Musings

Moving Whiteness: Re-Wilding Our Animal Body

February 17, 2021 by lizkoch

Shortly after completing my final manuscript of Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence, a book that focuses on rewilding psoas by changing the language of body from object to living process, I came across My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our... [Read more...]

Tracking Whiteness

December 2, 2020 by lizkoch

Tracking Whiteness “The health of tracking verses the illness of shame” ~ Barri Malek ~ Part One ~ Meeting somatic educator and author Resmaa Menakem and tracking my early years of whiteness (16:53 mins) [player id=26019] Part Two ~ Whiteness as un-metabolized ancestral... [Read more...]

White Bodies, Psoas, & Gesturing Power Over

June 18, 2020 by lizkoch

Power over is an adaptation that can be seen in what I refer to as the “colonized white body.” A specific and intentional social conditioning that shapes the body of whiteness. Over the past several weeks, I have watched the news and read social media quips written by white bodies that I... [Read more...]

Fluid Core ~ A Way Out of Freezing Fear

April 12, 2020 by lizkoch

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 for example, a child is threatened and told to stop crying it may seem... [Read more...]

Core Awareness in Action…

February 23, 2020 by lizkoch

Consciousness may be defined as the ability to hold two opposite or paradoxical realizations in the same moment….what might be called radical inclusion. It is this ability to stop identifying with either opposite that evokes a third force called presence. Often experiencing traumatic events... [Read more...]

Growing Core Integrity ~ A Global Psoas in a Cultural Body

June 17, 2019 by lizkoch

Photo by Majkl Velneron Unsplash A few years ago my daughter took a university course on Genocide in undergraduate school. The Psychology of Genocide by Steven K Baum was required reading. I had no interest in focusing on this horrific and tragic subject. My thinking at the time was that... [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!