Consider the bright-eyed students who signed up for tantric yoga and sacred sexuality courses through their local yoga studios, only to eventually find they were sending the guru photos of themselves in bikinis to see if they qualified for a private initiation ceremony.

What's unique about today's guru, Gregorian Bivolaru, is how his organization's in-depth courses reached into over 30 different countries, delivering a steady stream of young, starry-eyed women to be abused by him in Paris.

A new documentary series, Twisted Yoga, tells the story of the women who've come forward to expose what they allege are the criminal actions of the guru and his cult. Julian cover the nuts and bolts, Matthew digs into Bivolaru's Soviet-era Romanian background, and then Derek interviews director Rowan Deacon, who reveals some info not covered in the series, such as the “meditations for Trump” going on at some of Bivolaru’s yoga studios.

Show Notes

Gregorian Bivolaru official biography

POV Magazine: How Twisted Yoga Centres Care Amid a Web of Lies

Discourse Analysis of Public Communication Campaigns about Gregorian Bivolaru

ACT Database: "Sucker Love is Heaven Sent" — A Romanian Yoga Cult Under Investigation

NBC Bay Area: Romanian yoga leader Gregorian Bivolaru accused of sexual abuse

CNN: French police arrest yoga guru in connection with alleged rape, human trafficking and kidnapping scheme

Connexion France: 41 arrests over tantric yoga group accused of sex abuse in France

Marxists Internet Archive: Alexandra Kollontai, Theses on Communist Morality in the Sphere of Marital Relations (1921)

UPI (January 1990): Ceaușescu children lived it up while people suffered

Dispărut, dar cu conturile pline. Guru Bivolaru face milioane de dolari anual

UPI (May 1990): Ceaușescu's playboy son on trial

UNADFI: Abus de faiblesse

Statute Law Review: Criminalizing Coercive Control — Cross-Jurisdictional Lessons

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