Musings

BODY POLITICS…

October 31, 2024 by lizkoch

As one of many US citizens living within (and outside of) the USA wishing to stay out of the toxic political fray, thinking abstaining, and refusing to participate in the insanity of our collective nightmare where DOMINANCE is both the goal and the reward - whatever the cost…you might just be... [Read more...]

Holding Paradox

February 23, 2024 by lizkoch

A Sound Bite...Pondering the fable of Baba Yaga Liz Koch muses the hag's inner power ignored by a culture that has no appetite for woman's inner knowing. Holding Paradox by becoming our own is our TASK. Rooting within the center of our core is the PLAY. Nourished by this medial space between... [Read more...]

Being Human…

September 30, 2023 by lizkoch

This is a voice memo after hearing the beautiful words of Ursula K. Le Guin from The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction. If it is a human thing to do to put something you want, because it's useful, edible, or beautiful, into a bag, or a basket, or a bit of rolled bark or leaf, or a net woven... [Read more...]

Our Freedom Lies Within Variability

August 16, 2023 by lizkoch

Our Freedom Lies Within Variability To feel the freedom of our variability is the very thing that renders us sane ~ Jorja Rivero What is insane is that every woman today is captive to the top-down power over patriarchal norms and established standards that in one way or another drown out our... [Read more...]

Soulful Psoas ~ The Language of Knowing

December 20, 2022 by lizkoch

Psoas speaks to the very heart of our existence. Reflecting our personal, social, and cosmic journey, psoas messages a profound longing to show up and fulfill our destiny. Psoas tells stories of our familiar, ancestral, & biological intelligence. What mysterious stories the psoas... [Read more...]

Health & Primal Gestures ~ Listening to Our Psoas as Somatic Educators

April 11, 2022 by lizkoch

Listening to core psoas calls for a broader and deeper understanding of health and primal responses. Gaining this understanding involves challenging our hyper-focus on categorizing the nervous system under the umbrella of “trauma.” Captivating our attention, the cultural reductionist... [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.

Core Awareness fosters core integrity and self-efficacy as creative and expressive human beings.

Here at Core Awareness you’ll discover new ways of understanding the psoas. In addition to the blogs there is an educationally rich sourcing free for the taking. Explore my videos, articles, podcasts, interviews, FAQ’s and community links and let yourself go wild!