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Om . . . om . . . ouch!
A serene yoga class run by Alec Baldwin’s wife, Hilaria Thomas, erupted into a frantic, bloody mess after a student in the dangerously crowded studio fell and shattered a window, a lawsuit and witnesses say.
Spencer Wolff, 32, ripped open his left leg and foot after he lost his balance and crashed into a sixth-floor window while performing a handstand at Yoga Vida near Union Square on Jan. 15.
The dramatic fall sent shards of glass flying into the street, smeared blood across the floor and left Wolff, a Yale-educated Huffington Post blogger, with a crippling injury, said witnesses and his lawyer.
“It’s your fault! It’s your fault!” a student screamed at Thomas after the accident, according to a witness.
But a friend of Thomas said she’d instructed Wolff that he was doing the handstand incorrectly and was told to stop but continued anyway.
Sources said the studio was so jam-packed that Wolff — an experienced yoga practitioner who had been to the wildly popular class before — was forced to perform his handstand too close to the window.
Wolff fell to his side, causing his left foot to smash “straight through the window,” a student said.
A jagged piece of glass cut deep into his leg just below the knee, slicing it open in five places.
“There was a large amount of blood,” the student said.
Bystanders outside “came running up saying, ‘Who’s knocking out windows?’” a witness said.
Paramedics arrived, wrapped Wolff in a blanket and rushed him via ambulance to Weill-Cornell Medical Center.
Thomas, 28, and one of Wolff’s male friends from the class went with him to the hospital.
Wolff’s lawyer, Paul Weitz, said that the shaken student fears he has a permanent disability.
“He can’t flex the ankle and the foot points downward. He’s in a boot,” Weitz said. “He is worried whether he’ll be able to use his leg normally again — and right now it’s a waiting game.”
The suit alleges Thomas put students in a position of “extreme danger” by letting them “exceed a safe and/or maximum allowable number of persons.”
Wolff is a fourth-year Ph.D. student in comparative literature at Yale University and has law degrees from Columbia and the Sorbonne in Paris.
He declined comment.
There was only an inch or two between mats during the Jan. 15 “Flow” class, which costs $10 and is open to beginners and advanced students, participants said.
“It gets insanely crowded there,” said one class participant of the studio at 99 University Place.
Hilaria is one of the most sought-after yoga instructors in the city.
A spokesman for Hilaria declined to comment.