Core Awareness (Revised Edition)

Enhancing Yoga, Pilates, Exercise, and Dance

De: Liz Koch, Emilie Conrad - foreword, Bob Cooley - foreword

Narrado por: Dominique Dibbell

An indispensable 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 listeners, providing movements, stretches, and mindfulness explorations that she developed herself. Her exercises are designed to enhance sensory development and shift listeners 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.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2012 Liz Koch, Emilie Conrad, Bob Cooley (P)2023 North Atlantic Books

Reseñas de la Crítica

“[Koch’s] level of detail is impressive with the main thrust on exploration … exploring aspects of the core, and deepening the student’s understanding of the extent of core awareness. These exercises offer a great way for students to fine-tune their awareness of core strength and sensations.” —Yoga Teacher Magazine

“Liz Koch describes the basics of moving from one's core and the muscles involved, blending these movements with explorations that focus on inner sensations. The result is a positive exploration recommended for health ... and exercise collections alike.” —Midwest Book Review

“Liz Koch is a deep-diving ‘somanaut’ with many years of worldwide teaching experience. In this book, Koch has moved beyond the psoas into a thorough synthesis of many approaches to core awakening and body balance." —Thomas Myers, author of Anatomy Trains: Myofascial Meridians for Manual and Movement Therapists