Leila Stuart
Leila Stuart, BA, LLB, C-IAYT, is a retired Registered Massage Therapist and yoga therapist near Vancouver, BC, specializing in experiential anatomy and author of "Experiential Anatomy" and "Pathways to a Centered Body" with Donna Farhi.
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Oct 19, 2026
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J BrownHOST
a quality to it in which you're measured and even and you're present and you're aware, then that becomes a precedence for you doing all these other things that you're, that you do in your
Amy WheelerHOST
So, Lila, how would you, in your words, I just said it, but how would you say that experiential anatomy differs from traditional anatomy? Have we kind of already covered that or is there anything else there that we need to add?
Leila StuartGUEST
One thing for sure is that learning traditional anatomy keeps us in our heads.
Leila StuartGUEST
But if we don't take it into our body, if we don't embody that information, then it's not usable, really.
Leila StuartGUEST
So if we look at a picture of the psoas, I have a skeleton in my studio with the psoas mapped out with therabands so people can see it.
Leila StuartGUEST
They can put a TheraBand around their own body in the directionality and the location of the psoas so they can get a sense of it.
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