Myda El-Maghrabi is an artist and yoga teacher whose work in both has arisen out of a need to understand the various dimensions of human experience. Through a previous more physical, artistic practice to a currently more subtle, introspective one, she mines the nature of the self- in its multitudinous relationships with itself and others and the vast harmonies and cacophonies that those relationships precipitate.

Through different types of media, from wax and wood to sound and silence, she searches for what underlies our basic humanness, that which engenders the viscerality of emotions. She questions how a raw feeling can translate into something more concrete, more tangible- how an experience of sadness, for example, can transform into a thought, a word, an artwork, a belief system, a body. And how we, in turn, through a deeper understanding and knowing of ourselves and each other, may better shape, build and sustain a stronger resonance for our humanity’s unfolding.

Myda has a BA in English Literature from Boston University, an MFA in Sculpture from Stony Brook University and has been teaching yoga, meditation and sound work throughout NYC for over 10 years (and Zoom for over 16 months).

To see her current explorations, visit her at the shared edge