Podcasts Health Speak From the Body Exploring Life through the Expression of the Body with Liz Koch

Exploring Life through the Expression of the Body with Liz Koch

Published: July 21, 2019, 2:14 a.m.

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Liz Koch (pronounced Cook) is a somatic educator and creator of \\u2018Core Awareness\\u2019. Her work is relevant to anyone interested in yoga, dance, pilates, birth, recovering from back pain and living a more embodied and creative life.\\xa0

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In this episode, we talked about:

- The disembodied language and education of the body

- What is embodiment?\\xa0

- Paying attention to the intelligence of the system you have within you

- Our animal body/ being

- Why children need to move

- Exploring life through the expression of the body

- What happens when mammals don\\u2019t play

- Play and the Parasympathetic Nervous System

- Your Body is not an object. You are this transmission of life.

- Decolonising and deconstructing the compartmentalisation.

- Landing and locating- blossoming as a human being

- The psoas as the centre of your being

- A living systems model

- The psoas as a messenger of safety

- Feeling and expression

- Movement is the medicine

- The capacity to survive and thrive is through movement

- No-one has to teach you biological movement, it\\u2019s yours

- Micro-movements

- The fluidity of the system dries up through lack of movement

- Movement is always there, in the tissues, and organs.\\xa0

- The sensory system is about pleasure

- All life is fluid-based

- The ankle joint and its importance for the psoas as a transitional joint

- The psoas in birth and motherhood

- Play and survival

- Why \\u2018go go go\\u2019 is a sympathetic response where healing doesn\\u2019t take place

- How to nourish yourself back into being

- Language of earth in the language of the body

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Quotes: \\u201cWe are here, but we have no sense of being here\\u201d

\\u201cPlay is life\\u201d

\\u201cMovement is the medicine\\u201d

\\u201cThe spine isn\\u2019t a column, it\\u2019s a living river\\u201d

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More about the psoas https://coreawareness.com/about/psoas/

Liz Koch\\u2019s new book,\\xa0Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence: https://amzn.com/1623173159\\xa0

First book (now in its 30th edition!) The Psoas Book: https://amzn.com/0615647995\\xa0
For more resources, workshops and distance learning, go to www.coreawareness.com

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Let\\u2019s connect! Here\\u2019s where you can find me:

https://instagram.com/avnitouch

https://twitter.com/avnitouch

https://www.facebook.com/avnitouch

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