Live Conversations with Pioneering Yoga Therapy Authors
The Women Writers' Collective in Yoga Therapy was born from a shared desire to bring greater visibility to the women authors and leaders shaping the field of yoga therapy. Our goal is to create a space where we can learn together, exchange ideas, and collectively advance our profession. Each month, we spotlight a different theme, featuring one or two inspiring authors whose work offers valuable insights into yoga therapy practice.
Come learn, connect, and grow with us. The only pre-requisite is curiosity and an interest in learning from each other.
All are Welcome!
NEXT Author Spotlight:
June 3 at 10am PST/ 1 pm EST
Leila Stuart
interviewed by Anne Pitman
Experiential anatomy integrates interoceptive awareness, conscious movement, and somatic inquiry into a coherent, evidence-informed learning methodology — one that repositions the body as a primary source of self-knowledge and therapeutic change.
This illustrated guide translates complex anatomical concepts into accessible, embodied practice. Grounded in current neuroscience and yogic frameworks, each chapter moves from foundational principles into rich experiential explorations of breath, self-palpation, somatic inquiry, and yoga postures that build a precise felt sense of anatomical structures, their interrelationships, and their connection to the multidimensional Whole.
Designed for yoga therapists, bodywork practitioners, movement educators, and allied health professionals, this book offers a clinically relevant, somatically sophisticated framework for supporting multidimensional healing, self-regulation and positive neuroplastic change. Readers develop the language, tools, and embodied understanding to guide clients beyond passive treatment to become active participants in their own healing process.
Leila Stuart
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.
Monthly Author Spotlights
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