Experiential Anatomy: Embodied Movement and Awareness for Whole Person Healing
Experiential anatomy is an embodied learning method integrating interoceptive awareness and conscious movement to support whole-person healing.
Experiential anatomy takes a holistic, subjective approach, viewing the body as a doorway into deeper self-awareness and self-understanding that can support greater agency and restore mind-body balance and health. Focused intellectual learning and gentle somatic inquiry are interwoven to engage students multidimensionally in a container of safety.
In this workshop, Leila will draw material from her new book Experiential Anatomy, Therapeutic Applications of Embodied Movement and Awareness. The book was written to help yoga, bodywork and movement teachers and therapists work with clients to cultivate interoceptive awareness and compassionately re-pattern habits of breath, alignment, movement, and mind.
What will I learn?
- How experiential anatomy strengthens felt sense of anatomical parts, their interrelationships and connection to the multidimensional Whole.
- Experience how mindful somatic exploration inspires safe, therapeutic movement.
- Understand how the physical body is a doorway into deeper self-awareness and self- understanding.
- How to empower student agency and self inquiry.
- Simple embodied practices to enhance somatic awareness, repattern unhelpful habits, and strengthen self-regulation.
About Leila:
With a lifelong passion for movement of all types and decades of experience as a clinical massage therapist (retired), yoga teacher and therapist (C-IAYT), 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.
