November 23, 2019
Those who leave or escape from high-demand yoga groups seem to reorganize through two successive demographic splits. The first split separates out those who must ghost […]
October 13, 2019
It could be that you’re already familiar with modern global Buddhism, be it of the Tibetan, Burmese, Thai, Vietnamese, “mindfulness”, “insight”, or other variety. Your practice […]
January 8, 2019
I just had the pleasure of answering some interview questions posed by an old friend about the health care needs of ex-cult members. Such a great […]
December 15, 2014
Australia’s Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse heard testimony from over a dozen witnesses who resided at Satyananda Yoga Ashram at Mangrove Mountain from the mid 1970s through the late 1980s, including eleven who were children or young teens at the time. The ashram was founded to spread the practices of yoga. But without exception, the former child residents told harrowing stories of pervasive physical and sexual abuse.