MOVEMENT, ART & IMPACT

Yamina Lyara (b. 1995) is an artist, practitioner and facilitator who has devoted her practice to exploring the intersections of art, movement, ecology and culture.
She currently lives in South Alentejo, Portugal whilst working and collaborating worldwide. As the founder of "SYNERGY” a multidisciplinary space for artists and creative leaders she is dedicated to embodied inquiry and foster reciprocity and collaboration.

Alongside her artistic work, Yamina is also a doula and ceremonialist, supporting women and families through life’s thresholds, holding space for the intelligence of the body and the integrity of ritual in moments of birth and transformation.

My work expands into a creative tapestry, merging the lines and finding synergy, through the craft of story-telling and world-building.
In my own lived experience, practice and craft I am informed and inspired by the interconnectivity of all, the fabric and nature of life itself and the profound mystery of being alive. I acknowledge that this work goes beyond my individual self, and I honor all the teachers, guides and companions past, present and future, in the seen and unseen realms. I acknowledge, being the summation of countless experiences — the dreams that made me jump into the unknown, the failures and losses I’ve endured, the spaces I’ve entered and cared for, making home and finding belonging in distant lands, the teachings I have studied, and the love that keeps asking me to lean in. I have formal training as well as experiential learning as a dancer and mover, choreographer, facilitator, somatic coach and birth doula. It’s in the lived and elemental experiences that I draw most of my practices from and the spaces I put myself in to deepen, grow and evolve — dancing with the wild atlantic coastlines, sitting in silent meditation for ten days, walking through the dark forests in the night, witnessing birth, singing to and learning through plants, becoming an aunt, being a daughter, a sister, a lover, a friend.

Everything I have been and continue to be gifted to experience is rippling within me, guiding the way I listen, envision, and shape my work.