Practical details
Date: Friday 24th October 2025
Time: 19.00 – 20.00 UK time. Check your timezone here
Presenter(s): Leila Stuart
Title: Experiential Anatomy as Therapy
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Webinar Outline:
Experiential (or embodied) anatomy begins with intellectual, two-dimensional understanding of anatomical structures, their relationships, and forces in the human body, then evolves into a deeply personal and transformative experience. This unique approach to anatomy goes beyond dry, boring description or dissection of parts to focus on the wholeness of the lived body. When we cultivate felt sense of anatomical structures, our body becomes the doorway into deeper aspects of ourselves.
Join Leila Stuart as she guides you through this rich, embodied method of learning that combines interoceptive awareness and somatic inquiry to foster whole person healing and integration. By mindfully exploring the “laboratory” of our own body, we become curious how our physical body, emotions, personal and cultural conditioning, and spiritual awareness influence each other.
Experiential anatomy views anatomical structures and systems as possessing awareness, intelligence, and the capacity to initiate movement. The three-step process awakens the intelligence in each structure, improves cellular communication, refines sensorimotor maps, and allows all parts to function in a harmonious “family of the body”.
This process-oriented way of learning can be a transformative pathway to healing. Cultivating interoceptive awareness can improve therapeutic outcomes, deepen sense of self, shift perspective and behaviours, and deepen capacity for self-regulation and resilience.
We will explore the cervical spine to understand and experience principles and practices of experiential anatomy.
Presenter Bio(s):
Leila Stuart
Leila Stuart BA, LLB, RMT (ret.), C-IAYT
With a lifelong passion for movement of all types and decades of experience as a clinical massage therapist (retired), yoga teacher and therapist, Leila is a pioneer in the field of embodied movement education. She opened one of the first dedicated Yoga Therapy studios in Canada and taught an innovative 300-hour Yoga Therapy training focused on experiential anatomy, somatic repatterning and embodiment of the deeper teachings of yoga as pathways to whole person healing. Drawing on her deep love and intuitive knowledge of experiential anatomy, Leila specializes in transforming academic information into somatic awareness and life changing experiences.
She is the author of Pathways to a Centered Body with Donna Farhi, and Experiential Anatomy, Therapeutic Applications of Embodied Movement and Awareness. Leila lives near Vancouver, BC and teaches in Canada and internationally.
Visit www.leilastuart.com
Time/Date of Event
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Zoom
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7 pm BST