Psoas work enhances every aspect of a woman’s pregnancy, the birth process, and postpartum integration.
Educating women,midwives, doulas, birth-keepers and their partners about the psoas can be vital to increasing healthy normal vaginal births.
In this course, you will learn about the importance of the Psoas through every phase and discover tools that can easily be integrated into prenatal exercise and self-help relaxation routines.
Psoas work enhances every aspect of a woman’s pregnancy, the birth process, and postpartum integration.
Educating women,midwives, doulas, birth-keepers and their partners about the psoas can be vital to increasing healthy normal vaginal births.
In this course, you will learn the importance of the Psoas through every phase and discover tools that can easily be integrated into prenatal exercise and self-help relaxation routines.
The Importance of the Psoas
For a woman, her pelvis is the cradle of civilization. The internal environment needs to be lush, centered, and dynamic. The Psoas, spoken of as the muscle of the soul in Daoist healing traditions therefore, holds the key for a juicy pelvis, and for accessing instinctual primal wisdom essential for a resilient natural birth process.
On a very functional level, a lush juicy Psoas relieves and even eliminates low back and leg pains, centers the energy of support within the bones, opens the pelvis and hips for support, and helps a birthing woman avoid induction.
On every level understanding the messages of Psoas not only resolves the fear of birthing, but awakens our animal body instincts empowering mother and baby to emerge and blossom whole-heartedly and with their core integrity intact.
COURSE CONTENT
Part I – Understanding the Iliopsoas Complex
- Understanding the Iliopsoas Complex – Changing the Paradigm
- Getting Juicy
- Hydrating Connective Tissue
- Shape Shifting
- Making Space for Baby
Part II – Psoas & The Autonomic Nervous System
- Birthing Fear – Psoas & The Autonomic Nervous System
- Kidneys and Adrenals
- Awakening the Animal Body
- The Trauma of Modern Birth Practices
- Self-Actualization and the upper Psoas
- Supporting the Dynamic Psoas
Part II – Psoas & The Autonomic Nervous System
- Birthing Fear – Psoas & The Autonomic Nervous System
- Kidneys and Adrenals
- Awakening the Animal Body
- The Trauma of Modern Birth Practices
- Self-Actualization and the upper Psoas
- Supporting the Dynamic Psoas
Part III – Establishing Core Coherency
- Establishing Core Coherency – Postpartum Support
- Regaining Pelvic Stability
- Reclaiming Intuitive Mothering
- Embodying Rhythm
Liz Koch
International Teacher and Author
Liz has got 45 years of experience working with kinesthetic intelligence and somatic awareness for developing human potential. The creator of CoreAwarenessTM Liz Koch is dedicated to educating both laypersons and professionals about the core tissue psoas. She is the author of The Psoas Book, Unraveling Scoliosis CD, The Psoas & Back Pain CD, Core Awareness; Enhancing Yoga, Pilates, Exercise and Dance and her new book
Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your core Intelligence. She is the contributing author to Manifesting Health and Happiness and the Crone in Maiden, Mother, Crone: Our Pleasure Play List.
The National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB) recognizes Liz Koch as an approved continuing education provider. Her website www.coreawareness.com offers free podcasts, articles, videos, and online courses. Workshop & retreat information and schedule can be found at www.coreawareness.com.