Core Awareness, Revised Edition by Liz Koch

Core Awareness, Revised Edition by Liz Koch

An indispensible resource for those interested in all forms of movement education, including yoga, pilates, dance, and more

Somatic educator and writer Liz Koch has spent decades studying the principles of Core Awareness-a body-based approach to movement that utilizes attention to inner sensation as the key to increasing strength, gaining flexibility, preventing injury, and improving resilience. In this book, she shares her vast knowledge of Core Awareness with readers, providing movements, stretches, and mindfulness explorations that she developed herself. Her exercises are designed to enhance sensory development and shift readers from the standard paradigm of the body as an "isolated object" to a holistic paradigm of the human being as part of a living process of dynamic expression. This shift in perspective offers practitioners and teachers of movement, yoga, pilates, bodywork, exercise, and dance an empowering model for self-healing and the key to becoming stronger, more flexible, and more resilient.

As Koch describes the practice of moving from one's core, she highlights the importance of engaging the psoas muscle-located on either side of the spine-to integrate the body, mind, emotion, and spirit. Koch also discusses how the pelvis is the foundation of our physical core, the vital connection with our bones, and crucial in gaining a sense of support, nourishment, joint integrity, skeletal balance, and healthy muscle tone.

Rewritten with updated information, this revised edition includes 247 new photos and 25 new Core Awareness explorations-with 64 in total. A suggested reading list at the end of the book provides resources for continuing the development of the ideas presented within the book.

Liz Koch has thirty years of expertise working with and specializing in the psoas muscle as an international somatic instructor and author. Liz Koch is known among peers in the movement, wellness, and fitness professions as a connoisseur of the human body's core muscle, having educated both laypeople and experts. Koch is the originator of Core Awareness, a somatic method to increasing the awareness of the human core in order to improve skeletal alignment, balance, and orientation. He is the author of The Psoas Book and Core Awareness: Improving Yoga, Pilates, Fitness, and Dancing. She teaches Core Awareness programs in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.

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ISBN 13	9781583945018
ISBN 10	1583945016
Title	Core Awareness, Revised Edition
Author	Liz Koch
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	North Atlantic Books,U.S.
Year published	2012-09-25
Number of pages	240
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.