 G'day mate, 40 here. So I was driving back from Ulladulla on Friday and I was looking at wanting to get a quick burst of the news on my phone. I was following the Dallas Cowboys game on the whole drive back from Ulladulla It was like a three-hour drive and every minute I'd pick up my phone to cover play by play their game against the New Orleans scene. So it was it was Friday afternoon Australia time and It was Thursday evening in the United States. So we stop off for lunch and I pick up my phone look at Apple news for a quick burst of the news and it says that Guru Jigarth had died I thought wait a second. I knew a Guru Jigarth because I started doing Kundalini yoga in 2009-2010. She was one of my favorite teachers and I was quite friendly with her. She came to me on several occasions for Alexander Technique lessons. So I Really liked Guru Jigarth and I really enjoyed Kundalini yoga. So part of me is Susceptible to courts, right? So part of me like loves joining a group where they go, oh, we love you Luke and you know feeling that warm embrace of the of the Insular group and like yeah, you never think 40s into in the courts But yeah, part of me just really enjoys like tight-knit community Which you can often which you can often call a call. Hey, good day Josh Randall so 2009-2010 was somewhat tough years for me because it was late 2007 I realized I could no longer blog for a living So I was kind of searching for my way forward in life and I said, oh, I trained to become an Alexander Technique teacher That's that's a goldmine of money and while I'm training. I'm going deeper and deeper in the credit card debt so it eventually gets over $50,000 and When I shifted from from writing full-time to setting to be an Alexander Technique teacher I lost much my social circle because my social circle used to revolve around writer groups Los Angeles press club gatherings writer groups that was my primary social circle. So When I shifted from being a writer full-time I lost most of my social circle And so I was kind of struggling and I found this Kundalini yoga studio not far from my house on on Robertson Boulevard And so I thought it'd be most effective Yeah, $50,000 is a monster hit to get out from under. I managed to knock it off in a little over two years I just worked several jobs worked 50 plus hours a week and Knocked it all off by by April of 2018. I was all out of credit card debt So there's a wonderful Kundalini yoga studio near me on on Robertson Boulevard near Pico Boulevard in in Los Angeles and I thought I'll be most cost effective I know at this point I was already like $20,000 in credit card debt It'll be most cost effective if I just get the one year unlimited yoga membership So I signed up for one year of unlimited yoga for $1,000 like it was a total bargain and I think I went Something like 200 times that year And then I signed up again in 2010 because it was such a bargain and I went about 111 times So I was really enjoying it. I I had experiences there that I had never had anywhere else I got a girlfriend there. There are a lot of Jews there The the three HO happy healthy holy brand of yoga is vegetarian. So I felt quite comfortable there but At the same time I was doing myself a lot of serious damage like I was trying to keep up with the class And so I was stretching all sorts of ligaments that were not meant to be stretched that way And it took several thousand dollars in in physical therapy To uh to to get rid of the the damage So there's a terrific article in The New York Times how yoga can wreck your body. So yeah, unless you're flexible Unless you're incredibly self-disciplined most people if they get a yoga class, they're gonna feel A strong need to keep up with the class and then you can do tremendous damage to yourself So I was just like stretched all sorts of ligaments that were not supposed to be stretched that way thousands of dollars in physical therapy I had to pay out for the way that I I'd push myself Just You want to kind of keep up like you see everyone else doing these poses all around you and and I wanted to I wanted to keep up And so in 2012 New York Times published this great essay how yoga can wreck your body And the author says I managed to rupture a disc in my lower back from doing yoga And then doing more yoga His back gave way again And he thought yoga was only a source of healing but not harm And That's not true for western people right who are not used to these poses You can do a tremendous amount of home so He talks this article talks about why yogi comes to start a young guy's school of yoga throws himself to in a spinal twist and then Pop pop pop three of the man's ribs Give way So it's really hard to resist when you got a room full of people Doing yoga all around you And you feel like you want to keep up. So it's not just yoga students But plenty of celebrated yoga teachers have injured themselves in droves Right, so for western people Yogas are really dicey bet right yoga is good for people in very good physical condition But it really shouldn't be used for the general population. I mean danger yoga is incredibly dangerous I mean telling everyone to just do, you know, all these all these procedures and stretches Some people can do them and many people can't so Indian practitioners of yoga they are typically squatted and sat cross-legged in daily life for decades All right. And so yoga poses what are called asanas of an outgrowth of these These indian practices But people In the west who sit in chairs or day and they walk into a yoga studio a couple of times a week and then strain to try to twist Themselves into these difficult yoga postures Despite their lack of flexibility despite their various physical problems They're going to have a lot of injuries. So people come to yoga is like a gentle alternative to vigorous sports or to rehabilitate injuries but Most yogas teachers don't have an abundance of training most yoga teachers only have like 200 hours of training Like to be to become an alexander technique teacher had to train Uh five days a week for three hours a day for three years right yoga teacher training is typically done on over the course of a few weekends and Many maybe most yoga classes Just pushing people to do all sorts of things that you know people can't do you got Teachers kind of jumping on people and pushing on people pulling on people You should be able to do this by now and people's egos get wrapped up And uh, there's all sorts of trauma that happens as a result. So yeah, your regular regular people In the first world should not do yoga all right So all sorts of uh yoga poses can Can just do gruesome gruesome damage to people who aren't ready for them And congratulations are in order to bruce. I became a father to a beautiful healthy daughter this weekend muzzle time Congratulations bruce where to go so I was looking at apple news And it features right up top the second coming of georugia georgia. She was one of my favorite teachers at the kundalini yoga Studio that that I went to and I take her a class at least once a week And uh, she was just like friendly and nice and unpretentious Now I brought my crystal light with me to australia She would talk about astrology and I would hear all sorts of things in these kundalini yoga classes Which just seemed like total nonsense to me, but I enjoyed the group. I enjoyed the atmosphere I enjoyed meeting people I it just seemed like a happy healthy Holy even Place to hang out and they were little like Buddhas Which from a from a traditional jewish perspective is like, ah, you know, I doubt idols idols But but then the the kundalini practitioners don't really use them to see them as idols. They see them as like teaching aids so eventually I I felt such a conflict between my My orthodox Judaism as it was understood and practiced by the by the rabbis that uh, I would spend time with and my kundalini yoga studio that I left kundalini yoga after two years, but I had a good experience there But on the other hand, I recognized the downsides. I did thousands of dollars of damage to myself The physical therapy was very expensive to repair the damage that I caused myself in yoga and then Very early on in my experience in kundalini yoga I did some research on this particular form of yoga kundalini yoga and uh, so that hundreds of Ex-members of this group regarded as dangerous dangerous cult So it's like anything else whether it's acidic Judaism or seventh day adventism or You know certain forms of rama catholicism I'm sure that these These religions or these practices can be good for some people and harmful for other people and it's hard to predict You know going in whether it's something will be good for you or bad for you and same with people like there was a very powerful article on steven glass the fabulous That just came out it was called steven glasses biggest lie and so he invented all sorts of Uh stories for the new republic all right, and so He had to leave journalism and he moved to la because people in la don't really care that much if you invented a bunch of stories for a for a magazine that nobody's ever heard of the new republic so uh, steven glass reinvented himself in as a legal assistant in the personal injury firm and uh, you married this novelist and uh an attorney and they had a beautiful beautiful marriage by or respects and steven glass wanted to dedicate himself to being truthful to try to rehabilitate himself and so yeah, julie hilton Was uh, it was the woman he eventually married and she'd gone to harvard. She gone to Yale law school. She judged for steven briar and She had a turbulent life. She had a mother who developed early onset Alzheimer's And hilton bit her about her difficult childhood abandoned her mother as she slowly died from the disease And hilton published the bad daughter Which is a searing memoir about how she ignored her mother's needs and carried on with her life as a young lawyer in New york she describes her infidelity to a boyfriend how she covered up with lies how she lied about her mother and so she got together with steven glass and they got married and she Came down with early onset Alzheimer's herself and She didn't want to talk about it when she was sick in the last few years So she insisted that steven now join her in the lie that they were just going to ignore What was happening to her? So steven made this big commitment to living in truth after his humiliation but now again to tell this big lie and carry on this big lie to to kind of save the Psyche and save the happiness of his wife julie hilton. So just a very moving story here I'll put a Put a link so yeah, usually telling the truth is the right thing to do but Sometimes sometimes people need you to keep up their delusions if they're going through a particularly difficult time So steven glass obviously did a lot of bad things in making up stories from the new republic and betrayed people But people are complex Josh Randall says I remember doing a yoga pose that supposedly helped with digestion. I felt my butt bone cut into my glutes. It was in pain for weeks Yeah, so Not everyone is cut out for yoga all right Like it's supposed to be this like gentle healing thing But it's hard not to get competitive or at least feel like you should be keeping up with the class So what are you missing? There's a four-part documentary series that's going to come out on hbo max about my former yoga teacher guru jagat And bruce says I fear my daughter my newborn daughter will interfere with my look for a live stream consumption Everybody needs a place to get away Everybody knows your name and they're always glad you came okay, so I'm looking through apple news and I see a story on guru jagat and that she'd recently died And this is a young woman. I knew her when she was about 30 And she was a popular Yoga teacher, but she apparently became a real guru and when I knew her she used the name guru jagat but she also used kundalini katie And she was born I think katie griggs Right on a farm in colorado, but she moved to las angeles. She became a yoga teacher and then so many yoga teachers become gurus now there's nothing inherent in teaching yoga Or teaching physics that that makes one qualified to become a guru, but in our more secular age People are looking for direction. So charles barkley the nba player could say I don't want to be a role model, but all of us are role models to somebody right we we can't escape The fact of life that we have an influence on other people Right, we don't control other people, but we have an influence on other people I was reading a story on The australian media in the past decade and talked about a famous case of two two djs in sydney australia who when one of the One of the prince's wives was was in In hospital to give birth to a baby they they called the hospital and And they pretended to be the queen mother They pretended to be the queen calling for her daughter-in-law and so the nurse who put them through It was so appalled by what happened that she committed suicide Now, I don't think you can blame the sydney djs who were just doing a prank call for the nurse of suicide This nurse had a long history of mental illness Now the nurse did a suicide note where she blamed the djs and said I hope they will pay off my my mortgage Uh, but we're not responsible Generally speaking for other people's suicides, right? You make a prank call If someone is so ashamed that they commit commit suicide That's not on you. Maybe up to 5% is is on you So we can have an influence on other people. We do influence other people But we're not generally speaking responsible for other people I could say something on a live stream that could have an absolutely, you know devastating Effect on your life if you used used it in the wrong way. I'm not responsible for that if you were on your life So guru jigart was born katie gregs. She was a middle-class white girl born in the summer of 1979 on a colorado farm And she was my she was my friend and yoga teacher for about two years and my alexander technique student And so Some say guru jigart was a bona fide spiritual leader. Some say she was a fraud Some say she was a controversial thought leader. Some say she was a bigot a feminist a rape apologist And now at age 41 she's dead She broke her ankle went in for ankle surgery and had a heart attack and died So that's the official story. She died of a pulmonary embolism following ankle surgery so just thinking about cults like People who have a particular need for for meaning All right, they're very likely to fall into cults because when we don't have that ordinary human connection Then we become desperate for meaning then we become particularly susceptible to believing in conspiracy theories and superstition and nonsense so So kundalini yoga, it's known for its like intense breath work. There's like think breath of fire And so I stopped doing that because you're just like a dog's breath again you're just breathing in really rapidly And you can't do it however without tensing and contracting your neck So about half of the procedures Particularly virtually all the breath work intense breath work in kundalini yoga I stopped doing very early on because it interfered with my alexander technique training so kundalini yoga is characterized by intense breath work repetitive poses Vegetarianism alternative lifestyle choices wearing wearing white eating mostly vegetarian Okay Comment about omicron. So it sounds like very strong possibility that omicron will spread more easily than delta, but also Be less deadly Be less severe So it sounds like cowpox right cowpox was a watered-down version of smallpox And it was from Edward Jenner that we got vaccines who noticed that The girls milking the cows would get cowpox, but they'd never get smallpox. So it sounds like people getting omicron It sounds like at this stage that it could very well act as a sort of vaccination That their experience with COVID will be relatively mild and they won't get I hope they won't get the more severe forms of COVID. We don't know very much about omicron How did omicron wind up in Australia two days after being discovered in South Africa? Just because omicron was discovered in South Africa two days ago Does not mean that it was only around for two days and omicron's been around for weeks It's probably been circulating in america in europe and in australia And elsewhere has only discovered about a week ago and it was It was brought to australia same way as brought to california And other places by people who traveled from south africa and some of these people that had been vaccinated And their experience with omicron was very mild right so At this stage, we don't have Strong evidence that omicron will be as deadly as delta Yeah, but we've been quarantining people coming into australia. Yeah, but if it's an australian citizen as a right to return to australia All right, they come in And they're vaccinated, but they may still be carrying omicron or some other variant So when I got into australia About nine days later. I got an urgent email shortly after omicron's from New south wales health department saying you must go in for a test. So I went in for a For a covert test and showed negative ellioplast says it sounds like another step in the natural evolution of viruses. Yeah, so eventually a coronavirus will evolve to be less lethal, but In the meantime it could Have a variation that is more lethal eventually in the long run it will become less lethal But right now we could have variants to become more lethal How do I release tension in my neck at the base of my neck? Okay, not easy. So a free neck means that someone just like with a very light touch can move your head around So usually tension in your neck and in your body will reflect what's going on in your thinking and in your emotions So as you free your thinking and free your emotions You may be able to free up unnecessary muscular tension. Also, as you let go of unnecessary muscular tension You will likely free up your thinking and free up your Your emotions as well And ellioplast says it doesn't make sense that we could get a variant that's even more deadly Well, that's what happened with the 1918 Spanish flu. You had the first First variant which was moderately deadly and then you had more deadly variants After that and then eventually the virus mutated to become less lethal So eventually these viruses do mutate to become less lethal But we don't know how many millions of people they will kill in the meanwhile I can't take the pandemic Anymore says Josh Randall. Well Whether you can take or not take it The pandemic rolls on So you can protect yourself by Being in good shape not being overweight Getting plenty of exercise and rest Getting vaccinated and getting the booster shot Did you hear about the COVID concentration camps in Queensland? Okay, any COVID concentration camps They're not concentration camps. All right People are not being worked to death. People are not being sent up Chimneys All right, they're just being quarantined. So social distancing is a practice that goes back thousands and thousands of years It's used in the bible for people who have diseases like leprosy So social distancing and these quote unquote COVID concentration camps. They've been used for thousands of years It's a normal reaction to a pandemic the people who May be at a high Likelihood of transmitting a deadly disease you want to isolate them until they're not lethal anymore so I drank garlic juice today. My skin has been burning all day. Wow. I have never drunk garlic juice but The people around you must be must be enjoying the the pungent odor Richard Spencer admitted to having intercourse with Faith Gordy on the kill stream two days ago ah All right, so here I am coming back from Ulladala to Sydney Friday afternoon And I read this story on Apple news plus about my former yoga teacher apparently she turned into a full-fledged guru All right, and if you want to understand how gurus work, my primary recommendation is the terrific podcast decoding the gurus so So Kundalini yoga practitioners like to refer to it as ancient technology All right, this is something that Gurus and religious people often do they claim That their practices have very ancient roots and frequently this stuff is just invented So Kundalini yoga was basically entirely made up in the late 1960s by Singh Kalsa former Indian customs agent immigrated from India to the United States And he died a rich and beloved guru known as yogi bhajan So he sat at three HO happy healthy holy So he took elements of Sikhism Hinduism Buddhism dress them up in a new age aesthetic sprinkled in techno futurist jargon And built a multi multi multi million dollar empire that included a private security firm As well as the enormously popular yogi tea brand Is that why I you wore the tight spray? I wore the tight spray because all of my clothing was in the wash So all I had was my dad's dressing gown right This belonged to my dear old dad So I could have just worn this alone Or I I I played with my sister for like a shirt And and some sweatpants and that's what I got Is it true what they say about girls who smoke? What do they say about girls who smoke that they're more promiscuous? I'm not sure there's a dramatic difference in promiscuity between girls who smoke and girls who don't I mean if someone's smoking now or in the last 30 years generally speaking that indicates that they're lower class So working class goes easier routes than middle class and upper class girls Not sure about that It's my dear old dad's dressing gown I think it really suits me all right, so HBO max is producing this four-part documentary series On my former yoga teacher guru jugat And the breath of fire. So I think like they're all sorts of procedures where you put your you know Point your thumbs out And trying to take in and you really do have intense intense experiences So yogi bhajan was accused of rape sexual misconduct financial misconduct and Not many people paid attention, but I read about it in 20 2009 when I joined the kundalini yoga studio So I got informed I spent about 20 hours reading all the reports from x members of his group so I continued on with practicing kundalini yoga, but But with the awareness of how dark an experience has been for some people. So We almost can't help joining cults I hope we can't help joining groups where We affirm ourselves as essentially being chosen that you know, we truly understand what's going on but You can't go through life alone without joining groups, but you can maintain like kind of an outside An outside sense of skepticism So luke's old yogi was a dirt back. Well, let's just say yogi bhajan was a complicated figure All right, so his former employee former lover Pamela Dyson published an explosive memoir in 2020 white bird in a golden cage my life with yogi bhajan And after this book you get an onslaught of other accusations including sexual battery rape for child molestation And a report conducted by an independent third party found that the abuse more likely than not occurred Yeah, complicated dirt bag not just like a regular dirt bag people are complicated All right, so guru jagat my former yoga teacher and all the yoga teachers At my studio, they would all defend yogi bhajan. Why do I think of conspiracy theories? So conspiracy theories in the connotative sense in the way that phrase is used I think they usually bunk But of course any time various people conspired to do something of course that happens all the time but what a commonly commonly Shared as conspiracy theories. I think they're nonsense and they come out of this human need for fine fine meaning so E. Michael Jones had a discussion with kevin mcdonald and they both basically said they had the same goals which is to Essentially reduce or eliminate Jewish influence in the west. I think that's what they're about so guru jagat Posted a video to discredit this woman yogi bhajan former lover pamela dyson. She defended yogi bhajan And then her stance triggered a backlash So a former personal assistant guru jagat began posting reports of guru jagat's bad behavior toxic workplace She's abusive irrational prone to lying. She spent money like water often came up short when it's time to pay her employees And then guru jagat wrote f you all For not drafting a promotional email as she wished and threatened the group I will ring you on next if not every photo you've ever taken up until now isn't in the drop box Okay, so even religious leaders and yoga leaders and gurus they're all fallible human beings Right. So just because people are awful and toxic in some situation Does not mean that there are other situations where they're not fine. I I don't believe that people are demons So So i'm sure hitler was nice to his dog I'm sure hitler was nice to some people. Joseph Stalin was nice to some people So even serial killers often love their mothers People are complicated so I grew up in some of the adventures in which many people would regard as a cult I converted to orthodox studios in which many people would regard as a cult I had two years in kundalini yoga, which many people would regard as a cult So I have a lot of experience in these quote unquote corny groups and so I love the I love the togetherness with a cult Right. I love the feeling of camaraderie And at the same time I recognized that There's dangers with you know strong in-group thinking where you just You know think only people in your group matter And everyone else is inferior so we'll always be joining groups and We'll always have Priorities in who we love, but we also need to be able to kind of step outside of the group Or to to hear hear group rhetoric with with some skepticism So chat says with regard to believing conspiracy theories does it just come out of boredom an inability to accept life on life's terms Yeah, people people often want drama, particularly if you're unhappy You want drama to get outside of your life, right? You want to get outside of your your frustrating In insufficiently compelling existence and so you're going to be attracted to that which distracts you and drama distracts So there's a life of real accomplishment And then if you don't have a life of real accomplishment, then you want a life of distraction and drama Leaders of organizations are at risk of messianic thinking. Yeah So once you get a little bit of adoration, it's incredibly intoxicating And it can lead you to wanting more and more admiration And so it very easily leads to audience capture How do you stop your biological thoughts when a pose is attractive? well depends If you are getting intoxicated by looking at women in provocative yoga poses Then there's probably something deeper that you're missing in your life And so the the distraction and intoxication is so powerful for you Because you have such a strong need to escape from your mundane life So bringing bringing higher levels of meaning and fulfillment to your everyday life will reduce the hold that You know the the beautiful women or you know anything that's an intoxicating distraction can hold over you So guru jagat my former former yoga teacher perfection was demanded. She wanted our total devotion Well, this goes two ways like cults work two ways like gurus work two ways. There are no gurus without followers All right And so if a follower allows a guru to get away with bad behavior or excessive demands Then that's on the follower not just on The guru should yoga pants be banned in public? No, I noticed that That a lot of that very tight You know those tight pants tight leggings very popular in in australia As well as as well as america no You need to attain a level of calm inside yourself where you're not going to get nuts when a woman walks by and tight pants So jagat guru jagat jagat means teacher of the universe So teacher of spiritual salvation So if you follow someone whose this title is teacher of spiritual salvation then And you're indicating that y'all That that's what you're in the market for that's what you're looking for All right, you go to certain places then certain behavior is expected of you So guru jagat's following was a cult within a court I can't wait to watch this hbo max miniseries on my former yoga teacher And then like many yoga teachers She was into far-right conspiracy theories like you're not So a lot of alternative health practitioners are also into these, you know, not too far-right conspiracy theories So guru jagat promoted qanon within her wellness bubble And apparently she was not a big fan of black lives matter So she was not politically correct and Vanity fair interviewed her in april before she died and guru jagat says i'm not love and light susie I'm direct and I talk about things people don't want to talk about So she she was into the idea that kovat 19 was planned She had conspiracy theorist david ick on a podcast She had kevin carry casady on a podcast He said that the matrix was a documentary and the falsely claimed that kovat 19 was activated by 5g Yeah, I mean a lot of Counted a lot of nutty 5g people who like moved to Central america to try to get away from 5g As for the allegations against yogi bhajan guru says yogi bhajan is a historic figure I'm not spending my days trying to figure out whether george washington was doing some things I wouldn't agree with in 2021. That's actually a pretty good answer Guru Singh was a man a human being with Some dark sides and some good sides So guru jagat was a guru in the millennial girl boss mode peddling an instagram friendly spirituality That encouraged adherents to follow their dreams to get rich quick and to become more desirable And she caught herself a ceo of seven global businesses in addition to guru and the shtick worked So she had a website with two million unique visitors each month 20 Thousand online subscribers would pay at least 19 a month to access its content so A lot of gurus out there a lot of yoga gurus out there who have an enormous following so This just must be some kind of inherent human need To have someone to tell you how to live your life But why people would turn to a yoga teacher for this? So guru jagat my former teacher always had a flair for the dramatic She liked to dress up and to be the center of attention She was drawing spirituality from the age of seven Though she presented herself as a self-sufficient high-flying business woman her father Her mother and stepfather provided the initial $20,000 that got her her group started We thought it was just a yoga studio. We were completely in the dark about this other stuff So before she became guru jagat Katie tried other names. She was Athena day and then Zeus Then Katie day And then when I knew her she was the more approachable Kundalini Cody Katie So she was both using Kundalini Katie and guru jagat She was always trying to find herself She dropped out of college due to partying Eventually got a degree from Antioch College. She was disillusioned with the Traditional religion and she seemed to find answers to all the big questions in the wellness industry So in 3-8-0 yogi Bajans legacy company you can purchase a spiritual name for $40 Have I witnessed the paranormal or the supernatural? I don't think so I mean I've had intimations of That intimations of the supernatural But I haven't witnessed anything supernatural So my intimations are like that yearning for the for the north, you know that yearning for god in inside me Oh, Josh Randall says you got to get a disney plus subscription watch the Beatles documentary get back It's long and tedious, but it shows you how blue collar that band was I did watch About a 10 hour Beatles documentary approximately 12 years ago Do I believe in spirits and ghosts? I neither believe or not believe So I'm I'm open. I'm open to the to this possibility I remember I shared this new york times 2012 article about the dangers of yoga on my On my facebook page and uh jurid jihad did not Did not approve So yoga from many perspectives those new york times is this miraculous agent of renewal and healing People want to be told to do certain things like do certain postures do certain breath work and or solve a lot of their problems What's a lot more demanding is something like the alexander technique where you notice the ways that you are doing things And then you learn to subtract The the practices and the habits that you are doing that don't serve you So that's a lot more demanding but people just want to go to a class with other people and do certain practices certain procedures Certain exercises Certain amount of breath work. Here's some teachings and feel like this is going to cure them as opposed to Like a one-on-one alexander technique lesson Where you are noticing you're interfering muscular tension patterns and learning to let go of them So Yoga is incredibly successful as a business as a spirituality as a form of community And it's got these miraculous Traits of calming and curing and energizing and strengthening So yoga can do a lot of good things But it also has an enormous potential to inflict you know devastating blinding pain Now many yoga teachers don't really talk about this So but for decades in in the world's most respected medical journals such as neurology the british medical journal the journal the american medical association There have been all sorts of articles and studies warning About yoga injuries, you know, some of them resort in permanent disabilities So in 1972 a prominent oxford neuro physiologist published an article in the british medical Journal arguing that many yoga pastures threatened to cause strokes even in young healthy people You have brain injuries Rising not only from direct trauma to the neck, but from quick movements or excessive Extensions of the neck such as a current whiplash or in certain yoga poses So normally the neck can stretch backwards 75 degrees forward 40 degrees sideways 45 degrees and rotate on its axis about 50 degrees But yoga practitioners typically move the vertebra much farther to Intermediate yoga studio student can typically turn his neck 90 degrees Which is twice the normal rotation So this kind of hyperflexion of the neck is encouraged by many yoga teachers but This can wound Vertebral arteries it can produce blood clots swelling construction and just wreak absolute havoc in the brain As can many chiropractic adjustments So you can suffer headaches, imbalance, dizziness, difficulty in movement that can persist for years due to these yoga poses And when strokes hit yoga practitioners doctors may not be able to trace their cause So all sorts of young healthy people start doing yoga and suffer permanent permanent damage So the number of emergency room admissions relating to yoga Is rapidly rising it went from 13 in the year 2000 to 20 in 2001 to 46 in 2002 so the most Serious yoga injuries typically happen the lower back the shorter the knee and the neck and strokes So some of the more thoughtful people say your ordinary westerners should not be doing yoga Yoga is too dangerous for the average person in the west Like doing a headstand can lead to a thoracic outlet syndrome And you compress the nerves passing from the neck into the arms So yoga i'm sure for many people it helps But for many other people they do permanent damage themselves and there's nothing inherent in being a yoga teacher That Should make people see you as a guide to life So my yoga teacher guru jagat kundalini kedi. She got into kundalini yoga. She was good at it She got structure. She got exercise. She got a sense of purpose She got a channel for enormous creative energy. She stopped drinking. She built a community. She found a following She developed a stage a community She became a guru But from a critical perspective kundalini yoga is very shaky ground To build your spiritual salvation line. This is from the vanity fair article So it's not just that yogi bhajan invented it out of thin air that he beat into at many troubling aspects of his sociopathic and narcissistic personality because like any new read new age gurus yogi bhajan taught that a person's life in life can be attributed solely to their spiritual well-being and discipline And that's simply not true. I think that's that's also thinking that's widespread on the right that your health is basically in your hands And it's not true. Your genetics which are not in your hands will have a tremendous role to play in your health And uh This notion that if you you know, you just eat ride and exercise that you're gonna live a long healthy life If only you were that simple So we're we're very vulnerable in life. We we can't control ourselves Always let alone other people and uh, there's also There's also the role of luck so You can be following traffic laws and a drunk driver can come along And smoking may not be great for you Probably definitely not good for you But uh, two-thirds of smokers are not going to die early Oh, so the lead guitar player red hot chili peppers hurt himself pretty good with yogurt Yeah, I know a lot of people have done really serious damage. I mean damage that lasts for months if not permanently Yeah, too much stretching Can be quite Quite dangerous yogurt can be cruel to the hang low body People would benefit from weight training and getting stronger Yeah, are there rites of exorcism in orthodox Buddhism like in some In some some rabbis that probably practice something like that, but it's exceedingly rare They're like 99.9 percent of orthodox rabbis orthodox jews don't Participate or have any experience in exorcisms Yeah hypermobility syndrome. Yeah, you can stretch and stretch And particularly if you got illers dana syndrome Very dangerous. That's what I've got. I've got like hypermobile joints and so You know the kind of stretching that yoga encourages can be really bad Yoga is the gateway to argument So this is a good vanity fair article Invisible auras and murky spiritual lineages explain why one person should have hour over another This is in kundalini yoga philosophies sub conscious blocks Which only the wise guru can intuit become tools to gaslight followers and to dismiss criticism In 1978 lecture yogi bhajan argued that victims of rape should be blamed for rape rape is always invited. He said Person who is raped It's always providing subconsciously the environments and the arrangements But can I recommend a book to you on the merits of strength chaining to prepare for your old age? Absolutely. So I do my push-ups and Starting to do pull-ups again So yogi bhajan Taffan kundalini is a powerful technology and there are scientific studies that show the benefit of chanting mantras And the highest experience from the intensive breath work in kundalini Are useful tools for recovering addicts. So I'm sure many people have greatly benefited from kundalini yoga So many kundalini yogis talk about how the practice yields important spiritual and emotional breakthroughs in their life Yeah, so you can have a life where you experience powerful spiritual and emotional Breakthroughs, but the same practice for someone else would do more harm than good So guru jigar described your guru moniker as being like a rapper name so, uh It's incredibly rare In Sikhism to receive the word guru in your spiritual name Maybe guru jigar had some special quality So guru jigar began as a performance of her own invention somewhere along the line The once aspiring actor starting believing it. Yeah, so the most Successful yoga teachers almost always have a background in theater or television so Two years ago, she became hell bent on being referred to only as guru jigar even by her parents Who I had continued to call her katia her birth name? She wed her student tag nam Student two decades younger than her Tag nam's real name is austin dumbar uh, katie stepfather record how katie yelled at them for watching cnn Because they were part of the deep state and george soros was behind this thing pizza gate stuff Katie refused to get the covid vaccine and held maskless classes in defiance of california's mask ordinance All of this was baffling to katie's mother who'd raised her daughter in a liberal environment kept saying who is this woman? I don't recognize her Josh says I got deep into yoga and then I work up in jail. I had to turn my life around And uh bottles recommends a book on the merits of strength training is called the barbell prescription Bye. Bye