About Clariana
Clariana is a school, community, and shop in the heart of Barcelona, specialized in the traditional Japanese art of flower arrangement known as ikebana.
Our space is peaceful and welcoming; weekly lessons are held in the workshop-classroom and our shop stocks vases, tools, books and all the materials you need for your practice.
Our school is affiliated with Ikenobo, the Japanese school where ikebana came into being over 500 years ago.
We follow Ikenobo’s system of learning, making it possible to obtain the official certification recognized in Japan.
Our classes are a space for connecting with nature, working from a place of calm to become more aware of the fleeting beauty all around us.
Practicing ikebana with us means being present in the here and now, learning to appreciate each individual element, and allowing yourself to be open to surprises.
Clariana was born of the desire to continue learning and practicing ikebana in Barcelona and to create a place where beautiful things unfold and where one feels happy — enjoying the flowers, touching the leaves, finding that special twig...
We want to ensure ikebana continues to be studied and practiced in Barcelona, by inviting guest teachers from Japan and promoting complementary activities to enrich the local
community.
Where Clariana blossomed into being
Hi, I’m Carola, and I began practicing ikebana in the late 1990s, never imagining that it would become an essential part of my life. Over time it grew into a way of seeing nature, life and my surroundings with new eyes — appreciating the little things and recognizing more fully that we are part of nature itself.
Ikebana has taught me to search for a simple kind of beauty, to accept impermanence and to learn through the hands-on act of making. It has also shown me how to find the beauty in everything: in a dried up leaf, a new bud, or a flower reaching for the light — to see time as a cycle of repeating parts and to value each phase.
In this spirit, Clariana came into being, as a space to learn and share ikebana through the Ikenobo method, in small groups,and with a shop supplying the tools and materials to make its practice possible.
More than anything I want Clariana to be a place where lovely things happen — where people feel comfortable and at ease, and where, perhaps, the lives of those who come here
get a bit better every day.