Episode 3 Resources: GURUS Killed Yoga
In this episode, we take a look at YOGA GURUS AND THE POWER DYNAMICS and personality characteristics that can often lead to abuse, harm, misconduct.
Scandals, Accusations & crimes
Yoga Guru Pattabhi Jois Sexually Assaulted Me for Years by Karen Rain
Why Didn’t Somebody Warn Me? A Pattabhi Jois #MeToo Story by Jubilee Cooke
Yoga’s Culture of Sexual Abuse: Nine Women Tell Their Stories by Matthew Remski
Video of Iyengar hitting a student who is demonstrating headstand
The free-love cult that terrorised America – and became Netflix’s latest must-watch by Sam Wolfson
India's Baba Ramdev Billionaire Is Not Baba Ramdev by Megha Bahree
Swami Vishnudevananda; statement issued to acknowledge negligence around abuse & rape reports
The guru complex & Guru manipulation
I Was a Self-Help Guru. Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Listen to People Like Me by Michelle Goodman
Outside the Limits of the Human Imagination :What the new documentary “Wild, Wild Country” doesn’t capture about the magnetism and evil of the Rajneesh cult
How the Industry of Spirituality Creates Toxic “Self-Help” Communities by Sarah Dittmore
moving on from abuse + scandal
Responding to Kino MacGregor’s Statements on Pattabhi Jois by Karen Rain
How to Respond to Sexual Abuse Within a Yoga or Spiritual Community by Karen Rain and Jubilee Cooke
Sharath Jois instagram: It is my sincere hope that we can prevent abuse from ever happening again
What Do I Say When Someone Tells Me They Have Been Assaulted/Harassed?
