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Core Awareness, Revised Edition: Enhancing Yoga, Pilates, Exercise, and Danceoffers a guide to Core Awareness, a body-oriented approach that explores the practice of bringing focus and attention to inner sensation as the means of cultivating an innate capacity for expressive movement. Developed by somatic educator and author Liz Koch, the books Core Awareness movements, stretches, and mindfulness explorations 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 increasing strength, gaining flexibility, preventing injury, and improving resiliency.
Describing the practice of moving from ones core, Koch highlights the importance of engaging the psoas musclelocated on either side of the spineto integrate the body, mind, emotion, and spirit. Koch also discusses the pelvis as the foundation of our physical core and the vital connection with our bones to gain 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 explorationswith 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.

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Praise for Core Awareness, Revised Edition

It seems that yoga classes are offered on every corner these days, but unfortunately they often emphasize movement over awareness, stretching over sensing, and pushing oneself over self-exploration. Luckily Liz Kochs book can offer the yoga student inspiration as well as simple exercises that can create both the depth of feeling and profound sensitivity necessary to use yoga practice as a physical, mental, and spiritual tool for transformation. I recommend it highly.

Judith Hanson Lasater, PhD, PT, yoga instructor since 1971, and author of 30 Essential Yoga Poses: For Beginning Students and Their Teachers

Life is experienced within the frame of our body. Liz Koch offers practical tools to enhance our ability to function, grow, and move through life more gracefully. I highly recommend this book as a resource for teachers and students.

Tom McCook, fitness and movement specialist, and director of Center of Balance, Mountain View, California

Copyright 2012 by Liz Koch All rights reserved No portion of this book - photo 1

Copyright 2012 by Liz Koch. All rights reserved. No portion of this book, except for brief review, may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any meanselectronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwisewithout the written permission of the publisher. For information contact North Atlantic Books.

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North Atlantic BooksCover photo by iStockphoto.com/real444
P.O. Box 12327Cover design by Brad Greene
Berkeley, California 94712Explorations photography by Paul Schraub

Note: The information presented in this book is in no way intended as a substitute for receiving medical advice. The purpose of the book is to provide information and education. The author and publisher shall have neither liability nor responsibility to any person or entity with respect to any loss, damage or injury caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by the information, suggestions or exercises (explorations) contained within this book or written in response to this information. The author is not a medicinal authority and is not qualified to diagnosis or prescribes any therapy. Please consult your physician. The information in this book is only her personal opinion.

Core Awareness: Enhancing Yoga, Pilates, Exercise, and Dance, Revised Edition is sponsored by the Society for the Study of Native Arts and Sciences, a nonprofit educational corporation whose goals are to develop an educational and cross-cultural perspective linking various scientific, social, and artistic fields; to nurture a holistic view of arts, sciences, humanities, and healing; and to publish and distribute literature on the relationship of mind, body, and nature.

North Atlantic Books publications are available through most bookstores. For further information, visit our website at www.northatlanticbooks.com or call 800-733-3000.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Koch, Liz, 1949
Core awareness: enhancing yoga, Pilates, exercise, and dance / Liz Koch.Rev. ed.
p. cm.
Summary: A guide to Core Awareness, an innovative body-oriented approach developed by somatic educator Liz Koch to enhance sensory development and cultivate an innate capacity for expressive movementProvided by publisher.
eISBN: 978-1-58394-525-4
1. Self-care, Health. 2. Health. 3. Physical fitness. 4. Movement therapy. I. Title.
RA776.95.K63 2012
613.719dc23

2011048453

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To Jeff,
with whom I share my love and life.

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Acknowledgments

I would like to thank the following people whom I have had an opportunity of directly knowing and who have had a profound effect on the quality of my life. In alphabetical order: Martha Benedict, Bob Cooley, Don Cohen, Victor Collins, Patty Dunks, Anna Halprin, Brian Jenner, Tom Longo, France Louvet, Ronnie Neufeld Oliver, Marianna Nielson, Katherine OConnell, Lord John Pentland, Aminah Raheem, Iona Teegarden, Catherine Wilder, Laurel Wolf, Roy Yates.

Most of all, I thank my family. My husband Jeff, for supporting me in creating the space, time, and the conditions to write this book. And my three childrenAdam whose sense of humor makes me laugh, Megan whose tender heart heals mine, and Lily whose generosity offers me a constant source of love and friendship.

When I originally wrote this book I had only heard of Emilie Conrads Continuum Movement. Since then I have had the opportunity of working directly with Emilie and two of her inspiring teachers Beth Pettingill-Riley and Bonnie Gintis. I wish to personally thank her for supporting my deep intrinsic desire to move and be moved. Her work continually invites me to fully participate in the flow of life.

A special thanks to each of my models: Continuum teacher and movement educator Val Leoffler, undergraduate student Lily Oberdorfer, Megan Oberdorfer MWS, U.S. Ranger Special Forces Brandon OLeary, Powerlifter and Elite trainer Deric Stockton.

Contents
Picture 3PART I
CORE AWARENESS CONCEPTS
CHAPTER ONE
AWAKENING CORE AWARENESS
CHAPTER TWO
ENGAGING THE PSOAS MUSCLE
CHAPTER THREE
CENTERING THE PELVIS
CHAPTER FOUR
CONNECTING TO BONE
CHAPTER FIVE
DEEPENING CORE AWARENESS
Picture 4PART II
CORE AWARENESS EXPLORATIONS
CHAPTER SIX
STEPPING STONES TO CORE AWARENESS EXPLORATIONS
CHAPTER SEVEN
EXPLORATIONSAWAKENING CORE AWARENESS
CHAPTER EIGHT
EXPLORATIONSENGAGING THE PSOAS
CHAPTER NINE
EXPLORATIONSCENTERING THE PELVIS
CHAPTER TEN
EXPLORATIONSCONNECTING TO BONE
CHAPTER ELEVEN
EXPLORATIONSDEEPENING CORE AWARENESS
Illustrations

Figure . Constructive rest position

Figure . Constructive rest position

Figure . Fetal-C curl

Figure . Going inward

Figures . Progression of Variation 1, fetal-C

Figures . Variation 2, fetal-C

Figures . Progression for startle response (arcing)

Figures . Progression for startle response, without ball

Figure . Settling into ground

Figure . Constructive rest position

Figure . Maintain leg balance using support

Figure . Legs supported by chair

Figures . Movement progression for lower psoas release

Figures . Lower psoas release, Variation 1

Figures . Movement progression for upper psoas release

Figure . Upper psoas releaseone arm

Figure . Upper psoas releasecrossed arms

Figure . Upper psoas releaseweighted arms

Figure . Standing psoas release

Figure . Standing psoas releasefalling lunge

Figure . Standing psoas releasependulum

Figure . Standing psoas releasingpendulum

Figure . Walking

Figure . Fanning open the iliacus

Figure . Belly arc psoas release

Figures . Belly arc with hands

Figures . Belly arc psoas releasearcing

. Progression of movement, belly arc

Figures . Movement progression for toning the psoas

Figures . Lengthening the psoas

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