BREATHING ART. Yoga and Art Sessions at the CGAC

The aim of this programme is to promote and facilitate a dialogue between the public and contemporary art using yoga as a tool for mediation.

Over the course of this year, we’ll be holding a series of yoga sessions structured around and inspired by exhibitions by artists such as Carlos Pazos, Lluís Hortalà, Alexandra Ranner or Jannis Kounellis.

This activity, which combines the practice of yoga and the experience of art, explores the ties between the symbolism, abstraction, experimentation, emotion or contemplation shared by both disciplines.

Each class will be created ad hoc, so that the theme of the yoga sequences and the asanas (body postures) will be directly linked to the artworks, the architecture or the landscape. Each asana has an exact geometric and architectonic shape.

Paula Toimil will conduct a guided tour of the exhibitions, gleaning inspiration from concepts, shapes, colours, dimensions, matter or light in order to transfer these parameters to our bodies and invite the public to experience art physically, emotionally and spiritually.

We will turn our attention towards our inner selves through breathing and postures, in search of an exercise in listening inward that enables us to learn both about art and ourselves.

SESSIONS

THURSDAY, 5 FEBRUARY
Registration period: 28 January - 3 February

WEDNESDAY, 25 MARCH
Registration period: 17-13 March

THURSDAY, 18 JUNE
Registration period: 9-16 June

TUESDAY, 20 OCTOBER
Registration period: 13-16 October

WEDNESDAY, 11 NOVEMBER
Registration period: 3- 9 November

PAULA TOIMIL (Lalín, Pontevedra, 1983) combines her job as a museum educator with that of a yoga teacher. Since 2010, she has been a member of the Foundation Cidade da Cultura de Galicia’s Education, Mediation and Visitor Care Service, for which she has developed educational projects for more than twenty exhibitions, as well as for the architecture and green spaces of Mount Gaiás. She graduated in Tourism from UDC and obtained a Master’s degree in Education and Museums from the University of Murcia. In the field of yoga, she has trained in schools endorsed by Yoga Alliance such as Almazen de Yoga, Escuela Internacional de Yoga, and AATM Yogashala in Rishikesh. She teaches the latter in different spaces in Santiago de Compostela and has practised it for more than a decade.

TARGET AUDIENCE

This activity is aimed at people aged 13 and over who have some prior experience of yoga and an interest in the world of art.

EQUIPMENT

Participants must bring their own yoga mat, comfortable clothing and a blanket for the final relaxation.

SEATS

The number of places available may vary in accordance with the exhibitions to be visited.

REGISTRATION

This activity is free of charge. To register, interested participants must send an email to cgac.educacion@xunta.gal within the registration period indicated for each session. The email must include the following details: first name, surname(s), studies, area of work or interest, an email address and a contact telephone number.

A maximum of two people may register per application (all details for each participant must be provided).