BREATHING ART. Yoga Sessions in 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.
Throughout the year, we will be holding a series of yoga sessions framed within the CGAC’s temporary exhibitions, the suggestive architectural spaces that contain them and the natural spaces of Bonaval park, designed by Álvaro Siza Vieira and the architect and landscape artist Isabel Aguirre.
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. It consists of a symbolic language which also appears frequently in the art world. This activity combines the symbolism of yoga with the symbolism of art and with the places its contemplation takes us.
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.
PROGRAMME
SATURDAY 18 NOVEMBER. SESSION I
EXHIBITION ERNESTO NETO. LA PROFUNDIDAD DEL CUERPO. LA ONDA
From: 11.00 a.m to 12.30 p.m.
Registration from: 8-15 November 2023
THURSDAY 30 NOVEMBER. SESSION II
EXHIBITION ALMUDENA FERNÁNDEZ FARIÑA. FLOR Y ACANTO
From:18.30 - 20.00 p.m.
Registration from: 23- 28 November 2023
WEDNESDAY 13 DECEMBER. SESIÓN III
EXHIBITION TEAM WORK
From: 18.30 - 20.00 p.m.
Registration from: 7 - 11 December 2023
PAULA TOIMIL ( Lalín, Pontevedra, 1983) combines her job as a museum educator with that of a yoga teacher. Since 2012, 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, Paula has been certified as a teacher in Hatha Vinyasa by Yoga Alliance and in Vinyasa yoga by the International Yoga School. She teaches the latter in different spaces in Santiago de Compostela and has practised it for more than a decade.
TARGET GROUP
The programme is aimed at people with previous experience of yoga who are also interested in the world of art.
REGISTRATION
This activity is free. Those interested should send an email to cgac.educacion@xunta.gal, including the following information: name, surname(s), studies, field of work or interest, contact email address and telephone number.
A maximum of two participants can be registered per application
EQUIPMENT
Those participating in this activity should bring a mat, comfortable clothes and a blanket for the period of relaxation at the end.