#5 Escaping my Yoga Guru - Luna Benichou and the Dark Side of “Spiritual Centers” in India

Update: 2021-09-22

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Luna Benichou had been warned about the sometimes predatory nature of spiritual centers in India. Only a few weeks into her yoga apprenticeship, she started to notice that something was off. Luna recounts her frightening experience escaping a manipulative fraudulent “guru," and talks about cultural appropriation and the dark side of the spiritual industry.

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#5 Escaping my Yoga Guru - Luna Benichou and the Dark Side of “Spiritual Centers” in India

Jonathan Otero, Maximille Gonzales and Chelsea Pelsone

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#5 Escaping my Yoga Guru - Luna Benichou and the Dark Side of “Spiritual Centers” in India

Jonathan Otero, Maximille Gonzales and Chelsea Pelsone

#5 Escaping my Yoga Guru - Luna Benichou and the Dark Side of “Spiritual Centers” in India