BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Core Awareness - ECPv6.18.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://coreawareness.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Core Awareness REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20200308T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20201101T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20210314T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20211107T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20220313T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20221106T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20230312T080000 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TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20221106T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220804T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220804T130000 DTSTAMP:20230721T134611Z CREATED:20220719T121939Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230721T134611Z UID:10000620-1659610800-1659618000@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Form & Formlessness ~ FREE Gathering & Conversation with Sarah Byrden DESCRIPTION:f \n            r   \n                     e \ne \nt e a \nw i t h \nm e \n& \ns a r a h  b y r d e n \nAugust 4th \n11:00 am central \nopen conversation \nform   &    f  o   r   m   l   e   s    s  n  e    s     s \nfluid psoas /primal gestures/qigong forms \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/form-formless-with-sarah-byrden/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Online Class END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220726T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220726T130000 DTSTAMP:20240412T011642Z CREATED:20220423T162600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T011642Z UID:10000613-1658833200-1658840400@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Applying Fluid Movement to Exercise Protocal 2-Hr Zoom DESCRIPTION:Applying Fluid Movement to Exercise Protocal  \n\nWorking with fluid movement both before and afterward exercising \nis a practical way of developing sensory core awareness to enhance fitness and exercise. \nPresented July 2022. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \n \nHuman being are spine-based organisms. The earliest pre-vertebral (spine) is found in the ancient ocean creature\, the sea squirt. Fluid Movement enhances the development of neuro-pathways\, which in turn helps us avoid compensations that lead to injuries. \n\n\nAll movement is spine-based. \nArticulation of movement emerges from a supple\, fluid\, dynamic core. \n A specific movement  initiated from core awareness has the greatest range of expression with the least amount of muscular substitution.  The arms and legs\, with centered ball-and-socket joints\, are capable of moving in all three-dimensional planes. When core movement is not disrupted it differentiates as it moves out into fingers and toes. \n\nE N H A N C E    ~  R E C O V E R ~  S T R E N G T H E N URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/integrating-fluid-movement-into-exercise-2-hr-zoom/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/derrick2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220712T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220712T130000 DTSTAMP:20240411T235237Z CREATED:20220609T140519Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240411T235237Z UID:10000617-1657623600-1657630800@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:SAVING YOUR KNEES: what does psoas have to do with it? DESCRIPTION:Presented July 2022. This video recorded class is available by purchasing a ticket below. \nSAVING YOUR KNEES \n\nwhat does psoas have to do with it? \n \nphoto credit chris lawton – unsplash \n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\nInjuries may be understood as a signal of an overburdened system\, a direct result of a lack of integrity at the core. \nTwisting and rotational movements\, which are normal for the hip socket joints\, for example\, when applied to the knees\, ankles\, or low back\, wear on the joints. \nWhat is actually lacking is proprioceptive awareness \nCore Awareness: Enhancing Yoga\, Pilates\, Exercise\, and Dance \n\n\n\n  URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/saving-your-knees-2-hr-zoom/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/knees-600x553-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220711T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220728T133000 DTSTAMP:20230721T134658Z CREATED:20220515T140113Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230721T134658Z UID:10000615-1657537200-1659015000@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Nourishing The Female Soul Together: Feeding Our Longing with Anasuya Isaacs DESCRIPTION:Nourishing The Female Soul Together\nFeeding Our Longing \n \nA Collaboration with Anasuya Isaacs\n \n \nexploring through\, art\, word\, movement\, sound\, and reflection  \n  \nWe are coming together in a circle to reclaim our Sovereignty. We will explore the many ways our female soul is intentionally starved of what she longs for and needs.  Through creative expression and somatic core movement\, we will nourish\, nurture\, and restore our \ninnermost fluidity and innate healing waters to restore our love-starved souls and fully blossom. \n  \nIn these six sessions (and the time between) we will go on a creative\, somatic journey to reclaim our core integrity\, voice\, and our power to embody fulfilled lives of our own making that we LOVE. \nSession 1:  Our Gilded Cage has a Key\nSession 2:  Lilith\, Medusa\, Kali and We \nSession 3:  Speaking in Tongues ~ Our Vagina Has her say!\nSession 4:  Rising from the Ashes of “Guilt and Shame\, so much Blame!”\nSession 5:  Building our Throne\, our Temple Divine\nSession 6:  I Am Who I say I AM ~ Reclamation of Sovereign Self \nSix Session Course on Mondays and Thursdays\nJuly 11\, 14\, 18\, 21\, 25\, 28 \n9 am -11:30 am PST\n11 am  1:30 pm CST\n12 noon – 2:30 pm EST \n2.5 hrs\nRECORDINGS only available for Registered Participants \nOpen to women around the Globe \nMeet my Collaborator… \n \nAnasuya Isaacs is a globetrotting Alchemical Transformation Coach Trainer\, Speaker\, Entrepreneur\, Writer\, and Painter. As a Cultural Ambassador\, she has developed empowerment programs for people to speak the unspeakable\, love their broken selves and own their innate power by combining the power of storytelling\, empathy and the creative arts/theater to teach the power of Words to manifest your desired outcomes now. She has empowered Women and young people through her programs all across New York City as a Teaching Artist as well as in France\, Kenya\, Italy\, South Africa and Germany. Trained in the Stanislavsky Method of acting in Paris\, France\, Anasuya co-founded a theater company in Paris with friends to perform classical French theater in the Commedia dell’Arte style. Returning to the States\, she continued as an actress in her own plays and as a spoken word artist. As a lover of words\, she has edited and been included in several anthologies of poetry and essays. \nAs an advocate for women’s leadership\, Anasuya is also a Certified and Licensed WomanSpeak Circle Leader\, facilitating the unleashing of the brilliance of women’s voices as public speakers. This training expands Anasuya’s healing offering to women and children  ready to liberate their voices stolen by trauma from rape\, sex trafficking\, sexual and physical abuse. As a Certified Intentional Creativity Teacher\, Anasuya creates and leads workshops and programs that lead people into a Vision Quest into the heart of their Soul Work and their innate healing capacity using visual art\, writing and sacred rituals. \nHer longing to be a career diplomat to bring cultures and people together in peace\, led Anasuya to study International Relations and Communication at Oberlin College. As required by the US State Department\, she became bi-lingual in French\, deepening her study of the language at the Sorbonne\, Universite de Paris\, in Paris\, France.  She has traveled to 22 countries and has lived in six countries outside of the United States. Witnessing the need for women’s leadership\, Anasuya created and has been facilitating her Let Love Lead workshops and programs that ignite the sacred alchemy between theater\, poetry\, song and art and healing from trauma. This platform creates safe space for understanding between cultures. Most notable is Anasuya’s work fostering dialogue between Germans and the newly arrived Syrian refugees; between Italians and the African asylum seekers crossing the Mediterranean; and between South Africans and their exiled citizens living with AIDS at the height of the AIDS pandemic. \n\n \nPhoto Credit: Jen Theodora (unsplash) URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/nourishing-the-female-soul-together/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Online Class END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220603T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220605T133000 DTSTAMP:20220523T230542Z CREATED:20220226T144231Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220523T230542Z UID:10000468-1654248600-1654435800@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:BASIC (12-Hr) Psoas Workshop (NCBTMB Approved) via Zoom DESCRIPTION:Thank you so much for the workshop over the weekend. \nIt was the most amazing\, eye opening and inspiring workshop… \nIt answered a lot of my questions and made me think about a whole lot more! \nI also really appreciate your generosity with your knowledge and not rushing through any answers to our questions.\nI know this is just the beginning of my journey with your training.\n(2021 Workshop Participant)\n \n3-Day ONLINE Basic Psoas workshop\, open to every body\, limited to 15 participants \nThis course offers a great way to learn through experience how intelligent Psoas informs your skeletal integrity\, joint rotation\, muscular tension\, breathing\, emotional expression\, and organ functioning. A healthy Psoas facilitates functional movement and improves fitness while reducing over all stress vital for resolving injuries and trauma. Healthy Psoas ignites your core creative flourishing and nourishes your innovative possibilities. \n\n\n\n\nDevelop Your Core Awareness: \n\nUnderstand how healthy Psoas supports movement\, strength\, endurance & well-being\nExperience practical ways of sensing your Psoas\nLearn to soften\, lengthen and revitalize your Psoas\nGain tools for recovering and maintaining a healthy Psoas\nExplore the energetic/emotional/spiritual/ living dynamics of your physical core\nImprove neurological proprioception and skeletal balance\nApply concepts to everyday movement such as sitting\, driving\, and walking\n\nDeepen and broaden your practice whether that be Pilates\, Gyrotonic\, Massage\, Bodywork\, Somatic Movement\, Fitness\, Athletics\, Dance\, Yoga\, Martial Arts\, and/or Psychology… \nRECOMMENDED READING: The Psoas Book \nCANCELLATION POLICY:  Please read my complete cancellation policy available online before registering. Online courses can not be canceled once you have received access to online course material and link. \n \nNational Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB) Approved \nThis is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork for 12 hours of continuing education credit (CEU). For more information on the NCBTMB\, please visit their website. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/basic-zoom-june-2022/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Online Class,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/warding-600x533-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220602T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220630T143000 DTSTAMP:20220603T115410Z CREATED:20220109T134618Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220603T115410Z UID:10000450-1654164000-1656599400@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Advanced Core Awareness Course for Laypersons & Professionals via Zoom DESCRIPTION:The 5-Week Advanced Core Awareness course is designed for both Laypersons & Professionals interested in refining your understanding of the explorations found in my book Core Awareness: Enhancing Yoga\, Pilates\, Exercise\, and Dance. In the intimacy of a small group zoom gathering (max 10) we will integrate the fundamental concepts for maintaining a healthy psoas. Each week I help you articulate and refine your movement using specific explorations from the book to increase proprioception\, gain sensory awareness\, and integrate your understanding of how to support your healthy functional Psoas. You will be working to gain nuance in your own system.\n \nIn partnership\, you will be learning from each other’s experience and expertise\, as we integrate healthy psoas into your practice and/or profession; sharing observations\, and questioning your strategies will deepen your perception of the Psoas. As we focus on one major concept/chapter each week\, you will also study keynote images presented in order to develop a keen eye\, recognize strategies\, compensations\, (dysfunctions & injuries) behaviors\, and expressions while practicing deep listening to foster your inner knowing of Psoas with Heartfelt Compassion. \n\n\n\n \nFOR EVERYONE: Integrate the Core Awareness explorations into your own practice in order to be able to gain refinement as well as to successfully guide your clients and students through a natural process for regaining and maintaining a healthy psoas.  \nCourse Participants will learn to: \n\nDevelop observational skills for supporting the healthy psoas.\nBecome cognizant of the signs of an overactive sympathetic fear response and disrupted proprioception\nIdentify and choose a strategy of support\, facilitate and implement basic trauma protocol\nUtilize somatic tools for supporting the healthy psoas and nourishing the Neurocore.  \nFacilitate your students and client’s ability to resource support\nRecognize disruption and lack of grounding in movement and core expression\nWork alone and together in partnerships in displaying the ability to attend to the healthy psoas  \nConceptualize and communicate the importance of core integrity and its relationship to the psoas.\n\nPREREQUISITE & REQUIREMENTS: You must attend a minimum of  the BASIC 12-hr Psoas Workshop and at least one other workshop or Zoom class.  PLUS have read  The Psoas Book and bring to class: Core Awareness: Enhancing Yoga\, Pilates\, Exercise & Dance.  Expect to be on screen the full class time\, attend to homework assignments week by week\, and work in partnership during class. \nNOTE: This course is an educational process designed for people interested in the field of Bodywork\, Yoga\, Pilates\, Dance\, and Fitness to increase their understanding and experience of the healthy psoas.  It is NOT for those needing to heal from trauma or major injuries. Please register only if qualified. This course is limited to 15 participants  \nI encourage professionals already on my COMMUNITY page to attend this course to further deepen your understanding of how to utilize the explorations in Core Awareness and develop skills in discerning the healthy psoas.  \nCANCELLATION POLICY: Cancellation Policy\nUSA Psoas Workshop Cancellation Policy: Cancellations may be made up until 30 days prior to the workshop. NO money will be refunded 30 days before the workshop date. Workshop deposits are non-refundable. Registration for the ADVANCED COURSE is FINAL and can not be transferred or deferred.  \nNational Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB) Approved \nThis is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork for 20 hours of continuing education credit (CEU). For more information on the NCBTMB\, please visit their website. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/advanced-core-awareness-june-2022/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Online Class,Professional Training ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/coreawareness-cover-600x553-1.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220519T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220519T120000 DTSTAMP:20261015T150604Z CREATED:20220125T134810Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261015T150604Z UID:10000460-1652954400-1652961600@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:FLUID CORE: Pelvic Integrity ~ A collaboration with Sue Hitzmann DESCRIPTION:Juicy Psoas \nA  SENSE  OF  WHOLENESS\nPelvic Integrity \na collaboration \nwith \nSue Hitzmann \nPresented May 2022. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \n \n\n\n\nThe pelvis is the center of gravity in an upright human. Its stability is what allows force to be transmitted from the trunk to the legs.\nPsoas is at the very heart of this transmission.\nSustaining pelvic integrity is inherently linked to everything from our emotional state to our physical state\nand\nHydrating our Connective Tissue Network is KEY\nLearn to restore your pelvic integrity and juicy psoas\nwhether that be lost due to pregnancy\, injury\, or trauma \n\n\n\n\n \n\nMeet My Guest Collaborator: \nSue Hitzmann\, MS\, CST\, NMT\, is a nationally recognized neuro-fascial manual therapist and teacher whose studies and explorations have culminated in the creation of the MELT Method®. A revolutionary approach to pain-free fitness and longevity\, MELT is a self help technique for working with the connective tissue system called fascia to help restore movement efficiency and overall health span. Because the Psoas is deeply embedded in the sympathetic neuro-core\, hydrating connective tissue is an important key for resolving Psoas inflammation\, pain\, and tension. \nNeuroCore is a termed coined by neuro-fascial therapist Sue Hitzmann creator of The MELT Method® (2006) first heard during a conversation (2010) with author Liz Koch discussing the deepest “fascial bags” that enfold spinal cord\, psoas\, kidney\, adrenals: The NeuroCore System is comprised of a Reflexive Core – the 3D cylinder and the Rooted Core\, the head-to-toe neurofascial connection that allows our brain to sustain more efficient balance of our masses and spaces (another MELT Term) for the bony and joint parts of our body.(2018) URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/pelvic-integrity-sue-hitzmann-2022/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Sue-Hitzmann-600x533-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220421T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220421T130000 DTSTAMP:20220416T113237Z CREATED:20220317T223658Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220416T113237Z UID:10000611-1650538800-1650546000@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Nourishing Wood Element and Liver Energy ~ a collaboration with Sarah Byrden DESCRIPTION:Nourishing \nWood Element \n& \nLiver Energy\n New Beginnings\, Vision\, Growth and Hope\nPrimal Gesture & Archetypal Qigong\na collaboration\nwith \nSarah Byrden \nNO RECORDING\n\n\nphoto – jeremy bishop unsplash\nMoving into Spring\, we feel the surges of new life bubbling up from below the earth\, budding on tree branches and in our own bodies. In Chinese Medicine it is the Liver that is the expression of the Wood Element\, the element that allows Spring to occur in our bodies and our lives. Wood energy graces us with new vision\, the heart-felt experience of hope\, new beginnings\, growth and individuation after the watery world of Winter.  When we try to take a step into Spring but our Wood Element is weak or overactive\, it can manifest as lack of vision and hope\, anger\, restlessness and an inability to begin anew. Join us for this online class in which we will nourish our Liver and the Wood Element through primal gesture and archetypal qigong forms. \n \n\nSarah Byrden has been a somatic practitioner\, educator and  wilderness guide for over 20 years. She is a two time TEDx presenter\,  has dedicated over 2 decades to deep study and apprenticeship in western and non-western modalities\, and teaches from her own life-long journey in the realms that she offers. She is the founder of The Elemental Self\, and offers her students pathways to remember themselves\, the web in which they belong\, their innate capacities to move and be moved by a Source beyond conditioning. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/nourishing-wood-element-liver-energy-collaboration-with-sarah-byrden/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/LIVER-SQ2-e1649414478458.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220414T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220414T130000 DTSTAMP:20220412T151045Z CREATED:20220317T222516Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220412T151045Z UID:10000610-1649934000-1649941200@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Nourishing The Water Element & Kidney Energy ~ a collaboration with Sarah Byrden DESCRIPTION:Nourishing \nWater Element \n& \nKidney Energy\nDestiny\, Dreamtime\, and the Foundation of Life\nPrimal Gesture & Archetypal Qigong\na collaboration\nwith \nSarah Byrden\nNO RECORDING \n\nphoto sergey pestered  – unsplash\nOur Kidney energy is quite literally the root of our entire life force\, and an expression of the Water Element in Chinese Medicine. From this well flows our sexual energy\, the deep dreams we were born to bring to bear\, the marrow of our very bones\, and the waters from which we come and one day will return to. Our Kidneys become depleted when we are stressed\, manifesting fear\, lack of energy\, and a loss of faith in life itself. There is no ability to move into the new growth of Spring if our Kidneys are tapped. Join us for a 2-hour movement class to nourish our Kidneys and the Water Element through primal gesture and archetypal qigong forms. \n \n\nSarah Byrden has been a somatic practitioner\, educator and  wilderness guide for over 20 years. She is a two time TEDx presenter\,  has dedicated over 2 decades to deep study and apprenticeship in western and non-western modalities\, and teaches from her own life-long journey in the realms that she offers. She is the founder of The Elemental Self\, and offers her students pathways to remember themselves\, the web in which they belong\, their innate capacities to move and be moved by a Source beyond conditioning. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/nourishing-the-water-element-kidney-energy-collaboration-with-sarah-byrden/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Kidney-square--e1649166185602.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220404T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220420T203000 DTSTAMP:20221001T135037Z CREATED:20220125T124135Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221001T135037Z UID:10000458-1649095200-1650486600@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Unapologetically TOO MUCH: Nourishing Our Capacity to be Audacious Women ~ A Collaboration with Anasuya Isaacs DESCRIPTION:UNAPOLOGETICALLY  \nTOO MUCH\nNourishing Our Capacity to be Audacious Women \nA Collaboration with Anasuya Isaacs\n \nexploring through\, art\, word\, movement\, sound\, and reflection  \n  \nIn the words of Ursula K. Le Guin \n“I know that many men and even women are afraid and angry when women do speak\, because in this barbaric society\, when women speak truly they speak subversively – they can’t help it: if you’re underneath\, if you’re kept down\, you break out\, you subvert. We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth\, as human truth\, all the maps change. There are new mountains. \nThat’s what I want – to hear you erupting. You… who don’t know the power in you – I want to hear you.” \n\nWhether you have been shamed for being TOO ______ MUCH or felt the sting of being NOT_____ ENOUGH\, you have become someone other than the “YOU” you came here to be. Being shunned for being “too___much” or shrinking to not be “too much” in order to fit in and be accepted has had you reinvent yourself to settle for less than you deserve. Living in the “not _____ enough” world of being seen and not heard\, never fully known; of being overlooked and/or taken for granted leaves your precious gifts unseen\, unknown\, and undervalued.   \nENOUGH! \nIn these six sessions\, we will go on a creative\, somatic journey to reclaim our voice\, our power to embody fulfilled lives of our own making that we LOVE. \nSession 1:  What is TOO MUCH? \nSession 2: Voicing Our Stories of Being TOO MUCH\nSession 3: Rooting Rage & Sorrow for Being TOO MUCH (or not enough)\nSession 4: Singing Our Bones: A Declaration to being TOO MUCH\nSession 5: ReWilding Our Womb: Claiming Authenticity\, Integrity & Agency\nSession 6: Becoming Ocean: A Recipe for Being TOO MUCH \nSix Session Course on Mondays and Wednesdays\nApril 4\, 6\, 11\, 13\, 18\, 20 \n4-6:30 pm PST\n6-8:30 pm CST\n7-9:30 pm EST \n2.5 hrs\nRECORDINGS only available for Registered Participants \nOpen to women around the Globe \nMeet my Collaborator… \n \nAnasuya Isaacs is a globetrotting Alchemical Transformation Coach Trainer\, Speaker\, Entrepreneur\, Writer\, and Painter. As a Cultural Ambassador\, she has developed empowerment programs for people to speak the unspeakable\, love their broken selves and own their innate power by combining the power of storytelling\, empathy and the creative arts/theater to teach the power of Words to manifest your desired outcomes now. She has empowered Women and young people through her programs all across New York City as a Teaching Artist as well as in France\, Kenya\, Italy\, South Africa and Germany. Trained in the Stanislavsky Method of acting in Paris\, France\, Anasuya co-founded a theater company in Paris with friends to perform classical French theater in the Commedia dell’Arte style. Returning to the States\, she continued as an actress in her own plays and as a spoken word artist. As a lover of words\, she has edited and been included in several anthologies of poetry and essays. \nAs an advocate for women’s leadership\, Anasuya is also a Certified and Licensed WomanSpeak Circle Leader\, facilitating the unleashing of the brilliance of women’s voices as public speakers. This training expands Anasuya’s healing offering to women and children  ready to liberate their voices stolen by trauma from rape\, sex trafficking\, sexual and physical abuse. As a Certified Intentional Creativity Teacher\, Anasuya creates and leads workshops and programs that lead people into a Vision Quest into the heart of their Soul Work and their innate healing capacity using visual art\, writing and sacred rituals. \nHer longing to be a career diplomat to bring cultures and people together in peace\, led Anasuya to study International Relations and Communication at Oberlin College. As required by the US State Department\, she became bi-lingual in French\, deepening her study of the language at the Sorbonne\, Universite de Paris\, in Paris\, France.  She has traveled to 22 countries and has lived in six countries outside of the United States. Witnessing the need for women’s leadership\, Anasuya created and has been facilitating her Let Love Lead workshops and programs that ignite the sacred alchemy between theater\, poetry\, song and art and healing from trauma. This platform creates safe space for understanding between cultures. Most notable is Anasuya’s work fostering dialogue between Germans and the newly arrived Syrian refugees; between Italians and the African asylum seekers crossing the Mediterranean; and between South Africans and their exiled citizens living with AIDS at the height of the AIDS pandemic. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/unapologetically-too-much-with-anasuya-isaacs/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Online Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/anasuya-featured.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220317T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220320T143000 DTSTAMP:20220317T140642Z CREATED:20220119T162041Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220317T140642Z UID:10000454-1647511200-1647786600@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Stalking Wild Psoas Workshop NCBTMB Accredited (Zoom) 2022 DESCRIPTION:  \nS t a l k i n g \n  W  i  l d   P s o a s \nA time for healing \nP A U S E \nGive your self  4-days to re-wild\, restore\, and nourish your bio-intelligent Psoas!  Using micro\, non-linear\, multi-dimensional\, fluid movement\, sound  you have the opportunity to metabolize and regenerate.  \nMarch 17-20\n10-2:30 Central\n$295 \n(small group setting maximum 15) \nThis creative offering is a nourishing opportunity to heal Psoas issues and awaken your core integrity. Our soulful\, animal body and true nature bound within the current social decorum\, linear patterns\, and repetitive movement becomes stifled and dry.  \nGET JUICY – RESTORE – BE MOVED \nfrom the fluids of life deep within \nAwaken your inner strength and creativity! \nNCBTMB (18-hr) Accredited Course \n \n PREREQUISITE:  I recommend a BASIC Psoas Workshop OR a selection of online Fluid Core Zoom classes. Contact me if you want to know if you can attend. Experiencing and participating in my approach provides a foundation that helps you develop the conceptual understanding necessary for  self directive inquiry.  This is essential when attending a Stalking Wild Psoas workshop. \n Wondering if this the workshop for you?   https://coreawareness.com/stalking-wild-psoas-awakening-to-our-creative-self/  \nNOTE: If you are having difficulty with your Psoas and/or your movement is limited\, this workshop can offer you the opportunity to heal.  \nCANCELLATION POLICY: NO RECORDING – Cancellations in full may be made up until 30 days prior to an online workshop date.  After 30 days you may check the office to see if there is a waiting list for someone who can take your place. Should you be sick\, have an accident or personal crisis or simply can not attend the workshop for whatever reason no money will be refunded but you can apply your registration toward another Stalking Wild Psoas workshop.  Your no show may be applied towards a future-like workshop.  If you leave the workshop early for any reason no part of your registration fee will be returned or applied to another workshop.  Should you cancel or not show up for the rescheduled make-up workshop/course for whatever reason\, no further arrangements will be made. If I am unable to teach the workshop I will reschedule the workshop and you will have the option to attend the makeup workshop or have your money fully refunded. \nNational Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB) Approved \nThis is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork for 18 hours of continuing education credit (CEU). For more information on the NCBTMB\, please visit their website. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/stalking-wild-zoom-march-2022/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Online Class,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CoreAwareness-Santorini-Greece-2010-05-600x533-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220308T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220308T130000 DTSTAMP:20240411T235054Z CREATED:20220214T125911Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240411T235054Z UID:10000464-1646737200-1646744400@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:FUNDAMENTALS: Sacred Sacrum DESCRIPTION:Presented March 2022. This video recorded class is available by purchasing a ticket below. \nOne of the\nsacred shapes the triangle\,\nforms the sacrum \n\n\n\nAskeystone of the pelvic bowl\,\nthe sacrum is the heart\nof the essential Navel root Hara\,\nTan Tien of the belly core \n\n\n& \n\n\nSkeletal Balance \nA physical and energetic keystone\, all weight passes through the\nsacrum from one (spine)into two (legs)to form a seaway\ntransporting energy between heaven (gravity) and earth (rebound).\nBelonging to both heaven and earth\, the sacral keystone unifies\nand serves as an organizing force. Suspended between two pelvic\nileum bones\, the sacrum houses one end of the central nervous\nsystem\, where vital electrical and energetic information is\ntransferred via a web of ligaments known as the sacroiliac joints\n(Sl joints). A fascial sheath\, called the dura mater\, wraps around protecting the\nprecious spinal cord. Connecting to both ends of the spinal cord (the\nsacrum and the cranium) the dura assures a direct and\nfundamental coherency between the root sacrum and crown\ncranium – thus the two ends of the primitive brain. \n  \nI loved this workshop! It helped balance my pelvis in the most pleasant way \nand CRP has been much more available for new insights  \n\nMary Borton\, E-RYT 500The Heart of Teaching URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/fundamentals-sacred-sacrum/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Online Class,Video Recorded Class END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220304T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220306T173000 DTSTAMP:20220305T125642Z CREATED:20191212T160417Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220305T125642Z UID:10000366-1646398800-1646587800@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Psoas During Pregnancy\, Birth\, & Postpartum - joined by Claire Eccleston DESCRIPTION: B I R T H  S A V V Y \n \n3-Day (12 Hr) Online Psoas Workshop focusing on Pregnancy\, Birth\, & Postpartum  \nNOTE THIS WORKSHOP TAKES PLACE ON DIFFERENT DAYS \nDEPENDING UPON TIME YOUR ZONE \nMarch 4 – 6  USA  – 1:00 pm – 5:30 pm  US CHICAGO\nMarch 5 – 7  NZ  – 8:00 am – 12:00 pm  NZ AUCKLAND\nthis course will be recorded each day – the recordings are only for those who have sign up  \nA workshop open to EVERY-BODY interested in birthing\, women\, and happy outcomes.  Becoming Psoas Savvy enhances every aspect of a woman’s pregnancy\, birth process\, and postpartum.  This workshop educates not only women but also their midwives\, doulas\, birth-keepers and the partners who tend them.  The importance of listening to your primal Psoas through every phase offers core knowing that can easily be integrated into customary prenatal fitness and birth  preparation. \nA Healthy Psoas: \n\nOffers skeletal support for releasing back pain and tension throughout pregnancy & birth\n\n\nReleases unfounded fear deepening a woman’s instinctual responses\n\n\nIgnites the intuitive belly brain\, centers\, and empowers every aspect of becoming a mother\n\n\nShortens labor and eases birth offering their baby guidance through the spiral descent\n\n\nEnhances a woman shape-shifting; offering an effective alternative to induction\n\n\nSupports the functionally balanced pelvis through each transition and postpartum recovery\n\n\nProvides a core sense of integrity\, trust\, and pleasure through the journey into motherhood\n\n \nRECOMMENDED READING: The Psoas Book (available as download and paper copy)  \nPlus watch for BIRTH SAVVY:A Woman’s Guide to Her Psoas by Liz Koch \nJoining me is Claire Eccleston is a mother and grandmother\, an experienced registered Midwife\, a Spinning Babies® Approved Trainer. Claire is a practicing Biodynamic Craniosacral therapist working within the STREAM philosophy specializing in pelvic work and scar tissue remediation. Claire has been supporting women’s transitions since 2000. Attending births\, offering childbirth education\, pregnancy yoga and providing bodywork sessions.  A dynamic facilitator offering national\, international and online workshops and speaking at conferences and events around the globe\, Claire is passionate about the ancient and sacred arts of birth work\, bodywork and where they meet. Claire has a deep reverence for our bodies and our wild intelligence ~ honoring the rhythms of our physical nature and womb work with deep reverence\, respect and gentleness. Claire is also a wild dancer.  \nWORKSHOP SIZE: Maximum 20 participants /THIS COURSE WILL BE RECORDED \nCANCELATION POLICY: International & Online Co-taught/Special/Retreat \n~ Cancellations may be made up until 60 days prior to the live or online collaborative workshop. NO money will be refunded or substitutions after 60 days before an event. Waiting list protocol may apply – please inquire. REGISTRATION IS FINAL  All registration fees are non-refundable and non-transferable.\n  URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/psoas-during-online-2022/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Online Class,Workshop END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220225T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220227T133000 DTSTAMP:20220226T144715Z CREATED:20220114T130209Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220226T144715Z UID:10000452-1645781400-1645968600@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:BASIC (12-Hr) Psoas Workshop (NCBTMB Approved) via Zoom DESCRIPTION:Thank you so much for the workshop over the weekend. \nIt was the most amazing\, eye opening and inspiring workshop… \nIt answered a lot of my questions and made me think about a whole lot more! \nI also really appreciate your generosity with your knowledge and not rushing through any answers to our questions.\nI know this is just the beginning of my journey with your training.\n(2021 Workshop Participant)\n \n3-Day ONLINE Basic Psoas workshop\, open to every body\, limited to 15 participants \nThis course offers a great way to learn through experience how intelligent Psoas informs your skeletal integrity\, joint rotation\, muscular tension\, breathing\, emotional expression\, and organ functioning. A healthy Psoas facilitates functional movement and improves fitness while reducing over all stress vital for resolving injuries and trauma. Healthy Psoas ignites your core creative flourishing and nourishes your innovative possibilities. \n\n\n\n\nDevelop Your Core Awareness: \n\nUnderstand how healthy Psoas supports movement\, strength\, endurance & well-being\nExperience practical ways of sensing your Psoas\nLearn to soften\, lengthen and revitalize your Psoas\nGain tools for recovering and maintaining a healthy Psoas\nExplore the energetic/emotional/spiritual/ living dynamics of your physical core\nImprove neurological proprioception and skeletal balance\nApply concepts to everyday movement such as sitting\, driving\, and walking\n\nDeepen and broaden your practice whether that be Pilates\, Gyrotonic\, Massage\, Bodywork\, Somatic Movement\, Fitness\, Athletics\, Dance\, Yoga\, Martial Arts\, and/or Psychology… \nRECOMMENDED READING: The Psoas Book \nCANCELLATION POLICY:  Please read my complete cancellation policy available online before registering. Online courses can not be canceled once you have received access to online course material and link. \n \nNational Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB) Approved \nThis is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork for 12 hours of continuing education credit (CEU). For more information on the NCBTMB\, please visit their website. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/basic-zoom-february-2022/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Online Class,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/warding-600x533-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220223T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221130T133000 DTSTAMP:20220217T142039Z CREATED:20211211T133919Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220217T142039Z UID:10000606-1645608600-1669815000@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:10-Month Professional Application Course (30-hr NCBTMB Accredited) Online Course 2022 DESCRIPTION:  \n \n“Thank you for your impressive way of sharing your being and showing us how to land into our ground\, where our NS can rest deeply\, and we start to experience authenticity and integrity. For me it is only a beginning\, but so inviting that once on this path\, one is eager to discover more. What I can integrate during this application course\, I can surely bring alive with myself and my clients.             ~ Hilde Naedts – Psychotherapist – Belgium (2021) \n“Working with Liz brought me in contact with myself\, who I truly am\, from my inner being.  Meeting for 10 months gave me time to integrate. In addition\, the individual sessions\, midmonth gatherings\, and all the material really enriched the process!”            ~ Désirée Bourgonje – Healing Tao – Netherlands (2021)  \n\n“As a bodyworker for 34 years\, the 10-month Application course with Liz Koch for me was a journey of self-exploration into transformation.  It deepened my relationship with my clients’ needs and enabled me to meet them where they are in the moment\, without an agenda of my own. I came out of the course with valuable\, tangible\, easy-to-implement tools to share with my clients that deepens their own bodies’ innate healing capacity.” ~ Lori Rizzuto\, Lic. MsT\, Bowen Practitioner – Maine \n~    ~    ~    ~    ~    ~    ~ \nEach year I offer my PROFESSIONAL APPLICATION COURSE but due to COVID  I’ve postpone this LIVE course in the USA until 2023. Instead\, I am offering a 10-Month Application Online Course via Zoom.  Please note only 30 of the required 43  participatory hours will be applied to the NCBTMB certification – this course is designed to deepen your experience of psoas \nand yourself as an integral creative expression in the world \n10-Month Application Course for Professionals includes \n1) Meeting the 4th Wednesday every month (4 hours) we will focus on: \n\nConceptual Understanding of Your Healthy Psoas \nThe Primal Brain and Instinctual Psoas in order to hone your ability to track and show up integral in your life and profession  \nFunctional Applications and Foundational Resources for integrating the Conceptual/Paradigm Shifts into your life and expertise\nHomework Explorations and One Presentation for deepening and personalizing your experience\n\n2) Mid-month Peer-Support Group to discuss each Months Conceptual Focus & Explorations \n3) Two 30-minute Private Consultations with Liz Koch (evaluation at beginning and the other at the end of the course)    \n \n  \n The Application Course offers those licensed as Somatic Educators\, Yoga Instructors\, Pilates & Gyrotonic Trainers\, Massage Practitioners\, Body & Healing Practitioners; as well as Birth & Fitness Coaches\, Dance Therapists\, Martial Arts Instructors\, plus all psychologists\, trauma and embodiment educators to develop into Psoas Savvy educators\, capable of helping others integrate and resolve psoas related issues. This course is an opportunity to heal your own psoas issues while bringing psoas awareness to your professional life. \nCompleting the Application Course is a prerequisite but not necessarily a guarantee for joining my online Community and referral page where people can locate Psoas savvy classes and therapists in their community. \n ~     ~    ~    ~      ~ \nStep away from your dedicated focus to deepen and broaden your perspective and experience your bio-intelligent core tissue called psoas. By doing so\, your own psoas becomes a guide for self actualization that informs your work from deep within your core being.  A healthy psoas is the first step towards functional movement and a coherent nervous system. Having a coherent core not only supports our capacity for core strength and integrity but also nourishing a resilient life; thus offering essential components for achieving your professional goals. \nInspire your  personal and professional life  \n \nGROUP SIZE: This ONLINE Application Course is limited to a maximum of 15 participants  \nPREREQUISITE & REQUIREMENTS: You must be a professional: certified and/or licensed in your field (no laypersons please) and have attended a minimum of one BASIC 12-hr Psoas Workshop and preferably one Stalking Wild Psoas Workshop or 3 FLUID CORE Zoom Classes.  Please register only if qualified.  Please note: You are required to attend all classes to receive NCBTMB certification and/or be eligible for my online community.  \nDATES: February 23/ March 23/ April 27/ May 25/ June 22/ July 27 August 24/ September 28/ October 26/ November 30/ \nNEXT LIVE: Professional Application Course currently scheduled in Denmark for Fall 2022 URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/10-month-professional-application-ncbtmb-accredited-2022/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Application Course,Online Class,Professional Training ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/photo-10-month-f.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220208T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220208T130000 DTSTAMP:20240412T002341Z CREATED:20220119T170034Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T002341Z UID:10000456-1644318000-1644325200@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Dance of the Diaphragm & Psoas ~ 2-hr Zoom DESCRIPTION:Dance of the Diaphragm & Psoas  \n\n\nPresented February 2022. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below.\n\n \n\n\n\n“Continuing our oceanic journey of reimagining the fluid midline is not complete without re-envisioning and re-languaging diaphragms. Neither a shelf nor a roof\, diaphragms are pulsating and buoyant tissue. Buoyancy is our birthright as foot\, pelvis\, respiratory\, mouth\, skull\, armpit\, and hand all have resilient dome-shaped tissue capable of providing a dynamic support that is not only responsive but also adaptable. \nOur respiratory diaphragm is a fluid bell-shaped tissue with jellyfish-like movements that blossom in multiple directions\, opening up internal spaciousness and volume while simultaneously opening down\, to root deep into the belly core. Diaphragms are naturally resilient and rebound with every step. Through fluid connective tissue and vibrating tensegrity\, ground reaction force is sensed in our floating bone\, supple psoas\, and buoyant diaphragms\, supporting movement and lifting our spirits.” \nStalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Integrity  URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/the-dance-of-the-diaphragm-psoas-2-hr-zoom/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/diaphram-feature-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220128T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220130T133000 DTSTAMP:20220121T192724Z CREATED:20211202T145621Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220121T192724Z UID:10000603-1643362200-1643549400@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:BASIC (12-Hr) Psoas Workshop (NCBTMB Approved) via Zoom DESCRIPTION:Thank you so much for the workshop over the weekend. \nIt was the most amazing\, eye opening and inspiring workshop… \nIt answered a lot of my questions and made me think about a whole lot more! \nI also really appreciate your generosity with your knowledge and not rushing through any answers to our questions.\nI know this is just the beginning of my journey with your training.\n(2021 Workshop Participant)\n \n3-Day ONLINE Basic Psoas workshop\, open to every body\, limited to 15 participants \nThis course offers a great way to learn through experience how intelligent Psoas informs your skeletal integrity\, joint rotation\, muscular tension\, breathing\, emotional expression\, and organ functioning. A healthy Psoas facilitates functional movement and improves fitness while reducing over all stress vital for resolving injuries and trauma. Healthy Psoas ignites your core creative flourishing and nourishes your innovative possibilities. \n\n\n\n\nDevelop Your Core Awareness: \n\nUnderstand how healthy Psoas supports movement\, strength\, endurance & well-being\nExperience practical ways of sensing your Psoas\nLearn to soften\, lengthen and revitalize your Psoas\nGain tools for recovering and maintaining a healthy Psoas\nExplore the energetic/emotional/spiritual/ living dynamics of your physical core\nImprove neurological proprioception and skeletal balance\nApply concepts to everyday movement such as sitting\, driving\, and walking\n\nDeepen and broaden your practice whether that be Pilates\, Gyrotonic\, Massage\, Bodywork\, Somatic Movement\, Fitness\, Athletics\, Dance\, Yoga\, Martial Arts\, and/or Psychology… \nRECOMMENDED READING: The Psoas Book \nCANCELLATION POLICY:  Please read my complete cancellation policy available online before registering. Online courses can not be canceled once you have received access to online course material and link. \n \nNational Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB) Approved \nThis is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork for 12 hours of continuing education credit (CEU). For more information on the NCBTMB\, please visit their website. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/basic-zoom-january-2022/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Online Class,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/warding-600x533-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220120T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220120T130000 DTSTAMP:20240411T234921Z CREATED:20211218T222021Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240411T234921Z UID:10000608-1642676400-1642683600@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:STRONG BackBone = Juicy Psoas DESCRIPTION:Presented January 2022. This video recorded class is available by purchasing a ticket below.What does it really mean to have a strong back bone?  Is it the power of the muscular? \nThe density of Bones?  Is it our strong legs that carry us? Or shoulders for lifting and carrying? \nA Moving Inquiry Into the Dynamics of a Fluid Psoas & A Strong Back Bone URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/strong-backbone-juicy-psoas/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/image-28-copy-2-feature.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220113T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220113T000000 DTSTAMP:20261015T151138Z CREATED:20211215T193648Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261015T151138Z UID:10000607-1642032000-1642032000@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Using Our Sensory System in Non-Traditional Ways ~ A Collaboration with Janine Naccarato DESCRIPTION:Presented January 2022. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \nUsing Our Sensory System in Non-Traditional Ways \nA Collaboration \nbetween \nLiz Koch and Janine Naccarato \n  \nSince my childhood my mother knew that I was not like other children.  Yet\, I did not present with anything back then that professionals could identify only that I was not applying myself… [experiencing] sensory overload…always frightened\, I was looked at as a behavior problem ~ perceived as un-cooperative.   \n We begin with Connecting to Our Senses… Skin\, muscles\, bones\, organs and fluids.  Exploring the senses at their physical locations with special “intell” powers ~ skin and air\, ears as tools for vibration\, eyes as sensing organs\, tongue as tool… Ken-i-sphere: third eye ~ nose ~  tongue ~  ears ~  throat ~ heart ~ belly ~ solar plexus ~ pelvis\, hands ~ feet \nMotion as the Great Regulator …We connect to the outside world of sight sound and touch and taste in new ways. Like drinking in a moment or hearing through touch\, scenting a moment.  Sharpening your kin-e-sphere through sensory deprivation and moving into your wild. \nPracticing Self Regulation…Exploring requires a readiness and awareness to achieve coherency. Touch tapping ~ eye movement ~ imagery ~ rhythmic breathing ~ vibration\, voicing\, hyper-annunciation\, crying\, screaming\, rolling\, sloshing \nUntangling and differentiating... We move between sensory and motor experience in an effort to achieve a new level of awareness about how we are connected.  As a human species\, we are literally shedding our old skin and growing a new more elaborate skin…a neural network that will have extra perceptual capacity to help bring human kind through its next evolution.  By establish sensory motor cues or a daily practice we open up this skill set. Mind body sensitization ~ Vestibular stimulation ~Auditory regulation ~ Kinesthetic mobilization ~ Diaphragmatic Vocalization. \n \n\nJanine Galati Naccarato\, LMT is the owner/founder of Body IQ Life Wellness boutique. A second generation\, Romana trained & certified Pilates Teacher and a graduate of Temple University School of Public Health\, Janine has dedicated her career path to discovering and developing methods which focus on non-surgical intervention for self-healing and self-realization. She crafted her University degree to include dance\, athletic training\, exercise physiology & nutritional wellness. And her post graduate studies include: Yoga training in India with Sri Pattabhi Jois\, various forms of massage & body therapeutics including studies with Master teachers from The Rolfing Institute and more. During her years as a ballet dancer\, Janine recognized the importance of optimal body alignment for injury prevention\, as well as\, the power of energy balancing between mind and body. Janine’s hands on approach and skill set in the areas of orthopedic bodywork\, exercise program & design\, as well as corrective exercise\, shapes her unique approach in her studio for clients at Body IQ Life Wellness Boutique.  @BodyIQGirl is her public profile on social media which represents her brand and is available to answer your health/wellness questions. Janine is available for private and group Skype/Zoom time\, as well as mentorship.  She can be reached at 717-903-3760. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/using-our-sensory-system-in-non-traditional-ways-a-collaboration-with-janine-naccarato/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/BRAIN-dave-hoefler-lsoogGC_5dg-unsplash-feature-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220104T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220104T130000 DTSTAMP:20211217T210115Z CREATED:20211205T123111Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211217T210115Z UID:10000604-1641294000-1641301200@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:New Year Gathering ~ All About P S O A S DESCRIPTION:N E W  Y E A R \nGATHERING \nAll \nAbout \nP S O A S \nBegin your year sensing into your core \nJoin me for this free discussion \nCosy up in your slippers with a cuppa \nand let us talk … all about psoas! \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/new-year-gathering-all-about-p-s-o-a-s/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Online Class END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20211209T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20211212T143000 DTSTAMP:20211205T105445Z CREATED:20210620T173207Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211205T105445Z UID:10000593-1639044000-1639319400@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Stalking Wild Psoas Workshop NCBTMB Accredited (Zoom) 2021 DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\n \nAn ONLINE 4-day process-oriented\, play and re-wilding psoas workshop focuses on restoring\, and nourishing your bio-intelligent psoas using micro-non-linear\, multi-dimensional\, fluid movement\, and sound frequency. This creative offering is an opportunity to heal psoas issues and awaken your core integrity. \nJust as a tree\, grown in a restricted container\, never reaches its full potential\, so too a domesticated and/or overly trained psoas is never dynamically expressive –  our soulful\, animal body..our true nature bound within social decorum\, linear patterns\, and repetitive movement becomes stifled and possibly dry. \n\nBe moved from deep within and awaken your inner strength and creativity!   \n \n PREREQUISITE:  Prerequisite: It is required for this online course to have attended my BASIC Psoas Workshop OR a selection of (a minimum of 3) online Fundamentals/Fluid Core/Stalking Wild Zoom classes. Experience in my approach provides the foundation that helps you develop the conceptual understanding necessary for  self direction when attending Stalking Wild Psoas workshops.. Wondering if this the workshop for you?   https://coreawareness.com/stalking-wild-psoas-awakening-to-our-creative-self/  \nNOTE: If you are having difficulty with your Psoas and/or your movement is limited\, this workshop can offer you the opportunity to heal.  \nCANCELLATION POLICY:  Please read my complete cancellation policy available online before registering.  Online Courses may not be cancelled once you have received access to the course. \nNational Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB) Approved \nThis is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork for 18 hours of continuing education credit (CEU). For more information on the NCBTMB\, please visit their website. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/stalking-wild-zoom-december2021/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Online Class,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CoreAwareness-Santorini-Greece-2010-05-600x533-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211202T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211204T133000 DTSTAMP:20211106T183157Z CREATED:20210620T172638Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211106T183157Z UID:10000592-1638437400-1638624600@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:BASIC (12-Hr) Psoas Workshop (NCBTMB Approved) via Zoom DESCRIPTION:Thank you so much for the workshop over the weekend. \nIt was the most amazing\, eye opening and inspiring workshop… \nIt answered a lot of my questions and made me think about a whole lot more! \nI also really appreciate your generosity with your knowledge and not rushing through any answers to our questions.\nI know this is just the beginning of my journey with your training.\n(2021 Workshop Participant)\n \n3-Day ONLINE Basic Psoas workshop\, open to every body\, limited to 15 participants \nNOTE ~ THIS 3 DAY WORKSHOP BEGINS ON A THURSDAY \nThis course offers a great way to learn through experience how your intelligent Psoas informs you about skeletal integrity\, joint rotation\, muscular tension\, breathing\, emotional expression\, and organ functioning. A healthy Psoas facilitates healing\, movement\, and fitness while reducing over all stress and is a vital step toward resolving injury and trauma.  \n\n\n\n\nDevelop Your Core Awareness: \n\nUnderstand how a healthy Psoas supports movement\, strength\, endurance & well-being\nExperience practical ways of sensing your own Psoas\nLearn to soften\, lengthen and revitalize your Psoas\nGain tools for recovering and maintaining a healthy Psoas\nExplore the energetic/emotional/spiritual dynamics of your physical core\nImprove neurological proprioception and skeletal balance\nApply concepts to everyday movement i.e. sitting\, driving\, and walking\n\nDeepen and broaden your practice whether that be Pilates\, Gyrotonic\, Massage\, Bodywork\, Somatic Movement\, Fitness\, Athletics\, Dance\, Yoga\, Martial Arts\, Psychology… \nRECOMMENDED READING: The Psoas Book \nCANCELLATION POLICY:  Please read my complete cancellation policy available online before registering. Online courses can not be canceled once you have received access to online course material and link. \n \nNational Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB) Approved \nThis is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork for 12 hours of continuing education credit (CEU). For more information on the NCBTMB\, please visit their website. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/basic-zoom-december-2021/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/warding-600x533-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211118T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211121T143000 DTSTAMP:20211107T235632Z CREATED:20210620T172016Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211107T235632Z UID:10000441-1637233200-1637505000@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Stalking Wild Psoas: Womb To World with Anna Verwaal on Zoom DESCRIPTION:The Journey that Shapes Our Life\n\nJoin Liz Koch and Anna Verwaal for this most extraordinary process oriented workshop \ncombining research\, personal exploration and movement.\n\nMore than four decades of findings in the field of pre-and-perinatal psychology has shown that the moment of conception\, the time in our mothers’ womb\, and how we are born are foundational experiences that affect us for the rest of our lives. Our health\, belief system\, fears\, and ability to form healthy relationships are profoundly shaped by early non-verbal\, emotional\, and somatic imprints created during this primal period. \nThis online workshop is for anyone seeking to explore and understand how conception\, prenatal experience\, and birth-related imprints might still play out in their day-to-day life. \nAnna and Liz work collaboratively to provide a comprehensive container of information\, personal experiences\, and nourishment in order to create a space to explore preverbal memories without experiencing cathartic reenactments.    \nEach day will include a specially prepared audio-visual presentation\, a guided movement exploration\, and a break-out room sharing session and/or creative processing session through artwork. Anna will help participants recognize their own early imprints and how they may be related to their conception\, prenatal period\, or birth experience. Using micro-movement and sound-breath techniques\, Liz will help participants access fluid movement to dissolve\, integrate\, and awaken. \nGroup Size: 20 \n\nA creative collaboration: \nInternational Pre & Perinatal Educator Anna Verwaal\, combines the latest findings in the field of pre and perinatal psychology with her decades of preconception to post-natal counseling and professional work experience in all areas of maternal-child health. Anna weaves her extensive personal and professional experience\, with her stunning photography and storytelling to help you understand the long-term effects of your own conception\, time in your mother’s womb\, birth experience and early postnatal experience in order to discover how these experiences might still be affecting you physically\, emotionally\, and relationally. If your conception was unplanned\, your birth induced\, or you were born with a tight umbilical cord around your neck or spent time in an incubator\, you might feel more like you are surviving than thriving. But this does not have to be the way forward. Experience how becoming conscious of your earliest imprints can improve the relationship with yourself\, with loved ones\, and how it can help support your human potential and creative expression throughout life.  \nInternational Author & Somatic Educator Liz Koch focuses on integrating your somatic expressions and experiences as you witness Verwaal’s photographs of the interventions and life experiences that babies have lived through and begin remembering your own birth story.  Liz brings her 45 years as a somatic educator to encourage integration and innovation. Using subtle primal movements you’ll begin to dissolve personal dynamics of conception\, womb memory\, and birth impressions held and expressed within cellular memory without eliciting cathartic reactions. Holding a container of nourishment our prenatal imprints\, which may be playing out in a variety of expressions are able to find resolution. You will discover how insistent patterns reveal your life assumptions\, strategies\, and desires. Using micro-movement and sound-breath you’ll access fluid movements to dissolve\, integrate\, and awaken. Revitalizing the very core of your being to restore and nourish our full capacity for becoming dynamic\, creative\, heartfelt beings.   \nBiographies:\nAnna Verwaal\, RN\, CLE is a maternal-child health nurse\, conscious conception & birth consultant\, primal period educator\, midwife & doula instructor\, UCLA certified lactation educator and birth photographer from the Netherlands.  After a 25-year nursing career in various countries in obstetric\, pediatric\, neonatal hospital care\, and home-health settings\, working with families and babies as an educator/consultant Anna started her own private birth consulting practice. Anna is the presenter of a TEDx Talk by the same name\, travels internationally giving lectures to groups and conventions\, as well as offering workshops to professionals and laypeople about the long-term effects of the conception/prenatal/birth experience\, the hormonal physiology of childbirth\, breastfeeding\, bonding\, and the deeply psychological\, emotional and spiritual aspects of giving birth. Anna is a long-term member of APPPAH\, the Association of Pre and Perinatal Psychology & Health. \n\nLiz Koch  is an international educator\, author\, and creator of CoreAwareness™ focusing on awareness as key for developing human potential and awakening consciousness. With 45 years experience specializing in the human core\, Liz is recognized in the somatic\, bodywork\, and fitness professions as an authority on the core tissue called the Psoas.  Both nationally and internationally published\, her works include The Psoas Book\, Unraveling Scoliosis CD\, Core Awareness; Enhancing Yoga\, Pilates\, Exercise & Dance\, Psoas & Back Pain CD\, Mother\, Maiden\, Crone: Our Pleasure Playlist and her new book  Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence (2019 North Atlantic Books) \n\n  \n  \nCANCELLATION POLICY:  FINAL – Please read my complete cancellation policy available online before registering.  Online Courses may not be cancelled once you have received access to the course. \nNational Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB) Approved \nThis is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork for 18 hours of continuing education credit (CEU). For more information on the NCBTMB\, please visit their website. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/stalking-wild-psoas-womb-to-world-with-anna-verwaal-on-zoom/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211105T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211105T130000 DTSTAMP:20261015T151504Z CREATED:20210830T160431Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261015T151504Z UID:10000600-1636110000-1636117200@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Blessing the Earth: A Women's Collaboration with Jessi Marino DESCRIPTION:  Elemental Movement Ritual \nPresented November 2021. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \nEntering The Void \nAs  the Darkness of Winter Approaches \nWe enter a time of liminal space\nwhere we are called to listen\nmore deeply\nto the great mother\nearth\nour\nwomb\nso to\ntend to all kinship\nsensed\nin\nelemental\nbones\nflesh\nheart\nof\nsoma\na collaboration with \nJessi Marino \n  \n \nJessi initiates our journey into the primal feminine through an elemental movement practice to honor each of the natural elements ~ ground\, lubricate\, activate\, expand and simmer before dropping in to primal movement and  ceremonial ritual. \nLiz – by going into the dark we listen to the call to return once again. Gestation always takes place in the dark\, whether it is the egg in the nest\, the seed in the earth\, or the embryo in the womb. Incubation is a transformative process where growth takes a new shape. This mysterious process requires moist darkness as incubation is a voyage to the underworld. \nExplore the magick of Entering the Void ~ descend back and down into the primordial fluid during this dark season of winter to be held\, nurtured\, and restored \n  \n  \n \n  \nJessi Marino ERYT500 Sacred Feminine Alchemist | Director of Wild Essence  attunes to wise whispers of Nature for the soul purpose of the embodiment\, activation and reclamation of the Sacred Feminine on the planet. Through intuitively intelligent movement medicine practices\, powerful circle and ceremony\, Jessi calls back what is instinctual – raw – and authentically present in our bones. It is her mission through all of her teachings\, writings and programs to call home the WILD in all who seek to reclaim their birthright. \n  \n  \n  \n \n  \nLiz Koch  is an international educator\, author\, mother\, crone\, and creator of CoreAwareness™ focusing on awareness as key for developing human potential and awakening consciousness. With 45 year teaching\, Liz is recognized in the somatic\, bodywork\, and fitness professions as an authority on the core tissue called Psoas.  Both nationally and internationally published\, her works include The Psoas Book\, Unraveling Scoliosis CD\, Core Awareness; Enhancing Yoga\, Pilates\, Exercise & Dance\, Psoas & Back Pain CD\, Mother\, Maiden\, Crone: Our Pleasure Playlist and her latest book Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence.\n \n  \n“In Stalking Wild Psoas\, Liz Koch cradles our collective gasp\nand assumes the role of a trusted guide into the fascinating poetry of embodiment.” \n                                                    Bayo Akomolafe\, Author These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to my Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/entering-the-void-jessi-marino/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211102T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211207T130000 DTSTAMP:20211105T224753Z CREATED:20210711T011359Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211105T224753Z UID:10000595-1635849000-1638882000@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Coming To Our Senses as Women DESCRIPTION:A Kinesthetic Sensory Inquiry For Women \nComing To Our Senses   \n  \n\nWhat is the experience of core integrity if it emerges at this moment within a sensory based woman? \nHow do we\, as women\, embody a lived integrity? \nWhat does integrity sense like within the very core of our being? \n  \n \nAs one woman wrote “with the impulse to be good is the fear of getting it wrong.”  \nHer words say it all. \nIf we can physically experience our conditioning within our personal core\, \nmaybe women can collectively locate our authenticity within our flesh and bones \nand truly be integral.   \nJoin me for 2.5 hours once a week for 6 weeks and dive under the cultural / historical strangle-hold to sense our animal body’s essential aliveness and potential. Dissolve the density..the fear\, the freeze… fawning responses…discerning brutal or savage from the wild.  \nHonor Our W I L D knowing \ntracking your expression as no longer predicated on inauthentic yet correct behavior. \nEach session includes \nmovement explorations and integration \nAccess impulses of longing \nand what is required to manifest core integrity  \nMicro-fluid movements soften strictures spontaneously evoking emergent experiences that awaken our sensory system and its relationship to a larger field of bio-intelligence \nDive under the cultural and historical strangle-hold \nand sense your animal body’s essential aliveness and potential. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/coming-to-our-senses-6-weeks-2021/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Online Class END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211028T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211028T130000 DTSTAMP:20240412T002219Z CREATED:20210908T182957Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T002219Z UID:10000602-1635418800-1635426000@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:The Gentle Art of Rocking Psoas (2-hr zoom) DESCRIPTION:Tools & Techniques for Nourishing Your Psoas  \nPresented October 2021. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \n\n\n\nour senses are capable of feeling waves \n~  curling and uncurling  ~ \nas primordial impulses emerging from the center of our being \n\n\n\n \nMoving tissue in soft wavelike motion begins reimagining body as form\, softening tissue and opening space \nJoin me refining the art of gentle rocking to nourish and hydrate your psoas\nWe will spend time on the floor exploring doing so \nand \nthen explore the many tools that can support gentle rocking \n  \nPhoto credit: elena kloppenburg (unsplash) \n  URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/the-gentle-art-of-rocking-psoas-2-hr-zoom/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211014T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211216T130000 DTSTAMP:20211014T132746Z CREATED:20210831T115238Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211014T132746Z UID:10000601-1634205600-1639659600@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Women + Power = Wild Discernment (A Moving Media/Bookclub Fall '21 Edition) DESCRIPTION:So much has gone on in the last two years that Liz Koch and I believe we have all missed some opportunities to really process\, digest and internalize some powerful pieces of art/media. \nKimberly Ann Johnson \n \nWomen + Power = Wild Discernment \nA Moving Media/Bookclub \nFall 2021 edition \nA moving/writing/reflecting collaboration with Kimberly Ann Johnson and Liz Koch \nPatriarchy has taken different shapes and forms. Yet\, as women\, our animal bodies still hold the stories of how we have and continue to reckon with a top-down\, power-over dynamic. How might we free ourselves from default patterns in our nervous system that are ancestral\, cultural\, familial\, and very personal? Join us on a three-month intergenerational exploration using stories as soulful archetypes in order to maul over and metabolize our strategies with the intent of innovating how best we\, as women\, might meet power at this moment with core integrity. Each three-hour gathering will focus on a movie\, documentary\, or novel as a starting point for tracking our sensory system through somatic movements\, journaling\, small group conversations\, and large group reflections. \nAlthough this class is open to all women\, we want to acknowledge that as two white women we have chosen three particular films that are hetero-normative and represent the reckoning of mostly white females in the overculture\, with little or no representation of women of color. We recognize that the socialization\, conditioning\, and reaction from the overculture differs racially and culturally for women within the United States and the across the globe.\nDATES: Thursdays\, October 14\, November 11\, December 16 \n3- months / 3-hour session /$120 – 40 – 45 women – LIVE experience only/ **no recordings** \nOctober 14: Athlete A \nNovember 11: Bombshell \nDecember 16: Promising Young Woman \nREGISTER AT:https://www.kimberlyannjohnson.com/wild-discernment \nLiz Koch  is an international educator\, author\, mother\, crone\, and creator of CoreAwareness™ focusing on awareness as key for developing human potential and awakening consciousness. With 45 years teaching experience\, Liz is recognized in the somatic\, bodywork\, and fitness professions as an authority on the core tissue called Psoas. Both nationally and internationally published\, her works include The Psoas Book\, Unraveling Scoliosis CD\, Core Awareness; Enhancing Yoga\, Pilates\, Exercise & Dance\, Psoas & Back Pain CD\, Mother\, Maiden\, Crone: Our Pleasure Playlist\, and her latest book Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence. \nKimberly Ann Johnson is a somatic sex educator\, trauma guide\, postpartum advocate and single mom. She helps women heal from birth injuries\, gynecological surgeries and sexual boundary violations. She is the author of the early mothering classic The Fourth Trimester and Call of the Wild: How We Heal Trauma\, Awaken Our Own Power\, and Use It for Good. She is the host of the Sex Birth Trauma podcast. \nIMPORTANT: Due to the nature of our focus of the Media/Bookclub\, we will be covering difficult and emotional subjects. We request that you only join if you have a firm foundation in somatic explorations\, preferring women who have studied with one or both of us.  Participants need to know they have the confidence\, physical centering\, and psychic anchoring to hold themselves in time and space with a clear sense of containment and experience in grounding. This course is not a good fit for those who may be currently feeling destabilized\, traumatized\, struggling to heal\, or in need of re-establishing a baseline nervous system and coherency. We may be going deep in this course\, not only conceptually but truly into the lived wilderness of our psyche and soma. with this in mind please be aware that listening to others speak to their deeply personal responses can be difficult. If you find yourself becoming upset\, please be sure to have a support person or therapist to talk to between monthly meetings. \n  URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/women-power-wild-discernment-media-bookclub-fall-2021-edition/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Online Class END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211013T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211013T130000 DTSTAMP:20240412T005613Z CREATED:20210823T153100Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T005613Z UID:10000599-1634122800-1634130000@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Decolonizing Notions of Psoas DESCRIPTION:Decolonizing Notions of Psoas \nPresented October 2021. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \n \nCore integrity is something I think each of us needs to explore in today’s world.  The agency and integrity of our own being.  Psoas as a vital messenger of core integrity is called by Tao healers “the muscle of the soul.”  Psoas speaks clearly as animal body – communicating primal instincts of being alive and apart of Earth’s kinship with all life.  Decolonizing Notions of Psoas begins with recognizing the top down\, power over systemic construct that is personified by individuating human bodies through isolation and idealizing our beings through concertizing the body as a static form. This is represented through objectified language such as calling our core a “spinal column”. \nI’ve come to understand that the rigidity of the core is in fact a freeze response.  The “frozen” spine indicative of an unresponsive lineage of body.  The colonized white body has been idealized\, and no matter what skin color\, most systems of education focus on body as a structure. \nBy rejecting our animal-body we lose our instinctive knowing and our reciprocal bond with earth.  I see structure as a posturing\, controlled body as performative\, and colonized movement as militaristic – expressing intentionally or unintentionally human dissonance which in turn expresses a profound level of human arrogance.  It speaks to our deep disconnect and lack of reciprocity as part of a larger living system. Incoherent and dismissive the colonized body roams ravenous\, eating up the world and dominating not only other but our own soulful being. \nWhat I will be playing with\, and I hope you’ll join me\, is exploring what it is to re-humanize by integrating expression\, hydrating juicy core psoas and a awakening a supple dynamic spine. I’d like you to experience psoas as rooting into earth rather than lifting up and out of core.  And how inhabiting our earthly elemental terrain we begin remembering our true authenticity and interconnectivity.  Rather than continue performative behavior what is it to embody all aspects of myself?  Recognizing my place in the kinship of life we begin by not dominating my own system and instead access a wise creative bio-intelligence that fosters core integrity. \n  \nLISTEN: https://www.yogajournal.com/lifestyle/decolonize-your-core/ URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/october-13-decolonizing-notions-of-psoas/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211008T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211010T133000 DTSTAMP:20211001T231330Z CREATED:20210620T170314Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211001T231330Z UID:10000440-1633685400-1633872600@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:BASIC (12-Hr) Psoas Workshop (NCBTMB Approved) via Zoom DESCRIPTION:Thank you so much for the workshop over the weekend. \nIt was the most amazing\, eye opening and inspiring workshop… \nIt answered a lot of my questions and made me think about a whole lot more! \nI also really appreciate your generosity with your knowledge and not rushing through any answers to our questions.\nI know this is just the beginning of my journey with your training.\n(2021 Workshop Participant)\n \n3-Day ONLINE Basic Psoas workshop\, open to every body\, limited to 15 participants \nThis course offers a great way to learn through experience how your intelligent Psoas informs you about skeletal integrity\, joint rotation\, muscular tension\, breathing\, emotional expression\, and organ functioning. A healthy Psoas facilitates healing\, movement\, and fitness while reducing over all stress and is a vital step toward resolving injury and trauma.  \n\n\n\n\nDevelop Your Core Awareness: \n\nUnderstand how a healthy Psoas supports movement\, strength\, endurance & well-being\nExperience practical ways of sensing your own Psoas\nLearn to soften\, lengthen and revitalize your Psoas\nGain tools for recovering and maintaining a healthy Psoas\nExplore the energetic/emotional/spiritual dynamics of your physical core\nImprove neurological proprioception and skeletal balance\nApply concepts to everyday movement i.e. sitting\, driving\, and walking\n\nDeepen and broaden your practice whether that be Pilates\, Gyrotonic\, Massage\, Bodywork\, Somatic Movement\, Fitness\, Athletics\, Dance\, Yoga\, Martial Arts\, Psychology… \nRECOMMENDED READING: The Psoas Book \nCANCELLATION POLICY:  Please read my complete cancellation policy available online before registering. Online courses can not be canceled once you have received access to online course material and link. \n \nNational Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB) Approved \nThis is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork for 12 hours of continuing education credit (CEU). For more information on the NCBTMB\, please visit their website. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/basic-zoom-october-2021/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/94-11-402.600x533.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210928T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211026T143000 DTSTAMP:20210928T235722Z CREATED:20210620T165049Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210928T235722Z UID:10000439-1632823200-1635258600@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Core Awareness: Advanced Course for Laypersons & Professionals via Zoom (level one) DESCRIPTION:A 5-Week Advanced course designed for both Laypersons &  Professionals to refine your understanding of the explorations found in my book Core Awareness. In the intimacy of a small group gathering (max 15) on Zoom we will integrate the fundamental concepts for maintaining a healthy psoas. Each week we will refine and articulate movement\, increase proprioception\, and integrate our results by working together in zoom room partnerships. Learning from each other’s expertise\, sharing our observations\, questioning our strategies we’ll explore each chapter\, encouraging a keen eye\, nuanced sensing\, and deep listening while fostering our inner knowing. \n \nFOR EVERYONE: Integrate the Core Awareness explorations into your own practice in order to be able to gain refinement as well as to successfully guide your clients and students through a natural process for regaining and maintaining a healthy psoas.  \nCourse Participants will also gain: \n\nDevelop observational skills for supporting the healthy psoas.\nBecome cognizant of the signs of an overactive sympathetic fear response and disrupted proprioception\nIdentify and choose a strategy of support\, facilitate and implement basic trauma protocol\nUtilize somatic tools for supporting the healthy psoas and sensing the core expression (Neurocore)\nFacilitate your client and students ability to resource support\nLearn to recognize lack of grounding in movement and expression\nWork together in partnerships that will display the ability for self help or to lead students through explorations that support the healthy psoas  \nConceptualize and communicate the importance of core integrity and its relationship to the psoas.\n\n  \nPREREQUISITE & REQUIREMENTS: You must  have attended a minimum of two Psoas Workshops/and/or 3 Zoom Classes Combination such as = the  5-week Audio Psoas course and the BASIC workshop/ the BASIC & 3 Zoom classes / the BASIC workshop and Stalking Wild Psoas Workshop.  Both read and bring to class: Core Awareness: Enhancing Yoga\, Pilates\, Exercise & Dance.  Expect and be available to have a homework assignment and to work in partnership during each class. \nNOTE: This course is an educational process designed for people interested in the field of Bodywork\, Yoga\, Pilates\, Dance\, and Fitness to increase their understanding and experience of the healthy psoas.  It is NOT for those needing to heal from trauma or major injuries. Please register only if qualified. This course is limited to 15 participants  \nI encourage professionals already on my COMMUNITY page to attend to further deepen your understanding of how to utilize the explorations and develop skills in discerning the healthy psoas.  \nCANCELLATION POLICY: Cancellation Policy\nUSA Psoas Workshop Cancellation Policy: Cancellations may be made up until 30 days prior to the workshop. NO money will be refunded 30 days before the workshop date. Workshop deposits are non-refundable. Registration for the ADVANCED COURSE is FINAL and can not be transferred or deferred.  \nNational Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB) Approved \nThis is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork for 20 hours of continuing education credit (CEU). For more information on the NCBTMB\, please visit their website. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/core-awareness-advanced-course-fall-2021/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Online Class,Professional Training ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/coreawareness-cover-600x533-1.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR