Liz Koch is an international teacher & author with 45 + 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 bio-intelligent Psoas.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. Liz is the author of The Psoas Book, Core Awareness: Enhancing Yoga, Pilates, Exercise & Dance, Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence, Unraveling Scoliosis CD, Psoas & Back Pain CD, and co-author of Maiden, Mother, Crone: Our Pleasure Playlist. Liz Koch is the creator of Core Awareness™, a somatic approach to deepening the experience of the human core. Beginning with the core muscle, the psoas, 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)Specialties: My specialty is human potential and developing somatic awareness. Awareness is my tool & language is my passion. I am interested in changing our perception from the mechanistic paradigm to one of perceiving the human being as a dynamic expressive living process. I enter this dialogue through the bio-intelligent tissue called psoas. I believe the psoas is more than a muscle, it is a messenger of the midline (central nervous system); emotional, passionate, juicy & dynamic.5