Yoga Nidra & Clay Workshop
When?
Sunday 30 March 2025
2pm - 4pm
Where?
Jericho Community Centre
33A Canal St, Oxford OX2 6BQ
What?
Join artist Teresa Paiva at the Jericho Community Centre for Plant Life - Grounding and Rising - a unique workshop combining guided meditation, gentle yoga nidra, and creative exploration with air-dry clay.
This immersive session begins with breathwork (pranayama), gentle movement (asana), and a guided meditation enhanced by sound elements. From this meditative state, participants will transition into a hands-on exploration of clay, using plants as inspiration to capture their unique forms and textures.
Each individual’s clay creation will contribute to a collaborative installation as part of the Red ClayExhibition, reinforcing themes of connection, creativity, and collective healing. Through the meditative practices of yoga nidra and clay work, participants will be invited to share time and space in a process that nurtures both individual reflection and shared experience.
This two-hour workshop is open to all skill levels—no prior yoga or clay experience is needed. Please bring your own yoga mat.
You will be able to collect your clay creations at the end of the Red Clay exhibition on Saturday 5 April.
Who?
All welcome, under 18s must be accompanied by an adult
No experience needed
Max group size 12
Materials
If you can, please bring your own yoga mat.
We will have a small amount of spare yoga mats available; please let us know if you need us to provide one for you.
How?
Standard £25
Pay Less £20
Pay more £30
Purchase below or contact engagement@ovada.org.uk for more info
To allow us to offer reduced cost spaces, we also have a Pay More ticket type, so if you can, we’d be most grateful if you could ‘pay it forward’ and select this option
*** Please note that this workshop will be taking place offsite at Jericho Community Centre and not at the gallery ***
When?
Sunday 30 March 2025
2pm - 4pm
Where?
Jericho Community Centre
33A Canal St, Oxford OX2 6BQ
What?
Join artist Teresa Paiva at the Jericho Community Centre for Plant Life - Grounding and Rising - a unique workshop combining guided meditation, gentle yoga nidra, and creative exploration with air-dry clay.
This immersive session begins with breathwork (pranayama), gentle movement (asana), and a guided meditation enhanced by sound elements. From this meditative state, participants will transition into a hands-on exploration of clay, using plants as inspiration to capture their unique forms and textures.
Each individual’s clay creation will contribute to a collaborative installation as part of the Red ClayExhibition, reinforcing themes of connection, creativity, and collective healing. Through the meditative practices of yoga nidra and clay work, participants will be invited to share time and space in a process that nurtures both individual reflection and shared experience.
This two-hour workshop is open to all skill levels—no prior yoga or clay experience is needed. Please bring your own yoga mat.
You will be able to collect your clay creations at the end of the Red Clay exhibition on Saturday 5 April.
Who?
All welcome, under 18s must be accompanied by an adult
No experience needed
Max group size 12
Materials
If you can, please bring your own yoga mat.
We will have a small amount of spare yoga mats available; please let us know if you need us to provide one for you.
How?
Standard £25
Pay Less £20
Pay more £30
Purchase below or contact engagement@ovada.org.uk for more info
To allow us to offer reduced cost spaces, we also have a Pay More ticket type, so if you can, we’d be most grateful if you could ‘pay it forward’ and select this option
*** Please note that this workshop will be taking place offsite at Jericho Community Centre and not at the gallery ***
When?
Sunday 30 March 2025
2pm - 4pm
Where?
Jericho Community Centre
33A Canal St, Oxford OX2 6BQ
What?
Join artist Teresa Paiva at the Jericho Community Centre for Plant Life - Grounding and Rising - a unique workshop combining guided meditation, gentle yoga nidra, and creative exploration with air-dry clay.
This immersive session begins with breathwork (pranayama), gentle movement (asana), and a guided meditation enhanced by sound elements. From this meditative state, participants will transition into a hands-on exploration of clay, using plants as inspiration to capture their unique forms and textures.
Each individual’s clay creation will contribute to a collaborative installation as part of the Red ClayExhibition, reinforcing themes of connection, creativity, and collective healing. Through the meditative practices of yoga nidra and clay work, participants will be invited to share time and space in a process that nurtures both individual reflection and shared experience.
This two-hour workshop is open to all skill levels—no prior yoga or clay experience is needed. Please bring your own yoga mat.
You will be able to collect your clay creations at the end of the Red Clay exhibition on Saturday 5 April.
Who?
All welcome, under 18s must be accompanied by an adult
No experience needed
Max group size 12
Materials
If you can, please bring your own yoga mat.
We will have a small amount of spare yoga mats available; please let us know if you need us to provide one for you.
How?
Standard £25
Pay Less £20
Pay more £30
Purchase below or contact engagement@ovada.org.uk for more info
To allow us to offer reduced cost spaces, we also have a Pay More ticket type, so if you can, we’d be most grateful if you could ‘pay it forward’ and select this option
*** Please note that this workshop will be taking place offsite at Jericho Community Centre and not at the gallery ***
OVADA is a non-profit company. Alongside our standard pricing, we aim to offer a number of Pay Less spaces for anyone experiencing financial barriers to attending. Please feel welcome to make use of this option if it enables you to attend, or select the Pay More option if you can, to enable us to offer these reduced cost spaces. Use the drop down menu to select your ticket type. If your preferred ticket type is fully booked, please contact engagement@ovada.org.uk for help.
You can also help us offer fully subsidised spaces to individuals facing significant financial difficulties, by purchasing one of our Archie Education Fund sketchbooks. Thank you for your support.
Meet the Facilitator:
Teresa Paiva is a multidisciplinary artist, art educator and yoga facilitator based in London, UK. Rooted in materiality, transformation, memory and contingency, works manifest primarily across sculpture, installation, performance and sound, delving into quasi-ritualistic processes of collecting, assembling and disassembling.
Her interests lay upon an exploration of art and creativity as catalysts for individual and collective healing, art in the public realm and socially engaged practices, tapping on creative expression as a form of liberation in developing awareness of the multiple nuances and the idiosyncrasies of being human.
Teresa has most recently been offering workshops combining mindfulness , yoga and haptic methods for creative self-exploration and awareness in community, public spaces and galleries , such as most recently 'Swimming & Flowing ( July 2024) at Staffordshirest Gallery ( Peckham) , part of 'Festival of Community'.
