Part One: The First American Yoga Cult Leader

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 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.