A woman has told an inquiry that she was sexually assaulted with a double-barrelled shotgun at a New South Wales Central Coast yoga ashram, and was not sure the man who did it would not pull the ...

A seven-year-old girl was stripped naked and held down while the skin between her breasts was cut by a swami who licked the blood and had intercourse with her during an initiation ceremony at a NSW ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. 'Violent discipline' part of yoga culture Ashram children starved, drugged, tortured Paradise lost: the dark side of a spiritual movement ...

Indian guru Swami Satyananda Saraswati is celebrated in the yoga community as the founder of the international yoga movement Bihar Yoga and the purveyor of popular Tantric-based meditation techniques.

A yoga ashram that initially offered a 'healing' fire ceremony to cleanse people who had been drugged, raped and beaten as children at the retreat say they will now offer compensation to victims years ...

2nd Anniversary -Satyananda Yoga Centre Celebrates The 2nd. Anniversary of The Mahasamadhi of Paramahamsa Swami Satyananda Saraswati of the Bihar School of Yoga Munger and Rikhiapeeth on Monday 5th.

News24: On 2 December, the ABC ran footage in conjunction with a story of an Royal Commission Inquiry into allegations of sexual abuse at the Satyananda Ashram. The story concerned the alleged ...

An Indian guru who founded the global Satyananda yoga movement engaged in “aggressive, violent sex” with numerous women and may have raped a seven-year-old, despite preaching chastity, an Australian ...