Liz Koch

Current

• Collaborator & Participant at Continuum Movement
• Health Educator at Way of Life
• Somatic Educator at Psoas Workshops

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Past

• Featured Author at Yoga Journal
• Flexible Sculpture Instructor at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Education

• Kent State University
• Core Awareness

Recommended

1 person has recommended Liz

Connections

18 connections

Industry

Health, Wellness and Fitness

Websites

• My Website
• My Company

Liz Koch’s Summary

Liz Koch is an international teacher & author with 30 years experience working with and specializing in the iliopsoas muscle. Educating both lay and professionals around the world, she is recognized by colleagues in the movement, wellness and fitness professions as an authority on the core muscle of the human body.

Her writing is featured in Yoga Journal, Positive Health, Massage & Bodywork, Vegetarian Time, Yoga & Health, Midwifery Today, and Massage Magazine as well as numerous small health & wellness publications. A health correspondent for the Santa Cruz Sentinel Newspaper Liz writes twice a month for the Health & Fitness Section. Articles maybe found by searching Liz Koch in the archives at The Santa Cruz Sentinel.

Liz is the author of The Psoas Book, Core Awareness: Enhancing Yoga, Pilates, Exercise & Dance, Unraveling Scoliosis CD and the creator of Core Awareness™, a somatic approach to deepening the experience of the human core. Beginning with the core muscle, the iliopsoas, Core Awareness™ focuses attention on sensation as a means of maturing and developing the proprioceptive nervous system (responsible for skeletal alignment, balance and orientation).

Liz is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB), as an approved continuing education provider and is a member of the International Movement Educators Association (IMA)

Liz Koch’s Specialties:

My specialty is core human potential via the psoas. Awareness is my tool & language is my passion. Letting go of perceiving human as object, I invite being a dynamic expressive living process. Bio-intelligent tissue, the psoas is more then a muscle, it is a messenger of the mid-line (central nervous system); emotional, passionate, juicy & dynamic - living from your core is about integrity, possibilities & survival of the species.

Additional Information

Liz Koch’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Company

Liz Koch’s Interests:

gardening, writing, PLAYING, animals, kids, young and old, continuum movement, Emilie Conrad's field, weaving, fiber arts, happenings (think Anna Halprin) ....

Liz Koch’s Groups:

National Certification of Bodywork and Massage - I provide continuing education hours,
Continuum Movement Community - my clan,
Health Education - Way of Life, La Leche League, Natural Home Birth, homeschooling,

•    Fitness and Health Professionals

Liz Koch’s Honors:

Keynote speaker: Bowen International Conference - London 2008
Keynote speaker: Ortho-Bionomy International Conference - New Mexico 2008

Liz Koch’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• consulting offers
• expertise requests