Educational Articles

Intuitive Mothering: Trusting Our Core Intelligence

May 7, 2017 by lizkoch

by Liz Koch I knew with both children I was pregnant at the time of conception. It took the second time to realize I had no reason to confirm it. I simply knew — I could trust that I knew and that time would show my knowing. I did not need a pregnancy test. During my second pregnancy, I also... [Read more...]

Q & A Virtual Tele-class 2016

October 17, 2022 by Gabrielle Laney-Andrews

Copy quality reprint article. Reading the Q & A's, which were selected from the questions asked by participants attending three different virtual psoas classes, provides helpful tips for understanding people’s concerns and every day questions regarding their own or their clients psoas.... [Read more...]

The Soulful Psoas

October 17, 2022 by Gabrielle Laney-Andrews

Copy quality reprint article. The Soulful Journey – Journal One includes Exploring the psoas in a non-manipulative, non-invasive approach for more than 40 years Liz Koch has come to call the psoas the messenger of the midline not only because of its physical location, which emerges... [Read more...]

Core Strength: Box Squat To Balance Pelvis

May 11, 2009 by lizkoch

Gain core strength while maintaining a supple psoas by choosing to make pelvic integrity a priority. Too often what appears to be a weak psoas muscle is really an overused, misused and abused psoas due to pelvic disruptions. In an attempt to compensate for unstable pelvic sacral-iliac joints, the... [Read more...]

The One Muscle That Does Not Need Strengthening

August 15, 2005 by lizkoch

Located behind those flab or fab abs is a little known but oh so powerful muscle called your PSOAS (pronounced so-as). The only muscle to connect your spine to your leg, the psoas influences everything from low back pain and anxiety, to full body orgasms and pure pleasure. It is a supple, juicy... [Read more...]

Your Back In Gardening: Awareness Of Righting Reflexes

May 5, 2005 by lizkoch

The physical sensation gardening brings can be as nourishing as the food and beautiful flowers we reap! And yet many of us after a few short hours in the garden find ourselves with aching backs, stiff necks and knees, and sore shoulders. It’s easy to attribute these sensations to being... [Read more...]

Welcome to Core Awareness™

Liz Koch is an international educator and author who seeks to dissolve the objectification of “body” in order to re-conceptualize human beings as biologically intelligent, self-organizing, and self-healing. Employing biomorphic and embryonic paradigms, Liz redefines psoas as smart, expressive tissue that is both elemental and universal.

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