Liz Koch

Instinctive Responses, Injury & A Healthy Pelvic/Psoas Relationship The 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. Learn to Center and Heal Your Pelvic/Psoas…

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. Woven into a full life, my…

fluid improv as nourishment ~ core soul singing ~ Dr. 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…

F L U I D  C O R E A Way Out of Freezing Fear June 18th (2-Hr Movement Class via Zoom) Fear 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…

This Collaboration is an Adventure into the Wildness of Soma & Psyche  An exploration, not for the faint of heart...but the curious   A soulful calling and responding to life's sustenance... We'll begin exploring the power inherent within Myth, Story, and Archetype as a portal  into the mutable   Wild Primary Body shapeshifting, vacillating,  softening, tracking...we will be informed, claimed, and devoured by the birthright of our own wild fluid terrain  and re-shaped and supported by the flowing forms of MogaDao Archetypal Qigong…

Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence  Essay One: Changing The Language of Body Our 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…