Supercharge Your Breath with Experiential Anatomy
Date 2022 – to be confirmed
“We live in a breathless society”.
Carola Speads made this observation over 60 years ago and it is even more true today. Dysfunctional breathing has been associated clinically with numerous conditions ranging from chronic pain to premenstrual syndrome and anxiety. Although remedial breathing practices may be helpful, they are often prescribed before students have mastered the foundational practice of restoring free and full natural breath. This course will address the current epidemic of poor breathing habits and offer innovative solutions to yoga teachers and therapists to free the natural breath by repatterning both the bony breath container and its soft inner contents with innovative experiential anatomy practices.
Participants will:
- Learn the mechanics of breathing through the lens of experiential anatomy.
- Use experiential anatomy practices to develop a felt sense of your own respiratory system.
- Practice simple somatic explorations to repattern free and natural breathing.
- Learn about breath from a koshic perspective.
Leila Stuart BA, LLB, C-IAYT, is a Registered Massage Therapist and has practiced and taught yoga for over 40 years. Leila developed and taught an innovative Yoga Therapy training for 15 years, focusing on experiential anatomy, alignment and movement repatterning, and embodiment of the deeper teachings of yoga as pathways to self-healing. With a deep love and intuitive knowledge of experiential anatomy, Leila specializes in transforming academic information into somatic intelligence and life changing experience. She is an international teacher, online educator and conference presenter, and author of Pathways to A Centered Body, co-authored with Donna Farhi. She is writing another book on experiential anatomy as therapy, to be published by Handspring Press. Visit www.leilastuart.com