Meet Yoga by Lisa Larson.
For decades, these figures stood in Lisa Larson’s studio – gently reminding her: do your yoga. A pause in the day. A return to balance.
Lisa Larson’s figurines play with light and shadow, reflecting her deep, intimate connection to yoga. Originally created as personal reminders to practice yoga and master the poses, these raw, unglazed sculptures pay tribute to the strength, stillness, and peace that yoga brings.
Lisa Larson's Yoga sculptures represent her creativity at its most personal level. Long before yoga became a global movement, Lisa Larson embraced it in Sweden in the late 1970s. She practiced not for perfection, but for presence.
Slow breathing. Stillness. Letting go. Four sculptures playing with light and shadows, embodying the urge to truly connect with oneself.
The Yoga figurines mark a clear departure from Lisa Larson’s more decorative work. 'Her Yoga practice followed her through life,' says Anders Färdig, founder of Design House Stockholm. 'The figurines don’t idealize beauty but celebrate inner balance and strength, treating the body as an expression of mental well-being. We immediately loved them when we saw them in her studio. This is true emotional functionality.
Lisa Larson was one of the first in Sweden to embrace the philosophy of yoga, urging her colleagues at Gustavsberg and even her children to join her practice. Regularly traveling to Stockholm to attend the first yoga classes, held in a large apartment living room, Larson faced a challenge upon returning home: how to remember and master poses like the tripod headstand or the boat? Her figurines became an artistic interpretation of that journey, depicting yoga movements through a sculptural language of balance and harmony.
“It’s hard to put into words. It’s about how the body moves naturally. You can be stressed and exhausted, and suddenly you set all your worries aside, lie still, and breathe slowly. Yoga kept me grounded...” – Lisa Larson.
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