During the workshops, I drew on the potential impact of colors and sounds, as well as the genius loci of the museum — both its architectural spaces and gardens.
The theme of the workshops is a quotation from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Theory of Colours. In this context, it becomes a metaphor for emerging from the cave onto the hill — a journey inward, in order to ultimately feel the power of light and space. We are like the earth — sometimes fertile and abundant, other times dry and barren — in a continuous process of transformation, in an ongoing cycle of birth and death. This earth is our home — our body.
I invited participants on a journey through “earth–body”: an exploration of embodied spirituality, and above all a reconnection with physicality, breath, emotions, and the other unseen resources contained within the multidimensional nature of the body. Through sequences of movement practices at the intersection of yoga, intuitive movement, and meditation, we immersed ourselves in waves of color and sound — in their synesthetic connection — entering the exhibition space and gardens in search of an individual path of perception.
The exhibition took place in autumn. I incorporated this aspect into the workshops, focusing on the energy and symbolism of this season. The beauty of the autumn landscape lies in its richness of color and form, but it is also a time conducive to reflection on impermanence, listening inward to silence and inner voices.
The workshops were dedicated to people tired by the intensity of life, overstimulated, in need of calm and relaxation, and wishing to deepen their experience — to reconnect with their bodies and the surrounding space.
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Participant reflections:
“This was a deep meditation of love for the body, of mindfulness, a meditation of experiencing breath as the mystery of life; I felt I was returning to presence in the body, to the senses; at the same time, I was expanding my field of perception. I am grateful for such a space that prepares one for receiving art — an experience deeper than intellectual reception. I felt that the paintings were changing my habitual ways of thinking about color, allowing me to feel liberation and the need to experience myself, my body, and the world without metaphorical blinders.” — Katarzyna
“It was amazing to discover and get to know my body piece by piece, to go deeper into it. In such deep focus I could scan my inner self with attention, and then slowly moving through the room I could feel the space with my whole body, without even looking. The meditation with the stone gave me a profound sense of connection with it.”
“A meeting with myself, focus on the here and now, pleasant relaxation and calming. Detachment from intrusive thoughts, cleansing of the mind and emotions.” — Joanna
“The workshop gave me a lot of joy, peace, and nourished my senses and need for beauty. As a choreographer, I deeply value situations involving synesthesia. Through breathwork and immersion in body and museum space, I could literally touch colors in my body emanating from Beata’s paintings and feel their frequencies. I could sense the sounds of Joanna’s organic composition tuning the body into attentive, quiet, and peaceful Being.” — Magdalena
