Yoga art prints

Yoga art has one decision at the heart of it, and this small page happens to hold both answers. Either the picture tells you something — these are the poses, in this order — or it does nothing at all except change the temperature of the room. Those are two different objects with two different jobs, and the wall you are standing in front of is what decides which one you want.

Should yoga art show the poses or not?

If the wall is where you actually practise, a pose chart earns its place: you glance up, you check the sequence, you carry on. If the wall is where you come down afterwards — a meditation corner, the far end of a bedroom, a quiet landing — a chart is the last thing you want, because instruction is the opposite of letting go. Soft bands of colour ask nothing of you, and that is the entire point of them.

Which of the two suits which wall?

The yoga poses piece is a set of three, so it wants a clear stretch of wall where all three can be read at once, at standing eye level; about CA$38 to CA$124 across the seven sizes. The chakra print is a single, about CA$14 to CA$47, and it is the one I would hang in the wind-down corner — the seven chakra colours in soft watercolour bands, which works at a glance and never asks to be studied. Both are unframed prints on matte paper, from 5x7 in (12.7 x 17.8 cm) to 16x20 in (40.6 x 50.8 cm).