Part One: The First American Yoga Cult Leader

Robert sits down with Katy Stoll to talk about The Great Oom, America's first Yoga cult leader, and precursor to all the wonderful abusive yoga cults of today.

(2 part series)

Footnotes:

https://www.amazon.com/Great-Oom-Improbable-Birth-America/dp/B004KAB528
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/feb/18/bikram-hot-yoga-scandal-choudhury-what-he-wanted
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/scandal/2014/01/bikram-choudhury-yoga-sexual-harassment
https://www.gq.com/story/yoga-guru-bikram-choudhury
https://www.thecut.com/2020/08/yoga-to-the-people-scandal-what-went-wrong.html
https://archive.is/02CTY#selection-763.0-767.586
https://www.history.com/news/yoga-vivekananda-america
https://archive.org/details/greatoomimprobab0000love/page/20/mode/2up
https://www.npr.org/2010/05/09/126610671/the-great-oom-yogas-wild-ride-to-respectability
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/30101/americas-first-yoga-scandal
https://www.oxygen.com/true-crime-buzz/where-is-yoga-guru-bikram-choudhury-now
https://www.yogapedia.com/definition/10827/bishnu-ghosh

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