Musings

Stalking Wild: The Animals Are Calling Us to Council

April 30, 2018 by lizkoch

The Wilderness is inside you streaming through your blood, vibrating your tissue, resonating in your bones… [caption id="attachment_10081" align="aligncenter" width="561"] photo is by Tim Fitzharris of Earthfire the wolf and her brother Red.[/caption] Join me for a conversation with Dr.... [Read more...]

Food For Thought: Becoming Porous

April 1, 2018 by lizkoch

" ...a ‘threshold’ appears first as a boundary and then once approached, you realize that it is only the limit of one layer of understanding while, at the same time, it acts as the doorway to the next, deeper layer." Quote by English Professor Michael Chambers The boundary that... [Read more...]

Stalking Wild Psoas Workshops ~ Activating Core Integrity

February 28, 2018 by lizkoch

Stalking Wild Psoas: Awakening To Our Creative Self “When life is recognized and felt-sensed in flesh and blood, the longing for a new way of communicating becomes paramount." "What if instead of identifying myself with objects, I felt my heart as a large oscillator emanating far beyond my... [Read more...]

Finding Center When Devastated

October 18, 2017 by lizkoch

1) Put your belly to the ground. 2) Curl onto your side and slowly rock: add long exhales using the sound “shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.” 3) Roll to your back, knees up, feet on the floor, to reset your nervous system

Psoas & Earth: The Impossible Separation

August 24, 2017 by lizkoch

My only drink is meaning from the deep brain What the birds and the grass and the stones drink Let everything flow Up to the four elements. Up to water and Earth and fire and air. ~ Seamus Heaney “the First Words” It is striking how surprised workshop participants are to... [Read more...]

4 Good Reasons NOT To Misuse Your Psoas by Liz Koch

June 28, 2017 by lizkoch

News flash for performers, dancers, yogis, gymnasts, and athletes... 1) INJURIES: Recruiting the psoas for stabilization is a common strategy used in dance, yoga, gymnastics, and exercise. Intentionally tensing, pulling in, and lifting up from deep within the solar plexus ignites the psoas in an... [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!