The Psoas Book by Liz Koch Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Psoas Book
Book Review: Not a useful resource
Summary: 1 Stars
This book was chock full of editing errors, some of them quite significant. Some of the errors affected the content and sense of the material. Spelling, grammar, facts and consistency were all extraordinarily poor. In just one of many examples, the text refers to an illustration that is nowhere to be found in the book; yet it is an important reference. There is really very little useful material in this book, even if one can ignore the errors. Those errors, however, make one distrust the entire content. Ms. Koch may be knowledgeable, but she desperately needs an editor!!Book Review: Poorly written and confusing
Summary: 2 Stars
This book is in serious need of rewriting! I got so frustrated trying to make sense of some of the instructions that in the end I had to email the author to find out whether there were some pages missing between the text on p.57 & p.58!
This is a very expensive price for such a slim book with poorly drawn stick figure illustrations.
Book Review: Pretty awful
Summary: 1 Stars
This 83-page booklet relies liberally on long quotations (Ida Rolf, Moshe Feldenkrais, and Wilhelm Reich are some of the usual suspects quoted). All the author seems to have really done is to gather together information from others.
Physically, the book is a very primitive desktop publication. Particularly galling are some stick-figure "illustrations" that look like they were done in Paint in the late '80s.
I can't recommend this book to anyone.
Book Review: Right on the mark!
Summary: 5 Stars
This book places a plethora of information around a very specific subject right at your fingertips. I have discovered much information that I can use on my own body as I move to eliminate low back pain. As a mother I found it very informative in regards to allowing children to develop at their own pace; why not to put them in exersaucers, etc from the perspective of the psoas muscle. It is definitely something else to consider if you are experiencing low back pain, menstrual cramps, infertility, etc. Releasing the psoas will not be a cure-all for every body, but this book provides some interesting food for thought! I plan to use a lot of the information on fear and the psoas with my prenatal yoga classes as an extra tool for helping expectant parents with labor and childbirth. Admittedly an editor could address the spelling errors, etc. but the content is valuable and thought-provoking if you can simply release projecting perfectionism onto the author and appreciate her hard work, 20+ years of experience with and passion for this very important muscle!Book Review: The Psoas Book - explains a key muscle
Summary: 5 Stars
The Psoas Book explains a key muscle and provides useful ways to explore the reader's psoas muscle - how to relax it and how to strengthen it. As a yoga teacher, I find that people are coming to class and asking about how to get help for the psoas muscle. I recommend this book to yoga teachers, to yoga students and to anyone seeking to get a better understanding of the function of their psoas muscle. I have recently given this book as a gift and have recently had to buy another copy for myself because the person I loaned my book to is still using it. This is a very helpful book!