Black has come to believe that “the vast majority of people” should give up yoga altogether. He gave me the kind of answer you’d expect from any yoga teacher: that awareness is more important than rushing through a series of postures just to say you’d done them. Black said he watched in disbelief as three of the man’s ribs gave way - pop, pop, pop.Īfter class, I asked Black about his approach to teaching yoga - the emphasis on holding only a few simple poses, the absence of common inversions like headstands and shoulder stands. In India, he recalled, a yogi came to study at Iyengar’s school and threw himself into a spinal twist. “It’s up to you to make it easy on yourself.” He drove his point home with a cautionary tale. “I make it as hard as possible,” he told the group. Throughout the class, he urged us to pay attention to the thresholds of pain. “It is if you’re paying attention.” His approach was almost free-form: he made us hold poses for a long time but taught no inversions and few classical postures. “Is this yoga?” he asked as we sweated through a pose that seemed to demand superhuman endurance. Black walked around the room, joking and talking. With it went my belief, naïve in retrospect, that yoga was a source only of healing and never harm.Īt Sankalpah Yoga, the room was packed roughly half the students were said to be teachers themselves. Then, in 2007, while doing the extended-side-angle pose, a posture hailed as a cure for many diseases, my back gave way. In my 30s, I had somehow managed to rupture a disk in my lower back and found I could prevent bouts of pain with a selection of yoga postures and abdominal exercises. This was the situation I found myself in. Many of his regular clients came to him for bodywork or rehabilitation following yoga injuries. But this was not why I sought him out: Black, I’d been told, was the person to speak with if you wanted to know not about the virtues of yoga but rather about the damage it could do. He is known for his rigor and his down-to-earth style. He now lives in Rhinebeck, N.Y., and often teaches at the nearby Omega Institute, a New Age emporium spread over nearly 200 acres of woods and gardens. Iyengar, and spent years in solitude and meditation. Black is, in many ways, a classic yogi: he studied in Pune, India, at the institute founded by the legendary B. On a cold Saturday in early 2009, Glenn Black, a yoga teacher of nearly four decades, whose devoted clientele includes a number of celebrities and prominent gurus, was giving a master class at Sankalpah Yoga in Manhattan. Editors’ note : We’re resurfacing this 2012 magazine article for Smarter Living so you can feel a little less guilty about skipping that yoga class.
0 Comments
Music featured: "Krystal Gem" from Adorned by Chi Don't forget to buy books from your local bookstore! Original podcast music by Hazel, to share your idea for a topic or guest? Submit your idea here!Įxtra special hugs to anyone who buys something off the magical wishlist!Ĭommission Ayu for art, or drop off a donation!įeel free to leave a message on Anchor about your favorite magical girl series and it might just appear on a later episode.įind the podcast online on Twitter or Instagram or on Anchor at sparkleside, and don't forget to comment online with the hashtag #SparklesideChats! Contact us by email at or in Twitter DMs.įor this episode of Sparkleside Chats, we talk to magical colorist Rink and creator Skyler Ammons about the comic Magical Girl Defense Force, which was recently funded via Kickstarter.įor this episode of Sparkleside Chats, we talk to magical girl creator Jacque Aye about her company/comic Adorned By Chi as well as her upcoming self help novel The Magical Girl's Guide to Life, coming out December 21st. The Demon Girl Next Door season two coming April 2022ĭiebuster (aka Aim for the Top 2! or Gunbuster 2) Magia Record FINAL season delayed to Spring 2022 Magical Emi coming to RetroCrush Dec 22nd New magical comedy series "The Magical Girl Incident" Thank you to Kristen and Charlie for subscribing monthly to Ko-Fi! In this episode of Sparkleside Chats, magical creator Renie Jesanis (of Kate Blast and the podcast Screen Tones) returns to talk about the first season of Senki Zesshou Symphogear (2012).
|
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |