A Friend sent me a link to a NY Times article on Yoga. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/28/health/nutrition/yoga-fans-sexual-flames-and-predictably-plenty-of-scandal.html. A bit of Google News sleuthing brought up some other interesting pieces. This was new to me but not new to the world apparently. http://blogs.bostonmagazine.com/boston_daily/2012/02/28/cue-the-latest-yoga-sex-scandal/ and http://www.bostonmagazine.com/articles/downward_dogfight_1/. Also a piece from HuffPo from a Yoga devotee on how America has ruined yoga. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ed-and-deb-shapiro/yoga-news_b_1302263.html. Here’s a really interesting blog post on the Friend case. http://jezebel.com/5886795/yoga-mogul-turns-out-to-be-a-total-scumbag.

Here is a NY Times piece on John Friend’s yoga empire from July 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/magazine/25Yoga-t.html

It’s fascinating to me how the intersections of culture, morality and ethics come together in this. Yoga good, Wicca, bad I guess.