Com mais de 10 anos de experiência ensinando, a sua paixão por esta prática é óbvio no estilo da Stori. Depois de receber o seu certificado de 200 horas de estudo de Yoga Alliance, a Stori continuou o seu mergulho nas águas de conhecimento de ioga com um foco de anatomia. As aulas da Stori são sempre baseadas nos estudantes que vêm, ela usa a informação dos estudos na anatomia observacional para arranjar esta prática por cada estudante e promover o seu progresso numa maneira individual. Mas não tenham medo! Sobretudo ela quer que a prática seja divertida e se sinta como uma dança no corpo! 

With more than 10 years experience teaching, her passion for this practise is obvious in Stori´s teaching style. After receiving her 200 hour RYT certificate from Yoga Alliance, Stori continued her dive into the waters of knowledge of yoga with a focus on the study of human anatomy. Stori´s classes are always created for the students who come, she uses her studies in observational anatomy to modify the practise for every student and encourage individually tailored progress. But don’t be scared! Above all else she wants this practise to be fun and feel like a dance in the body!

Lara nasceu na Itália e mudou-se para Portugal em 2021. Com formação como dançarina profissional, ela cruzou-se com o yoga muitas vezes durante sua vida, principalmente como prática física. Foi durante a pandemia que a conexão com o yoga mudou completamente, e ela passou a descobrir e apreciar o yoga como uma prática não apenas para o corpo, mas como um todo. Ela começou a praticar regularmente, descobrindo diferentes estilos, diferentes professores, e a curiosidade crescia rapidamente, muitas perguntas surgiram e a necessidade de saber mais era tão forte que ela decidiu ir para a Índia em março de 2023 dedicando-se a aprofundar a prática de yoga, aprendendo e explorando. Ela obteve a certificação da Yoga Alliance como professora de formação de 200 horas em Kerala na escola de Shiva Rishi Yoga, em Hatha e Vinyasa. Quando voltou, ela começou a compartilhar o que aprendeu, desde então ela nunca parou de compartilhar e aprender, praticando e participando de cursos e workshops para aprofundar seu conhecimento e paixão pelo yoga.

“One must have chaos in oneself in order to give birth to a dancing star!” #Nietzsche 

Paintings are like our memory, layer upon layer upon layer of our experiences. Sometimes they stand sharp in our memory, other times they are behind a veil of repression. Sometimes it is a word, a colour, a rhythm or a melody that throws us back to a lovely moment or a good memory. 

Join me on a journey, back to sweet memories of your childhood, when something as simple as soap bubbles was enough to bring out the smile and joy in you. 

Painting on carpets gives a different dimension and feeling to my pieces. These pieces will take you on a different journey to those painted on canvas. The carpets represent culture, history and cultural heritage. Not only is it a part of my Kurdish heritage, it is also an historical art form that has been decorating and warming homes for centuries. 

Take time with each painting and see where it takes you. It’s not about liking what you see, but the journey it takes you on. A journey through time and space … 

BIOGRAPHY 

Entirely self-taught Kurdish Danish Artist Kirkan, İlos İlyas Elias was born in Turkey in 1972, brought up in Denmark. After living in London for over 18 years, where he started his arts career, he decided to move to Lisbon. 

Kirkan has had numerous exhibitions of his abstract layered textured collage based paintings in diverse cities such as London, Brighton, Godalming, Copenhagen, Helsingør, Paris, Antwerp, Beirut, Cologne, Montreal, Tokyo, Fort Myers, Fort Lauderdale, Palm Springs, Provincetown, Marco Island, Lisbon in Portugal and Lisbon in Ohio. 

Kirkan has twice been a part of the JAALA Art Tokyo BIENNALE at the Tokyo Metropolitan Arts Museum as well as the International Montreal Arts Festival. 

MY SIGNATURE 

I choose to sign my work on the reverse of the paintings to enable the owner the freedom of how they wish to present it. The lack of an ‘anchor’ in an artist’s signature ensures that my view is not imposed on which way the work should be hung. I believe that this too reflects the versatility of the mind, which can be shaped and adapted to meet the needs and conditions of its local environment and this will contribute to the greater debate of what art represents to the