Record #1: Cult #1, Berkeley, CA Berkeley, 2001. I was twenty-something, restless, and aching for spiritual direction when I drove eight hours through the night to knock on a tantric yoga teacher's door. He told me I needed to do something extraordinary to prove my devotion. So I showed up in the fog at midnight. This is the record of a tantric yoga community in the Berkeley Hills led by a teacher who claimed lineage with Swami Satyananda Saraswati and Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati at the Bi...
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Record #1: Cult #1, Berkeley, CA Berkeley, 2001. I was twenty-something, restless, and aching for spiritual direction when I drove eight hours through the night to knock on a tantric yoga teacher's door. He told me I needed to do something extraordinary to prove my devotion. So I showed up in the fog at midnight. This is the record of a tantric yoga community in the Berkeley Hills led by a teacher who claimed lineage with Swami Satyananda Saraswati and Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati at the Bi...
In this opening episode of Spiritual Autopsy, I lay down the foundation: why I no longer takes spiritual advice from men. Drawing from decades of experience as a Clinical Ayurvedic Practitioner and long time yoga teacher, I unpack how systems of “truth” often erase women’s bodies, needs, and realities in the name of transcendence. I weave personal story with scientific research, challenging the male-defined standards of healing, discipline, and surrender that have dominated spiritual and medi...
I Don’t Take Spiritual Advice from Men
Record #1: Cult #1, Berkeley, CA Berkeley, 2001. I was twenty-something, restless, and aching for spiritual direction when I drove eight hours through the night to knock on a tantric yoga teacher's door. He told me I needed to do something extraordinary to prove my devotion. So I showed up in the fog at midnight. This is the record of a tantric yoga community in the Berkeley Hills led by a teacher who claimed lineage with Swami Satyananda Saraswati and Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati at the Bi...
