Core Awareness Podcasts

Returning to explore the “insistence of homeostasis” with Liz Koch and its suffocating effect on Longing, Desire, and Creative impulses, Wilderness Guide (and Elemental Qigong instructor) Sarah Byrden fleshes out how Desire and Destiny are rooted in the Kidney energy. Through the Water Element our true desire eventually flows out into the world through the bounty of the Heart. What happens though when domestication entraps our capacity to fully root, awaken, and flourish?  

Frank Carbone brings listeners into the deep conversation of our embryological gestures that when slowed down reveal our patterns and how they shape our next moment and potential as creative adults. This rich conversation includes Frank being born into an Italian family and working for the NYC Sanitation Department to his many years studying with Emilie Conrad & Ray Castellino. As a facilitator, moving artist, and cranial-sacral therapist working with newborn infants unfolding into life, this I assure you, is a Whale of a Tale evoking both curiosity and innovations.  

Denise Bloemen is a Dutch therapist, TAO healer, educator, and author. She received her diploma in Heilgym Massage and Physiotechnology, which later became Physiotherapy and worked as a therapist in both hospitals and in private practice in The Netherlands. After more than 50 years of observing people, their habits, and their motor skills, Denise came to an important conclusion … If a person is told to “relax your muscles” it does not mean that you can make this happen. This realization advanced the importance of bringing the mind into the body and the power it exerts on a physical, emotional, and spiritual level.

Janine Naccarato recounts her personal, developmental, and soulful process as a child with sensory overload being labeled a behavioral problem to awakening an expansive whole-brain functioning through body intelligence and movement. As a Kinesthetic educator, Janine describes the power of motion as the Great Regulator for increasing our capacity for Creativity, Relationship, Self-Regulation, and Coherency.

Dr. Darrell Sanchez is a licensed somatic psychotherapist, Rolfer, and dancer who has designed a tool for exploring vertical fluidity. By attuning with gravitational flows the Original Tuning Board ™ offers a psycho-kinetic tool for activating a free flow of sensory and motor possibilities. Liz Koch and Dr. Sanchez discuss how engaging with our fluid verticality changes our state of being, grows our confidence, and fosters our human potential.

Rachelle Singh, a psoas savvy movements educator from southern Quebec, has direct lived experience with hyper-mobility. Being professionally trained at the young age of four years old, Rachelle’s love of movement has been her creative expression and life’s passion. She was first diagnosed with hypermobility at the age of fifteen after having dislocated her elbow four times and her ankle twice. Born hyper-mobile offers a person expansive possibilities and serious challenges. Psoas often messages ligamental disruption caused by hyper-mobility. As ligaments define both a boundary and a range of motion within each joint, this disruption can cause a myriad of skeletal compensations. Rachelle shares the wisdom she gained for those of you who are hyper-mobile and for all of us who work with others who are hyper-mobile. She enlightens us by sharing what she has found most helpful and supportive. Having intelligently and lovingly navigated not only hyper-mobility but also the repercussions of adrenal and inflammatory responses associated with being hyper-mobile, Rachelle offers a rich, nuanced conversation on healthy movement.

Jessi Mendez is a wild female creature exploring Wild Essence; attuning to the wise whispers of mother nature and reclaiming the Sacred Feminine. Through intuitive knowing, medicine practices, powerful circles and ceremony Jessi calls back what is instinctual – raw – and authentically present in the bones. It is her mission through all of her teachings, writings, and programs to call home the WILD in all who seek to reclaim their birthright. We share our deep love of the Wild, she as a young woman reclaiming the feminine and I as an elder enraptured with all life in this rich entangled conversation.

Tonio Epstein of The Magical Mystery Tour, which features interviews creative and leading edge thinkers who are contributing to the “more beautiful world our heart knows is possible,” interviews Liz Koch about Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence.

Mark Walsh of The Embodiment Podcast interviews me as the “Psoas queen” to discuss psoas as the muscle of the soul, body as process, language of the body, cannibalism, anatomy vs embryology, fight-flight, car seats, birth, sex, modern disconnection and more.

Small Changes Big Shifts creator Dr. Michelle Robin interviews Liz Koch and discusses psoas, well-being, and the importance of nourishing our whole being.

Personal Growth & Healing Coach Evrim Numanoglu Ozgen interviews Liz Koch (for her Be A Self Made Goddess online Masterclass) about how she developed CoreAwareness™ and became an international author and educator on the Psoas.

Wild Woman & Birth Doula/Woman’s advocate Kimberly Ann Johnson (Activate Your Inner Jaguar) interviews Liz Koch on Wild Psoas, Birth, Orgasm, Eros and Empowerment.

Jaap Van der Wal M.D., Ph.D. is a Dutch phenomenological embryologist, teacher, and author who provides a counterweight against the reductionist scientific vision of human existence and the embryonic journey that each of us has taken. Exposing the dogma of anatomy as false, Jaap reshapes our mainstream objectification of self to expose the truth of being human as a lifelong process performed. Liz Koch and Jaap Van der Wal met in the Netherlands informally at the kitchen table to talk about the embryological model for understanding core integrity, the expression of psoas, and the importance of changing our perception of body.