Tuesday, March 18, 2025

The British press woke up too (?)



After the broadcast of the BBC's "Bad Guru" podcast, an article about TARA/MISA appeared in the British press,
in The Guardian newspaper:
The article contains testimonies from the same female student Miranda who made the revelations in the aforementioned podcast.
The facts are largely the same, but with some additional clarifications and details.

quote:
Tara Yoga’s classes are marketed as “esoteric Tantra” – more about inner work than improving your sex life, with a focus
on realising your own potential. 

The facade is painted on the outside... The duplicity of those at MISA/ATMAN/TARA is obvious. They avoid presenting an image
that is too "sexualized" on the outside, so they talk more about the "spiritual side". For this very reason, those who fall for the trap
and enter MISA are shocked by the contrast between the innocent image displayed on the outside (like a monastery of virgin nuns)
and the debauchery inside:

quote:
Miranda remembers the experience. She meditated a lot, entering what she describes as “an altered state or euphoria –
like coming up on a drug, but because it’s natural, it feels controlled”. She attended lectures. She saw other students undress
as they gave performances and simulated Tantric massage. “That shocked me: the level of casual nudity in the dances and
performances, seeing my teachers performing on stage naked.” She decided not to engage in nudity herself, at times feeling
objectified by the men on the retreat. 

All the sincere spiritual seekers who joined MISA in its early days, in the hope of spiritual evolution, were also shocked by
the contrast between the "sacredness" that emanated from the first expositions on Tantra and the debauchery displayed by
Bivolaru, whose model was closely followed by his main disciples. Even some of these early disciples expressed this contrast,
which had a false explanation:

Before, Grieg (Gregorian Bivolaru) spoke almost nothing or not at all about Tantra, he knew the extraordinary effectiveness
of this path, but he considered that people were not prepared to understand this field and he was aware of the fact that serious
yogic training was necessary beforehand and that there was no one worthy of being initiated, so this field of Tantra was
surrounded by a veil of mystery and metaphysics. So you can imagine what the atmosphere was like when Tantra was not
talked about and, when it was talked about, you had to have done 3-4 years of yoga, be able to control the energy and only
from there, as a true initiate, start practicing at the highest level of seriousness and be an occult initiate. So the approach
itself was much more occult.

At the time when we started practicing Tantra, Grieg – due to the fact that he considered that we did not have the level
to understand it, simply did not give any information. So when he was asked about Tantra, he would say to them:
"You don't know, what do you know about the higher practices of the system? I can't tell you, you don't have the level to do this.
If you really want to do it now, try it and see if you will find out!" So there was a time when they did it by probing, meaning
they were not told anything, except what they had to achieve. Nothing was said at all, so everything was to be discovered,
if you really had the aspiration and if you wanted to do it with all your might.

The flip side of the coin is that those who were doing Tantra at that time had an extremely serious approach, so when
you approached Tantra, you were approaching one of the great mysteries of nature, you were approaching one of the most
occult systems of spiritual practice. People had gained information about Tantra with great difficulty and were aware that
they were doing something elite, extraordinary, and, because of this, their approach was extraordinarily serious. 
(Narcis Tarcău aka Swami Vivekananda Saraswati, press article 🔗, audio statement in Romanian).

These are wrong opinions because, immediately after the debut of MISA yoga classes in the first 3-4 months of 1990
(and not after 3-4 years!), Bivolaru and his "advanced" disciples were seen showing up with a lot of frivolous ("casual")
women around them, always different, changed like panties, although in the classes they talked about couples of two,
based on endless love, full of candor and sacredness. Then the "information" also began to circulate among the students,
written or oral, and they began to imitate this behavior so that, after a few months, there was total debauchery at MISA...
What yogic training, what mystery, what elite?

Why did Bivolaru conceal Tantra before 1990? Most likely because he had been in trouble with the communist authorities
in 1977 for distributing pornographic materials and, for his own protection or even theirs, he could not simply tell his
followers that he would get in trouble if he promoted Tantra. So it was much easier to claim that “Tantra is too much
for your level”, a lie that was deflated immediately after the fall of communism and the founding of MISA, when all the
uninitiated practiced Tantra as something common.

While on the presentation pages of MISA/ATMAN they talk about deification and sacred eros, inside there is debauchery,
pornography and prostitution, which is poured out on the students from the level of the sect leadership, “from top to bottom”.
This is the meaning of the expression “esoteric yoga”, which differentiates the “special yoga” of MISA from ordinary gym yoga.

quote:
From the outside, Tara Yoga Centre looks like a normal, welcoming yoga studio. There are positive, even gushing, Google reviews.
The website is professional, with photos of smiling people stretching on matching purple yoga mats. It promises “rapid and
integral transformation”, as well as “an invitation to awaken now”.

”The altered state or euphoria, like coming up on a drug, but because it’s natural, it feels controlled”, represents the description
of "the peak spiritual achievements that authenticate this integral esoteric yoga school".
The Kundalini Yoga system, based on the amplification and manipulation of vital and sexual energies and sensations, is the secret
of the rapid (but short-term) success of MISA courses. It is actually like sexual self-stimulation, the goal of which is increasingly
intense states of euphoria and controlled pleasure, in which the emphasis is always on the body, not on the elevated spirit.

quote:
But the experience was also exhilarating. “There’s an intensity, it’s like going to a festival,” Miranda recalls.
“There was a small group of us, but we were all there for the same reason and with the same intention…
That can be addictive.”

The addiction Miranda talks about is not just addiction to sensations of pleasure and euphoria ("spiritual states"), but it is also
about collective pressure, the need of the individual student to be in line with others, which actually represents the "herd spirit",
in opposition to the real situation in which everyone is at their own level and evolves at their natural pace. I quote:

“This seems a bit weird”, especially the regular playing of soft porn films, but there were 6,000 other people there, so she kept 
the faith. “I thought, ‘Maybe these people know something I don’t or something I can’t explain’,” says Miranda. After all, it was
this desire for a connection to something bigger than herself that had attracted her in the first place. And so, she threw herself in.

The Guardian article then presents cases of “spiritual leaders” (gurus) who have been accused of sexual abuse.
Perhaps, focusing only on the UK branch of MISA, British journalists are unaware of the cases of sexual abuse allegations
involving former disciples of Bivolaru, such as Tarcău (article) or Eugen Mîrtz (article).
This fact is still strange, especially since Tarcău became the subject of a film on Netflix! (article).

However, this article has the merit of finally raising the issue of regulating yoga classes and teacher licensing.
Given that, for any other activity, you need tons of documents and licenses, it is all the more strange that being a “yoga teacher”
does not require special licenses:

quote:
There is a need to follow a teacher’s instructions and safety depends on that person being of good character.
This is not always the case and it doesn’t help that yoga is also an unregulated industry, meaning no qualifications are legally
required for teachers. It’s very easy to set up as a yoga teacher and that leads to all sorts of risks, like abuse or sexual exploitation,
but also of injuring people if a teacher is not well trained in anatomy and physiology. When wellness links sex to spiritual growth,
this potential vulnerability to coercive control can be heightened, he adds. Consent can be blurry, abuse more prevalent.

Some of the higher-ranking MISA instructors have previously obtained certifications from other international yoga associations 🔗 🔗,
although they claim that MISA is the only authentic school on the planet and is the only one that holds the "esoteric initiatory
keys indispensable for a truly effective practice". How these keys came to be only at MISA when no other school has them,
those at MISA have not explained this illogical situation, just as they have not clarified how MISA came to have a spiritual line
("lineage"), since the self-proclaimed "professor" Bivolaru had no masters!

quote:
Tantra is not necessarily sexual by nature. If, as a spiritual practice, yoga was essentially a monastic pursuit, Tantric yoga
was a branch of the practice that could fit into a person’s day-to-day life. The idea was that everything you do can be part of
your physical spiritual journey, preparing food or caring for children, or even sexuality. Yet the common association between
Tantra and sex was strengthened through its more recent exportation to the west. Here, “neotantra” emphasises presence
in sexual encounters; harnessing and directing one’s sexual energy.

Neotantra ot only emphasize sexuality, but within MISA everything is sexuality or is reduced to it.
Moreover, through Bivolaru's "world premiere revelations" (in fact innovations that are the result of his perverse sexual fantasies,
which he fulfills using his followers), to the already exaggeratedly sexual practices, others that do not exist in Eastern traditions
have been added, such as drinking the urine of the sexual partner (for which purpose a fake book was specially created 🔗),
group sex 🔗, sex between women 🔗, polyamory 🔗, tickling, all sorts of bizarre invented rituals (listen the second part of the
BBC podcast ”The Bad Guru”, titled ”The Technique”, from min04:00sec 🔗) and, more recently, group nude yoga 🔗.

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At Tara, this style of yoga was positioned to Miranda as a route to feeling more love, connection and positivity, as well as a way
to reach what was labelled “pure eros” – coming into your sensual power without shame.

To reach  your sensual power without shame” means debauchery. Pure eros is the love between two people of the opposite sex
that DOES NOT IMPLY SEXUAL CONTACT nor the desire (impulse, instinct) to have this kind of contact and, even less,
the consumption of partners' urine or the ingestion of their sexual secretions!
The fact that Miranda did not understand this is precisely due to the perversion of this concept by those at MISA.

Miranda talks about TARA Yoga's "tantric temple" ("Ecstatic Joy Temple"), actually an erotic massage parlor
(see the archived presentation page or read page 15 of this online poster of TARA Yoga UK):

In late 2019, still attending Tara for yoga classes, Miranda was told about its sister centre, a Tantric massage “temple” near
the London yoga studio. Other teachers and senior members of the Tara Yoga community were working there, or had previously,
and spoke about how good it was for their spiritual journey, encouraging Miranda to follow suit.
“The temple was part of the indoctrination,” Miranda now believes, “whereby sex work is seen as spiritual; a service for
the uplifting of the clients and your own spiritual growth.” Sometimes it felt “a bit seedy”, but Miranda was told, repeatedly,
that the topless sacred massages she was instructed to give were healing and part of the selfless service without reward that is
emphasised within Karma yoga, a justification that led her to stay for three months, working ad hoc, for below minimum wage.

Here is a detail that was also discussed in the BBC podcast "Bad Guru", but from that context it was not clear exactly the extent
of the exploitation to which former student Miranda was subjected. I quote from the podcast:

He encourages Harriet to work at the Ecstatic Joy Temple, giving topless massages. Harriet says he told her it would be good
for her spiritual evolution. Harriet got paid around £30 a massage, but the clients paid between £150 and £300. To Harriet,
that sounds as if the temple is making a hefty profit. Harriet told me that two teachers from Tara Yoga Centre were involved
in running it. Clients paid them in cash, and that's how she got paid too. (read on page 17 of this podcast transcription)

In the article in The Guardian, it is said that Miranda ”worked for below minimum wage”. This clearly shows that she was exploited.

In their response to the BBC podcast producer, MisaTV states in ep.103 (min11:sec23 of this video), I quote:

As for the so-called highly sexualized atmosphere to which the podcast host claims that the pseudo-victim Miranda was exposed,
it is indeed necessary to expose the obvious hypocrisy she demonstrates in this regard. There are several people who claim that
when she [Miranda] gave sexual massages to men, she caused many of them to ejaculate. We then naturally ask ourselves
the question: why did those situations, which were clearly sexual and even very sexualizing, not seem to bother her at all?

Thus, those from MISA try to suggest that Miranda worked at the TARA "temple" on her own initiative, to fulfill her unbridled
sexual desires. If that were the case, she could have worked for better wages at other massage "temples" in the UK that were not
related to TARA (like this one 🔗).

But then why did she agree to work for such a low salary? She was obviously lured into what is called “karma yoga” (volunteering)
by those at TARA, who took most of Miranda’s earnings. The fact that the former student left the “temple” after only three months
clearly shows that she was not happy with what was happening there.

Miranda also provides additional details about her stay in Hungary:

After her stint at the “temple”, Miranda quit her part-time teaching job and embarked on another retreat in Hungary that
she had been told about at a Tara Yoga seminar, where the focus was creativity. ArtExtasia, as its website (still live - link)
explains: “is a daring project with the goal to give art back its divine rights”.

Actually ArtExtasia is “MISA’s department for erotic porn films”, and on the homepage of the site one can recognize “director
Aghora Vidya [formerly Bella Maestrina, n/a], a complex artist of Objective Art and a spiritual seeker on the path of Tantra.
Her films express the remarkable aesthetics of the tantric path of Kashmir Shaivism and constitute a completely new genre
of cinema”. (link)
In reality, her films constitute the old genre of porno-erotic cinema (see movie), as they are in no way different from ordinary
ones, and that is precisely why this "innovative complex artist" has never been heard of except in the scandals related to MISA.

The moment comes when Miranda recounts her meeting with Bivolaru in Paris:

Two Tara Yoga students informed Miranda that she had the opportunity to meet Bivolaru and undergo what was called by
her peers “the initiation”. She sensed this would be sexual, but explains: “I’d been told by my teachers that this would be
a spiritual turning point for me, a transformative experience.”

Talking about this time is difficult for Miranda. Her voice, clear and level until now, wobbles. She was driven to Paris to meet
Bivolaru in 2019, then asked to hand in her phone, credit cards and passport at a holding house, where she shared a room
with dozens of other women, from various countries, who came and went. She asked herself: “What would I do if I wanted to leave?”
but did not feel able to take this step. She was convinced that backing out of meeting Bivolaru would see her ostracised from
the community that was now her world.

After two weeks, Miranda was blindfolded and driven to another location, Bivolaru’s small, grimy Parisian apartment.
Here, he opened the door in a dressing gown, older and more dishevelled than she’d imagined. For three days in a blacked-out
room, she was made to wait. “There were between four and six of us. We did our yoga practice as best we could, watched DVDs
and read books. We slept on a mattress on the floor that we moved during the day and on bunk beds.” Bivolaru was shouting
at people, Miranda remembers, for instance, for using the wrong towel. There was, she describes, “a feeling of a low-level threat”.

Over about 72 hours, other women were summoned by Bivolaru to a second bedroom. Then it was Miranda’s turn.
The “initiation” involved a long sexual encounter with Bivolaru, in seven positions that were supposed to reflect the seven chakras.
Miranda remembers feeling that she was not attracted to Bivolaru and did not want to go through with it, but told herself not to be
shallow. Internally, she recited mantras to try to endure the experience. “I would say I was also pretty detached from the physical,
at this point: ‘I’m here now, I have to get through this.’ There was a fair amount of dissociation going on.”

The statement in the article that, I quote, “speaking about this period, Miranda’s voice, clear and balanced until now, begins
to tremble” shows that it is an interview and that Miranda spoke freely, not from the notes that the “anti-cult activists” allegedly
wrote for her. “Liar Miranda” once again recounted the same details as in the BBC podcast, not like those from MISA,
who distort even the texts they quote or contradict themselves in their own statements.

The moment when Miranda talks about porn video chat also comes up:

Afterwards, Miranda was taken to a house in Prague. This was described as another period of “spiritual practice”.
In fact, this meant being pressured to work in webcamming. As had been the case up until now, channelling “Shakti”
the female goddess, through sexuality, was positioned as empowering. “Ultimately this was used to encourage us
to make them a profit through sex work.”

The women there, including Miranda, were told they were in debt for their food and accommodation, as well as for their travel
so far to various retreats and needed to work to pay for it, a common tactic used by traffickers to exploit their victims.
Only after six months was she permitted to leave. First, she returned to Hungary and then to London in February 2020.
Finally, Miranda was home, her path to “enlightenment” on pause.

The Guardian article goes on to describe how Miranda managed to get out of the cult:

Now, Miranda has come to see the Tara Yoga and Misa communities as not just part of the cult of wellness, but as a literal cult.
This realisation only occurred with time and space away from Bivolaru’s followers back in London: the opportunity to be around
people who questioned her experiences and hours spent watching YouTube videos on how cults work. At first, she was resistant
to the idea, then began to unpick how it had happened, gradually – the familiar mechanisms of indoctrination, including thought
reform and isolation. Those who questioned things in classes, says Miranda, were shamed. People who actively participated and
pushed boundaries were applauded, Most of all, each step was positioned as the next step to liberation. 
“The efficient way to get someone to do what you want is to make them believe they are there out of their own choice or for some
higher purpose.

Exiting such a cult cannot be done through a work of persuasion carried out by someone from the outside, as MISA claims that
the anti-cult associations have acted, "diverting the students from the spiritual path and turning them full of hatred against the school".
You cannot counterbalance from the outside, with only abstract opinions or arguments, inner convictions built on pleasant sensations
and intense euphoric states obtained almost at will through various practices (considered by MISA as "authentic spiritual states").
One must also take into account the fear of "failing the spiritual tests and being definitively deviated from the only path to liberation",
deeply instilled in MISA. The only solution is for the practitioner to realize it for themselves, noticing the contradiction between
words and deeds, between image and reality, between behavior and moral rules, which presupposes that their sense of reality
and morality has not been irremediably annihilated.

quote:
As the founder and co-chair of the British Yoga Teacher’s Union, Laura Hancock has heard several stories like Miranda’s from
former Tara Yoga students. As a yoga teacher herself, Hancock used to rent a teaching space at Tara Yoga and remembers
seeing a photograph of Bivolaru on the studio wall. 

I recall what MISA said in its response to the BBC:
MISA, and especially Gregorian Bivolaru, have never encouraged, in the slightest, his veneration”.
They certainly did not discourage veneration, in fact Bivolaru "self-venerated" 🔗, comparing himself to Jesus 🔗.
ATMAN also claimed that "Bivolaru is not involved in the federation, he only wrote the courses. Some chose him as a spiritual guide".
Some, so not all. Then why is his picture displayed, for all? For veneration?

The article also addresses the solutions that could be applied to prevent abuses in this area:

quote:
Hancock initially became involved in setting up the union because of a lack of workers’ rights and fair pay in the industry.
Soon, she found many students and teachers across the industry were approaching her to report physical and emotional abuse,
exploitation, sexual harassment and grooming. “It became what most people were coming to us with,” she says.

As yoga teachers and volunteers, the Yoga Teacher’s Union had to upskill to deal with this outpouring, referring issues to law
enforcement where possible. Yet with no official yoga regulatory body, it was unclear where to turn. 
They also found the police often showed little appetite in investigating, with complaints about Tara Yoga, for instance,
being passed from one force to another, before going nowhere. 
“The responsibility or duty of care should be aligned to psychotherapy; there’s a power dynamic at play between yoga teachers and
students and that’s not acknowledged,” says Hancock. “People have felt very disempowered by not having avenues to report
these things. The media has done a good job of presenting the stories of survivors well. But the question is: ‘What’s next?’”

But what’s needed, argues Hancock, is wider reform. “People go into yoga with a heightened level of trust, assuming that a yoga
class is going to be good and positive, and that there’s integrity. That’s not always the case. There’s a lot of diminishing and
cognitive dissonance, because people don’t know what constitutes harassment in these spaces or don’t want to admit what’s at play.” 
Hancock lives just minutes away from the Tara Yoga Centre, and is angry to see that it’s still operating. “Ultimately it should not be open.”

In the absence of a legal framework for regulating the wellness and yoga industry - bizarre, considering that other areas, such as
psychotherapy offices, have long been regulated - protection still falls to the "consumer":

For now, the onus remains mostly on consumers to be discerning in choosing a yoga school or teacher, a challenge in the wild west
of wellness. There are signs to look out for. At a class, hands-on adjustments without prior consent should no longer be the norm.
Be cautious of retreats or camps that deprive you of personal possessions, says Tyldesley. “If they say, ‘We ask people not to use
mobile phones in the ashram to cultivate an environment of quiet, but you can use them off grounds or keep them on silent in case
of emergency’, that’s reasonable. Taking them away from you, less so.” Residential retreats should also detail their activities and
policies ahead of time, “because you’re the consumer – we wouldn’t buy anything if we didn’t know what we were buying.
A yoga retreat should not be at all mysterious.”

It is clear that British journalists do not fully know the real extent of what is happening at MISA. There are situations in which
the activities that will take place are not revealed in advance, but not only for reasons of preserving initiatory secrecy
(a lame pretext, since these are not initiations into real rituals), but because these are immoral and even illegal activities, and
followers with a minimal sense of morality or legality would not only refuse to participate or carry out the actions, but could
reveal them to others, to public opinion or even to the authorities. Thus, they swear in advance without knowing what is to come,
and when they find out, it is too late, because the participants are bound by oath to remain silent and are afraid to warn others.
This is the case of sexual exploitation (going to Japan for pole dancing, luring into porn video chat activities, students who
were filmed in scenes that appeared in porn movies without their knowledge and, obviously, inviting them for sexual initiation
with Bivolaru. I recall here a concrete example, recently revealed, about luring students into bizarre sexual rituals.

The  german podcast ”Toxic Tantra” - bonus (audio German):
Unlock Next Level sessions were always things where you didn't know in advance what was going to happen.
And it was always a surprise, we were trained a little bit to always be in situations where we couldn't know in advance exactly
what was going to happen. It was an initiation practice. And then it was said that, so to speak, now there is an initiation practice,
either you go out or you stay. Then someone closes the doors and she stays inside. The doors were closed.
No one was allowed to go out, the ritual could no longer be interrupted by coming in or going out. And you were either in or out.
What tantric secret is about to be revealed to you?

But even taking oaths on health and spiritual evolution (basically some self-curses) is not enough, so body checks are also
carried out to prevent access with possible recording or even noting means. Of course, we must add the request for photos in
a swimsuit or nude, which should be a huge alarm signal. The request for HIV/VDRL tests is also not okay, as it suggests
possible casual sexual acts with unknown people. In addition to all this, other oddities such as the name "spiritual school",
the unlimited duration of the course, Bivolaru's picture in the halls or the invocation of his "subtle presence", the deflection of
asteroids and comets 🔗, the prevention of earthquakes 🔗 and of Apocalypse 🔗, the calling of good aliens' intervention 🔗 
etc., should also be big alarm signals.

Statements like "we are the only authentic spiritual school, the only holders of the truth, the spiritual core of humanity announced
by the prophets and the sacred scriptures, with us revelations are made in planetary premiere and God reveals fundamental secrets
that will lead to the emergence of a single planetary religion - Godism - which will replace all other religions", these are clear
indications of a fundamentalist religious sect. (Bivolaru's message).

The biggest mystery, which has never been revealed, not even under oath, which not even the supreme leader knows, is the
unlimited duration of the courses, so for the rest of your life. If you enter, you will have to never leave, because you would
permanently lose your only chance of liberation.

Miranda:
To continue, they [Tara Yoga and Misa] are relying on women like me to forgive, to retain our reputation, not to challenge
things. I feel as if I’m overcoming that through speaking out against this abuse of power.
Just as the spiritual side of yoga was co-opted, the promise of healing became a means of coercion
What I find more healing now is the idea that justice could be done.

MISA responds with standard messages, like those pre-recorded on an answering machine. These are obviously responses
specifically designed to deflect questions and divert attention from the organization. The problem is that their arguments are not valid:

quote:
MISA maintains that many of the “tens of thousands” of people who have attended their classes and retreats over the past
35 years still “appreciate and respect” Bivolaru, and continue to participate in their events. All allegations, they claim,
are part of a “witch-hunt” and are “based on the declarations of a handful of people who are probably motivated by personal
vendettas or a need to get attention.”

It is as if they were saying that since the overwhelming majority of women have never been sexually abused, it means that
sexual abuse does not even exist. Then, denying the accusations and claiming that they are false, those at MISA do not dare
to throw the entire responsibility for the lie on the women who are complaining, but add a factor that is always present:
the "evil occult" that is waging a permanent war against "the only authentic spiritual school, the only source of divine light
on the planet, a war that is being waged through the lying media." Such an accusation was made, even in court, against this
blog which, according to MISA, is part of a permanent campaign of denigration against the great school.

MISA claims that, in their school where absolutely everything is divinely integrated, not only do illegal and immoral acts
not happen, but they could never happen, these being inventions that result only from the combined efforts of frustrated
people "hungry for attention" and the media greedy for sensationalism, but never only the "self-declared victim" is involved.
This thesis is designed to create the impression that there are no real victims. If MISA were to confront only the complainant,
it would give the impression that there is a real victim, in which case public opinion and the media would tend to side with
the one who declares herself a victim, being alone against an entire organization, further reinforcing this impression.
So MISA introduces an actor into the play who was not actually present at the alleged act - "the media serving the Occult" - and
thus diverts attention from the victim and the accusations. It is a perverse tactic, specially designed to be used in all situations.

The expression "witch hunt" suggests that it is about an innocent victim - MISA - who was unjustly accused of non-existent 
facts, by cunning accusers who either invent accusations or do not understand the significance of what happened in reality.
The eternally misunderstood MISA, who only does divine works, which the obtuse and ignorant do not understand in their true light...
Beyond all this, MISA's fear of individual people who declare themselves victims of the organization is the fear that facts that
actually happened could be discovered and proven.

Precise regulation is necessary in this area - wellness - on the one hand in the direction of authorizing and verifying this type
of activity and, on the other hand, in the direction of determining "service providers" to adopt a way of carrying out activities
that would reduce the possibility of abuses. In this sense, MISA has always played a double game, relying either on freedom
of belief, as if its ideology were religion, or on human rights in general, as if it were not a religion.

Until a possible regulation, the situation can be described by the Romanian saying: "protect us, God, from "spiritual friends",
because we defend ourselves from our enemies!"

10 comments:

  1. We know the reality is actually worse: It is commonly known that less than 10% of women who experience abuse speak up about it. In MISA this percentage is likely much lower because followers are threatened with oats on their health and spiritual evolution if they dare to speak up about anything. Knowing that now more than a dozen women were courageous enough to do speak up about the abuse they experienced from guru Bivolaru we can conclude that the number of women that experienced abuse during their visits to Paris must be in the hundreds, if not more.

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    1. Bine că au început să vorbească că așa își vor face curaj și celelalte să demaște agresorul. În MISA oricum nu e doar Bivolaru agresor.

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    2. Cine mai e agresor?

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    3. Yes, i also don’t dare because they have naked videos and photos with us. And they might use it in media news as they did with Arabela.

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    4. Exact, încă de la început se asigură că te au la mâna, de la primul contact cu ei obțin poze și videouri cu cursanții dezbrăcați.

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    5. There are monsters in this world and then there are mis@ monsters

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    6. I understand the fear of speaking out entirely and it’s not everyone’s path. However in my experience They won’t use collateral eg naked photos. The situation they are in now is defensive not offensive and Very different from when they did that to Arabela

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  2. @7:10: Legal counsel from a qualified attorney or contacting support organizations is crucial for tailored advice and action.

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  3. A suggestion you could use to propose a review of the Tara Yoga Centre's financial statements:

    Subject: Encouraging Financial Transparency for Public Confidence

    Dear [Investigating Body/Authority],

    I hope this message finds you well. In light of the ongoing concerns and testimonies surrounding the practices at the [Tara Yoga Centre], I would like to suggest a thorough review of the organization’s financial records.

    As the Center operates as a registered charity, transparency regarding the allocation of funds and the use of resources is essential for maintaining public trust and ensuring alignment with their stated mission. A detailed examination of their financial statements may provide insight into their operations and clarify any discrepancies raised by the public or media.

    This step would not only help reinforce accountability but also strengthen confidence in the charitable sector as a whole. Thank you for considering this request, and I trust your expertise in handling such matters with diligence and integrity.

    Sincerely,
    [Your Name/On Behalf of Concerned Citizens]

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