![]() ![]() Not only did it happen in that class, but in the next class as well. They found me, unconscious in the hospital. When my students got there for class and I wasn’t there, they called around, and when no one had heard from me, they knew something was wrong. A few years ago I was taken ill very severely and very suddenly. YJ: Would you share a memorable moment from a class?īB: The one thing that happened…I wasn’t there. I tried to practice, and it was just too difficult, so I just meditated, stretched a little here and there. My daughter and I went rafting in the Grand Canyon. If I’m traveling, I’ll practice first thing in the morning.īB: I’m not gonna give up my practice to watch the soaps, but things can get in the way. If there are important calls or something like that I’ll get those out of the way before. I work to just get your basis breath coming effortlessly, so that when you’re called upon to breathe more deeply, you’re going to respond appropriately, naturally, as opposed to becoming exhausted.īB: Usually midday. Breath is the voice of the central nervous system, so you’re repatterning a lot of other stuff when you’re repatterning your breath. My work is almost completely about diagnosing what your basis breath is. When you give that breath-driven space your primary focus, you have no option but to go slower, and to soften up the surface a lot because it gets in the way.īB: I don’t teach classical pranayama. What I’m asking people to do is go inside and really observe this inner space. If I can’t see what’s going on internally in a pose, I won’t do it. I’m not unique in that regard-more and more that’s becoming important to people, but having gone through some pretty serious respiratory problems, I really can feel where the breath goes and how it moves. She turned me towards this inward place from which to move.īB: My style is very focused on using breath with movement. It was out of that that my style, which is sort of radical and distinctive, came about, because I didn’t take yoga classes anymore. She so inspired me that I couldn’t go back to the way I was doing yoga before. ![]() Angela offered this internal perspective that was just transformative. I wanted to find “well” yoga instead of “hurt” yoga. All the yoga was about what to do when I was hurt. Yoga Journal: Who has been the greatest influence on your yoga?īarbara Benagh: Angela Farmer…I knew her when I was in England, and when I was at a point of being disillusioned and ready to stop doing yoga altogether, she offered something that let me know I could still do yoga.īB: I was religious about practicing, but I was injuring myself all the time. Her popular classes focus on the dynamics of the breath and are steeped in imagery-”sink your breath into the mud of the belly”-and a soothing, Southern drawl. Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members!įounder of The Yoga Studio in Boston, Barbara has been practicing for 27 years. ![]()
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