{"id":47931,"date":"2016-03-08T09:43:08","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T14:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wanderlust.com\/?p=47931"},"modified":"2016-07-01T16:26:57","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T20:26:57","slug":"lighten-up-with-rage-yoga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wanderlust.com\/ko\/journal\/lighten-up-with-rage-yoga\/","title":{"rendered":"Lighten Up With Rage Yoga"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several different types of yoga are available to you at a 2016 Wanderlust Festival.
\nFind out more<\/span><\/a> | <\/span>2016 lineup<\/span><\/a> | <\/span>Buy tickets<\/span><\/a> \u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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Next-level anger management\u2014or total\u00a0oxymoron? Just when we think we’ve exhausted the possibilities of unusual\u00a0yoga-hybrid combos,\u00a0Rage Yoga<\/a>\u00a0is suddenly, well, all the rage in Calgary, Alberta.\u00a0But don’t be too quick to pass judgment: Lindsay Istace, Rage Yoga’s creator swears\u00a0by its effectiveness to alleviate\u00a0stress. Istace had long tried other styles\u00a0of yoga to no avail, but the seriousness never resonated with her. Despite efforts to find inner quiet, classes she describes on her website as “deadpan” in nature were unable to tame her tumultuous\u00a0emotion ocean. Thus, Rage Yoga was born.<\/p>\n

Much\u00a0like Boxing Yoga<\/a> or Black Metal Yoga<\/a>, at the surface Rage Yoga may seem like the antithesis of what the peaceful practice is supposed to be about. But all three of these eccentric yoga styles do have one thing in common: they’re helping people feel better physically, and channeling unpleasant thoughts and emotions into something positive\u2014despite how it may look or sound on the outside.<\/p>\n

Set to heavy metal music, you probably could guess\u00a0that a\u00a0Rage Yoga class is loud\u2014like really<\/em> loud. Using\u00a0humor, however, Istace curses and shouts as she encourages students to flow their way in and out of challenging poses, giving them a platform to unleash their vexations. Also riding the trend of beer and yoga<\/a> as a match made in heaven, Rage Yoga is offered at a local Calgarian bar where yogis and patrons can come together as one\u2014and drown their sorrows in asana.\u00a0Istace hopes to one day take her rage on the road and tour breweries around the country.<\/p>\n

CBC News<\/a><\/em> has more:<\/p>\n

Istace\u00a0says she developed Rage Yoga while dealing with a\u00a0painful breakup. According to her website, combining swearing and screaming with her yoga practice helped her overcome addiction and anger issues.<\/em><\/p>\n

“When you create a space for yourself to be angry and to shout and swear and scream, suddenly it’s hard to take yourself so seriously.<\/em><\/p>\n

“So it goes from anger to laughter pretty quickly. And we have a lot of that going on here.”<\/em><\/p>\n

“I find the atmosphere of the class is a lot more easygoing.\u00a0If you fall over or wobble, you can just sort of laugh through it. You don’t really feel like you’re disturbing some sort of ‘tranquility’ of the class,” she says.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Some yoga teachers don’t exactly like the approach,”\u00a0she says with a laugh.”They don’t really think that it’s real yoga, that swearing and drinking beer makes it illegitimate.\u00a0And that’s fine. Everyone’s entitled to their own opinion. Different things work for different people and not everyone has to be on board.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Whether or not you consider\u00a0Rage Yoga a peaceful and relaxing healing modality, we can all agree that as yoga continues to expand across the West it is only inevitable that the practice will evolve and adapt accordingly. Much of yoga’s popularity today can be attributed to many big name studios and teachers who’ve removed the dogma and spirituality, making\u00a0it more appealing and accessible to the mainstream. For those of us that respect the traditions, recite the Sanskrit and mantras, and pray to the divine\u2014there is a practice for that. And as for everyone else\u2014to each their own. Rage on.<\/p>\n

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\"AndreaRiceNewHeadshot\"<\/a>Andrea Rice is the Practice and Community Editor for Wanderlust Media. She is also a writer and yoga teacher. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, Yoga Journal, SONIMA, mindbodygreen, and a variety of\u00a0online publications. Her teaching style is a blend of her love for music and intuitive movement, with emphasis on core strength. You can find her regular classes at shambhala yoga & dance center<\/a> in Brooklyn, and often as a guest teacher for Deep House Yoga<\/a>. Connect with Andrea\u00a0on\u00a0Instagram<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Twitter<\/a>. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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