A 174 page perfect bound soft covered book explores somatic awareness as an active and essential element of movement education. Shifting the standard mechanical paradigm within the movement arts and fitness training to a wholistic perspective, Core Awareness: Enhancing Yoga, Pilates, Exercise & Dance focuses on cultivating awareness as the vital key for preventing injury while developing flexibility, increasing strength and cultivating resiliency. Includes self-help explorations for developing inner somatic awareness.
Liz Koch is an international teacher & author with 30 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 core muscle of the human body.
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. A health correspondent for the Santa Cruz Sentinel Newspaper Liz writes twice a month for the Health & Fitness Section. Articles maybe found by searching Liz Koch in the archives at The Santa Cruz Sentinel.
Liz is the author of The Psoas Book, Core Awareness: Enhancing Yoga, Pilates, Exercise & Dance, Unraveling Scoliosis CD and the creator of Core Awareness™, a somatic approach to deepening the experience of the human core. Beginning with the core muscle, the iliopsoas, 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 recognized by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB), as an approved continuing education provider. She is a member of the International Movement Educators Association (IMA).
