The Wild Psoas with Liz Koch

Welcome to Earth Body Podcast. I’m Kate Douglas, Fertility Awareness Educator and founder of Earth Body. Each week, we feature conversations, stories, and essays exploring cyclical wisdom in the modern world.

Today, we're talking about the wild psoas with somatic educator and author Liz Koch.

Liz and I spoke for about another 30 minutes after this recorded call ended about finding more “language of aliveness” for our bodies, including eliminating terms like “pelvic floor” from our vocabulary. She really is a fountain of biodynamic wisdom!

I’m honored to include a selection from our conversation here.

KEY MOMENTS:

0:39 - The fluid nature of the psoas
2:37 - Core intelligence & the menstrual-ovulatory cycle
6:23 - “Red flags” in movement/exercise classes
9:13 - Why we cannot isolate the pelvis as a spine-based organism
14:48 - What brought Liz to this work
20:09 - Liz’s website CoreAwareness.com
22:07 - “Taking spine to Earth” and speaking your truth
27:39 - Co-regulation, gut instinct, and cycle charting
31:23 - Self-care for the psoas
33:57 - The most nourishing aspect of Liz’s work

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Liz Koch is a conceptual artist exploring the deep sensory system and the wild wisdom of core Psoas. An international somatic educator and author with 45 years of experience, she is the creator of Core Awareness™ and the author of The Psoas Book; Core Awareness: Enhancing Yoga, Pilates, Exercise & Dance; Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence; and her upcoming book Birth Savvy. Liz focuses on kinesthetic intelligence, direct perception, and somatic awareness as a means of enhancing human potential. Stalking Wild Psoas is her passion and Changing the Language of Body is her mission.

• coreawareness.com

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Episode recorded, mixed, and produced by Kate Douglas

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