Named after the author's popular exploratory workshop of the same name, Stalking Wild Psoas contains nine short essays to inspire somatic therapists, bodyworkers, and yoga and movement teachers to conceive of the body not as an object to be fixed, but as a self-organizing, self-healing, and bio-intelligent system.
An international somatic educator and author, Liz Koch has thirty years of experience working with and specializing in the psoas muscle. Educating both laypersons and professionals, Liz Koch is recognized by colleagues in the movement, wellness, and fitness professions as a connoisseur of the core muscle of the human body. The author ofThe Psoas Book and Core Awareness- Enhancing Yoga, Pilates, Exercise and Dance, Koch is the founder of Core Awareness, a somatic approach to deepening the experience of the human core in order to improve skeletal alignment, balance, and orientation. She conducts Core Awareness workshops thoughout the United States, Canada, and the UK.
“In Stalking Wild Psoas, Liz Koch cradles our collective gasp and
assumes the role of a trusted guide into the fascinating poetry of
embodiment.”
—Bayo Akomolafe, author of These Wilds Beyond our Fences
“Liz Koch opens the reader to a brilliant phenomenological panorama
of the human body as a shaping, a process, a Gestaltung—as the
expression of our soul, intelligence, and consciousness.”
—Jaap van der Wal, MD, PhD, embryologist, anatomist, and
(recovering) morphologist
“Stalking Wild Psoas takes us on a wonderful journey into our
embryological potential, the bio-intelligence of the forces of life
that generate our form, our holistic fluid nature, and a healing
approach that is based upon this depth of perception and
understanding.”
—Franklyn Sills, author and pioneer of Biodynamic Craniosacral
Therapy
“Liz Koch is an artist of the somatic metaphor who is in it for a
long and deep dive within. These essays track her journey through
the illusions and delusions of the mechanical construct of the body
into a holistic vision of ‘the body to come.’ She stalks ‘wild
psoas’ where the perception of the ‘body as lived’ comes into
coherence with the ‘body as anatomy.’ Koch’s approach is resolutely
holistic, philosophical, and deliciously interoceptive.”
—Tom Myers, author of Anatomy Trains
“This book inspires us to sensually, and with open interest,
experience the bio-intelligence of our living being. Through her
articulate and passionate voice, Liz Koch weaves together art,
science, inquiry, exploration, deep care, and listening with the
ways she is learning from within her own body, and with the bodies
of her students and clients. What emerges is a textured narrative
tapestry telling the story of our biological origins, biological
intelligence, and our possibilities for the future if we
participate by stalking the wild psoas.”
—Mary Abrams, MA, RSME, somatic educator and founder of Moving Body
Resources
“Liz Koch captures the fundamental wholeness and innate
intelligence of the body through her elegant prose in Stalking Wild
Psoas. Her words convey a visual-sensorial experience, taking the
reader on a journey of appreciation and discovery of the
multi-dimensional fabric of being-in-body. Koch’s writing clearly
delineates the essential differences between a biomechanical
approach to understanding our physical nature and a holistic
approach, touching the mystery and beauty of all that a body
possesses.”
—Carol A Agneessens, MS, biodynamic cranialsacral and Rolf educator
and author of The Fabric of Wholeness: Biological Intelligence and
Relational Gravity
“Liz Koch is a crucial voice for our time—a true ‘core intelligence
explorer.’ She has dedicated her life to sparking a desperately
needed shift of awareness in our medical and movement models from a
static, biomechanical approach to a fluid, biointelligent one.”
—Wendy LeBlanc-Arbuckle, creator of 3Core Connections
“This wonderful book goes far beyond a simply anatomical and
physiological view of the psoas to portray a deep understanding of
the body arising from Liz Koch’s many years of working with
clients, colleagues, and herself.”
John Wilks, author of Using the Bowen Technique to Address Complex
and Common Conditions
“In Stalking Wild Psoas, Liz Koch brings forth the wealth of
knowledge that she has developed by teaching and studying with
somatic greats like Emilie Conrad Da’oud. I recommend this book for
all who wish to develop more understanding and connection with
their bodies.”
—Donnalea Van Vleet Goelz, PhD, chair of the Emilie Conrad Da'oud
Research Initiative
“Beautifully written, as if the life force itself helped organize
it, this book brings a sense of relief, possibility, and hope,
from the physical to the spiritual. You can feel your body resonate
with the truth of it. The deep visceral knowledge of the author
comes through on every page, helping us tune in to things we
instinctively always knew but were cut off from. Loving and
helpful, this amazing book opens new vistas of healing and the
understanding of our own nature.”
—Susan B. Eirich, PhD, founder of Earthfire Institute
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