September 2021
LATS ~ Wings of Support
The latissimus dorsi is a partner to the psoas! Emerging from the pelvic rim and out from the buttocks up into each arm, this large, versatile, and expressive tissue opens our hearts to long for and reach toward the stars. The 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…
Find out more »Wild Markings Emerging from The Field ~ A Collaboration with Majio
In this time when our collective mythology is breaking down, we are called to find a deeper and more sustainable story Wilding Markings Emerging from the Field, is a collaborative experience in awakening new realities through engaging with our sensory movement and the visual arts. This approach is not specifically designed for artists, but for anyone interested in investigating and expanding beyond the pervading cultural paradigm. To begin opening to new possibilities our organizing principle is awareness and reflection –…
Find out more »October 2021
FLUID CORE ~ Scar Tissue & The Psoas collaboration with Sue Hitzmann
Fluid Core The Effects of Scar Tissue on the Juicy Psoas a collaboration with Sue Hitzmann Join our conversation and learn self-help techniques for resolving SACR TISSUE and improving the Connective Tissue Network Scar tissue forming is an amazing process involving the cells found in our connective tissue. The primary cell of connective tissue is called a fibroblast. When we injure our skin (or any part of our body really) these amazing cells transform into myofibroblasts. When a wound needs…
Find out more »October 13 Decolonizing Notions of Psoas
Decolonizing Notions of Psoas Core integrity is something I think each of us needs to explore in today's world. The agency and integrity of our own being. Psoas as a vital messenger of core integrity is called by Tao healers “the muscle of the soul.” Psoas speaks clearly as animal body – communicating primal instincts of being alive and apart of Earth’s kinship with all life. Decolonizing Notions of Psoas begins with recognizing the top down, power over systemic construct…
Find out more »Women + Power = Wild Discernment (A Moving Media/Bookclub Fall ’21 Edition)
Women + Power = Wild Discernment A Moving Media/Bookclub Fall 2021 edition A moving/writing/reflecting collaboration with Kimberly Ann Johnson and Liz Koch Patriarchy has taken different shapes and forms. Yet, as women, our animal bodies still hold the stories of how we have and continue to reckon with a top-down, power-over dynamic. How might we free ourselves from default patterns in our nervous system that are ancestral, cultural, familial, and very personal? Join us on a three-month intergenerational exploration using…
Find out more »Spiraling Into the Wild: Integrating Psoas & Polyvagal-Informed Continuum & Dance Therapies Advanced Collaboration with Amber Gray
A Stalking Wild Psoas Workshop Spiraling Into the Wild Integrating Primal Core Psoas & Polyvagal-Informed Continuum & Dance Therapies Advanced Professional Collaboration with Dr Amber Gray Ph.D THE LIVE WORKSHOP HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL the Spring or Fall of 2022 Delve deeper into the entangled dynamics of somatic psychology, movement therapy, and core integrity within an embodied dynamic nervous system and coherent primal core This Advanced Professional Course is a unique opportunity available only by invitation (to apply see below).…
Find out more »The Gentle Art of Rocking Psoas (2-hr zoom)
Tools & Techniques for Nourishing Your Psoas our senses are capable of feeling waves ~ curling and uncurling ~ as primordial impulses emerging from the center of our being Moving tissue in soft wavelike motion begins reimagining body as form, softening tissue and opening space Join me refining the art of gentle rocking to nourish and hydrate your psoas We will spend time on the floor exploring doing so and then explore the many tools that can support gentle…
Find out more »November 2021
Coming To Our Senses as Women
A Kinesthetic Sensory Inquiry For Women Coming To Our Senses What is the experience of core integrity if it emerges at this moment within a sensory based woman? How do we, as women, embody a lived integrity? What does integrity sense like within the very core of our being? As one woman wrote “with the impulse to be good is the fear of getting it wrong.” Her words say it all. If we can physically experience our…
Find out more »Entering the Void ~ Blessing the Earth: A Women’s Collaboration with Jessi Marino
Movement & Ritual Entering The Void As the Darkness of Winter Approaches We enter a time of liminal space where we are called to listen more deeply to the great mother earth our womb so to tend to all kinship sensed in elemental bones flesh heart of soma a collaboration with Jessi Marino Jessi initiates our journey into the primal feminine through an elemental movement practice to honor each of the natural elements ~ ground, lubricate, activate,…
Find out more »Stalking Wild Psoas: Womb To World with Anna Verwaal on Zoom
The Journey that Shapes Our Life Taste the Wild Waters of Wholeness experience the world in new and curious ways! Join Liz Koch and Anna Verwaal for this most extraordinary Stalking Wild Psoas Workshop ~ Womb to World: The journey that shapes our life is a process oriented workshop combining photography, storytelling, research, and movement. By exploring how each of us is shaped, quite literally, by the field of experience in the womb and therefore of life itself, we go far beyond our personal experience to…
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