“You come out floating from here,” a student in tights warns you as you walk through the door. The same conviction as if I were in one of those advertisements that give you wings. The hostess welcomes you with steaming tea and familiarity of being at home. It still smells new. Japanese doors are seen zen aira lot of books yogaoils massage, terrace in the background. For a moment you even forget Leticia Sabater’s Christmas carol.
It just opened in Funny. New glass door that invites gossip (Sant Gabriel, 10). Sarasvati, is called. He is a yoga and massage center domestic size: does not reach 50 square meters. Classes of 8 people at most. This is what is popular now: boutique studios. Small centers, close treatment, family atmosphere. ‘Slow’ parenthesis. An oasis against the rush.
Here there is not even Mirrors in which to pose. That’s the idea: recover the pre-social media yoga. “The most yoga classic”, says Susana. “Now it seems that everything is for pretend -the Mint-. Yoga has become a body worship which is not”. What is it for her? “Form -reply- to reset the counter to zero”.
Yogini and singer-songwriter
A neighbor has even asked him what he does to be so smiling in the morning. “I try to see the positive -says- . It’s not always easy, but it’s the best option.” Susana Moll. Stage name: Susu. Means ‘craftswoman‘ in Japanese. This is how she defines herself with a guitar: “Musical craftsman”. She started writing songs when she was 8 years old. She has published six albums -signature pop rock- and three children’s books-discs in Sunrise. For years – he wrote in his blog – he no longer seeks to convince anyone. “I no longer seek to convince anyone other than myself.”
Lives in Funny with two children, a dog, three cats and two fish. “We are a multispecies family”, he laughs. “Freethinker, artist and yoga teacher”, is now summarized in instagram. It’s a lot to summarize. It would take less time to list what he has not done. “I’m 51 years old,” he says. “She has given me time to do many things.” She has studied music, writing, dance, theater, philosophy. He became a teacher of yoga with 27. He learned ayurvedic massage in India. This year she has hung on the wall the title of chiromassage.
Confinement marked the turn of the helm. “For me it was rethinking: ‘What do you really want to do in the world?’. The seams of everything were suddenly visible. The fragility of the system. Wanted to help. “And suddenly I said: ‘Susi you are yoga teacher, what else do you want?’ –She shrugs her shoulders-. Sometimes you think that what you do is not enough. But if you really dig deep into what you’re doing, it’s more than enough.” So he took up the yoga and began teaching classes at house terrace. “And I realized that from there I could help a lot”.
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The students Today they browse the center as if they were new to their home. The new study maintains the essence of the domestic sessions. Family touch and ‘slow’ teaching. “It’s my way of being,” Susu agrees. I like to have time. If you are into yoga, stress is the enemy”.
No, there is not here Mirrors at the foot of the mat. “Precisely to avoid that body worship, that attachment to the physical –justifies the singer-songwriter yogini-. I always say that we have to do the class with absence of trial. It doesn’t mean that we won’t think, it means that we are not going to judge ourselves. You have to have a scientist’s mind, observer“, to accept what you are seeing, to not add drama, just let it happen.” She has it tattooed in Sanskrit on her ribs: “Yoga controls mental fluctuations”.