Core Awareness Podcasts
by Liz Koch
Your psoas is not merely a muscle. It is the primal messenger from the core of your being. This bio-intelligent tissue expresses your integrity on every level and may be perceived as the guardian of the Hara, commonly referred to as the moving center.
Episodes
-
Capturing the Wild ~ The Dangers of Modern-Day Self-Regulation
Returning to explore the “insistence of homeostasis” with Liz Koch and its suffocating effect on Longing, Desire, and Creative impulses, Wilderness Guide (and Elemental Qigong instructor) Sarah Byrden fleshes out how Desire and Destiny are rooted in the Kidney energy. Through the Water Element…
more -
Physical and Energetics of the Wild Psoas
Kimberly Ann Johnson on her Mother Circle Podcast SEX, BIRTH TRAUMA interviews Liz Koch on the Physical and Energetics of the Wild Psoas, Core Integrity, and the Rhythm of Life.
-
A conversation with Frank Carbone creator of Womb Continuum™
Frank Carbone brings listeners into the deep conversation of our embryological gestures that when slowed down reveal our patterns and how they shape our next moment and potential as creative adults. This rich conversation includes Frank being born into an Italian family and working for the NYC...
-
Form & Formlessness ~ with Elemental Qigong Instructor Sarah Bydren
The breath between form and formlessness shapes our humanness. Dissolving to show up fully in life, brings folding and unfolding queries with the tides. Who is this creature? What are elemental and foundational expressions that support and nourish being human? Why is it vital to dissolve to...
-
Liz Koch Interviews Denise Bloemen aka The Bone Shaman
Denise Bloemen is a Dutch therapist, TAO healer, educator, and author. She received her diploma in Heilgym Massage and Physiotechnology, which later became Physiotherapy and worked as a therapist in both hospitals and in private practice in The Netherlands. After more than 50 years of observing...
-
BEING TOO MUCH a Conversation with Anasuya Isaacs
Together Liz Koch and Anasuya (BEING TOO MUCH ATM) conjure what it means when women are told they are TOO MUCH… or not enough…and everything in between. Modernity, Patriarchy, Paternalism, Colonization, Capitalism, Racism, Religion all continue to define “Woman” – her value and her place in the...
-
Returning to the Deep Feminine Current of Reality with Maya Luna
Maya Luna is an Oracular Poet and teacher of Feminine Wisdom whose work focuses on the lost feminine ways of knowing and perceiving reality. Together we meander through WILD ways of knowing lost, denied and suppressed by the dominant paradigm of patriarchy and colonization to fall back into the...
-
Attuning to Fluid Verticality for Coherency, Juicy Psoas, and Creative Potential
Dr. Darrell Sanchez is a licensed somatic psychotherapist, Rolfer, and dancer who has designed a tool for exploring vertical fluidity. By attuning with gravitational flows the Original Tuning Board ™ offers a psycho-kinetic tool for activating a free flow of sensory and motor possibilities. Liz...
-
ReWilding Core Integrity ~ Exploring our Relationship to Mother
Nourishing our inner Wilderness through direct knowing, Liz Koch, author of Stalking Wild Psoas joins Wise Woman guide Kristy Taylor M.Ed., C.C.C for a conversation about mothers; the ones who sacrifice themselves, abandon their daughters, and become destructive forces in their daughter’s lives....
-
Hypermobility: A conversation with Rachelle Singh
Rachelle Singh, a psoas savvy movements educator from southern Quebec, has direct lived experience with hyper-mobility. Being professionally trained at the young age of four years old, Rachelle’s love of movement has been her creative expression and life’s passion. She was first diagnosed with...
-
Wild Discernment: A Conversation about Inner Power
This free-flowing conversation emerged out of a need to discern the difference between our inner wild knowing and our savage, feral, and fawning in both gesture and intention. Stalking Wild Psoasauthor/educator Liz Koch and Activating Inner Jaguar author/educator Kimberly Johnson track their...
-
W i L D A G E N C Y: Awakening Our Animal Instincts with Kimberly Ann Johnson
Kimberly Ann Johnson is a birth doula, mom, and author of The Fourth Trimester. Activating Your Inner Jaguar is her online course concerning embodied consent, healthy boundaries, and real-world understanding of your nervous system. Kimberly and I discuss expression, coherency, self-actualization,...
-
Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence
Tonio Epstein of The Magical Mystery Tour, which features interviews creative and leading edge thinkers who are contributing to the “more beautiful world our heart knows is possible,” interviews Liz Koch about Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence.
-
Psoas from a Chinese Medical Perspective (Part Two)
Acupuncturist & Holistic Self Care Strategist Brodie Welch (host of Healthy Curiosity) interviews Liz Koch about the psycho-emotional-somatic dimensions of the psoas from a Chinese Medicine perspective.
-
Stalking Wild Psoas
Mark Walsh of The Embodiment Podcast interviews me as the "Psoas queen" to discuss psoas as the muscle of the soul, body as process, language of the body, cannibalism, anatomy vs embryology, fight-flight, car seats, birth, sex, modern disconnection and more.
-
Self Actualization, Thriving & Showing Up As Your True Self
Wild Woman-counselor Kristy Taylor interviews Liz Koch about the symbolism and authenticity found in the Bones and how kinesthetic awareness of psoas supports both creativity and agency.
-
Psoas, Pleasure & How to Nourish Your Well-Being
Small Changes Big Shifts creator Dr. Michelle Robin interviews Liz Koch and discusses psoas, well-being, and the importance of nourishing our whole being.
-
Understanding Psoas by Changing The Language of Body (from an Object to a living Process)
Health Advocate Dr David L. Biles DDS interviews Liz Koch about the bio-intelligent psoas and the importance of changing the language of body for achieving health.
-
Core Awareness as a Means for Creativity & Self Actualization
Personal Growth & Healing Coach Evrim Numanoglu Ozgen interviews Liz Koch (for her Be A Self Made Goddess online Masterclass) about how she developed CoreAwareness™ and became an international author and educator on the Psoas.
-
Psoas from an Energetic Perspective (Part One)
Acupuncturist & Holistic Self Care Strategist Brodie Welch (host of Healthy Curiosity) interviews Liz Koch about the energetic psoas from an Eastern perspective and supportive approaches to core, curiosity, and flourishing.
-
Psoas, Eros, Motherhood, & Sexuality
Wild Woman & Birth Doula/Woman's advocate Kimberly Ann Johnson (Activate Your Inner Jaguar) interviews Liz Koch on Wild Psoas, Birth, Orgasm, Eros and Empowerment.
-
The Animals Are Calling Council: A Conversation with Susan Eirich
Dr. Susan Eirich is a licensed psychologist, biologist, educator, and the director of the Earthfire Institute. Her goal is to widen the conversational circle around conservation to include the voices of all living beings. She summons us to hear other species so that we may tap into a broader,...
-
The Gesture of Becoming: an Interview with Jaap Van der Wal
Jaap Van der Wal M.D., Ph.D. is a Dutch phenomenological embryologist, teacher, and author who provides a counterweight against the reductionist scientific vision of human existence and the embryonic journey that each of us has taken. Exposing the dogma of anatomy as false, Jaap reshapes our...
-
The Heart Of What Matters: An Interview with Krista Jarrard
Krista Jarrard is a dynamic force as a facilitator, trainer, and pioneer in the evolution of the Systemic Family Constellation work. For over 14 years Krista has passionately supported the current shift in consciousness by working with people to transform their ener-genetic family inheritance....
-
Women’s Sexual Health: A Conversation with Alice Steuerwald
With 25+ years as a healer, teacher, and bodyworker, Alice Steuerwald weaves together her studies with indigenous cultures, native wisdom traditions, rituals, and plant medicine to reveal her self-help techniques for healing pelvic issues by balancing the hypermobile pelvis, regaining core...
-
The Eye-Psoas Connection: An Interview with Sam Berne
Dr. Sam Berne is a Behavioral Optometrist, international educator, and prolific author. His research helps us discover the programmed patterns and imprints we may be using as adaptive responses to stress, trauma, and cultural conditioning. Liz Koch and Dr. Berne discuss the significance of the...
-
Engaging The Fluid Core: An Interview with Carol Agneessens
An international educator and bodyworker, Carol Ann Agneessens, M.S. offers a powerful new paradigm for understanding form, gravity, and fluid movement. With 40 years of experience as a rolfer, rolf-movement instructor, and, more recently, a Biodynamic Craniosacral therapist, Agneessens easily...
-
From Womb To World: An Interview with Anna Verwaal
Working along side 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…
more -
Embryology & The Fluid Core: An Interview with Michael Shea
Dr. Michael Shea PhD is an international educator and author in the field of somatic psychology, myofascial release, and biodynamic craniosacral therapy. He is currently an adjunct faculty teacher in human embryology within the pre and perinatal psychology doctoral program at the Santa Barbara...
-
Journey To Core Integrity: An Interview with Alice Steuerwald
Alice’s journey to establish her core integrity and become vitally healthy is an inspiring story for everyone to hear. Born into a mixed ethnic military family in the middle of Kansas, Alice grew up in a traumatized environment just around the corner from a brothel. Raped at age 17 and strung out...
-
Juicy Connective Tissue: An Interview with Sue Hitzmann
Sue 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...
-
Power Psoas: An Interview with Deric Stockton
Elite power lifter, Deric Stockton, returns (see original Podcast 2009) to discuss his strategies for developing true poswer and the dynamic approach he used to become a Strength Athlete capable of squat lifting over 804 pounds, (198lb/41). Stockton utilizes a supple, dynamic psoas and…
more -
Hip Socket Surgery & Recovery: An Interview with John Crites
Personal trainer and post-secondary injury rehab specialist John Crites (Core Strength RX Gym in Scotts Valley, CA), has extensive experience with hip socket surgery, pre-rehab preparation, and post rehab recovery. Born with congenital hip dislocation John has experienced five major joint…
more -
Tom Myers & Liz Koch: A Psoas Conversation Part II
Tom Myers author of Anatomy Trains and Liz Koch author of The Psoas Book continue their discussion of the core Psoas (Listen to Part I, December 2010 under Podcasts). Tom Myers is an integrative manual therapist who conducts professional training programs. Liz Koch is a somatic movement educator...
-
Trauma & The Psoas: An Interview with David Berceli
David Berceli, Ph.D. an international expert in the area of trauma intervention and conflict resolution, defines trauma, provides steps to recovery, and explains why your psoas is part of trauma resolution. For over 30 years Dr. Berceli has lived and worked throughout the world, including...
-
The Dynamic Female Pelvis: An Interview with Christine Kent
Christine Kent RN author of Saving the Whole Woman, Natural Alternatives to Surgery for Pelvic Organ Prolapse and Urinary Incontinence offers the definitive book on non-surgical treatment of pelvic organ prolapse. Liz Koch and Christine Kent discuss the healthy dynamic female pelvis, faulty…
more -
Tom Myers & Liz Koch: A Psoas Conversation Part I
Tom Myers author of Anatomy Trains and Liz Koch author of The Psoas Book air their professional perspectives on working with the Psoas. Both Tom & Liz have extensive personal and professional experience working with the psoas. Having trained with Ida Rolf in the 70's, Tom Myers comes to this...
-
Core Bio-Mechanics: An Interview with Katy Bowman
Liz Koch interviews Bio-mechanical scientist Katy Bowman on questions about the center of gravity, proprioception, ground force reaction, and the potential for regenerating core health. Interfacing the bio-mechanical paradigm with the bio-intelligent perspective, this provocative discussion...
-
Behind Core Awareness: An Interview with and about Liz Koch
Movement Educator Cass Phelps interviews Liz Koch, creator of Core Awareness™, about how her work with the Psoas Muscle developed over the past 30 years. This interview helps to sheds light into not only an unique approach to gaining a healthy responsive core, but also why awakening somatic...
-
The Creative Process: A Conversation with Liz Koch & Majio
Majio is a mixed media artist and the director of Anavami Center, which seeks health through expressive arts, metaphor, and dream work. Over a cup of tea, Liz Koch and Majio delve into the rich territory within the physical core: primordial creativity meets the very personal Psoas. The discussion...
-
Becoming Aware of Core: A Psoas & Breath Exploration
Cass Phelps (BioTune creator) and Liz Koch connect the power of psoas, breath, sound, trauma resolution with play. Join Cass as he leads (in real time) listeners through a 20 minute breathing, sensing, psoas/diaphragm exploration. Experience the power of awareness for resolving anxiety and…
more -
New Frontiers For Health: An Interview with Emilie Conrad
Somatic Pioneer, Emilie Conrad, the founder of Continuum Movement and author of Life On Land published by North Atlantic Press, redefines body and human potential while exploring bio-intelligent fluid systems for health and vitality. Her visionary perspective is fresh and timely; inspiring…
more -
Core Strength: An Interview with Powerlifter Deric Stockton
Liz Koch discusses the Psoas muscle and Core Awareness™ principles with Deric Stockton, owner of Core Strength RX Private Gym in Scotts Valley, CA. We discuss overuse, misuse and abuse of the psoas, the importance of spine-based movement, and how to maximize the psoas muscles action potential. A...
-
The Heart of Desire: Jami Sieber’s Cello Music
Jami Sieber's cello music evokes a vibration for opening the heart of desire and awakening the hardened psoas. Provocative and inspirational, Jami blends voice and haunting melody to both capture the imagination and open universal emotional channels of longing, celebration and harmony. Liz Koch…
more -
8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back: An Interview with Esther Gokhale
Esther Gokhale author of 8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back: Remember When It Didn't Hurt, Pendo Press 2008 and Liz Koch discuss the importance of sitting, bending and feet in this fascinating look at everyday ways to resolve chronic back pain, discover a supple dynamic psoas muscle, and regain overall...
-
The Power of Sound: An Interview with Cass Phelps
Discover the power of sound for healing your psoas in my first podcast episode. Cass Phelps is a Continuum teacher and creator of Bio-Tune. Cass and I taught an experimental play workshop Primal Instincts in 2006 that focused on Biognosis "knowledge from life", gathering knowledge directly from…
more
About this show
Your psoas is not merely a muscle. It is the primal messenger from the core of your being. This bio-intelligent tissue expresses your integrity on every level and may be perceived as the guardian of the Hara, commonly referred to as the moving center.
Hosted by
Liz Koch
Categories