Musings

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...]

Core Integrity, Ancestors, and Our Collective Pain ~ A Gathering Together

September 27, 2021 by lizkoch

As I sit on zoom with “bodies of culture,” the expression Resmaa Menakem author of My Grandmother’s Hands uses when referring to BOC folk, I sense something stirring deep in my bones...something tragic and mournful traced through the lineage of my ancestors. Images, sensations, a... [Read more...]

Honoring Our Reptilian Brain by Bowing Down

July 12, 2021 by lizkoch

MUSINGS FOUND FROM LONG AGO... …I woke this morning with the realization that what I do is dip intentionally into the limbic reptilian brain. The flow is not just an upward motion into reflection, which for many assumes that reflection is the best place to be…. but to honor the animal... [Read more...]

TRAUMA: CAN IT TRANSFORM OUR CONSCIOUSNESS?

June 28, 2021 by lizkoch

Migrating, adapting, transforming are natural processes of being alive. Turmoil: something every species experiences. From galaxies to quarks all living and nonliving forms change. What if disruption, devastation and even suffering are simply a natural part of... [Read more...]

POTBOUND ~ Life force bound up becomes a stranglehold

June 17, 2021 by lizkoch

When our life force becomes all bound up, it can become a stranglehold on our deepest longings and creativity, smothering our human potential. Early this spring I brought home a young fig tree. Here in the heartlands, spring is the very best time to transplant a plotted plant. The... [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!