The YogART Drawing Studio
Drawing In to Draw Out: All levels of yoga and drawing the figure invited!
In The YogART Studio you will learn to relax, lengthen and strengthen your body with gentle yoga, while developing an awareness of your own body shapes and viewing the model, me! I am a YogARTIST....a yoga teacher and an artist! We will learn from the masters and contemporary artists their interpretatioln of the figure. You will come away from the YogART Studio with tools to help yourself relax and be flexible, as well as some fantastic new ways to view and draw the figure!.
Instructor:Emily Eisen, Fine Artist/300 hour Hatha Yoga Instructor
Next Studio to be announced.
Yoga, The Artist’s Portal of the Human Figure
ANATOMICAL COMPREHENSION
The yoga postures inform the artist of the structure of the human body and it’s ability to transform itself into infinite variations of form in space.
THE SPINE
We develop a keen awareness of the spine as the organizational element from which the body stabilizes from to move into the “Spinal 7”: Vertical alignment; arching and rounding, side bending, and twisting. The spine is the axis of our daily movements.
ROOTING AND RISING
Yoga means union, the union of body, mind, soul. This union is the result of positioning oneself, breathing into oneself to allow the pathways of the body’s energy to flow with life vitality. With this awareness, the artist takes note of where the body is rooted to the earth, and where it rises from the earths nourishing energy.
THE BREATH’S TRANSFORMATIVE ROLE
The breath is the primary element for the body to embrace the yoga postures. Ease posture is an opportunity for the breath to move into different spaces to expand one’s container of life. More breath, more life. Breath is energy. The emptying of the breath is as vital. It renders the body clear and spacious and gives oneself that pause of potentional. The yogi‘s menu of different breathing variations serves specific life giving benefits.
THE JOINTS
The ability of the body to move is a function of those pivotal junctions, the joints. Observing these connection points informs artist and yogi of the body’s angles of direction, the arrows of stability and flexibility.
MUSCLES, BONES, LIGAMENTS, TENDONS, FASCIA
Drawing awareness to these connective, strengthening elements of the human forming giving insight into our ability to contract and expand, to lengthen into the space of action snd retreat in the womb of rest. Just knowing every part our inner working are wrapped in the connective GIFT WRAPPING tissue of fascia enlightens us to know WE ARE A PRESENT, DESIGNED TO BE PRESENT, breath to breath, moment to moment, here and now🙏🏻
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