![]() “Both of these figures cultivated cult-like followings through very specific techniques,” says cult researcher and co-host of the Conspirituality podcast, Matthew Remski. This reportedly led people to have sex “like baboons” at the ashram. So too did Osho, via his dynamic, trauma-releasing movement sessions, bizarre classes where participants speak gobbledygook, anti establishment outlook and so-called ‘free love’ ethos which, in a libertarian spirit, rejected the regulation of relationships. He gave them something to believe in, and they want to honour that.” ![]() ![]() He’s a scumbag, but he was a father figure in some ways to many people. “If it was me I’d get his name off my studio,” says Lorr. “(Bikram’s) crimes were enabled by the tremendous amount of trust and connection that people felt to his yoga” – Benjamin Lorr Some of whom he viciously exploited – he has been accused of multiple rapes and cases of sexual assault. While the rigorous 26-posture practice, which he nicknamed “McYoga” due to its consistency, created minor miracles among some, the God complex he fostered helped bring a steady stream of vulnerable people into his orbit. Following countless interviews which set out how the predator groomed his victims into feeling indebted to him, he adds: “His crimes were enabled by the tremendous amount of trust and connection that people felt to his yoga.”īikram led gruelling teacher training courses for $10,000 a head in sweltering conference halls at US hotels heated to 120 degrees while he accumulated a reported fortune of $75 million. “The first woman who told me that she was raped by Bikram preceded the sentence with, ‘But I love him’,” Benjamin Lorr, author of critical Bikram history Hell-Bent, tells Dazed.
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