Rooted in the Midline: The Spine Through a Koshic Lens

The spine is the body's central connecting structure — the axis around which our head, rib basket, and pelvis balance in gravity. Every system in the body orients around this midline: respiratory, circulatory, nervous, gastrointestinal, and endocrine. The health and resilience of the spine affects all of them.

This workshop invites you to experience your spine not as a stack of bones, but as a living, curving, intelligent structure — one that carries the memory of our evolutionary past and the possibility of profound personal transformation in the present.

Using the koshic model as our map, we'll move through the koshic layers — physical, energetic, mental, and spiritual — to discover what it feels like to truly center in the spine. Through experiential anatomy, somatic inquiry, breath, sound, and gentle movement, you'll begin to sense your spine as more than structure. You'll feel it as your central axis of support, courage, and self.

What Will I Learn?

• Experience the spine as your body's central, organising axis
• Explore the kosha model as a lens for spinal awareness and embodiment
• Sense how spinal alignment touches breath, energy, and mind
• Practice simple, mindful movements to awaken spinal presence
• Begin to feel how "moving from the spine" changes your movement and your experience of self
• Deepen interoceptive awareness to encourage self-regulation and resilience

Who is the Workshop For?

This workshop will appeal to yoga students, teachers, and therapists as well as personal trainers, physiotherapists, massage therapists and other health professionals who are interested in somatic explorations of the spine as a multidimensional structure that can influence body, breath, and mind.

Meet the Teacher:

Leila Stuart BA, LLB, C-IAYT is a retired Registered Massage Therapist and has practiced and taught yoga for over 40 years. She developed and taught an innovative 300-hour 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 awareness and life changing experience.  She is an international teacher, online educator, and conference presenter. Leila is author of Experiential Anatomy: Therapeutic Applications of Embodied Movement and Awareness and co-author of Pathways to a Centered Body with Donna Farhi. 

Visit www.leilastuart.com