About this episode
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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