Yoga in Paris Museums: Summer 2023 Edition
Art appreciation is a full mind-body workout
The Venn diagram of art and yoga overlap quite a bit, never more clearly than when there’s a yoga or meditation class in a museum or gallery. Paris, with its abundance of places to view art, is the logical place to explore both.
While at first glance these sorts of events might seem gimmicky, when led by experts who have knowledge in art history, yoga and meditation, they are anything but. After all, looking at art is not just about your eyes; it involves your entire being and calls on every part of you to make sense (or not!) of what’s before you. Looking at art is a full mind-body experience that awakens you to beauty, transforms your self-perception and “transfigures the space around” you.
Des Arts au Yoga
with Ulrika Dezé and Eloïse Véronési at Musée Guimet (Paris)
In this workshop designed for parents and children (ages 4 through 7), Ulrika will connect fun and relaxing yoga poses with art from the museum’s collection.
Fun fact: Ulrika is the creator of Le Mémo Yogamini, a yoga-based memory game that engages children in creative play to boost concentration, kinesthesia and body-mind connection. A great gift idea!
👉 Saturday June 10, 2023
👉 14h or 16h (session is 90 mn)
👉 8€/child (ages 4-7) and 15€/adult
Mini Yoga Kahn
with Ulrika Dezé at Musée Départemental Albert-Kahn (Boulogne-Billancourt)
This family yoga session is open to parents and kids ages 6 years and up. With Ulrika’s guidance, you’ll use yoga as a doorway to learn more about the rich heritage of Albert Kahn’s Archives de la Planète, a visual inventory of the earth’s natural wonders.
No previous yoga experience necessary.
👉 Sunday June 11, 2023
👉 10h (session is 90 mn)
👉 10€
Contempler Anna-Eva Bergman
at Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (Paris)
Deepen your art appreciation through extended contemplation of a work, in this case a painting by Anna-Eva Bergman. Bergman’s work is marked by abstract forms and a hypnotic luminosity that lend themselves perfectly to sustained attention and introspection.
👉 Tuesday July 11, 2023
👉 13h (session is 90 mn)
👉 7€