A shocking new Apple series goes behind the yoga camps where women alleged criminal behaviour from a guru wanted for sexual exploitation charges
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racticing yoga has its benefits: the meditative calm, grounded-ness and balance. The devoted pursue transformative spiritual journeys, through poses, chants and breath work. Some followers of tantra yoga take things even further, using sensuality to channel their energy and reach beyond themselves, seeking out of body liberation and enlightenment.
But it’s that very pursuit that has also left hundreds vulnerable to alleged rape and trafficking.
Those crimes are recounted and explored in the new Apple series Twisted Yoga. Former followers of the Movement for Spiritual Integration into the Absolute (MISA) appear in the compelling (and yes, enlightening) three-part documentary series, describing their slow indoctrination into what appears to be a cult.
