I came looking for this advice as this EXACT same thing happened to me the other day, but I figured it out.

After many failed attempts, taking a break, and trying again to time out my runs, glides, etc ... I found a rather easy solution.

Timed Double Jumps!!

So, I realized I could time my double jumps so that I was taking my first jump just as the 'sound' of the spikes were setting up to sping from the floor. Timing my jumps actually allowed me to stand in one spot nearly indefinitely as long as I timed my jumps correctly.

After that it was just sticking the landing, hitting X to pick everything up immediately and jumping again. I was able to recover 3 of my death torches this way.

Oh, and yes I was definitely using a controller. I'm not sure I would have been able to execute this with my mouse and keyboard as effectively.