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?

 

Kimberly Ann Johnson on her Mother Circle Podcast SEX, BIRTH TRAUMA interviews Liz Koch on the Physical and Energetics of the Wild Psoas, Core Integrity, and the Rhythm of Life.

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.

 

The breath between form and formlessness shapes our humanness. Dissolving to show up fully in life, brings folding and unfolding queries with the tides. Who is this creature? What are elemental and foundational expressions that support and nourish being human? Why is it vital to dissolve to reappear? How does tracking wild bio-intelligence enhance all life?  Liz Koch, author of Stalking Wild Psoas, introduces Sarah Byrden of The Elemental Self and invites all of us to consider meaning-making myths and embryological stories -- conversing with the more than human we explore being alive as a soulful flourishing.

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.

Together Liz Koch and Anasuya (BEING TOO MUCH ATM) conjure what it means when women are told they are TOO MUCH... or not enough...and everything in between. Modernity, Patriarchy, Paternalism, Colonization, Capitalism, Racism, Religion all continue to define "Woman" – her value and her place in the world. But what if we unlock the "shoulds" and become truly who we are? What if we as women have the AUDACITY to embrace the immensity of our divine creative possibilities to nourish the WILD and truly flourish?

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.  

Maya Luna is an Oracular Poet and teacher of Feminine Wisdom whose work focuses on the lost feminine ways of knowing and perceiving reality. Together we meander through WILD ways of knowing lost, denied and suppressed by the dominant paradigm of patriarchy and colonization to fall back into the larger nourishing field of truth and renewal.

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. 

Nourishing our inner Wilderness through direct knowing, Liz Koch, author of Stalking Wild Psoas joins Wise Woman guide Kristy Taylor M.Ed., C.C.C for a conversation about mothers; the ones who sacrifice themselves, abandon their daughters, and become destructive forces in their daughter’s lives. Through our mother we have our first experience of life and it is from our mother's direct transmission that we learn "correct" behavior, experience shame, and even fear. Like a mama bear, our mother may teach us to listen deeply to our wild nature or as a voice of the over-culture confine our sense of wild and deny our inner knowing. 

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. 

This free-flowing conversation emerged out of a need to discern the difference between our inner wild knowing and our savage, feral, and fawning in both gesture and intention. Stalking Wild Psoasauthor/educator Liz Koch and Activating Inner Jaguar author/educator Kimberly Johnson track their personal understanding as two white women who not only grew up in different generations in disparate regions of the U.S., but also experienced very different family conditioning. Together we sniff out and discuss topics concerning the Bluebeard myth of deception, “outing out” perpetrators, being captivated, feral, sacrificing, curious, innocent, powerful, and savage.
 
 

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.
 
 

Kimberly Ann Johnson is a birth doula, mom, and author of The Fourth Trimester. Activating Your Inner Jaguar is her online course concerning embodied consent, healthy boundaries, and real-world understanding of your nervous system. Kimberly and I discuss expression, coherency, self-actualization, creativity, play, and our wild animal bodies. 

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. 

 

Acupuncturist & Holistic Self Care Strategist Brodie Welch (host of Healthy Curiosity) interviews Liz Koch about the psycho-emotional-somatic dimensions of the psoas from a Chinese Medicine perspective.
 

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. 

Wild Woman-counselor Kristy Taylor interviews Liz Koch about the symbolism and authenticity found in the Bones and how kinesthetic awareness of psoas supports both creativity and agency.

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

Health Advocate Dr David L. Biles DDS interviews Liz Koch about the bio-intelligent psoas and the importance of changing the language of body for achieving health.