YOGA X LIGHT BATH
December 2024 to January 2025, Motorworld Munich
Yoga x Light Bath was a four week immersive yoga experience developed in collaboration with Pauline Popp, the founder of Yoga Nebenan, and presented at Motorworld Munich.
The project combined a guided yoga flow with a 360 degree visual installation created in TouchDesigner. Based on the five elements of earth, water, fire, air and ether, the visual environment translated their different qualities, each element formed its own atmospheric chapter and dramaturgy.
The yoga concept was developed by Pauline Popp and accompanied by a series of teachers from her yoga studio, Yoga Nebenan, each bringing their own interpretation and presence to the flow. Christina Gerg conceived and developed the visual scenography, creating an immersive environment that surrounded the participants and transformed the space into a sensory light bath.
The experience was extended through essential oils by von Wiesenthal, specifically selected in relation to the five elements. Together, movement, sound, scent and light created a multisensory setting that invited participants into a deeper awareness of body, breath and space, bathing in light.
The project was made possible with the support of Motorworld Munich and Das Letzte Abendmahl.
Yoga Concept and hosted by: Pauline Popp, Yoga Nebenan
Visual concept, dramaturgy and immersive scenography: Christina Gerg
Made with TouchDesigner
CONTENT CREATION
I built the visual scenography in TouchDesigner and shaped it to the dimensions and projection layout of the 360 degree cube provided by Das Letzte Abendmahl, allowing the imagery to flow continuously around the room and unfold as one immersive visual field.
From screen to space
In the dramaturgy, we begin with the element of Earth. For this opening scene, I chose to create a forest. The image of the forest was AI generated, while the lighting and visualization were developed and created in TouchDesigner. I shaped the image in a way that allowed certain details to come alive as the light moved across them. For example, the mushroom and the tiny flower begin to glow when touched by the light, and the structures of the trees slowly reveal themselves.
I was inspired by an inner image while building this scene, the feeling of walking through a forest on a full moon night, the light shimmering silverish blue. I deeply love this atmosphere, it evokes something very ancient in me and takes me to rest in a state of profound calm. I designed the 360 degree scene so that this light moves through the space, continuously illuminating different areas. In this way, the light becomes a living presence, floating through the image and activating the small details.
I was inspired to begin this journey at the dark / night, cause the yoga class started at 8:30 in the morning during the darkest time of the year, in mid December. In response to this seasonal darkness, I wanted to create a soft and gentle beginning, giving people enough space to arrive, settle into the environment, wake up slowly, and gradually gather energy for the day ahead.
Next, we move into the element of water. For this part, I chose a fluid and dynamic visual form.
Water carries a sense of continuous movement, it stretches, expands, shifts, and transforms. At the same time, water holds softness. It invites us to remain open, vulnerable, and responsive, allowing the body to move without resistance and to surrender to a continuous state of flow.
The following element, Fire, is energy, heat, and intensity. It makes the rising warmth of the body visible and reminds us of our own power and strength and resistance.
Fire carries the ability to burn, transform, and alchemize. It can exist as an inner flame, held within the body, or as a force that ignites movement, courage, and vitality. In this part of the journey, we gather the energy that has been building and bring it fully into the body, allowing strength, heat, and presence to rise.
The element of Air arrives like a soft breeze after the intensity of fire. It cools the body, touches the skin gently, carries us, and feels light, soft and refreshing, almost as if it could lift us out of the space we are in and carry us, weightless, into another world. Air is the soft exhale that release tension.
For Savasana, we move into Ether and we just keep expanding it.
With all my heart, thank you to everyone who shared their presence with us and made these mornings feel so special. Thank you, Pauline, for believing in me and trusting my work from the very beginning. And thank you to Motorworld Munich for opening this space to us and making it all possible.
Ciao Ciaoooo :))