For Spring, experience this inspirational weekend of Iyengar yoga practice, art and sound, created by artists, and senior Iyengar yoga teachers: Sue Lovell (art exhibition) and Isabel Jones Fielding (soundart installation) . Includes 4 yoga workshops, with yogasana, pranayama, yoga philosophy, and mantra, and the Threads of Transformation immersive exhibition and special opening event. Hosted by Wye Valley Iyengar Yoga Centre: home of the beautiful restored Salem Baptist Chapel, in Hay on Wye.
Friday 27 February – Sunday 1st March
Wye Valley Iyengar Yoga Centre, at Salem Baptist Chapel Hay on Wye, Wales
About The Location: Salem Chapel, is the oldest (still standing) non-conformist chapel in Wales with a school room dating back to 1647. From 2019 to 2022 the chapel was extensively and sympathetically restored as a purpose built Yoga studio, with directors, founders and experienced Iyengar yoga teachers; Cori and Pete Norton.
With the most glorious acoustic for singing, such beautiful architecture and tall windows designed to bring in and reflect the light, we gaze upon big old trees and skies beyond, it is the most marvelous environment for Art, Yoga and Sound and for the Threads of Transformation exhibition and installation. Set in the heart of Hay on Wye, with its lovely independent shops, and cafes, it is a delightful place to visit, to wander, rest, socialise and enjoy time surrounded by the mountains and rivers of Wales.
About the Threads of Transformation Exhibition
Sue Lovell creates a beautiful sacred art exhibition for the chapel; a series of unique original works: including paintings, exquisite boxes, shrines, and large scale avatars, Indian yoga philosophy and Iyengar yoga practice are at the heart of her process and art. The work creates a valuable resource, for contemplation, yoga education and self study.
Isabel Jones creates a sound and voiceart installation for the chapel, including the devotional mantra So Ham. The final work includes location recordings from her ancestral family home: Tyn Y Braich in Wales, from the River Noe at Barber Booth, Derbyshire, Mahabaleshwar India, and close to home by the River Trent. Focusing on the 5 elements in yoga: found in the Vedas: the Pancha Mahabhuta – these elements make up all cosmic creation and the body. Isabel works with spoken texts, electronic instruments, harmonium, and drones, to create a multi layered sound, that deeply connects to her own inward journey of yoga and art.
Artistic Collaboration: Sue and Isabel began artistic collaboration in 2018, with their first installation ‘Breathe in Breathe Out’. The extra-ordinary synergy and mutual understanding between the 2 artists, informed by decades of study and practice of Iyengar yoga, means each artist can be immersed in the process of practice and creation in their studios at home. This month Sue and Isabel met to work at the chapel, bringing the threads of their visual and sound art mediums together. Creating the work for this remarkable space, there is union and transformation, bringing further illumination and understanding, the artists go back to their studios refreshed and continue. A further stage of transformation happens when the yoga practitioner and audience take their own journey through the Threads of Transformation installation at Salem chapel, with yoga practice, mantra and study throughout the weekend, to create the whole.
Weekend Programme:
27th Feb 6-8pm Immersive sound & art view with headsets (limited to 25 participants). Talk: The Esoteric Anatomy of Yoga
28th Feb 12.30- 5.30pm: Yoga workshops – asana & pranayama, chanting/sound. With Sue & Isabel
1 March 8.30 – 1pm: Yoga workshops – 8.30–9.30am pranayama,10am – 1pm asana, and chanting/sound. With Sue & Isabel
Cost : £115
Wye Valley Yoga Centre Bookings – limited places remaining: https://wyevalleyyoga.com/classes-and-workshops/workshops
Sue Lovell More Information: https://www.peakyoga.org.uk/workshops-holidays/event-one-7mchl-ys86e