New investigation for BBC Sounds and Radio 4 uncovers shocking allegations of sexual exploitation, grooming and trafficking linked to a yoga movement with followers in the UK, as British woman speaks out against accused guru Gregorian Bivolaru

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Posted on 12/27/2024 1:46:17 AM PST by Cronos

A new investigative podcast series for Radio 4 and BBC Sounds has uncovered shocking allegations of sexual exploitation, grooming and trafficking, linked to the teachings of convicted sex offender and ‘bad guru’ Gregorian Bivolaru. The 72-year-old Romanian is spiritual guide to thousands of students at yoga schools affiliated to Atman - the International Federation of Yoga and Meditation.

...Miranda first joined tantric yoga classes at Tara Yoga Centre near Old Street, London, in 2017. After becoming involved in a wider movement of Gregorian Bivolaru’s followers, she says that within two years, she found herself at the centre of an international web of trafficking and sexual exploitation.

Atman promotes the teachings of Gregorian Bivolaru, a convicted sex offender who was charged in France in November 2023 with human trafficking, organised kidnapping, rape, and the French criminal offence of organised abuse of weakness by a sect. He is also wanted in Finland on aggravated human trafficking charges.

...Miranda says that through a series of encounters with different parts of the international movement, she ended up participating in sexualised rituals, and she says she was tricked into travelling to a villa near Prague where she was persuaded to work as a webcammer for a live online pornography business for six months. She also describes how she and other female followers were driven through Paris blindfolded to meet the fugitive guru at a secret location for a so-called initiation involving prolonged sexual intercourse; the reason Miranda says she went is because she believed it was part of a spiritual programme set for her by her guru, and promoted as an essential next step by the community, teachers and classes she’d come to trust, and she didn’t want to fail. She says she now believes it is a cult.

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