BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Core Awareness - ECPv6.15.20//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:20190310T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20191103T070000 END:STANDARD 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 END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20190101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Indiana/Indianapolis BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201106T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201106T120000 DTSTAMP:20260519T164322 CREATED:20201028T200121Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T010143Z UID:10000576-1604656800-1604664000@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:W I L D F L O W ~ fast moving dynamic bio-intelligent zoommmmm class DESCRIPTION:WILD FLOW \nPresented November 2021. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \n \nNOVEMBER 6th \njoin me for a dynamic bio-intelligent movement class \nExplore your full range of expression like a flowing river full of all that is  flooding your tissue…from source ~ changing like a river rise up from underground\, springing out of rocks…flowing into wetlands….rushing\, gushing\, washing over\, around\, and exhilarating from within and without…….\nexploring powerful gestures of play… \n \n  \n  URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/w-i-l-d-f-l-o-w-fast-moving-dynamic-bio-intelligent-zoommmmm-class/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201028T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201125T170000 DTSTAMP:20260519T164322 CREATED:20200108T170540Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201022T144323Z UID:10000374-1603900800-1606323600@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Online-Audio Psoas Course | Fall/Winter 2020 DESCRIPTION:Psoas Audio-Course Begins October 28th \n \nWhat Participants Are Saying… \nFrom the very first class\, learning how to think about the psoas as bio-intelligent tissue\, something has ignited in me. \nMy work these past 8 years with Chi Nei Tsang has been geared towards that with the whole body\, but something in the way you teach brought it more imminent. \nYour voice and actual delivery of information is the best way to release a tight Psoas! \nAbsolutely loving your teleclasses\, really validating the movement practices I’m so into (rolling\, grounding\, unraveling\, authentic movement etc) and backing it all up in the bio-intelligent paradigm. I’m learning loads! \nThis has been the best thing I have done for my Psoas. I am just sorry I did not do it sooner. \nI wanted to thank you for a truly enlightening class. I LOVE your investigations\, understanding of the psoas and integrative\, eye-opening perspectives. I really enjoyed this teleclass and hope to learn more from you in the near future! \nI just listened to the class recording and it is excellent\, I was especially moved by the details\, like your deft address of the word “attached”…as in “the Psoas is attached to…”  that is just lovely and restful to hear. \nI am finding your Psoas teleclass very useful and juicy – can’t wait to hear the next class! \nI want you to know that your words have such a resonance with my view of how enormous are the manifestations of the body beyond elemental anatomy.  Your clarity has affected how I begin the invitation to experience the movement of weight\, tissue\, and breath as one healing self; your clarity transforms (as a yoga teacher) my beginning into each person’s own inviting. This transformation has been remarkable to see. Coming upon your work is a magnificent meal for my begging bowl!  May I share this vitality\, and my thanks” \nInformative & practical: Exercises were assigned that were actually possible to do at home without personal contact with the instructor\, and I could do these exercises within the first day. \nValuable insight into how to work with a muscle that is a common problem for many of my clients. \nA most valuable class for postural and pelvic awareness – I learned how to sit more comfortably\, and I learned how to avoid exacerbating some SI joint problems I have. The physical therapy exercises I’d been given had only worsened my back/pelvic pain\, but I found Liz’s exercises and skillful observations to be profoundly helpful in reducing my pain and correcting my pelvic alignment. \nI’m really enjoying it very much and learning heaps. I love your languaging around all the issues and topics you are raising – inspirational. As a yoga teacher\, it seems that more and more I am moving towards an understanding and learning about neutrality\, equanimity\, balance\, and that my practice is about embodying that. Gradually I am finding that my yoga practice and teaching is not about mastering a particular shape with my body\, but more of an exploration of dynamic movement\, resolving towards balance\, presence\, and ease. \nGreat class\, I am excited by this fresh take on the core. \nListen LIVE or Listen to the class recording at your leisure after each class for the length of the course. \nFive consecutive Wednesdays\, from 4 pm to 5 pm PDT\, 6 pm to 7 pm CDT\, and 7 pm to 8 pm EDT (and to all international students – enjoy the recording on your timeline).  Listen to each one-hour virtual class\, from the comfort of your own home. Plus receive free coaching support for the entire 5-week course via email.  Registration cost is $220.00 (no early/or late dates to sign up) \nATTENTION – this course is NOT a webinar. It is an audio online course designed to help you develop your sensory system through the art of listening. \n\n\nAUDIO PSOAS…learning to listen…STARTS OCTOBER 28th NCBTMB Nationally Certified 5-Weeks class covers ALL aspects of the Psoas\, its functioning\, relationships\, and plenty of resources\, plus recommended explorations each week. No two series are alike as each series is live\, uniquely shaped for the group attending\, and always includes updated information. RECEIVE a recording and/or attend live to ask questions\, explore problems\, and discover new emerging ideas after each class.\n\n\n \n\n\nYou’ll also receive personal email coaching with premium email access throughout the length of the 5-week course. Email me your personal or professional psoas questions\, problems\, and concerns. I will attempt to provide a quick response each time and support your healing and educational process. \n\n\nShould you wish to join me you are responsible for your telephone/skype costs/or sign on via your internet  (i.e. long distance or phone minutes) when attending the live class lecture. Or listen to the class recording each week for free on your computer.  The recorded class will be sent to you within 24 hours after each class by email. Each recorded class may be listened to throughout the length of the series with the last class having 5 additional weeks for review after the live class ends…10 weeks total. \nIMPORTANT NOTE: The recordings are NOT downloads and require a flash to listen to on your phone. \n\nClass Day One (October 28\, 2020)\n\nIntroduction\nDiscover all about your Psoas\nLocation\nFunction\nHip flexor\nTensile structure\nPsoatic shelf (supports organs)\nHydraulic pump (massages)\nFear reflex (flee/fight)\n\n\nClass Day Two (November 4\, 2020)\n\nConnecting The Psoas: Relationships\nSkeletal support\nJoint rotation\nMuscle flexibility\nOrgan functioning/ breathing\nPregnancy and birth\nEarly movement patterns\nEmotional well-being\n\n\nClass Day Three (November 11\, 2020)\n\nSimple Ways of Understanding The Complex Psoas\nTrauma and the Sympathetic Nervous System\nWhy Palpation & Manipulation Should Be Avoided\n\n\nClass Day Four (November 18\, 2020)\n\nPsoas Injuries: Why they happen and how to avoid them\nResolving Trauma: the difference between release and resolution\n\n\nClass Day Five (November 25\, 2020)\n\nHow to maintain a healthy vibrant dynamic Psoas\nSupportive fitness/bodywork protocols\nSumming It all Up\n\n\n\n \nNational Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB) Approved \nThis is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork for 5 hours of continuing education credit (CEU). For more information on the NCBTMB\, please visit their website. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/online-psoas-fall-winter-2020/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Audio-Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/audio-class.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201024T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201024T150000 DTSTAMP:20260519T164322 CREATED:20200829T162444Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201017T204426Z UID:10000421-1603540800-1603551600@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:MOVING WHITENESS with Resmaa Menakem & Carlin Quinn DESCRIPTION:REPARATIVE COMMUNAL CONSULTATION \nFOR WHITE PEOPLE\n \nPart 4\nA VIRTUAL FUNDRAISER\nSponsored by Education For Racial Equality \nto help create an embodied anti-racist/anti-oppression culture for future generations of BIPOC children.\n \nWITH AUTHOR SOMATIC EDUCATOR RESMAA MENAKEM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIMPORTANT NOTE: If you wish to attend you need to know this fundraiser is an on going proces and so you will need to receive  Part 1\,2\, & 3 to be able to join us on Part 4. \nIf you wish to attend please contact events@educationforracialequity.com.\nResmaa is looking to create a collaborative e-course to support the Movement Of Somatic Abolitionism. \nThe Movement Of Somatic Abolitionism is a body of work which establishes the underpinnings the emergence of a new culture: one that is safe for future generations of Black\, Brown and Indigenous babies and children. This funding will go towards creating a embodied anti-racist/oppression curriculum and free online e-course for community members parents and teachers of culture first\, who provide K-12 guidance. We believe that this will have a foundational impact on Black\, Brown\, and Indigenous Children and there lives. Together\, Resmaa Menakem and Education For Racial Equity \, along with other subject matter experts will also create a educational certification program that will develop the best somatic abolitionists educators\, healers\, and movement leaders of our time; they will lead with the understanding of Black\, Brown\, and Indigenous children\, white body supremacy\, racial weathering\, geopathic stress\, toxic stress\, and they will preserve the resilience and power of the communities which these children come from. This will be made available to community members\, parents and teachers of culture first and then to others across the United States. Help us create a culture change centered in healing and dignity. \n\n\nResmaa Menakem ~ Healer\, Author\, Trauma Specialist\nMoving from race to culture is important\, transformative\, and takes work. A lot of work. I help people\, communities\, and organizations find strength in healing that is holistic and resilient. Together let’s set a course for healing historical and racialized trauma carried in the body and the soul. I am a healer. I help people rise through the suffering’s edge. I am a cultural trauma navigator. I am a communal provocateur and coach. I consider it my job in this moment to make the invisible visible. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCarlin Quinn\, LMFT (She/Her) is the Founder and Director of Education For Racial Equity. She is also a psychotherapist\, equity coach\, facilitator and anti-racist co- conspirator.  Her equity work began when she entered the field of psychotherapy and realized that whiteness was foundational to the field of mental health\, its theories\, and its treatments.  She began teaching and consulting within the mental health community\, developing an understanding of the impact of systemic oppression and intersectionality to western psychology.  In her private practice she specializes in complex trauma and cross racial relationships. In her facilitation and coaching work\, Carlin uses a combination of critical race theory\, psychodynamic theory and humanistic relational approaches to help unearth and address the complexities of whiteness\, white supremacy and racial trauma in our daily human interactions. \n \n  \nLiz Koch  is an international educator\, author\, and the creator of CoreAwareness™ focusing on awareness as key for developing human potential and awakening consciousness. With 43 years experience specializing in the human core\, Liz is recognized in the somatic\, bodywork\, and fitness professions as an authority on the core primal 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 newest book  Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence published in 2019 by North Atlantic Books. \n\n\n\n  \n  \n\n \n  \nEducation For Racial Equity is a cross-racial and inter-generational non-profit organization committed to illuminating and dismantling the system of white supremacy\, globally. Guided by the principles of both Anti-Racism and Anti-Racist activism\, we take a multi-faceted approach to systemic change. ERE creates opportunities to develop awareness of the nature and function of whiteness/white supremacy\, its impact on all peoples\, and how it intersects with other systems of oppression. Our intention is to support integrated and embodied change within ourselves and those who work with us. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/moving-whiteness-with-resmaa-menakem-carlin-quinn/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class,Other ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/image-asset-600X533.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201022T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201022T130000 DTSTAMP:20260519T164322 CREATED:20200920T194302Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240411T233715Z UID:10000571-1603364400-1603371600@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:FUNDAMENTALS: Jaw & Pelvic Connection (Zoom) DESCRIPTION:FUNDAMENTALS \nJaw & Pelvic Connection \nPresented October 2020. The video recording available by purchasing a ticket below. \n \n  \n\n\n\nHip socket pain\, sacral dysfunction\, and low back issues often find resolution in the Jaw/Pelvic Connection.\nThe jaw and pelvis\, reflect one another\, and when disrupted can cause our psoas to message disharmony whether that originates from injury\, anger\, frustration\, willfulness\, scar tissue\, poor ergonomics or dental issues. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nThinking and languaging spine as separate thoracic\, lumbar\, and cervical parts that move independently diminish the power of our core. From one end to the other\, all core movement is an expression of wholeness. Like a fish\, or for that matter a caterpillar\, our head to our tail moves as one. Stabilizing one end of the caterpillar by pressing down your finger only makes the other end of the caterpillar flail. The same is true for the head and pelvis. When one end of the spine is over stabilized (or unstable)\, the other end will become disorganized.\nTo either end\, our psoas messages all core disruptions.\nBy returning core to its fluid primal origins\, compensatory behaviors involving psoas often find resolution. \nStalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/jaw-pelvic-connection/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201016T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201016T120000 DTSTAMP:20260519T164322 CREATED:20200827T175728Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200926T214141Z UID:10000419-1602838800-1602849600@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Primal Psoas & Womb Reclamation Ritual Collaboration with Jessi Mendez DESCRIPTION: New Moon Ritual \nPrimal Psoas & Womb Reclamation \na collaboration with \nJessi Mendez \n \n  During Autumn New Moon  \nReWild Your Primal Core ~ ReClaim Your Wild Womb \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 invites listening to our primal messenger who relays disruptions and compensations threatening our core integrity. Just as every animal in the wild sends messages\, humans\, like all mammals\, gesture with the twitch of an ear\, a gleam in the eye\, a hair standing on end\, an arc of the spine. Ignoring the wild nature of our core psoas…can be very dangerous. \nExplore the magic of the new moon energy honoring all we have offered and created as we gently descend back into the primordial womb of the darker seasons to come. \n  \n \n  \nJessi Mendez 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 the 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\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 \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 40 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 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  URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/womb-reclamation-collaboration-jessi-mendez/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/jessi.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201014T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201014T110000 DTSTAMP:20260519T164322 CREATED:20200911T222700Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T003045Z UID:10000567-1602666000-1602673200@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:FLUID CORE: Coherency & Connective Tissue DESCRIPTION:Fluid Core \nCoherency & Connective Tissue  \nPresented October 2020. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \na collaboration with \nSue Hitzmann \nJoin our conversation to learn why healthy Connective Tissue\nis KEY to a resilient coherent nervous system. \nDiscover how self-help hydrating techniques\nhelp your nervous system function more efficiently\,\nreduce stress and anxiety\,\nand improve diaphragmatic and pelvic motion.  \n\n\n\n Rebalance Your Sympathetic NeuroCore \n\n\n\nIn my professional inquiry with psoas re-hydrating the sympathetic NeuroCore\nby playing with micro-undulations\, sound shaping\, and biomorphic expression\, I began nourishing the deepest layers of buoyant connective tissue. I discovered that over time what senses as dry\, tight\, or inflamed psoas can plump up and feel supple\, juicy\, and alive. \n\n\n\nLiz Koch ~ Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence \n\n\n\nMeet My Guest: \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 M.E.L.T. Method® (MELT). A revolutionary approach to pain-free fitness and longevity\, Melt Method is a self help technique for working with the connective tissue. 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. \n\n\n\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/coherency-connective-tissue-with-sue-hitzmann/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201008 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201009 DTSTAMP:20260519T164322 CREATED:20200918T211706Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T013347Z UID:10000570-1602115200-1602201599@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Changing The Language of Body ~ Psoas as an Organ of Perception DESCRIPTION:Stalking Wild Psoas \nEmbodying Your Core Intelligence  \nEssay Five \n\n\n\nCore Messenger \nPsoas as an Organ of Perception \nPresented 2020. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \n\n\n\nA Conceptual Shift Made Potent Through Movement \nOur languaging of body is rapidly changing. The limited\, isolated biomechanical language that once defined and shaped our perception of self and other is dissolving. Burgeoning is a biologically rich vocabulary based on a wild calling; coaxing and inviting us to deconstruct and decolonize our static conceptual framework so we can be “claimed” and emerge from isolation to embrace life as cooperative\, expressive\, and creative. Now is the time to dissolve the old story and inhabit the new paradigm of body as a living process.\nYou and I have a part to play. This new paradigm is paramount as it supports what always has been and always will be: an awakening of coherent life on Earth. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaking of psoas as muscle reduces this tissue to a dualist contrast of weak or strong\, inactive or active\, agonist or antagonist. Attempting to gain strength\, muscles are moved through cycles of repetition\, utilizing various forms of resistance\, such as weight to tear down as well as resistance to build up\, in an effort to develop mass\, support\, and shape. In the most sophisticated muscular-based systems\, resistance is a method of maturing the nervous system and removing scar tissue that is helpful for gaining muscular flexibility and strength. Either way\, simple or sophisticated\, psoas when defined as muscle results in a misunderstanding of great importance. Treating psoas as muscle proves detrimental and limiting to our capacity to receive pertinent information. If one understood there is no such thing as weak psoas there is only exhausted psoas\, would this change protocol? Wild psoas is liminal and orbital: a 360 directional receiver\, transmitter\, and inner communicator. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/psoas-as-an-organ-of-perception/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201006T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201006T190000 DTSTAMP:20260519T164322 CREATED:20200918T204227Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T001404Z UID:10000568-1602003600-1602010800@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:FLUID CORE ~ Resiliency in the Face of Great Change (Zoom) DESCRIPTION:F L U I D  C O R E \nResiliency in the Face of Great Change \nPresented October 2020. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \n \nFear 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 we misuse our psoas we ultimately end up energetically depleting our life force and physiologically stressing our adrenals. Because psoas communicates coherency\, it is of great interest to me what behaviors and activities support expressive resiliency and thus encourage a flowing responsiveness. The capacity to respond quickly yet with a consistency is what I refer to as having a stable yet dependable inner resilience. \n\n\n\nSurvival\, recovery\, and thriving are concepts associated with resilience and describe the stage at which a person\nmay be during or after facing adversity. The concept of “thriving” refers to a person’s\nability to go beyond his or her original level of functioning and\nto grow and function despite repeated exposure to stressful experiences  \n\n\n\nJanet Ledesma\, Conceptual Frameworks and Research Models on Resilience in Leadership \n\n\n\n\n\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) URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/fluid-core-resiliency-in-the-face-of-great-change-2020/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201002T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201004T133000 DTSTAMP:20260519T164322 CREATED:20200722T214301Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200823T124440Z UID:10000563-1601631000-1601818200@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:BASIC (12-Hr) Psoas Workshop (NCBTMB Approved) Via Zoom DESCRIPTION:3-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-2020/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Online Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/94-11-402.600x533.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200922T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200924T093000 DTSTAMP:20260519T164322 CREATED:20200826T114055Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210716T160842Z UID:10000417-1600761600-1600939800@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:The Journey That Shapes Your Life ~ Audio Conversation with Anna Verwaal DESCRIPTION:Join Our Audio Conversation ~ The Journey That Shapes Your Life \nexplore how your conception\, pregnancy\, and birth continues to shape your adult life. \nThree Days in September : 90-minute each day  \n \n“Our relation to our cosmic mother closely parallels that to our physical mother  \nin that first connection is the seed of all later expectations and fulfillments.”  \nRon Kurtz and Hector MD\, The Body Reveals  \nAn educational conversation between USA-born Liz Koch and Dutch-born Anna Verwaal concerning the assumptions\, imprints\, and traumas reflected in the cellular matrix of human beings that are expressed in the core tissue of Psoas. \nWorking alongside perinatologists\, obstetricians\, and indigenous midwives\, Anna Verwaal RN\, CLE has attended hundreds of high-risk hospital deliveries and natural births at home. Her research on the long-term effects of conception\, nine months in the womb\, and birth experience have evolved into an educational and healing perspective regarding the journey. \nInternational educator\, author\, and the creator of CoreAwareness™ Liz Koch focusing on awareness as key for developing human potential and awakening consciousness. With 43 years of experience specializing in the human core\, 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 Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence published in 2019 by North Atlantic Books. \nPrerequisite:  URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/the-journey-that-shapes-your-life-audio-collaboration-with-anna-verwaal/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Audio-Class,featured ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/scones-600x533-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200917T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200917T130000 DTSTAMP:20260519T164322 CREATED:20200825T191220Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T001214Z UID:10000415-1600340400-1600347600@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:FLUID CORE: Juicy Menopause (Zoom) DESCRIPTION:FLUID CORE \nj u i c y  m e n o p a u s e \nbeing spit out of the moon cycle changes just about everything….and reveals so much needed nourishment  \nPresented September 2020. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \n \nRose Oil \nfresh rose petals gathered under the early summer sun\nsteeped with wild clover and amber in jojoba oil\nand kissed to completion with pure rose essential oil \n  \nThe blossoming sexuality of the mature woman and the succulent fruiting of sexual health in the vitality of the crone…. \nSlippery When Wet ~ Staying Juicy ~ ~~ When I turned 42\, I gave birth to my 3rd child. Being an avid breastfeeding mom\, postpartum and peri-menopause collided head on one into the other.  I felt all the bliss of being a source of nourishment while simultaneously finding myself grieving the end of my moon cycles.  Unresponsive scare tissue along my perineum\, a result of a tear during my first birth\, retore with each consecutive vaginal birth\, was now beginning to thin and become a source of irritation. I didn’t know with each healthy birth what I know now; scare tissue needs to be addressed immediately and continually until it dissolves back into healthy tissue. Fortunately I was introduced to the concept of fluid movement and the work of Somatic Pioneer Emilie Conrad’s Continuum Movement.  Emilie is known in her field for her work with the fluid system as it applies to spinal cord injury.Well into in her mid seventies Emilie is one juicy woman; her skin vibrates with lushness\, her mind is incredibly alert\, and she exudes a living Eros\, which tends to send goosebumps through every woman and man that watches her move. She taught me that all tissue needs hydrating (including our brains!) not simply through monitoring liquid intake but by actually igniting the natural wave motion of cells\, organs\, and connective tissue...I learned that aging is not the same thing as drying out and that what most of us assume is aging is really the result of drying out.  By accessing the mysterious substance of fluid within our  own system we enter a boundless source of pleasure and nourishment…. far reaching consequences affect our consciousness far beyond our personal boundaries…we enter a universal consciousnesses that recognizes pleasure not as isolated titillation but as life’s mysterious and transformative substance….  \n                                                                                                                                                                          Excerpted from Maiden\, Mother\, Crone: Our Pleasure Play List URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/fluid-core-juicy-menopause-zoom/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200915T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200915T130000 DTSTAMP:20260519T164322 CREATED:20200825T180224Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240411T233356Z UID:10000413-1600167600-1600174800@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:FUNDAMENTALS: The Hip\, Knee\, Foot\, Psoas Connection (Zoom) DESCRIPTION:FUNDAMENTALS \n The Hip\, Knee\, Foot\, Psoas Connection\n \nPresented September 2020. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \n \n\n\n\nJoints articulate and transfer weight from one bone to another\, creating range of motion\, cushioning the force of gravity\, and reverberating ground force reaction (rebound). Energetically\, the joints link together like pearls on a string. When bones are not centered in their axis\, the individual joint (like the pearl) is stressed and therefore so are all the other joints in the body. Just as pulling on one pearl affects all the other pearls in a necklace\, a dysfunctional joint that is compressed\, unstable\, or stressed disrupts the whole skeletal system. A problem in a knee or shoulder socket\, for example\, is never an isolated problem. Stress on one joint not only causes other joints to be dysfunctional\, but also causes compensations of muscular and connective tissue through- out the body. \nIf we want core integrity\, a relationship between all of the joints is crucial. A supple psoas supports the continuum and informs us when proprioception is diminished. Discover the relationship between the ankle\, knee\, hip and a dynamic fluid psoas  throughout WALKING URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/fundamentals-the-hip-knee-foot-psoas-connection-zoom/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200914T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200914T120000 DTSTAMP:20260519T164322 CREATED:20200831T151804Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T010014Z UID:10000565-1600077600-1600084800@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:FITNESS: Psoas Savvy Exercise (Zoom) DESCRIPTION:F I T N E S S  \nPresented September 2020. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \nPsoas Savvy Exercise  \n \nIt is not what you do but how you do it \nBeing Fit & Exercising Can be Fun and Psoas Savvy \nbring a roller (or rolled yoga mat) and join me \nPresented in Sept 14. Video recording available by purchasing a ticket below. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/fitness-psoas-savvy-exercise-zoom/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200912T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200914T130000 DTSTAMP:20260519T164322 CREATED:20200825T172020Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T010700Z UID:10000411-1599904800-1600088400@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Unraveling Scoliosis Workshop (Zoom) DESCRIPTION:Unraveling Scoliosis Workshop  \nPresented September 2020. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \n \n  \nMy goal in this 3-hour introduction workshop is  to shift our attention from fixing a problem to becoming curious about a living process of inquiry. \nThe pattern of spiraling tension in the body is like untying a knot.  Force from the outward does not immediately work; rather one must go into the center of the knot and soften to release and resolve the tension patterns.  The unraveling process\, is an inner path that winds down and around the deepest emotions of fears\, sorrow\, frustration and despairs. \nToday there are many alternatives to surgery that bring structural integrity\, increased awareness\, emotional stability and offer our selves a positive experience of our being body. \nFreeing the spine from the manifestations of scoliosis entails reconnecting to our inner sensations.  Rather than recoil from feelings\, it requires learning to foster the courage to explore physical and emotional tension and core expressions. To discover the paradox that becoming soft inside creates the strength needed to unravel and offers the dynamic potential for change. \nPersonal health becomes synonymous with empowerment and the ability to recognize our choices.  This process of self-discovery offers a significant life experience. By hydrating all tissue we sense feelings of resiliency. By nourishing our energy and nervous system we provide a deep relationship to gravity and belonging. By sensing the balance and  support found within our bones\, a sense of self  literally becomes a core of integrity capable of standing balanced and firm on our own two feet. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/unraveling-scoliosis-workshop-zoom/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200910 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210101 DTSTAMP:20260519T164322 CREATED:20200824T180649Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T012527Z UID:10000409-1599696000-1609459199@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Changing The Language of Body ~ Your Fluid Midline (ZOOM) DESCRIPTION:Stalking Wild Psoas \nEmbodying Your Core Intelligence  \nEssay Four \nDissolving the Spinal Column to Reappear Resilient \nPresented 2020. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \nA Conceptual Shift Made Potent Through Movement \nOur languaging of body is rapidly changing. The limited\, isolated biomechanical language that once defined and shaped our perception of self and other is dissolving. Burgeoning is a biologically rich vocabulary based on a wild calling; coaxing and inviting us to deconstruct and decolonize our static conceptual framework so we can be “claimed” and emerge from isolation to embrace life as cooperative\, expressive\, and creative. Now is the time to dissolve the old story and inhabit the new paradigm of body as a living process.\nYou and I have a part to play. This new paradigm is paramount as it supports what always has been and always will be: an awakening of coherent life on Earth. \n\n\n\n\nOur spine as a living river is not an imaginary enchantment or a contrived self-expression but a direct sensory experience – a rolling earth movement in the epicenter of our being that can feel like a sweeping tsunami or a tiny rivulet of movement. Osteopath Andrew Still illuminates“the soul of man with all its pure living water seems to dwell in the fascia of his body.”18 Living water activated within our tissue is a magic potion\, a potent elixir accessible through the vastness of our own fluid system. The stirring of a wave motion can be witnessed in the flow of an unfurling leaf\, the gesture of an octopus\, and it can be felt-sensed within our lush spine. The undulating wave motion is a sacred re-emergence conveying that all life is essential. Fluid movement holds the power to dissolve the familiar and dilute social conditioning. No dismantling required: we simply allow fluid waves to spread through tissue and soften our old thought forms and outmoded patterns of behavior. By utilizing embryological and biomorphic motifs\, the power inherent in water can be received as a pulse of renewal. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/your-fluid-midline/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20200820T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20200823T173000 DTSTAMP:20260519T164322 CREATED:20200628T165234Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200801T010808Z UID:10000558-1597928400-1598203800@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:ONLINE - Stalking Wild Psoas Workshop NCBTMB Accredited (Zoom) DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\n \nAn ONLINE 4-day process-oriented\, play and re-wilding psoas workshop focused on restoring\, through nourishing\, the bio-intelligent psoas using micro-non-linear\, multi-dimensional\, fluid movement\, and sound frequency. This offering is an opportunity to heal psoas issues and awaken your core integrity. Just 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. \nBe moved from deep within and awaken your inner strength and creativity!   \n \n PREREQUISITE:  It is required for this online course to have attended  my BASIC Psoas Workshop.   The Basic Psoas workshop provides a foundation that helps build the conceptual understanding for attending Stalking Wild Psoas workshops. I also encourage you to read or listen to my new book Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core intelligence. 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-august-2020/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:featured,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/Indiana/Indianapolis:20200818T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20200818T130000 DTSTAMP:20260519T164322 CREATED:20200110T192748Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230101T205038Z UID:10000529-1597748400-1597755600@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:FUNDAMENTALS: Self Care for Your Psoas DESCRIPTION:Self Care for Your Psoas\n \nPresented August 2020. The video recording available by purchasing a ticket below. \n  \n \n  \nThe best way to sustain or regain a healthy psoas is by listening to its message and resolving dysfunctional patterns and habits. By creating coherency through somatic awareness\, you can revitalize the psoas thus gaining a deeper level of core integrity. Working with\, not against\, the psoas may bring you into direct contact with your deepest fears\, but it will also connect you with an instinctive wisdom and deep relaxation within your belly core that increases functional movement and self-expression. \nLearn the fundamentals of self-care for a healthy psoas URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/fundamentals-self-care-for-your-psoas/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200814T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200816T133000 DTSTAMP:20260519T164322 CREATED:20200628T134251Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200723T145501Z UID:10000555-1597397400-1597584600@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:BASIC (12-Hr) Psoas Workshop (NCBTMB Approved) Via Zoom DESCRIPTION:3-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-august-2020/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Online Class END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200813T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200813T130000 DTSTAMP:20260519T164322 CREATED:20200722T212908Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T012217Z UID:10000562-1597316400-1597323600@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Changing The Language of Body ~ Biomorphic Expressions  DESCRIPTION:Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence \nEssay Three: Biomorphic Expression\n\n\n\nThe Universal Movement of all Living Beings \nPresented 2020. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \n\n\n\nOur languaging of body is rapidly changing. The limited\, isolated biomechanical language that once defined and shaped our perception of self and other is dissolving. Burgeoning is a biologically rich vocabulary based on a wild calling; coaxing and inviting us to deconstruct and decolonize our static conceptual framework so we can be “claimed” and emerge from isolation to embrace life as cooperative\, expressive\, and creative. Now is the time to dissolve the old story and inhabit the new paradigm of body as a living process. You and I have a part to play. This new paradigm is paramount as it supports what always has been and always will be: an awakening of coherent life on Earth. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhether we look through a lens of psychology\, biology\, physics\, or mathematics\, there are recognizable universal patterns which reveal the capacity of nature to self-organize and self- regulate. These self-organizing principles are what is referred to as bio-intelligence. The word bio-intelligence has recently been hijacked by the biotech and artificial intelligence community as they too attempt to understand and simulate how living systems self-regulate. Geometrical patterns revealed through spirals exemplified in shells\, shoulders\, and river beds make tangible the inner connectedness and the invisible processes of life. \n\n\n\nBoth personal and universal\, patterns are the result of biomorphic movement. The self- similarity in form and gesture seen in the curling of a leaf\, caterpillar\, spine\, rivulet\, embryo\, horn\, pinecone\, hair follicle\, and galaxy reveal expressions that we all share as living processes. Biomorphic movements\, found throughout nature in diverse species and in the scale of the universe\, are synonymous with the expressions of living water. Playful and delicious\, water is life’s hidden force. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/biomorphic-expressions-august-2020/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200811T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200811T000000 DTSTAMP:20260519T164322 CREATED:20200722T210050Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T000912Z UID:10000561-1597104000-1597104000@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:FLUID CORE ~ Articulating & Hydrating Hip Joints DESCRIPTION:F L U I D  C O R E \nArticulating & Hydrating Hip Joints \nPresented August 2020. The video recording available by purchasing a ticket below. \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n“To be in balance\, the bones must be aligned along the axis of gravity\, with the weight supported by the largest possible number of bones.” \nThe value of keeping one’s original hip sockets is rarely  discussed\, which is unfortunate as there are many benefits to never needing surgery (such as financial savings\, having integral connective tissue\, avoiding scar tissue\, and pleasure of movement to name a few). But we are currently under the cultural spell of thinking that the human body is an object; mechanizing living systems still rules. People assume that the hip socket similar to car tires need replacing. Better to just update to the newest bionic model than consider how best to maintain healthy hip sockets for your whole life and how we might avoid and/or recover from such a breakdown. Discover ways of keeping your hip sockets healthy\, articulated and lubricated….yummm  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\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) URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/hip-sockets-august-2020/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200721T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200721T130000 DTSTAMP:20260519T164322 CREATED:20200628T123715Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T000503Z UID:10000554-1595329200-1595336400@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:FLUID CORE ~ Landing & Locating Bones DESCRIPTION:F L U I D  C O R E \nLanding & Locating Bones \nPresented July 2020. The video recording available by purchasing a ticket below. \n \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n“To be in balance\, the bones must be aligned along the axis of gravity\, with the weight supported by the largest possible number of bones.” \nKnowing the origin of bone illuminates why hydration is vital and can help create new ways of sourcing healthy\, mineral-rich bone and spine. The earliest rudimentary vertebrae is found in the sea squirt\, a 550-million-year-old prevertebral organism.7 This oceanic creature suggests that the optimal conditions for bringing an injured\, exhausted\, lack-lustered spine back to life as well as for sustaining healthy bone is through regaining fluid movement. Bone is breathing\, fluid connective tissue that is nourished through micro-movements and shaped by gravity. Because bone first came into being in the ocean depths and in the sea of our mother’s womb\, replicating wave motion returns this tissue to its primordial waters where lush nourishment re-awakens the vitality of bone. Once on dry land\, aligned with the earth’s axis\, gravitational fields of information take over to shape and organize our bone. It is the sense of being in bone that increases our sense of embodiment. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\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) URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/bones-july-2020/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200717T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200719T133000 DTSTAMP:20260519T164322 CREATED:20200521T131014Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200716T125204Z UID:10000547-1594978200-1595165400@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:BASIC (12-Hr) Psoas Workshop (NCBTMB Approved) Via Zoom DESCRIPTION:3-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-12-hr-psoas-online-july-2020/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Online Class END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200716T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200716T120000 DTSTAMP:20260519T164322 CREATED:20200628T171948Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T011956Z UID:10000560-1594893600-1594900800@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Changing The Language of Body ~ Living A Model of Emerging and Thriving DESCRIPTION:Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence \nEssay Two: Living A Model of Emerging and Thriving \nPresented 2020. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \nOur languaging of body is rapidly changing. The limited\, isolated biomechanical language that once defined and shaped our perception of self and other is dissolving. Burgeoning is a biologically rich vocabulary based on a wild calling; coaxing and inviting us to deconstruct and decolonize our static conceptual framework so we can be “claimed” and emerge from isolation to embrace life as cooperative\, expressive\, and creative. Now is the time to dissolve the old story and inhabit the new paradigm of body as a living process. You and I have a part to play. This new paradigm is paramount as it supports what always has been and always will be: an awakening of coherent life on Earth. \n\n\n\nThe embryological model offers a challenge to our insistence on maintaining form. Theories on posture no longer hold up as static structures have no place within a living paradigm. Form is a momentary aspect of a process\, a continual re-shaping of being…As a spine-based organism\, all movement emerges out from this primal source of intelligence whether it is functioning organs\, metabolic processes\, fingers and toes\, or emotional gestures. Engaging in these emerging themes suggests that psoas is no longer a muscle to be strengthened or released\, but an essential messenger to be heard and understood as a living reflection of core. Signaling coherent or incoherent\, integral or compromised\, and safe or not safe\, psoas as messenger communicates both our longing to survive and our desire to thrive. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/living-emerging-thriving/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200714T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200714T160000 DTSTAMP:20260519T164322 CREATED:20200628T171831Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200714T184546Z UID:10000559-1594735200-1594742400@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:laura & liz lab: Yielding\, Landing\, Rising Up (Zoom) DESCRIPTION:laura & liz lab \nYielding\, Landing\, Rising Up \n \n  \nFALLING TOGETHER…. \n \nHow do we safely yield into the earth? Into the moment?\n\nCome in for a landing\, find ground\, connect to our roots\, and then move upwards and RISE? \nWhat happens in the space of the transition- from this place to that place? From where we are to where we want to be? \nWhere do we find the support to lift ourselves (and others) up\, and develop sustaining practices and relationships? \nCan we use the natural expansion and contraction patterns of life\, breath\, and movement to connect and nurture our resilience? \nHow do we move through this moment in time finding softness and gentleness\, strength and fluidity\, even fluency in being human… \nTogether\, let’s explore what is sustainable?  \n  \nLaura Victoria Ward\, BA\, CMA\, RSME\, an award-winning choreographer\, Laban Movement Analyst & somatic/dance teacher. and th artist director of Octabia Cup Dance theatre\, a multi-generational contemporary ballet co. \nLiz Koch is an international educator\, author and creator of Core Awareness specializing in the primal psoas. Her works include The Psoas Book\, Core Awareness; Enhancing Yoga\, Pilates\, Exercise & Dance and Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/laura-liz-lab-yielding-landing-rising-up-zoom/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Laura-ball.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200709T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200709T170000 DTSTAMP:20260519T164322 CREATED:20200628T161413Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200707T123744Z UID:10000557-1594299600-1594314000@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Biodynamic Coherency:  Growing Sustenance  ~ Crafting a Life of Meaning collaboration with CEO Janice Cathey DESCRIPTION: Growing Sustenance\nCrafting a Life of Meaning \n \nLife is not a problem to be solved\, but a reality to be experienced\nSoren Kierkegaard  \n\nPreparing our selves as bodies of culture and women entrepreneurs we are standing our ground\, finding our paths\, navigating the terrain of uncertainty\, and cultivating nimbleness. This is a movement of retrieval and a blessing of bounty. Please join Liz Koch and Janice Cathey in exploring\, discovering\, and ruminating how best to weave a life of coherency.  This class includes innovating movements\, self- inquiry\, speaking truth\, all grounded in the rich humus of collaboration. \n\nIntroduction & Ceremony of no regrets ~ recognizing the importance of using literal mythic and energetic techniques for the investigative and transformative nature of change (invite students to arrive with a vessel of water and three stones)  \n\n\nGathering ~ (grounding gesture) \n* including (what do I need to know) \n* feeling (unresolved\, under-resourced patterns)\n* resourcing (where do I land and locate) local\, global \n\n\n\n\nSorting ~  (curling & arcing exploration)\n* trusting (my own authority to emerge)\n* facing (self and the world)\n* nourishing (growing discernment) \n\n\n\n\nPreparing ~ (longing rooting exploration)\n* soul impulses as growth (courage to be myself)\n* what I long for matters (trust and risk)\n* wildly supported (loving myself and sharing it) \n\n\n\n\nTiming ~  (spiraling movement)\n* unfolding (being honest with ourselves about changes that have to happen)\n* infolding (sustaining over time)\n* allowing (giving time for seeds to germinate)  \n\n\n  \n\nSpace Dust\nwritten by Janice Cathey \nEvery single thing I know about birds is housed in a song\nLong ago coded with the liquid twittering of chirp\, chirp\, chirp \nWhat I need at this moment is water \nWater to swim\nLovingly bathing my dried skin in immersive wonder and delight  \nI think my superpower is the act of noticing\nWhere\, How\, What\, When \nWeaving patterns placing a still point to a moving system of whirling arms of space dust surrounded by electrons of primal energy \nWhere do you hear your belonging \nIs it dirt\, soil\, root\nWhere is it that I belong-here\, now\, never\, and forever\nThe reach is within there is no certainty- the sprout takes time to develop\nThe nest has been built with pieces of broken earth placed in sacred geometrical heart space \nVeins of being and nonbeing – wide spread mycelium- the network of the interrelated whole\nWhere\, How\, What\, When \nCrawl to stand\nStand to jump\nJump to launch \nOff into the chirp\, chirp\, chirp\nThe whistle of delicate codes sung in songs not yet understood\nspace dust\nwhistle \ndelight \nnest \ne e e e \nGravity of falling grace gently landing\, space dust …\nPinned gratitude – trauma that behaves like culture \nBefriend the wild\nCraft a life of meaning \nThe crawl of the lizard creeps toward its sanctuary\nSprout\nSpace dust \nDon’t collapse \nSoar \n \n \n\nJanice Cathey CEO of Integrative Health joins me for my Bio-Dynamic Entrepreneurs: A Conversation  on a Body of Culture Paradigm and Woman Centered Approach for Developing A Healthy Business Mode series. You can find our conversation on my YouTube Liz Koch station: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLuxlZfQAr4 URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/crafting-a-life-of-meaning-collaboration/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/JANICE1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200707T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200707T130000 DTSTAMP:20260519T164322 CREATED:20200628T115319Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240411T235852Z UID:10000553-1594119600-1594126800@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:FLUID CORE ~ Awakening Your Primal Tubes DESCRIPTION:F L U I D  C O R E \nAwakening Your Primal Tubes \nPresented on July 2020. video recording available with purchase of ticket below \n \n\n\n\nThinking and languaging spine as separate thoracic\, lumbar\, and cervical parts that move independently diminish the power of our core. From one end to the other\, all core movement is an expression of wholeness. Like a fish\, or for that matter a caterpillar\, our head to our tail moves as one. Stabilizing one end of the caterpillar by pressing down your finger only makes the other end of the caterpillar flail. The same is true for the head and pelvis. When one end of the spine is over stabilized (or unstable)\, the other end will become disorganized. To either end\, our psoas messages all core disruptions. By returning core to its fluid primal origins\, compensatory behaviors involving psoas often find resolution. \n\n\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) URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/primaltubes-july-2020/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200628T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200628T180000 DTSTAMP:20260519T164322 CREATED:20200526T122228Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200628T201523Z UID:10000551-1593360000-1593367200@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:2-Hr Moving White(ness) Collaboration with Natasha Stovall PhD (ZOOM) DESCRIPTION:“The couch in my therapy office is occupied mostly by white people. Anxious white people and depressed white people. Obsessive white people and compulsive white people. White people who hurt people and white people who hurt themselves. White people who eat too much\, drink too much\, work too much\, shop too much. White people who are bored\, envious\, guilty\, numb. Racist white people and antiracist white people. White people who look across the room and see a white therapist listening. We talk about everything. Except being white.” \n~ Natasha Stovall – Whiteness on the Couch  ~ \n                                                                                                                                              Photo Credit sep–ecxmibgssdm unsplash  \nJoin Somatic educator Liz Koch & clinical Psychologist Natasha Stovall in a 2-hour exploration of our white-ness from both a personal\, social\, physical and even a pandemic perspective. How do we create and live with a newly coherent narrative of ourselves as white bodies and white people? What sort of changes in our selves and in our actions would it take to “live our whiteness” in a new and different\, non-oppressive and less oppressed way?  \nJUNE FOCUS\nExploring Upper Psoas Tension: Expressions of Unintended/Unacknowledged Dissonance \n \nPhoto credit: Clem Onojeghuo-unsplash \nUsing biologically-intelligent movements we will venture into the “frozen” disassociated responses within our own core and invite ourselves to dissolve the historically defended rigidity found within the “white-posturing” spine to discover our inner sense of self as living beings.  Through conceptual and embodiment practices we will awaken a different consciousness from the one society has provided us.                                                                                                                                                      \nAs we begin to dissolve the insistence within the the objectified body we may integrate and participate in a larger conversation of human existence. By creating a multi-layered understanding of our white experience we offer the opportunity to alter the ways cultural whiteness damages our selves\, our fellow human beings\, and life on earth. As we begin imaging reparative ways of being we can create opportunities to generate healing for our world\, our ancestors\, and all future generations. \n  \nNatasha Stovall Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist in private practice working with adults\, adolescents and children. Her essays and cultural criticism have appeared in The New York Times\, Rolling Stone\, and Spin. Her most recent essay\, “Whiteness on the Couch”\, appeared in Longreads in August 2019. \n  \n  \n  \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 40 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 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 and Mother\, Maiden\, Crone: Our Pleasure Playlist and her new book  Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence published in 2019 by North Atlantic Books. \n  URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/online-collaboration-moving-whiteness-with-natasha-stovall-phd-zoom-june-2020/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:featured,Online Class,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://coreawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/clem-onojeghuo-n6gnCa77-600x480-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200627T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200627T120000 DTSTAMP:20260519T164322 CREATED:20200526T131025Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T011814Z UID:10000552-1593252000-1593259200@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Changing The Language of Body ~ A Conceptual Shift made Potent through Movement (Zoom) DESCRIPTION:Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence \nEssay One: Changing The Language of Body \nPresented  2020. The video recording is available by purchasing a ticket below. \nOur languaging of body is rapidly changing. The limited\, isolated biomechanical language that once defined and shaped our perception of self and other is dissolving. Burgeoning is a biologically rich vocabulary based on a wild calling; coaxing and inviting us to deconstruct and decolonize our static conceptual framework so we can be “claimed” and emerge from isolation to embrace life as cooperative\, expressive\, and creative. Now is the time to dissolve the old story and inhabit the new paradigm of body as a living process. You and I have a part to play. This new paradigm is paramount as it supports what always has been and always will be: an awakening of coherent life on Earth. URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/changing-the-language-of-body-a-conceptual-shift-made-potent-through-movement-zoom/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Video Recorded Class ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200622T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200701T133000 DTSTAMP:20260519T164322 CREATED:20240220T203402Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240220T203402Z UID:10000653-1592818200-1593610200@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Biodynamic Coherency: Diving Into Myth & Wild Primary Body - An Advanced Collaboration with Sarah Byrden Copy DESCRIPTION:This Collaboration is an Adventure into the Wildness of Soma & Psyche \nAn exploration\, not for the faint of heart…but the curious \n A soulful calling and responding to life’s sustenance… \nWe’ll begin exploring the power inherent within Myth\, Story\, and Archetype as a portal  into the mutable \n Wild Primary Body\nshapeshifting\, vacillating\,  softening\, tracking…we will be informed\, claimed\, and devoured by the birthright of our own wild fluid terrain \nand re-shaped and supported by the flowing forms of MogaDao Archetypal Qigong\n  \nTracking the edges we interface  soma and psyche… \n pulling a thread of biodynamic coherency through the archetypal and liminal space of being. Join us for this journey into the innate coherence of Soul \n \nPREREQUISITE:   This is an advanced collaboration course and is only for those already with a firm foundation in somatic explorations. Participants  need to know they have the confidence\, physical centering\, and psychic anchoring to hold them in time and space.  A clear sense of containment and a fluent practice in grounding is required. This course is not a fit for those who may be currently feeling destabilized\, traumatized\, struggling to heal\, or in need of reestablishing basic nervous system or life coherency. We will be going deep in this course\, not only conceptually but truly into the live wilderness of psyche and soma.  \n  \n\n\n\nEdges are often where the known is not yet visible but can be just out of sight. Catching a fleeting glimpse\, detecting a movement at the perimeter of awareness\, there may be a sense that something is not yet acknowledged\, or is lost\, and yet is on the cutting edge of consciousness. \nPerhaps this is what hunting or being hunted feels like in the wild kingdom. \nQuick moving\, it can be difficult to catch an impulse that sets our being into reaction: a desire to jump and escape as well as a longing to connect and be caught. Following an initiation of an expression requires a patient slowing of pace and a quiet receptivity in the heart in order to perceive the impulse just before it comes into being. \nIt takes a bifurcating focus of awareness that moves inward and concurrently outward toward a larger field of influence. Only in this way can we stay present in order to feel the origins of our fear and the impulses of our longing. \nStalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your core Intelligence  \n\nSarah Byrden is a two-time TEDx presenter\, a dynamic educator\, speaker and advocate known for her domain-changing work in sexuality education. She has been a leader in the fields of experiential education\, international cross-cultural development\, and body-based healing since 2000 and has worked with thousands of students in the US\, Indonesia and the Himalayas. Sarah is a Santa Fe-based MogaDao QiGong and Depth Sexuality Teacher and holds over 2500 hours of formal training in western and non-western body-based healing modalities.  Her most recent project\, The Body Of Sex is a radical paradigm-shifting approach to sex education and empowerment on college campuses. She is the founder of THE ELEMENTAL SELF \nLiz Koch  is an international educator\, author\, and creator of CoreAwareness™ focusing on awareness as key for developing human potential and awakening consciousness. With 40 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 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 and Mother\, Maiden\, Crone: Our Pleasure Playlist and her new book  Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence published in 2019 by North Atlantic Books. \nPhoto Credit: Prince David on Unsplash URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/biodynamic-coherency-diving-into-wild-primary-body-copy/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Online Class ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200622T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200701T133000 DTSTAMP:20260519T164322 CREATED:20200523T222700Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200630T111428Z UID:10000549-1592818200-1593610200@coreawareness.com SUMMARY:Biodynamic Coherency: Diving Into Myth & Wild Primary Body - An Advanced Collaboration with Sarah Byrden DESCRIPTION:This Collaboration is an Adventure into the Wildness of Soma & Psyche \nAn exploration\, not for the faint of heart…but the curious \n A soulful calling and responding to life’s sustenance… \nWe’ll begin exploring the power inherent within Myth\, Story\, and Archetype as a portal  into the mutable \n Wild Primary Body\nshapeshifting\, vacillating\,  softening\, tracking…we will be informed\, claimed\, and devoured by the birthright of our own wild fluid terrain \nand re-shaped and supported by the flowing forms of MogaDao Archetypal Qigong\n  \nTracking the edges we interface  soma and psyche… \n pulling a thread of biodynamic coherency through the archetypal and liminal space of being. Join us for this journey into the innate coherence of Soul \n \nPREREQUISITE:   This is an advanced collaboration course and is only for those already with a firm foundation in somatic explorations. Participants  need to know they have the confidence\, physical centering\, and psychic anchoring to hold them in time and space.  A clear sense of containment and a fluent practice in grounding is required. This course is not a fit for those who may be currently feeling destabilized\, traumatized\, struggling to heal\, or in need of reestablishing basic nervous system or life coherency. We will be going deep in this course\, not only conceptually but truly into the live wilderness of psyche and soma.  \n  \n\n\n\nEdges are often where the known is not yet visible but can be just out of sight. Catching a fleeting glimpse\, detecting a movement at the perimeter of awareness\, there may be a sense that something is not yet acknowledged\, or is lost\, and yet is on the cutting edge of consciousness. \nPerhaps this is what hunting or being hunted feels like in the wild kingdom. \nQuick moving\, it can be difficult to catch an impulse that sets our being into reaction: a desire to jump and escape as well as a longing to connect and be caught. Following an initiation of an expression requires a patient slowing of pace and a quiet receptivity in the heart in order to perceive the impulse just before it comes into being. \nIt takes a bifurcating focus of awareness that moves inward and concurrently outward toward a larger field of influence. Only in this way can we stay present in order to feel the origins of our fear and the impulses of our longing. \nStalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your core Intelligence  \n\nSarah Byrden is a two-time TEDx presenter\, a dynamic educator\, speaker and advocate known for her domain-changing work in sexuality education. She has been a leader in the fields of experiential education\, international cross-cultural development\, and body-based healing since 2000 and has worked with thousands of students in the US\, Indonesia and the Himalayas. Sarah is a Santa Fe-based MogaDao QiGong and Depth Sexuality Teacher and holds over 2500 hours of formal training in western and non-western body-based healing modalities.  Her most recent project\, The Body Of Sex is a radical paradigm-shifting approach to sex education and empowerment on college campuses. She is the founder of THE ELEMENTAL SELF \nLiz Koch  is an international educator\, author\, and creator of CoreAwareness™ focusing on awareness as key for developing human potential and awakening consciousness. With 40 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 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 and Mother\, Maiden\, Crone: Our Pleasure Playlist and her new book  Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence published in 2019 by North Atlantic Books. \nPhoto Credit: Prince David on Unsplash URL:https://coreawareness.com/events/biodynamic-coherency-diving-into-wild-primary-body/ LOCATION:Your home CATEGORIES:Online Class ORGANIZER;CN="Liz Koch":MAILTO:liz@coreawareness.com END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR