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Part One: The First American Yoga Cult Leader

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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:

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