People Are Playing Dungeons & Dragons While Doing Yoga and Now Is a Good Time to Hang Yourself

From Animal New York

On Saturday, a group of adventurous paladins, wizards, and half-elf rangers gathered in a Crown Heights arts space to play the game while meticulously executing difficult poses like “Opening Door,” “Sword One,” and “Dice Rolling.”

This was D&D Yoga, an event borne out of a desire to add a “guided narrative” to the traditional practice, according to its creator, artist Scott Wayne Indiana. See it in action, set to some appropriately chilled-out ambient music, in the video below.

Led by both a yoga instructor as well as a Dungeon Master, players performed poses that were guided by the action happening in the role-playing game. “Entirely new yoga moves were invented for D&D Yoga to interpret the action,” Indiana told ANIMAL via email. “Sarah (Dahnke, the yoga leader) was also prepared to create new moves if a turn of events dictated the need for it. D&D Yoga Riffing if you will.”

 

Come fucking on world. Do something—ANYTHING—other than this. Seriously. If this is a thing, I don't want to be a part of humanity. Dungeons & Dragons Yoga. DUNGEONS & DRAGONS YOGA.

Here's the video if you were needing anything else to convince you to tip the chair.