Stalking Wild Psoas

Embodying Your Core Intelligence

By: Liz Koch

Narrated by: Diana Gardiner

Weaving together biology, living systems thinking, and somatic movement, these nine short essays will inspire somatic therapists, bodyworkers, and movement educators

Liz Koch, author of Core Awareness and The Psoas Book, seeks to dissolve the objectification of “body” in order to reconceptualize human beings as biologically intelligent, self-organizing, and self-healing. Specifically addressing educators and therapists, she delves into the conceptual framework of core by decolonizing the popular mechanistic thinking of psoas as muscle, inviting the reader on a journey toward reengaging with life’s creative processes. The book illuminates the limitations of the predominant paradigm of body and actively explores psoas as a vital, intelligent messenger that links us to an expansive network of profound possibilities. Employing biomorphic and embryonic paradigms, Koch redefines psoas as smart, expressive tissue that is both elemental and universal. Named after her popular exploratory workshops of the same name, Stalking Wild Psoas encourages all readers to nourish integrity and claim self-efficacy as creative and expressive individuals.

Hmm, it made me think 🤔 all touch therapists need to read

I have been a massage therapist for 20 years and have hated the deep psoas release taught in massage school as I believe they do not help your psoas engage.

This book helped me understand the emotional aspect I felt when working on the Psoas and will forever change my approach to the massage of the Psoas.