the core tissue called Psoas.  Both nationally and internationally published\, her works include The Psoas Book\, Unraveling Scoliosis CD\, Core Awareness; Enhancing Yoga\, Pilates\, Exercise & Dance\, Psoas & Back Pain CD; Mother\, Maiden\, Crone: Our Pleasure Playlist and her most recent release (2019) Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence. \n  \n 
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/race-body-dissolving-whiteness-in-core-expression-a-collaboration-with-kimberly-johnson/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class
ORGANIZER;CN="TAOS ART SCOOL":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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SUMMARY:Changing the Language of Body ~ ReWilding Your Psoas
DESCRIPTION:Stalking Wild Psoas \nEmbodying Your Core Intelligence  \nPresented February 2021. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \nEssay Nine \n\n\n\nReWilding Your Psoas \n\n\n\nHow Play Impulses Help us Thrive \n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Conceptual Shift Made Potent Through Movement \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRe-wilding ignites unexpected acts of awakening. Redundancy\, whether in our personal life or in our work environment\, happens when expressions become defined and limited. To avoid redundancy\, living systems move inward toward depth perception and outward toward dynamic expression and realtiomship. As biological organisms\, our being-bodies are part of a much larger system that requires regenerative rather than degenerative practices. By consciously participating and contributing to overall sustainability within our own system\, other beings are stirred to thrive. Because our inquisitiveness is a vital source of nourishment\, following our play instincts and honing our somatic impulses is imperative in order to not only survive but also to thrive.
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/changing-the-language-of-body-rewilding-your-psoas/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class
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ORGANIZER;CN="TAOS ART SCOOL":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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SUMMARY:Gathering on Zoom ~ A FREE Q & A Session 
DESCRIPTION:PLEASE  \nLet’s Gather on Zoom for a FREE Q & A Session  \nIn Deep Appreciation  \nMY VALENTINES GIFT TO YOU  \nBring your PSOAS Questions and lets the conversation begin…
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/gathering-on-zoom-a-free-q-a-session/
CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class
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ORGANIZER;CN="TAOS ART SCOOL":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210211T130000
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SUMMARY:Fluid Core ~ Metabolizing Fear
DESCRIPTION:Whether recoiling in fear or arcing in deep defense\, the psoas is at best referred to as an “emotional” muscle. \nPresented February 2021. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \n \n  \n\n\n\nSignaling survival responses\, this primal messenger relays disruptions and compensations that threaten core integrity. Just as every coherent animal in the wild kingdom sends messages\, humans\, like all mammals\, gesture with the twitch of an ear\, a gleam in the eye\, a hair standing on end\, an arc of the spine. Ignoring the wild nature of psoas can be very dangerous. \n\n\n\nExploring biological expressions of core or what I have coined “stalking wilding psoas\,” awakens a longing for a language akin to our actual somatic lived-experience.  Psoas behaves quite differently than any other tissue that traditional anatomy defines as muscle. More of an organ of perception\, something more akin to our clever tongue\, this primitive tissue signals whether or not we are out of sync with the earth’s gravitational field. Encoded with survival responses that instantaneously ignite a response of danger\, psoas is subtle and nuanced. Our psoas expresses both fear (survival) and pleasure (thriving). Psoas speaks not only to dissociative behaviors resulting from birth but also to an array of other adaptive strategies that can interrupt coherency and direct knowing. \nLearning how to metabolize fear is a process of nourishing our psoas that deepens our connection to earth and community where we find the ability and support to regulate and be deeply held. \n \n 
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/fluid-core-metabolizing-fear/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class
ORGANIZER;CN="TAOS ART SCOOL":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210107T130000
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SUMMARY:Awakening Your Fluids: The Power of Buoyancy & Belly Laughing
DESCRIPTION:Awakening Your Fluids \nThe Power of Buoyancy & Belly Laughing \n\nBuoyancy (/ˈbɔɪənsi\, ˈbuːjənsi/) or upthrust\,\nis an upward force exerted by a fluid\nthat opposes the weight of a partially or fully immersed object.\n source Wikipedia \n\nPresented January 2021. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nBuoyancy is our birthright as foot\, pelvis\, respiratory\, mouth\, skull\, armpit\, and hand all have resilient dome-shaped tissue capable of providing a dynamic support that is not only responsive but also adaptable. \nOur respiratory diaphragm is a fluid bell-shaped tissue with jellyfish-like movements that blossom in multiple directions\, opening up internal spaciousness and volume while simultaneously opening down\, to root deep into the belly core. \nDiaphragms are naturally resilient and rebound with every step. Through fluid connective tissue and vibrating tensegrity\, ground reaction force is sensed in our floating bone\, supple psoas\, and buoyant diaphragms\, supporting movement and lifting our spirits. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlayful and delicious\, our inner fluids is life’s hidden force. \n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU’LL NEED …. bring several size balls:  A large fitness ball\, a 7-10 inch soft inflatable ball\, and a 3 inch soft bouncy ball
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/awakening-your-fluids-the-power-of-buoyancy-belly-laughing/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class
ORGANIZER;CN="TAOS ART SCOOL":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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SUMMARY:Psoas & Continuum Explorations with Guest Mary Abrams
DESCRIPTION:P S O A S \nFlourishing Through Continuum Explorations     \nwith \nGuest Teacher Mary Abrams \nPresented December 2020. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \n \nMary joins me as my guest to bring you Continuum explorations from one of its original students and teachers….from her pure heart Mary carries the thread of Emilie Conrad’s profound teachings in her deeply supportive space in New York City.\nDuring the pandemic the Moving Body Resources (MBR) studio (where Emilie taught for years while in New York) has remained closed but for a few moments that allow community to safely gather.  Together we’ll virtually enter the MBR studio for a deep dive into a field of resonance of fluid movement.  I invoke the present energy of Emile to join us as we enter the Winter Solstice ~ diving into the darkness so needed for healing. My heart and work has thrived at the Moving body Resources for many years and I sorely miss the space it provides me. \nPlease join me.  All class proceeds go to supporting the studio as we enter a second year of limited travel\, participation\, and as we struggle to hold dear to what nourishes our souls. \n  \n\n\n\nMary Abrams\, MA\, RSME founder/director of Moving Body Resources apprenticed in Continuum Movement with its founder Emilie Conrad from 1994-2014 and was among the first group of people Emilie Conrad and Susan Harper Authorized as Continuum Movement Teachers in 1999. She continues to dialogue with Susan Harper (Continuum Montage)\, and explore human being theory (Affect-script theory) and Epistemics\, with Emilie’s long-time collaborator\, Gary David\, PhD.\n\nAll Mary’s  studies are valuable resources for tracking what is\, being open to the emerging unexpected\, and for discovering new meaning\, and learning to extend presence into the world. Since 1984 she has professionally explored her passions as a dancer/choreographer and somatic movement teacher. Mary is a Registered Somatic Movement Educator (RSME) with the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association (ISMETA)\, and holds a masters degree from Goddard College in Consciousness Studies with a focus on embodied movement practice and theory. She served as Co-Chair with Lauren Abramson on the Board of Directors of the Silvan S. Tomkins Institute (SSTI) from 2013-2016.  From 2009-2017 she held a leadership role on the USA section of the MA Dance & Somatic Well-being: Connections to the Living Body from the University of Central Lancashire\, Preston\, England\, and continues to teach on the UK campus.  She also teaches on the Continuum training at the Somatic Academy of Berlin\, Germany and mentors people interested in becoming Somatic Movement Educators and/ or Continuum Teachers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/psoas-continuum-explorations-with-guest-mary-abrams/
LOCATION:Your home/Moving Body Resources
CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class
ORGANIZER;CN="TAOS ART SCOOL":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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SUMMARY:Changing The Language of Body ~ Becoming Integral
DESCRIPTION:Stalking Wild Psoas \nEmbodying Your Core Intelligence  \nEssay Seven \n\n\n\nBECOMING INTEGRAL \nboundaries\, edges and thresholds \nPresented 2020. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \n\n\n\nA Conceptual Shift Made Potent Through Movement \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nPsoas reveals the truth about our relationship with the earth…. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nBy exploring my internal edges\, I have found the sensory system capable of multiple levels of articulation. My intention quite literally defines where I place my attention and therefore directly influences my experience. Sensing the edges of a boundary\, such as the shape of a bone or the parameter of a joint\, can help to clarify and contain experience.\nPermeable edges\, such as those exemplified in psoas or skin\, conversely\, are liminal spaces that encompass otherness\, providing transitional openings into a world of reciprocal relationship. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSkin is an organ of perception that expresses our embryological story\, revealing ancestral patterns as well as pre-and-perinatal stresses\, shocks\, and exposures to physical and emotional toxins at the moment of conception\, throughout fetal growth\, and during the journey from our mother’s womb to this world. Turning toward my relationship with my skin\, I began to explore a variety of ways of awakening what felt like a lifeless sack. Inspired by micro-movements and the power of soft puffing “o” sounds\, I begin to explore the internal and external edges and thresholds of my being \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/becoming-integral/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class
ORGANIZER;CN="TAOS ART SCOOL":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201119T110000
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SUMMARY:FUNDAMENTALS: Low Back Pain & The Psoas Connection
DESCRIPTION:FUNDAMENTALS \nLow Back Pain & The PSOAS Connection \nPresented November 2020. The video recording available by purchasing a ticket below. \n \n\n\n\nDISCOVER SIMPLE WAY TO: Resolve low back pain ~~~ \nRather than being caused by muscular weakness\, low back pain is often due to exhaustion. Gaining core strength begins with softening the deepest layers of tissue\, specifically the psoas. Doing so increases the capacity for reestablishing skeletal and muscular integrity. Symptoms associated with an unstable pelvis include mid-and low-back pain… inability to stand and bear weight on both feet as well as popping and cracking noises\, pain\, and stiffness all signal some type of disruption and instability which can lead to back pain. \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe earliest rudimentary vertebrae is found in the sea squirt\, a 550-million-year-old prevertebral organism. This oceanic creature suggests that the optimal conditions for bringing an injured\, exhausted\, lack-lustered spine back to life as well as for sustaining healthy bone is through regaining fluid movement…Our longing becomes that which shapes our being and our creative gestures as well as our curious contributions. When our core longing is lost or withers\, what appears is often anguish and pain. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/fundamentals-low-back-pain-psoas-connection/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class
ORGANIZER;CN="TAOS ART SCOOL":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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SUMMARY:W I L D ~ Discerning Within:  A Collaboration with Kimberly Ann Johnson
DESCRIPTION:w i l d \nd i s c e r n m e n t \nDiscerning Within \nWild  ~ Feral ~ Savage ~ Fawning \nA Moving Collaboration between Liz Koch and Kimberly Johnson \nPresented November 2020. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \nSomeone once told me that civilization is the shared obliviousness to the fact that we haven’t gotten rid of wild things\, and that they dwell “within” us—somewhere beneath the threshold of normalcy. This wildness\, this darkness\, is not an “other.” We are continually sourced\, recreated\, and reconfigured here. \nBayo Akomolafe Finding the Dark: Decolonizing Darkness \n \nAlthough the dictionary defines the “wild” as untamable\, feral\, out of control\, riotous\, ridiculous\, rash\, stupid\, impractical\, and tempestuous\, it is by welcoming the wild that we avoid such antonyms as domesticated\, indifferent\, and unenthusiastic. By listening to our deep primal messages\, we reclaim our birthright as expressive\, dynamic\, and innovative beings. As we turn toward the core\, nourishing gestures\, similar to a blossoming flower\, feel lush within and enrich all who witness the splendor. Sustaining every gesture\, our wild psoas speaks the language of the heart\, and communicates what is held most dear within our bone – the felt-sense of being alive. \nSignaling survival responses\, this primal messenger relays disruptions and compensations that threaten our core integrity. Just as every coherent animal in the wild kingdom sends messages\, humans\, like all mammals\, gesture with the twitch of an ear\, a gleam in the eye\, a hair standing on end\, an arc of the spine. Ignoring the wild nature of psoas can be very dangerous.   \n(excerpted from Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence) \nHow do we know the difference between wild and ravenous? What happens when our inner wild woman is savage?  Can we be feral and live among each other? What happens when we can not discern our inner wild? What if our inner wild woman is muted or silent?  What if fawning is our first wild impulse?    Join the conversation and the movement…. \nKimberly Ann Johnson is the author of the  The Fourth Trimester. and her soon to be release Call Of The Wild (due out in April 2021). She is a Certified Sexological bodyworker and Somatic Experiencing practitioner specializing in birth injury\, birth trauma\, and sexual healing. A lifelong yoga student and teacher\, Kimberly has lead workshops throughout Thailand\, Malaysia\, Brazil\, Portugal and the US on the intersection of women’s sexuality and spirituality\, . After living in Brazil for eight years\, she now resides in San Diego\, CA and teaches Activating Your Inner Jaguar courses online. \n  \n \nLiz Koch  is an international educator\, author\, mother\, crone\, and creator of CoreAwareness™ focusing on awareness as key for developing human potential and awakening consciousness. With 40 years experience specializing in the human core\, Liz is recognized in the somatic\, bodywork\, and fitness professions as an authority on the core tissue called Psoas.  Both nationally and internationally published\, her works include The Psoas Book\, Unraveling Scoliosis CD\, Core Awareness; Enhancing Yoga\, Pilates\, Exercise & Dance\, Psoas & Back Pain CD\, Mother\, Maiden\, Crone: Our Pleasure Playlist and her latest book Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence.\n \n 
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/wild-discernment-with-kimberly-a-johnson/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class
ORGANIZER;CN="TAOS ART SCOOL":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201113
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SUMMARY:Changing The Language of Body ~ Participating With Your Organizing Intelligence
DESCRIPTION:Stalking Wild Psoas \nEmbodying Your Core Intelligence  \nEssay Six \n\n\n\nLanding & Locating \nPresented 2020. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \nParticipating With Your Organizing Intelligence \n\n\n\nA Conceptual Shift Made Potent Through Movement \n\n\n\n\n\n\nPsoas reveals the truth about our relationship with the earth…. \n\n\n\nOur arrival as newborns is a landing felt deep in our bone which continues to shape our flourishing gestures. Like a tuning fork produces a pure tone\, psoas is in resonance with the wisdom of our bone\, vibrating the very essence of life and putting a bounce in our step. Bone offers a lightness of being – a calling from the living earth. In contrast\, muscles are all about doing: fetching water and carrying wood. Marrow at the very center of bone nourishes the brain and spinal cord. To land in the marrow of our bones is to feel the essence of soul. Symbolic of the eternal in both myth and story\, bone is associated with what is lasting and most significant: blood\, power\, and embodiment. When something is felt deep in the bone\, it has landed and will stay with us forever. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe word “landing” is a term I use for feeling grounded and able to locate in space and time. Found within our bones\, the sense of landing is an essential kinetic ignition we share with all mammals. Any disruption confusing our ability to land and locate in time and space is signaled as fear by our primal psoas. As a bio-intelligent messenger\, psoas tracks safety\, every moment of every day. \n\n\n\nListening to and understanding what psoas communicates takes time to develop. If we are connected to ground and can feel the earth’s rhythms\, we are more readily available to be responsive and adaptive to subtle changes But if there is shock still reverberating there will be discord and disorientation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/changing-the-language-of-body-participating-with-your-organizing-intelligence/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class
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ORGANIZER;CN="TAOS ART SCOOL":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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SUMMARY:FLUID CORE ~ Listening to Psoas through the Field of the Heart
DESCRIPTION:F L U I D  C O R E \nListening to Psoas through the Field of the Heart \nPresented November 2020. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \n \nWhen life is felt-sensed in our flesh\, bone\, and blood\, the longing for a new way of communicating becomes paramount.\nWhat if instead of identifying myself with static objects\, I felt my heart as a large oscillator emanating far beyond\nmy physical skin: a complex\, nonlinear“ conductor of depth information” receptive to the world to be felt and listened to? \nStalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence \n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThe depths of the human heart and the force of a river are wild and unchartered at their core… \nbest given room to swell and stretch with the tides and seasons. \n\n\n\nRising Appalachia\, “River Song”  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLiz Koch  is an international educator\, author\, and creator of CoreAwareness™ focusing on awareness as key for developing human potential and awakening consciousness. With 45 years experience specializing in the human core\, Liz is recognized in the somatic\, bodywork\, and fitness professions as an authority on the core tissue called the Psoas.  Both nationally and internationally published\, her works include The Psoas Book\, Unraveling Scoliosis CD\, Core Awareness; Enhancing Yoga\, Pilates\, Exercise & Dance\, Psoas & Back Pain CD\, Mother\, Maiden\, Crone: Our Pleasure Playlist and her new book  Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence (2019 North Atlantic Books)
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/fluid-core-listening-to-psoas-through-the-field-of-the-heart/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class
ORGANIZER;CN="TAOS ART SCOOL":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201106T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201106T120000
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SUMMARY:W I L D  F L O W ~ fast moving dynamic bio-intelligent zoommmmm class
DESCRIPTION:WILD FLOW \nPresented November 2021. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \n \nNOVEMBER 6th \njoin me for a dynamic bio-intelligent movement class \nExplore your full range of expression like a flowing river full of all that is  flooding your tissue…from source ~ changing like a river rise up from underground\, springing out of rocks…flowing into wetlands….rushing\, gushing\, washing over\, around\, and exhilarating from within and without…….\nexploring powerful gestures of play… \n \n  \n 
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/w-i-l-d-f-l-o-w-fast-moving-dynamic-bio-intelligent-zoommmmm-class/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class
ORGANIZER;CN="TAOS ART SCOOL":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201024T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201024T150000
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SUMMARY:MOVING WHITENESS with Resmaa Menakem & Carlin Quinn
DESCRIPTION:REPARATIVE COMMUNAL CONSULTATION \nFOR WHITE PEOPLE\n \nPart 4\nA VIRTUAL FUNDRAISER\nSponsored by Education For Racial Equality \nto help create an embodied anti-racist/anti-oppression culture for future generations of BIPOC children.\n \nWITH AUTHOR SOMATIC EDUCATOR RESMAA MENAKEM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIMPORTANT NOTE: If you wish to attend you need to know this fundraiser is an on going proces and so you will need to receive  Part 1\,2\, & 3 to be able to join us on Part 4. \nIf you wish to attend please contact events@educationforracialequity.com.\nResmaa is looking to create a collaborative e-course to support the Movement Of Somatic Abolitionism. \nThe Movement Of Somatic Abolitionism is a body of work which establishes the underpinnings the emergence of a new culture: one that is safe for future generations of Black\, Brown and Indigenous babies and children. This funding will go towards creating a embodied anti-racist/oppression curriculum and free online e-course for community members parents and teachers of culture first\, who provide K-12 guidance. We believe that this will have a foundational impact on Black\, Brown\, and Indigenous Children and there lives. Together\, Resmaa Menakem and Education For Racial Equity \, along with other subject matter experts will also create a educational certification program that will develop the best somatic abolitionists educators\, healers\, and movement leaders of our time; they will lead with the understanding of Black\, Brown\, and Indigenous children\, white body supremacy\, racial weathering\, geopathic stress\, toxic stress\, and they will preserve the resilience and power of the communities which these children come from. This will be made available to community members\, parents and teachers of culture first and then to others across the United States. Help us create a culture change centered in healing and dignity.  \n\n\nResmaa Menakem ~ Healer\, Author\, Trauma Specialist\nMoving from race to culture is important\, transformative\, and takes work. A lot of work. I help people\, communities\, and organizations find strength in healing that is holistic and resilient. Together let’s set a course for healing historical and racialized trauma carried in the body and the soul. I am a healer. I help people rise through the suffering’s edge. I am a cultural trauma navigator. I am a communal provocateur and coach. I consider it my job in this moment to make the invisible visible. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCarlin Quinn\, LMFT (She/Her) is the Founder and Director of Education For Racial Equity. She is also a psychotherapist\, equity coach\, facilitator and anti-racist co- conspirator.  Her equity work began when she entered the field of psychotherapy and realized that whiteness was foundational to the field of mental health\, its theories\, and its treatments.  She began teaching and consulting within the mental health community\, developing an understanding of the impact of systemic oppression and intersectionality to western psychology.  In her private practice she specializes in complex trauma and cross racial relationships. In her facilitation and coaching work\, Carlin uses a combination of critical race theory\, psychodynamic theory and humanistic relational approaches to help unearth and address the complexities of whiteness\, white supremacy and racial trauma in our daily human interactions. \n \n  \nLiz Koch  is an international educator\, author\, and the creator of CoreAwareness™ focusing on awareness as key for developing human potential and awakening consciousness. With 43 years experience specializing in the human core\, Liz is recognized in the somatic\, bodywork\, and fitness professions as an authority on the core primal tissue called Psoas.  Both nationally and internationally published\, her works include The Psoas Book\, Unraveling Scoliosis CD\, Core Awareness; Enhancing Yoga\, Pilates\, Exercise & Dance\, Psoas & Back Pain CD\, Mother\, Maiden\, Crone: Our Pleasure Playlist and her newest book  Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence published in 2019 by North Atlantic Books. \n\n\n\n  \n  \n\n \n  \nEducation For Racial Equity is a cross-racial and inter-generational non-profit organization committed to illuminating and dismantling the system of white supremacy\, globally. Guided by the principles of both Anti-Racism and Anti-Racist activism\, we take a multi-faceted approach to systemic change. ERE creates opportunities to develop awareness of the nature and function of whiteness/white supremacy\, its impact on all peoples\, and how it intersects with other systems of oppression. Our intention is to support integrated and embodied change within ourselves and those who work with us.
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/moving-whiteness-with-resmaa-menakem-carlin-quinn/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class,Other
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ORGANIZER;CN="TAOS ART SCOOL":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201022T130000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20240411T233715Z
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SUMMARY:FUNDAMENTALS: Jaw & Pelvic Connection (Zoom)
DESCRIPTION:FUNDAMENTALS \nJaw & Pelvic Connection \nPresented October 2020. The video recording available by purchasing a ticket below. \n \n  \n\n\n\nHip socket pain\, sacral dysfunction\, and low back issues often find resolution in the Jaw/Pelvic Connection.\nThe jaw and pelvis\, reflect one another\, and when disrupted can cause our psoas to message disharmony whether that originates from injury\, anger\, frustration\, willfulness\, scar tissue\, poor ergonomics or dental issues. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nThinking and languaging spine as separate thoracic\, lumbar\, and cervical parts that move independently diminish the power of our core. From one end to the other\, all core movement is an expression of wholeness. Like a fish\, or for that matter a caterpillar\, our head to our tail moves as one. Stabilizing one end of the caterpillar by pressing down your finger only makes the other end of the caterpillar flail. The same is true for the head and pelvis. When one end of the spine is over stabilized (or unstable)\, the other end will become disorganized.\nTo either end\, our psoas messages all core disruptions.\nBy returning core to its fluid primal origins\, compensatory behaviors involving psoas often find resolution. \nStalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence
URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/jaw-pelvic-connection/
LOCATION:Your home
CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class
ORGANIZER;CN="TAOS ART SCOOL":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com
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