PROSE & POSE: Poetry Yoga: Landscape of the Body Lani O’Hanlon and Paul Donnelly

Deepen your relationship with the wild, sensual landscape of your body through breath, word, sound, poetry and restorative yoga. Through a series of restorative yoga poses, Paul Donnelly will guide participants into resting intervals of the shapes accompanied by Lani O’Hanlon reading from her poetry collection Landscape of the Body (Dedalus Press). This melting of the holistic and the creative is a blended approach to a deeper meditative practice and should leave us with a sense of stillness, presence and shared experience.

Open to ALL Levels of Yoga – Suitable for 18+

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Lani O’Hanlon is a dance artist, somatic movement therapist and writer living in a renovated cottage beside the sea in County Waterford. Her poetry collection Landscape of the Body was published in 2023 by the Dedalus Press. Her poetry is widely published and broadcast on RTE’s Sunday Miscellany. She was the winner of the Poetry Ireland Trocaire Award in 2022 and other prizes include The Bridport Prize, Poetry on the Lake and the Hennessey New Irish Writing.

‘Her work sings of the sacred wild within the body and the sacred wild of the Earth.’ Grace Wells

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Since becoming a yoga teacher over 2 years ago, Paul Donnelly has integrated his background in The Arts to create – PROSE & POSE Poetry Yoga – merging The Creative and The Holistic – guiding participants through a series of restorative poses, during which selected prose is read aloud so that those present can meditate on, deepening their practice and state of mind in these times of stillness, making it a more immersive and personal experience Paul teaches yoga at Temple Bar Yoga Studios in the city centre, facilitates a community Men’s Group in Clondalkin and tailored PROSE & POSE for the younger yogis with YOGA STORY TIME for children with various Arts Centres in Dublin Wicklow & Kildare – believing yoga is accessible to all individuals, backgrounds and body types highlighting the benefits of yoga on both the physical and mental wellbeing.