Heather Midori Yamada
Artist and Teacher of Contemplative Arts

Upcoming in Montréal 2025

"Traces" Group Exhibition
Heather Midori Yamada and Stephen H. Kawai with invited guest Alain Carrière
September 2-7, 2025
hours: noon - 5 p.m. daily
Vernissage: Thursday, Sept. 4 – 5 - 8 p.m.
Galerie ERGA
6394 boul. St.Laurent, Montréal (map)

Creativity in Nature / Créativité dans la nature
POSTPONED / REPORTÉ
Five-Day Creative Retreat
New dates to be determined
Nouvelles dates à déterminer
Guided meditations two times a day; all-level hatha yoga (optional); creativity workshops - painting, drawing, collage with Japanese papers; demonstrations by Heather Midori, and more.
Méditation guidée deux fois par jour ; hatha yoga de tout niveau (facultative); ateliers de créativité - peinture, dessin, collage avec papier japonais, des démonstrations par Heather Midori, et plus
Auberge Le Saint-Louis, Lotbinière, Québec (map)

Recent Work
I would like to share a series of new floral banners. March Folly Series (2025) is a mixed-media collection of banners on Washi paper. Each is 39 x 15 inches. The bolder linear quality of Sennelier chalk pastels punctuates the overall meshing, layering and dipping of liquid acrylics including metallics.

ATTENTION!! VAJRA YOGA workshops
coming soon to Victoria!
“My studies and practice of hatha yoga began in the late 1990’s during a particular ‘dry spell’ in my Buddhist Kagyu ngondro period. I felt stuck and sensed that my challenges might reside in my physical body, including my ideas about body/mind. I have had the great fortune of studying under excellent dedicated and well trained teachers. I completed a two year teacher training in Montreal in the early 2000’s. Currently I continue practice and study with yoga and Buddhist teachers. I invite you to join in a space of shared ‘well-being’ where everyone can experience their authentic selves. As in all teachings, you are always the ‘boss’ of you, I will be a guide." - Heather
Stay tuned!