EP92: Liz Koch on ReWilding Psoas, Making Birth and Trusting Your Animal Power

What She Shares:

• Why psoas is a central part of birth
• Shifting from concept to physical movement in your tissues
• Psoas as innate expression
• Being coherent with nature
• Beginning your journey home to yourself

What You'll Hear:

• Consciously maintaining our agency throughout the birth continuum
• Separating cultural conditioning from our animal-ness
• Trusting the animal body's knowledge of birth
• Unlocking your physical organism
• How ancestral trauma appears in different bodies
• Learning to shape shift to prepare for birth
• Why a supple, hydrated, expressive psoas is important for knowing oneself
• Trusting your own power
• Understanding the power dynamics between insurance companies, OBs, and birthing women
• Why your birthing experience affects your rite of passage into motherhood
• Examining appeasement and fawning responses
• Why it can feel so exhausting to try to maintain coherence with our animal bodies
• The difficulty of actively defending ourselves during birth
• The difference between controlling ourselves and expressing ourselves
• Finding your biological intelligence in your core
• The nervous systems as expression
• Why investing in your birth experience is a radical and loving act
• Making birth choices that support the earth and the human species
• How your birth experience affects your infant's nervous system
• How a sedentary lifestyle impacts a developing fetus
• Separating consciousness from the nervous system
• Psoas as "muscle of the soul"
• Landing into your bones and embracing the fetal curl