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1 | G Donahaye and E Stern. Guruji. 2010: p. xiii.. |
2 | A Stein. Terror, Love and Brainwashing. 2017. |
3 | J Lalich and ML Tobias. Take Back Your Life. 2006: loc. 206 (emphasis added). |
4 | G Donahaye. ‘Pattabhi Jois and #MeToo’. 8/31/2018. https://yogamindmedicine.blogspot.com/ |
5 | RJ Lifton. Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism. 1961: 429–30. |
6 | Statement from Nardi and Johnson. Email to author, 10/5/2018 (emphasis added). |
7 | M Singer. ‘Coming Out of the Cults’. Psychology Today. January 1979: 72–82. |
8 | HL Rosedale and MD Langone. ‘On Using the Term “Cult”’. https://www.icsahome.com/ |
9 | J Lalich and ML Tobias. Take Back Your Life. 2006: loc. 226. |
10 | J Lalich and ML Tobias. Take Back Your Life. 2006: loc. 665. |
11 | C Mann. ‘The MIND Model of Cult. Dynamics’. https://cultexpert.weebly.com/ |
12 | LJ West and M Langone. ‘Cultism’. Cultic Studies Journal 3. 1986: 119–20. |
13 | I wrote about this personal exchange here: M Remski. ‘That Time When I Was in a Cult…’. 7/12/2017. http://matthewremski.com/wordpress/ |
14 | K MacGregor. ‘Ashtanga Yoga—Accountability, Acceptance and Action…’. 12/26/2017. https://www.kinoyoga.com/ |
15 | ‘Teachers’: https://sharathjois.com; http://www.ashtanga.com/ |
16 | E Stern. ‘100 Years’. July 2015. http://ayny.org/100-years/ |
17 | G Donahaye and E Stern. Guruji. 2010: 265. Also RA Medin (inter) and D Summerbell (ed). ‘3 gurus, 48 questions’. Namarupa. Fall 2004: 7. |
18 | M Singleton and T Fraser. ‘T. Krishnamacharya’. In M Singleton and E Goldberg (eds). Gurus of Modern Yoga. 2014: loc. 2274,citing S Dars. ‘Entretiens’. Viniyoga 24. 1989: 61–2. |
19 | M Singleton.Yoga Body. 2010. |
20 | BKS Iyengar. Astadala Yogamala, vol. 1. 2000: 16–61. |
21 | Shaw’s unpublished article is a notable exception: EJ Shaw. ‘Seizing the Whip’. http://www.academia.edu/ |
22 | Singleton’s groundbreaking work is essential reading here: M Singleton. Yoga Body. 2010. |
23 | S Binkley. Getting Loose. 2007: 32. |
24 | For an example of the “keep practicing” strategy during an institutional abuse crisis, see M Remski. ‘Judith Simmer-Brown to Distraught Shambhala Members’. 8/6/2018. |
25 | Rain’s first professional writing credit appears in Medium.com’s Power Trip online magazine: K Rain. ‘Yoga Guru Pattabhi Jois Sexually Assaulted Me for Years’. Power Trip. |
26 | Yoga and Movement Research Community. [Facebook page]. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1648029625458814/ |
27 | A Lucas. 12/7/2010. The original article was posted to Facebook on on the now-defunct version of the yogacitynyc.com site. Facebook link: |
28 | J Cooke. ‘Why Didn’t Somebody Warn Me?’. 7/11/2018. http://www.decolonizingyoga.com/ |
29 | J Cooke. Email to author, 11/16/2018. |
30 | From a personal conversation, explored in M Remski. ‘Why We Don’t Listen To Trauma Survivors’. 4/7/2018. http://matthewremski.com/wordpress/ |
31 | A Stein. Terror, Love and Brainwashing. 2017: 91. |
32 | CP Smith and JJ Freyd.‘Institutional Betrayal’. American Psychologist. 69(6). 2014: 575–87. |
33 | b hooks. The Will to Change. 2005. |
PART ONE | |
34 | ‘Genny Wilkinson Priest’. [podcast]. 11/19/2018. https://www.jbrownyoga.com/ The post by Mary Taylor to which she refers was published on 12/8/2017: M Taylor. ‘Can |
35 | Primary Series Ashtanga with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois. [online video]. 1993. https://www.youtube.com/ |
36 | Now visible on the private server of the Decolonizing Yoga website, under the title of Pattabhi Jois Yoga |
37 | Examples include S Desai and A Wise. Yoga Sadhana for Mothers. 2014; S Griffyn and M Clarke. Ashtanga Yoga for Women. 2003; and A Beale and D Yu (Coord); S Marino and T Jeng (eds). Strength & Grace. 2015. |
38 | G Donahaye and E Stern. Guruji. 2010: 164. |
39 | Pattabhi Jois Yoga Adjustments. [online video]. http://www.decolonizingyoga.com/ |
40 | G Donahaye and E Stern. Guruji. 2010: 29–30. |
41 | A Stein. Terror, Love and Brainwashing. 2017: 180–9. |
42 | L Gallagher. ‘Lotus 1, 2, 3’. Details Magazine. September 1995: 198–241 passim. |
Part Two | |
43 | A Stein. Terror, Love and Brainwashing. 2017: 21. |
44 | See M Stone. ‘What’s that Yoga breath?’. 4/ 30/2014. http://www.theyogimovement.com/ |
45 | According to a personal conversation with my late friend, Michael Stone, in about 2015. |
46 | M Taylor. Email to author, 8/19/2017. |
47 | ‘Richard Freeman on the Evolution of Yoga’. [podcast]. 1/11/2018. https://kathrynbruniyoung.com/ |
48 | N McInerny. ‘Terrible, Thanks for Asking’. [podcast]. https://www.apmpodcasts.org/ttfa/ |
49 | K Rain. ‘Yoga Guru Pattabhi Jois Sexually Assaulted Me for Years’. Power Trip. 10/6/2018. https:// medium.com/s/powertrip/ |
50 | K Rain. ‘My Full Testimony’. 7/30/2018. https://karenrainashtangayogaandmetoo.wordpress.com/ |
51 | Inside Owl, the blog of certified Ashtanga teacher Angela Jamison, provides consistent examples of positive stereotyping, such as here: A Jamison. ‘Autonomy, Moral Codes + Naked Beer Goats’. [web blog]. 3/1/2018. http://www.insideowl.com/. |
52 | M Hawley. ‘The Privatization of Religion and Personal Identity’. Sikh Formations. 11(1–2). 2015: 210–22, Also see E De Michelis. ‘Modern Yoga: History and Forms’. In M Singleton and J Byrne (eds). Yoga in the Modern World. 2009: 17–35. |
53 | C Lavrence and K Lozanski. ‘“This Is Not Your Practice Life”’. Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue Canadienne De Sociologie. 51(1). 2014: 76–94. |
54 | K Felt. ‘Katherine Felt on Yogi Bhajan and friends’. http://yogibhajan.tripod.com/ |
55 | C Mann. ‘The MIND model of Cult. Dynamics’. https://cultexpert.weebly.com/ |
56 | K Rain. ‘Yoga and #MeToo’. 1/1/2018. http://www.decolonizingyoga.com/ |
57 | Karen Rain. [Facebook page]. 11/11/2017. https://www.facebook.com/karen.rain.9615/ |
58 | K Rain. ‘Clear Witness Testimony’. 2/27/2018. https://karenrainashtangayogaandmetoo.wordpress.com/ |
59 | Tracyogini. https://sites.google.com/site/tracyogini/ |
60 | Dimi Currey. [Facebook page]. 1/14/2018. https://www.facebook.com/dimi.currey/ |
PART THREE | |
61 | KP Jois. Yoga Mala. 2010: loc. 1871. |
62 | ‘Beryl Bender Birch’. [podcast]. 7/2/2018. https://www.jbrownyoga.com/ |
63 | MD Langone. Recovery from Cults. 1995. |
64 | C Mann. ‘The MIND model of Cult. Dynamics’. https://cultexpert.weebly.com/ |
65 | J Lalich and ML Tobias. Take Back Your Life. 2006: loc. 651–89. |
66 | BKS Iyengar. Light on Yoga. 1996. |
67 | Medical Class, BKS Iyengar in Australia 92. [online video]. https://www.youtube.com/ |
68 | J Birch and J Hargreaves. ‘Yoganidrā’. 1/8/2015. https://theluminescent.blogspot.com/ For more, see also M Singleton. ‘Salvation through Relaxation’. Journal of Contemporary Religion. 20(3). 2005: 289–304. |
69 | The more accurate backstory of Bhajan’s group 3HO is recounted here: P Deslippe. ‘From Maharaj To Mahan Tantric’. Sikh Formations. 8 (3). 2012: 369–87. |
70 | Described here: ‘Universal Principles of Alignment’. Anusara School of Hatha Yoga. https://www. anusarayoga.com/teacher-support/ |
71 | C Mann. ‘The MIND model of Cult. Dynamics’. https://cultexpert.weebly.com/ |
72 | According to my Jyotisha and Sanskrit mentor Davis Batson, based upon his gurukulum studies with Krishan Lal Mantri (d 2017) in Toronto, early 2000s. |
73 | TM Krishnamacharya. Yoga Makaranda or Yoga Saram (The Essence of Yoga) First Part. L Rangana than and N Ranganathan (trans). 2006: 10, 40, 42, 49, 75, 81, 103. |
74 | Svātmārāma and BD Akers. The Hatha Yoga Pradipika. 2002: 44. |
75 | DE Moerman. Meaning, Medicine, and the “Placebo Effect”. 2002: 127–13. |
76 | KP Jois. Yoga Mala. 2010: loc. 116. |
77 | J Russell. ‘Yoga Korunta’. 11/11/2015. http://www.jamesrussellyoga.co.uk/ |
78 | The most thorough research on this topic comes from J Birch. ‘The Proliferation of Āsanās in Late-Medieval Yoga Texts’. In K Baier, PA Maas and K Preisendanz (eds). Yoga in Transformation. 2018: 101–80. |
79 | DG White. The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali. 2014: 197–224. |
80 | J Birch. ‘The Proliferation of Āsanās in Late-Medieval Yoga Texts’. In K Baier, PA Maas and K Preisendanz (eds). Yoga in Transformation. 2018: 141. |
81 | J Birch. Email to author, 10/14/2018. |
82 | M Singleton. Yoga Body. 2010: 185. |
83 | G Donahaye and E Stern. Guruji. 2010: loc. 198. |
84 | J Birch. Email to author, 10/14/2018. |
85 | M Singleton. Yoga Body. 2010: 186. |
86 | More on this controversy is found in M Remski. ‘Mark Singleton Responds to Critics …’. 11/1/2015. http://matthewremski.com/wordpress/ |
87 | AG Mohan and G Mohan. Krishnamacharya. 2010: 138. |
88 | G Maehle. Ashtanga Yoga Practice and Philosophy. 2013, 16. |
89 | J Birch and J Hargreaves. ‘Vinyāsa’. 7/14/2016. http://www.theluminescent.org/ |
90 | AG Mohan and G Mohan. Krishnamacharya: His Life and Teachings. Shambhala. 2010: 29. |
91 | J Birch. Email to author, 10/14/2018. |
92 | G Donahaye and E Stern. Guruji. 2010: 417. |
93 | G Donahaye and E Stern. Guruji. 2010: 20. |
94 | A Hall. ‘Updated: Yoga’s Loss of Purpose’. Krishnamacharya’s Mysore yoga. . . at home. [web blog]. 3/20/2015. https://grimmly2007.blogspot.com/ |
95 | ‘The Practice > Parampara’. http://sharathjois.com/ |
96 | |
97 | YJ Editors. ‘Practice and All is Coming’. Yoga Journal. 6/22/2009. https://www.yogajournal.com/. |
98 | L Kaminoff. ‘I teach Viniyoga®. So, sue me’. [Facebook page]. 1/24/2018. https://www.facebook.com/notes/leslie-kaminoff/. |
99 | YJ Editors. ‘Kausthaub Desikachar Faces Abuse Allegations’. 10/3/2012. https://www.yogajournal.com/blog/. |
100 | YD. ‘Update: Sad Details of Kaustaub Deiskachar’s Psychopathic Abuse …’. 10/17/2012. http://yogadork.com/. |
101 | ‘Legal Closure | September 2014’. http://kausthub.com/legalclosure. |
102 | ‘Testimonials> Yoga Therapy In Trauma Care’. 7/31/2015. http:// kausthub.com/testimonial/. |
103 | G Donahaye and E Stern. Guruji. 2010: 250. |
104 | ‘Literature > Sri K. Pattabhi Jois: A Tribute’. http://yogashala.ru/en/. |
105 | G Donahaye and E Stern. Guruji. 2010: 115. |
106 | G Donahaye and E Stern. Guruji. 2010: 124. |
107 | TK Sribhashyam. Correspondence with author, 2/12/2016. |
108 | Kino speaks on Pattabhi Jois. [online video]. https://www.youtube.com/. |
109 | K MacGregor. ‘Ashtanga Yoga—Accountability, Acceptance and Action…’. 12/26/2017. https://www.kinoyoga.com/. |
110 | J Birch. Email to author, 10/14/2018. |
111 | J Birch. Email to author, 4/17/2018. |
112 | BR Smith. ‘With Heat Even Iron Will Bend’. In M Singleton and J Byrne (eds). Yoga in the Modern World. 2008: 140–60. |
113 | J Birch. Meaning of hatha in Early Hathayoga. Journal of American Oriental Society 131(4). 2011: 527–54. https://www.academia.edu/. |
114 | J Birch. Email to author, 10/14/2018. |
115 | J Birch. Email to author, 10/14/2018. |
116 | A Cushman, ‘Power Yoga’ Yoga Journal. February 1995: 144. |
117 | ‘Richard Freeman on the Evolution of Yoga’. [podcast]. 1/11/2018. https://kathrynbruniyoung.com/. |
118 | Mallinson’s essay on vajroli mudra, including a personal description of his experience with it, is instructive here: J Mallinson. ‘Yoga and Sex’. Paper. Yoga in Transformation conference. University of Vienna. September 2013. https://www.academia.edu/. |
119 | WD O’Flaherty. Siva. 1981. |
120 | K MacGregor. Sacred Fire. 2012. |
121 | K MacGregor. Sacred Fire. 2012: 29. |
122 | K MacGregor. Sacred Fire. 2012: 34. |
123 | K MacGregor. Sacred Fire. 2012: 35. |
124 | M Remski. ‘Karen Rain Responds to Mary Taylor’s Post …’. 12/11/2017. http://www.decolonizingyoga.com/. Dwelley in Comments. |
125 | Ask Richard and Mary: ‘Is there any fundamental difference between trantric [sp] yoga and ashtanga yoga? [online video]. https://www.facebook.com/richardfreemanyoga/. Now taken offline as of 28/02/2019, but an audio is available on the Podcast tab. |
126 | Via Sanskritist and Tantric scholar Christopher Wallis. [However, lineages start from someone and often their practices are amended in the process of creating a lineage]. |
127 | K Rain. Email to author, 9/16/2018. |
128 | J Pankhania and J Hargreaves. ‘Culture of Silence: Satyananda Yoga’. 12/22/2017. http://theluminescent.blogspot.com/. |
129 | J Hargreaves. Email to author, 11/11/2018. |
130 | M Taylor. ‘Can Difficulties Give Us Insight?’ 12/8/2017. https://www.richardfreemanyoga.com/musings/. |
131 | J Hargreaves. Email to author, 11/11/2018. |
132 | Photos can be seen at M Remski. ‘Pattabhi Jois Sexually Assaulted Men’. 11/11/2018. http://matthewremski.com/wordpress/. |
133 | K Rain. ‘Yoga Guru Pattabhi Jois Sexually Assaulted Me for Years’. 10/6/2018. https://medium.com/s/powertrip/. |
134 | Monica Gauci [Facebook page]. https://www.facebook.com/monica.gauci/. |
135 | E Goldberg. The Path of Modern Yoga. 2016: 223–33. |
136 | BKS Iyengar, JJ Evans, and D Adams. Light on Life. 2008: xix. |
137 | DG White. The Alchemical Body. 2012: 279. |
138 | G Donahaye and E Stern. Guruji. 2010: 28. |
139 | G Donahaye and E Stern. Guruji. 2010: 43. |
140 | G Donahaye and E Stern. Guruji. 2010: 373. |
141 | G Donahaye and E Stern. Guruji: 259. |
142 | KP Jois. Yoga Mala. 2010: loc. 1034. |
143 | KP Jois. Yoga Mala. 2010: loc. 1871. |
144 | G Donahaye and E Stern. Guruji. 2010: 53. |
145 | G Donahaye and E Stern. Guruji. 2010: 255. |
146 | G Donahaye and E Stern. Guruji. 2010: 252. |
147 | A Hall. ‘Updated: Sharath’s NEW KPJAYI Authorisation/Certification Code of Conduct’. Krishnamacharya’s Mysore Yoga... at home. [web blog]. 1/27/2018. http://grimmly2007.blogspot.com/. |
148 | T Hodgeman. ‘Summer 2007’. [web blog]. 11/5/2010. http://tracyhodgeman.blogspot.com/. |
149 | J Kramer. ‘A New Look at Yoga: Playing the Edge of Mind & Body’. Yoga Journal. Jan 1977. http://joeldiana.com/. |
150 | ‘Final Questions. Sri K. Pattabhi Jois Public Talks on Ashtanga Yoga — France 1991’. http://www.aysnyc.org/. |
151 | BKS Iyengar and N Perez-Christiaens (comp and ed). Sparks of Divinity. 2012: loc. 2044. Here prakriti refers to material, biological nature. Iyengar is suggesting that asana practice brings the body into a purifying relationship with the soul. |
152 | BKS Iyengar and N Perez-Christiaens (comp and ed). Sparks of Divinity. 2012: loc. 1993. |
153 | BKS Iyengar and N Perez-Christiaens (comp and ed). Sparks of Divinity. 2012: loc. 1544. |
154 | BKS Iyengar and N Perez-Christiaens (comp and ed). Sparks of Divinity. 2012: loc. 2060. |
155 | Jules Mitchell’s Yoga Biomechanics. 2018 provides an excellent analysis on the current science of stretching. |
156 | L Cohen. “The Window”. Field Commander Cohen: Tour of 1979. |
157 | K MacGregor. The Power of Ashtanga Yoga. 2013: 4 |
158 | KP Jois. Yoga Mala. 2010: loc. 533. |
159 | G Donahaye and E Stern. Guruji. 2010: 62. |
160 | G Donahaye and E Stern. Guruji. 2010: 63. |
161 | Along with M Singleton. Yoga Body. 2010 and E Goldberg. The Path of Modern Yoga. 2016, the work of Joseph Alter provides excellent background for this historical shift, especially JS Alter. Yoga in Modern India. 2004. |
162 | J Birch. ‘Premodern Yoga Traditions and Ayurveda’. History of Science in South Asia 6. 2018: 1-83. https://www.academia.edu/. |
163 | J Mallinson and M Singleton. Roots of Yoga. 2017: 133. |
164 | RP Brown and PL Gerbarg. The Healing Power of the Breath. 2012. |
165 | G Donahaye and E Stern. Guruji. 2010: 409–10. |
166 | G Donahaye. ‘Pattabhi Jois and #Metoo’. 8/31/2018. https://yogamindmedicine.blogspot.com/. |
167 | ‘Books>Guruji . . . ’ https://shop.ashtanga.com/. |
168 | ‘Angela’s Reviews > Guruji’. 7/ 19/2014. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1000656714. |
169 | ‘Angela’s Reviews > Guruji’. 7/ 19/2014. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1000656714. |
170 | See, for example, customer reviews for Guruji on https://www.amazon.com/. |
171 | H Arendt. The Origins of Totalitarianism. 2017. |
172 | A Stein. Terror, Love and Brainwashing. 2017: 57. |
173 | A Stein. Terror, Love and Brainwashing. 2017: 54. |
174 | A Stein. Terror, Love and Brainwashing. 2017: 54. |
175 | G Donahaye. Email to author, 10/25/2016. |
176 | G Donahaye. Email to author, 10/26/2016. |
177 | G Donahaye and E Stern. Guruji. 2010: 400. |
178 | ‘Beryl Bender Birch’. [podcast]. 7/2/2018. https://www.jbrownyoga.com/. |
PART FOUR | |
179 | A Stein. Terror, Love and Brainwashing. 2017: loc. 894. |
180 | Langone’s thesis has been extracted here: M Remski. ‘“Deception, Dependance, and Dread…”’ 5/14/2018. http://matthewremski.com/wordpress/ |
181 | C Mann. ‘The MIND model of Cult Dynamics’. https://cultexpert.weebly.com/ |
182 | S Hassan. Combating Cult Mind Control. 3rd edition. 2016. |
183 | Lis Harris’s investigative report provides excellent coverage of Muktananda and his community Siddha Yoga Dham America (SYDA): L Harris. ‘O Guru, Guru, Guru. New Yorker’. 11/14/1994: 92. Also available at http://www.leavingsiddhayoga.net/o_guru_english.htm. |
184 | D Shaw. Traumatic Narcissism. 2014. |
185 | L Oakes. Prophetic Charisma. 1997. |
186 | H Arendt. The Origins of Totalitarianism. 2017. |
187 | A Stein. Terror, Love and Brainwashing. 2017: loc. 801. |
188 | “Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; / Our meddling intellect / Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:— / We murder to dissect.” W Wordsworth. 1798. Lyrical Ballads. |
189 | DW Winnicott. The Theory of the Parent-Infant Relationship: Further Remarks. International Journal of
Psychoanalysis 43. 1962: 238–9. Online at Oxford Clinical Psychology http://www.oxfordclinicalpsych.com/ |
190 | LJ Kaplan. Oneness and Separateness. 1978. |
191 | MD Ainsworth et al. Patterns of Attachment. 1978. |
192 | DN Stern. The Motherhood Constellation. 1995. |
193 | A Stein. Terror, Love and Brainwashing. 2017: loc. 32. |
194 | A Stein. Terror, Love and Brainwashing. 2017: loc. 33. |
195 | A Stein. Terror, Love and Brainwashing. 2017: loc. 38. |
196 | Wild Wild Country. 2018. https://www.netflix.com. |
197 | A Stein. Terror, Love and Brainwashing. 2017: loc. 68. |
198 | A Stein. Terror, Love and Brainwashing. 2017: loc. 68. |
199 | A Stein. Terror, Love and Brainwashing. 2017: loc. 28. |
200 | G Donahaye and E Stern. Guruji. 2010: loc. 156. |
201 | G Donahaye and E Stern. Guruji. 2010: loc. 356. |
202 | G Donahaye and E Stern. Guruji. 2010: loc. 282. |
203 | G Donahaye and E Stern. Guruji. 2010: loc. 312. |
204 | G Donahaye and E Stern. Guruji. 2010: loc. 250. |
205 | G Donahaye and E Stern. Guruji. 2010: loc. 186. |
206 | G Donahaye and E Stern. Guruji. 2010: loc. 408. |
207 | R Lauer-Manenti. An Offering of Leaves. 2009. |
208 | R Lauer-Manenti. Sweeping the Dust. 2010. |
209 | R Lauer-Manenti. ‘My Teachers’. https://www.ruthlauermanentiyoga.com/. |
210 | R Lauer-Manenti. An Offering of Leaves. 2009: loc. 1065. |
211 | R Lauer-Manenti. An Offering of Leaves. 2009: loc. 1069. |
212 | R Lauer-Manenti. An Offering of Leaves. 2009: loc. 1045. |
213 | R Lauer-Manenti. An Offering of Leaves. 2009: loc. 1048. |
214 | R Lauer-Manenti. Sweeping the Dust. 2010: loc. 822. |
215 | Holly Faurot—v.—Jivamukti Yoga Center, Inc. et al. 150790/2016. New York County Supreme Court.Exhibit A. https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/. |
216 | A Slater and PC Quinn. Face recognition in the newborn infant. Infant and Child Development. 10(1–2). 2001: 21–4. |
217 | E Goldberg. ‘Swami Krpalvananda’. In M Singleton and E Goldberg (eds). Gurus of Modern Yoga. 2014:loc. 4527. |
218 | G Donahaye and E Stern. Guruji. 2010: loc. 262. |
219 | G Donahaye and E Stern. Guruji. 2010: loc. 3299. |
220 | G Donahaye and E Stern. Guruji. 2010: loc. 4310. |
221 | G Donahaye and E Stern. Guruji. 2010: loc. 6710. |
222 | G Donahaye and E Stern. Guruji. 2010: loc. 6773. |
223 | K Rain. ‘Actionable Steps Towards Restorative Justice’. 1/24/2018. https://karenrainashtangayogaandmetoo.wordpress.com/. |
224 | G Donahaye and E Stern. Guruji. 2010: loc. 68. |
225 | G Donahaye and E Stern. Guruji. 2010: loc. 69. |
226 | Name not disclosed. Email to author, 6/19/2018. |
227 | Remembering Guruji Shri Pattabhi Jois II — Gretchen Sanchez. [online video]. https://www.youtube.com/. |
228 | The American Yoga Revolution with Iyengar disciples Manouso Manos and Patricia Walden. [online video]. 2015. https://www.youtube.com/ |
229 | A Stein. Terror, Love and Brainwashing. 2017: loc. 1039. |
230 | G Donahaye and E Stern. Guruji. 2010: loc. 271. |
231 | G Donahaye and E Stern. Guruji. 2010: loc. 271. |
232 | G Donahaye and E Stern. Guruji. 2010: loc. 29-30. |
233 | ‘Angela’s Reviews> Guruji’. 7/19/2014. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1000656714. |
234 | G Donahaye and E Stern. Guruji. 2010: loc. 271. |
235 | Teaching with the Hands’. Yoga Workshop. 2018. https://yogaworkshop.com/ . While this page is no longer available, the same text appears on ‘Assisting Intensive’. https://yogaworkshop.com/ assisting-intensive/, with the singular amendment noted in brackets. |
236 | G Donahaye and E Stern. Guruji. 2010: loc. 160. |
237 | G Donahaye and E Stern. Guruji. 2010: loc. 164. |
238 | G Donahaye and E Stern. Guruji. 2010: loc. 316. |
239 | PL Brown. ‘At home with: Dr Robert M Sapolsky’. 4/19/2001. http://www.nytimes.com/. |
240 | Dopamine Jackpot! [online video]. https://www.youtube.com/. |
241 | G Donahaye and E Stern. Guruji. 2010: loc. 350. |
242 | G Donahaye and E Stern. Guruji. 2010: loc. 373. |
243 | Warning: sexual assault is depicted in this photo. Ashtanga Yoga Therapy. http://ashtangayogatherapy. com/ es/node/128. (accessed 10/5/2018). See the separate Sensitive Content tab. |
244 | T Miller. ‘A Brief History of Ashtanga Yoga in Encinitas’. http://ashtangayogacenter.com/. |
245 | G Donahaye and E Stern. Guruji. 2010: loc. 43-4. |
246 | Advanced A Ashtanga Yoga Practice, Kealakekua, HI with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois. 1985. [online video]. Parts 1–5. https://www.youtube.com/. |
247 | G Donahaye and E Stern. Guruji. 2010: loc. 47. |
248 | Ie Catherine Tisseront |
249 | davidgarriguesyoga. [Instagram feed]. 2/1/ 018. https://www.instagram.com/. |
PART FIVE | |
250 | G Wilkinson Priest. ‘Sexual abuse in yoga’. Healthista. 12/18/2017. https://www.healthista.com/. |
251 | S Gannon and D Life. Jivamukti Yoga. 2002: 82. |
252 | R Worth. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. 2005. For more on this topic, see M Stroebe et al. ‘Cautioning Health- Care Professionals’. OMEGA 74(4). 2017: 455–73. |
253 | Freyd’s excellent DARVO resource page is here: JJ Freyd. ‘What is DARVO?’. 2018. https://dynamic.uoregon.edu. |
254 | K MacGregor. ‘Ashtanga Yoga—Accountability, Acceptance and Action…’. 12/26/2017. https://www.kinoyoga.com/. |
255 | ‘Kino MacGregor’. [podcast]. 4/23/2018. https://www.jbrownyoga.com/. |
256 | K MacGregor. ‘Ashtanga Yoga—Accountability, Acceptance and Action…’. 12/26/2017. https://www.kinoyoga.com/. |
257 | G Wilkinson Priest. ‘Sexual abuse in yoga’. Healthista. 12/18/2017. https://www.healthista.com/. |
258 | The name and prior conviction is found on the sex offender registry of the State of Hawaii. Prior conviction is registered with the State of Michigan Judicial District, 21st Judicial Circuit, Case No. 99-008788-FH, June 15, 1999. The practitioner provided screenshots of the UCLA event via email. |
259 | The Facebook comment was made in a private group. The practitioner needs to maintain anonymity, but has confirmed the quote by email to the author, 10/9/2018. |
260 | Holly Faurot—v.—Jivamukti Yoga Center, Inc. et al. 150790/2016. New York County Supreme Court. https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us. |
261 | ‘A Message to the Jivamukti Yoga Community’. Jivamukti Yoga. Archived at https://tinyurl.com/ycxw7gl9. |
262 | Holly Faurot—v.—Jivamukti Yoga Center, Inc. et al. 150790/2016. New York County Supreme Court. https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us. |
263 | S Gannon and D Life. Jivamukti Yoga. 2002: loc. 1617. |
264 | E Stern. Email to author, 7/23/2016. |
265 | M Remski. ‘Jivamukti Light and Dark’. 4/24/2016. http://www.decolonizingyoga.com/. |
266 | S Gannon and D Life. Jivamukti Yoga. 2002: loc. 1573. |
267 | S Gannon and D Life. Jivamukti Yoga. 2002: loc. 1588 |
268 | S Gannon and D Life. Jivamukti Yoga. 2002: loc. 1597. |
269 | Jivamukti Yoga 300-hour training manual. 2007: 89. |
270 | From Darkness to Light. [Facebook page]. https://www.facebook.com/. |
271 | Name not disclosed. Email to author, 6/15/2018. |
272 | S Gannon and D Life. Jivamukti Yoga. 2002. |
273 | S Gannon and D Life. Yoga Assists. 2014: loc. 227. |
274 | S Gannon and D Life. Yoga Assists. 2014: loc. 320. |
275 | S Gannon and D Life. Yoga Assists. 2014: loc. 406. |
276 | S Gannon and D Life. Yoga Assists. 2014: loc. 346. |
277 | B Frost. ‘Betrayal of Trust’. West (San Jose Mercury News). May 26, 1991: 6-11. Available at http://matthewremski.com/wordpress/. |
278 | M Leitsinger. ‘#MeToo Unmasks the Open Secret of Sexual Abuse in Yoga’. 9/7/2018. https://www.kqed.org/. |
279 | Ethics Committee notes from the complaint brought by Ann West: Ethics Committee, Iyengar YogaNational Association of the United States. Reference notes and Report on MM-MM case. 9/13–18/2018. |
280 | R Brathen. ‘#MeToo — The Yoga Stories’. 12/6/2017. Archived at https://tinyurl.com/y73ewmkv. |
281 | Yoga and Body Image Coalition. http://ybicoalition.com/. |
282 | Such as B Berila et al. Yoga, the Body, and Embodied Social Change. 2016. |
283 | L Mulvey. Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema. Screen 16(3). 1975: 6–18. |
284 | Mysore Style with Tim Miller. [online video]. https://www.youtube.com/. |
285 | ifilmyoga. [Instagram page]. https://www.instagram.com/ifilmyoga/. |
286 | See note 235. |
287 | T Landrum. ‘Yoga and Sexual Fantasy’. 12/31/2017. https://www.tylandrum.com/ . |
288 | “Sanskrit and vernacular poems of the Gorakhnāthī and other north Indian ascetic traditions are highlymisogynistic, and other Gorakhnāthī legends, as well as current ethnography, suggest that like othermale ascetic traditions, the Gorakhnāthīs have always shunned the company of women. Women arenever explicitly prohibited from practising yoga, although hatha texts commonly insist that male yogis should avoid the company of women.” J Mallinson and M Singleton. Roots of Yoga. 2017: loc. 1758. |
289 | Ashtanga Yoga Confluence. March 1–4, 2018. http://ashtangayogaconfluence.com/schedule/. The panel was recorded by an attendee. |
290 | T Feldman. ‘Sexual Misconduct, Pattabhi Jois, Ashtanga Yoga & Me’. 1/22/2018. https://www.elephantjournal.com/. |
291 | M Taylor. ‘Can Difficulties Give Us Insight?’ 12/8/2017. https://www.richardfreemanyoga.com/musings/. |
292 | The talk is preserved here: Pushpam Magazine. Dec 18, 2017. https://tinyurl.com/yaenw3ey. |
293 | G [Wilkinson] Priest. ‘A KPJAYI Statement on Pattabhi Jois’. 2018. https://www.change.org/p/we-request-a-kpjayi-statement-on-pattabhi-jois. |
294 | Chad Herst. [Facebook page]. 9/18/2018. https://www.facebook.com/chad.herst/. |
295 | ‘LG38 — Genny Wilkinson Priest and Sarai Harvey-Smith’. [podcast]. 4/21/2018. http://www.trueryan.com/podcast/lg38-genny-wilkinson-priest-and-sarai-harvey-smith-controversy-and-updating-ashtanga-yoga/. |
296 | A Hall. ‘Update: Ashtanga Yoga: Inappropriate Adjustments/Sexual Abuse’. Krishnamacarya’s Mysore Yoga... at home. [web blog]. Jan 2018. http://grimmly2007.blogspot.com/. |
297 | Anthony Hall discusses the code issuance and list controversy: A Hall. ‘Updated. Sharath’s NEW KPJAYI Authorisation/Certification Code of Conduct’. Krishnamacharya’s Mysore Yoga... at home.[web blog]. 1/27/ 2018. http://grimmly2007.blogspot.com/. |
298 | ‘LG38 — Genny Wilkinson Priest and Sarai Harvey-Smith’. [podcast]. 4/21/2018. http://www.trueryan.com/podcast/lg38-genny-wilkinson-priest-and-sarai-harvey-smith-controversy-and-updating-ashtanga-yoga/. |
299 | ‘Richard Freeman — “Synthesizer of Contemplative Traditions". [podcast]. 2/5/2018. https://www.jbrownyoga.com/yoga-talks-podcast/2018/2/richard-freeman. |
300 | M Taylor. ‘Pulling Things Apart’. 7/7/2018. https://www.richardfreemanyoga.com/musings/. |
301 | Greg Nardi. [Facebook page]. 12/18/2017. https://www.facebook.com/greg.nardi/. |
302 | S Harvey-Smith. ‘The Sexual Misconduct of Pattabhi Jois’. Directions in Yoga. 3/17/2018. https://saraiyoga.wordpress.com/. |
303 | G Maehle. ‘My Initial Response to Karen Rain’s Interview About Sexual Abuse’. 5/17/2018. https://chintamaniyoga.com/. |
304 | M Gauci. ‘Why I Left the Mysore Community in 1999’. 5/17/2018. http://chintamaniyoga.com/. |
305 | M Gauci. ‘Why Did She Let It Happen?’ 5/23/2018. https://chintamaniyoga.com/. |
306 | G Maehle. ‘My Initial Response to Karen Rain’s Interview About Sexual Abuse’. 5/17/2018. https://chintamaniyoga.com/. |
307 | J Blanchard. ‘Why We Need To Talk About The Sexual Abuse Committed By Pattabhi Jois’.Balance Yoga & Wellness. 2018. http://www.balanceyogawellness.com/. |
308 | S Johnson. Email to author, 10/12/2018. |
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309 | ‘Shannon Roche, COO, Addresses Sexual Misconduct’. Yoga Alliance. 1/5/2018. https://www.yogaalliance.org/. |
310 | ‘Gregor Maehle’. [podcast]. 11/12/2018. https://www.jbrownyoga.com/. |
311 | P Cunningham, M Drumwright and B Foster. “Networks of Complicity and Networks of Empowerment,”presentation at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, Jul 2, 2018. ProfessorCunningham can be reached at PeggyC@dal.ca for more information. |
312 | J Lalich and ML Tobias. Take Back Your Life. 2006: loc. 59. |
313 | ‘Adult tobacco use>Smoking in Canada’. https://uwaterloo.ca/tobacco-use-canada/. |
314 | The IAYT’s scope of practice can be found on their website www.iayt.org. |
315 | D Farhi. Teaching Yoga. 2006. |
316 | J Lalich and ML Tobias. Take Back Your Life. 2006: loc. 1437. |
317 | S Hassan. Combating Cult Mind Control. 3rd edition. 2016: 319. |
318 | J Lalich and ML Tobias. Take Back Your Life. 2006: loc. 1434. |
319 | RJ Lifton. Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism. 1961: 429–30. |
320 | J Lalich and ML Tobias. Take Back Your Life. 2006: loc. 1429. |
321 | H Frankfurt. “On Bullshit.” The Importance of What We Care About. 1988. |
322 | K MacGregor. ‘Ashtanga Yoga—Accountability, Acceptance and Action…’. 12/26/2017. https://www.kinoyoga.com/. |
323 | The CYTA was the first English-language yoga organization to publish a Code of Conduct for itsmembers in 1995. J Hanson Lasater. ‘A Special Message from the California Yoga Teachers Association’.Yoga Journal, Nov/Dec 1995: 136-137. Archived at https://tinyurl.com/ycqotdm3. Yoga Journal,originally founded by CAYT Director Judith Hanson Lasater and others, was its publishing arm until it was sold in 1998. |
324 | M Leitsinger. ‘#MeToo Unmasks the Open Secret of Sexual Abuse in Yoga’. 9/7/2018. https://www.kqed.org/. |
325 | Ethics Committee, Iyengar Yoga National Association of the United States. Reference notes and Reporton MM-MM case. 9/13–18/2018. https://iynaus.org/sites/default/files/ ethics-committee-reports/fInalreport-ethics-comm-case-MM-AW.pdf. |
326 | Ethics Committee, Iyengar Yoga National Association of the United States. Reference notes and Reporton MM-MM case. 9/13–18/2018. https://iynaus.org/sites/default/files/ ethics-committee-reports/fInalreport-ethics-comm-case-MM-AW.pdf. |
327 | M Remski. ‘Manos Disciple to Manos Accuser’. 9/24/2018. http://matthewremski.com/wordpress/. |
328 | IYNAUS President David Carpenter addresses the issue and its history in this letter:D Carpenter. Letter to IYNAUS members. 9/12/2018. Available at https://tinyurl.com/y739z7e7. |
329 | For more on IGM, see M Remski. ‘The Unbearable Smugness of “I Got Mine-ism”…’. 4/6/2018. http://matthewremski.com/wordpress/. (Thank you to Joseph Teskey for introducing me to the phrase.) |
330 | M Remski. ‘”Feminist-Informed” Ashtanga and “Trauma-Informed” Kundalini’. 11/15/2018. http://matthewremski.com/wordpress/. |
331 | B Berila et al. Yoga, the Body, and Embodied Social Change. 2016: 267. |
332 | P Deslippe. ‘From Maharaj To Mahan Tantric’. Sikh Formations. 8(3). 2012: 369–87. See also note 54. |
333 | Karen answers many of these questions and more in this interview: M Remski. ‘Karen Rain SpeaksAbout Pattabhi Jois and Recovering from Sexual and Spiritual Abuse’. . 5/15/2018. http://matthewremski.com/wordpress/. |
334 | L Greenblatt. ‘Independent investigation confirms “physical, sexual, emotional abuse” by Sogyal Rinpoche’.9/6/2018. https://www.lionsroar.com/. The Lewis Silkin investigation into allegations against Sogyal Lokar, a Rigpa teacher, is available here: ‘Independent Investigation’. https://www.rigpa.org/. |
335 | S Domet. ‘Unanswered questions about Shambhala investigation’. 9/16/2018. https://www.thecoast.ca/. |
336 | Two other pre-internet investigative pieces are not well-known. One is Lis Harris’s 1994 coverage of the allegations against SYDA’s Swami Muktananda (see note 183). There is also Katherine Webster’s 1990Yoga Journal investigative report on Swami Rama which is not available in its original form but is available here: K Webster. 1990. ‘The Case against Swami Rama of the Himalayas’. http://www.prem-rawat-bio.org/nrms/info/rama1.htm. |
337 | Nowhere on his website does it mention formal training in this context. http://kausthub.com/testimonial/. |
338 | M Remski. ‘Jivamukti Yoga Claims Position “At the Forefront” of the Consent Card Movement’.8/1/2018. http://matthewremski.com/wordpress/. |
339 | Jill Miller’s lecture “Lights, Camera, Yoga”(unpublished) at the April 2016 Yoga Education Series talks, hosted by Yoga Alliance in Toronto, provided a unique view into this industry reality. She described how her earlier career in Hollywood gave her the stagecraft skills that have helped her engage workshop audiences around the world. Miller’s insights are worth careful study, given how many workshop-circuit yoga teachers — Sean Corne, Kathryn Budig, Rod Stryker, David Life and Sharon Gannon, to name but a few — are former actors or performers. |
340 | Greg Nardi. [Facebook page]. 12/18/2017. https://www.facebook.com/greg.nardi/. |
341 | JJ Freyd. ‘When sexual assault victims speak out, their institutions often betray them’. 1/11/2018. https://theconversation.com/. |
342 | Axis Syllabus. http://www.axissyllabus.org/. |
343 | T Rose. Email to author, 10/9/2018. |
344 | T Wildcroft. ‘Post-lineage yoga’. Wild Yoga. 4/20/2018. https://www.wildyoga.co.uk/2018/04/post-lineage-yoga/. |
345 | T Wildcroft. Private message to author, 11/21/2018. |
346 | E Goldberg. The Path of Modern Yoga. 2016: 101–8. |
347 | T Wildcroft. ‘Post-lineage yoga’. Wild Yoga. 4/20/2018. https://www.wildyoga.co.uk/2018/04/post-lineage-yoga/. |
348 | Yoga Service Council. https://yogaservicecouncil.org/. |
349 | M Remski. ‘Karen Rain Responds to Mary Taylor’s Post About the Sexual Misconduct of PattabhiJois’. 12/11/2017. http://www.decolonizingyoga.com/. |
350 | G Donahaye and E Stern. Guruji. 2010: 373. |
351 | Hatha Yoga Project. http://hyp.soas.ac.uk/. |
352 | When this project was mainly focused on injuries, I covered this statement in this article: M Remski.‘Kino’s Hip’. 7/12/2015. http://matthewremski.com/wordpress/. |
353 | Pattabhi Jois Yoga Adjustments. [online video]. http://www.decolonizingyoga.com/. |
354 | Katchie Ananda. [Facebook page]. 2/2/2018. https://www.facebook.com/katchie.ananda/. |
355 | Luis Veiga. [Facebook page]. 11/15/2018. https://tinyurl.com/y8vzvlmu. |
356 | T Watanabe. ‘DNA Clear Yoga Guru in Seven-Year Paternity Suit’. 7/11/2002. http://articles.latimes.com/. |
357 | ‘Richard Freeman on the Evolution of Yoga’. [podcast]. 1/11/ 2018. https://kathrynbruniyoung.com/. |
358 | D Garrigues. ‘The One-Year Anniversary: Pattabhi Joie in Seattle, Seattle Yoga 1. 2003. https://www.ashtanga.com/html/article_garrigues.html. |
359 | D Garrigues. ‘The One-Year Anniversary: Pattabhi Joie in Seattle, Seattle Yoga 1. 2003. https://www.ashtanga.com/html/article_garrigues.html. |
360 | Chad Herst. [Facebook page]. 9/18/2018. https://www.facebook.com/chad.herst/. |
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Gregor Maehle, founder of 8 Limbs Ashtanga Yoga, discusses the history of Patabhi Jois’ sexual assaults and the need for the Ashtanga tradition to evolve. He talks about the studies and motivations that led to his adoption of Ashtanga Yoga, direct experience of observing the abuse and attempting to raise concerns, the injuries that led to his separation, admitting complicity, deeper philosophical and evolutionary factors in the creation of stratified power structures, and how to sublimate and grow.
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But How Can You Label That As Sexual Assault?
This extract from page 50 in Practice And All is Coming answers that question.
"Third, speculative tangents that focus on what Jois intended when
he groped or digitally penetrated his student ride on an all-too common misunderstanding of sexual assault. Sexual assault is not defined by the assaulter’s intentions, nor even by the interpretation of the victim. This latter point is crucial for protecting children, or those who live in such sexually violent environments, or who have been so deeply influenced by rape culture and misogyny, that they may not be able to articulate that they’ve been sexually assaulted. Sexual assault is defined by what
actually occurs between two people: non-consensual sexual contact with or penetration of a victim’s body. Many experts emphasize that the power differential between the two people is a key factor in assault."
he groped or digitally penetrated his student ride on an all-too common misunderstanding of sexual assault. Sexual assault is not defined by the assaulter’s intentions, nor even by the interpretation of the victim. This latter point is crucial for protecting children, or those who live in such sexually violent environments, or who have been so deeply influenced by rape culture and misogyny, that they may not be able to articulate that they’ve been sexually assaulted. Sexual assault is defined by what
actually occurs between two people: non-consensual sexual contact with or penetration of a victim’s body. Many experts emphasize that the power differential between the two people is a key factor in assault."
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Karen Rain posted this review on Facebook 15th April 2019
I don't meet the minimum requirements to post a book review on Amazon. I'm a delinquent consumer. Here is my review:
Practice And All Is Coming: Abuse, Cult Dynamics, and Healing in Yoga and Beyond
by Matthew Remski
★★★★ 1/2
If they care at all about truth and non-harming, Jois Ashtangis should read this book, which examines the sexual abuse scandal around Pattabhi Jois’s Ashtanga yoga. I am one of the main sources of victim testimony for the book. Matthew has documented verbatim my testimony and that of 15 other women who Pattabhi Jois sexually assaulted (including 4 violent digital rapes). I must admit that there are parts of this book that are too triggering for me to read.
I think Matthew's PRISM model is sound and sensible. It offers guidance for yoga or spiritual communities to address a history of harm and for a seeker to look for a community that actualizes their values.
Matthew has been criticized for supposedly positioning himself as a healer. But he has done no such thing. I don't think this book even pretends to offer a path for healing for victims, and I have found my own outlets.
The community has denounced Matthew's credentials and motivation with claims that the healing should come from experts inside Ashtanga. How could there be experts among their own who could provide healing? The senior teachers, the Ashtanga heroes, are people who profited professionally and financially by enabling and covering up 1000's of sexual assaults over the course of over three decades. Talk about questionable credentials and self interest!! The idea that there are experts inside Ashtanga yoga who can offer healing for an abuse scandal that they enabled and profited from is delusional.
If I had a complaint about the book, it would be that Matthew’s treatment of the Jois Ashtanga community is far too kind.
The best these teachers can claim, and it is quite dubious, is that they were ignorant. And no matter what their understanding of Pattabhi Jois being a serial sex offender/rapist was, they are the ones in need of healing. They protect their disgraceful secrets.
The criticisms of Matthew are just a continuation of the cover-up. It is telling that the AY community shows far more anger toward Matthew Remski than they ever have toward a serial sex offender/rapist, namely Pattabhi Jois.
Because it has not been adequately addressed, the cycle of sexual abuse continues in Jois' Ashtanga. I've heard accounts of 6 living and practicing Jois' Ashtanga teachers who have sexually assaulted students, 4 male teachers and 2 female teachers. Two of the male teachers are very famous and highly respected. There are also AY teachers who know about and are protecting and enabling the teachers who sexually assault.
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Blog Posts
Accessible Yoga Blog: Interview with Donna Noble, guest on the Accessible Yoga Blog and founder of CurveSomeYoga.
Online Articles
KQED Articles: Matthew Remski quoted as an expert source.
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La Presse Article: Matthew Remski was interviewed during the research for this article.
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Podcasts
“Those Wounds Are A Kind Of Ink.” Conversation with Rachel Bernstein on her IndoctriNation Podcast (Part 1)
“A Hamster Wheel of Self-Help.” Conversation with Rachel Bernstein on IndoctriNation Podcast (Part 2).
“Addressing And Preventing Sexual Violence in Yoga” Karen Rain Interviewed on Yoga International Podcast
This whole interview is valuable listening. Two sections relate to this book: 1) the introduction and a few minutes from 40 minutes. The player could not be embedded. Click the image to listen on Yoga International's website.
Videos
Yoga, Cults and Control: Excerpts from a public presentation. (UK 2019) with Matthew Remski & Dr. Alexandra Stein Ph.D. (12 min)
The Crisis in Modern Yoga and Buddhism: Cyndi Lee discusses The Abuse Crisis in Modern Yoga and Buddhism (+ transcript) (40 mins)
Interview with Josh Summers on MeaningofLife.tv
