PSOAS DURING PREGNANCY, BIRTH & POSPARTUM

Three Part Online Course with Liz Koch

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.

A Healthy Functional Psoas:

Provides for skeletal support, releasing back pain and tension throughout pregnancy & birth
Releases unfounded fear deepening a woman’s instinctual responses.
Ignites the intuitive belly brain, centers, and empowers every aspect of becoming a mother.
Shortens labor and eases birth offering their baby guidance through the spiral descent.
Enhances a woman’s ability to shape-shift and open; offering an effective alternative to induction.
Supports the functionally balanced pelvis through each transition and postpartum recovery.
Provides a core sense of integrity, trust, and pleasure through the journey into
motherhood.

A Healthy Functional Psoas:

Provides for skeletal support, releasing back pain and tension throughout pregnancy & birth
Releases unfounded fear deepening a woman’s instinctual responses.
Ignites the intuitive belly brain, centers, and empowers every aspect of becoming a mother.
Shortens labor and eases birth offering their baby guidance through the spiral descent.
Enhances a woman’s ability to shape-shift and open; offering an effective alternative to induction.
Supports the functionally balanced pelvis through each transition and postpartum recovery.
Provides a core sense of integrity, trust, and pleasure through the journey into
motherhood.

A Healthy Functional Psoas:

Provides for skeletal support, releasing back pain and tension throughout pregnancy & birth
Releases unfounded fear deepening a woman’s instinctual responses.
Ignites the intuitive belly brain, centers, and empowers every aspect of becoming a mother.
Shortens labor and eases birth offering their baby guidance through the spiral descent.
Enhances a woman’s ability to shape-shift and open; offering an effective alternative to induction.
Supports the functionally balanced pelvis through each transition and postpartum recovery.
Provides a core sense of integrity, trust, and pleasure through the journey into
motherhood.

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

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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

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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

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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.