The lawsuits now brought against him for sexual assault (see this New York Times article) point to this. Documentary Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator, streaming on Netflix Canada, exposes the Bikram Yoga scandal The founder of Bikram yoga is embroiled in a sex scandal, after a former student accused him of discrimination and sexual harassment.Bikram Choudhury, the 67-year-old founder of the popular “hot yoga” franchise, stands accused of forcing his student to give him massages, brush his hair, and have sex with him.Legal documents filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court allege that the student, 28-year-old Sarah Baughn, considered Choudhury to be her hero until his unwanted advances began in 2005, the Baughn, just 20-years-old at the time, claims that she first became uncomfortable when she observed other female students brushing Choudhury’s hair, washing his feet and giving him massages. Baughn, who once loved teaching yoga and earned accolades for her strength and flexibility on the yoga mat, has also left the yoga world. In her complaint, she said Mr. Choudhury pursued her starting with a teacher-training she attended in 2005, when she was 20. When the founders of Bikram Yoga NYC opened the first Bikram studio in the city on Aug. 7, 1999, few New Yorkers had heard of the hot-yoga practice. Mr. Choudhury pulled her aside one night, apologized for touching her and promised to “make her a champion,” the complaint said.Weeks later, Mr. Choudhury told Ms. Lawler to accompany him to his hotel room, where he sexually assaulted her, the complaint said.According to the lawsuit, Ms. Lawler stayed part of the Bikram world for years after that; the complaint accused Mr. Choudhury of sexually assaulting her on multiple subsequent occasions, most recently in February 2013.In July 2014, she taught her last Bikram yoga class, the lawsuit said, and took a job as a waitress.Ms. The New York Times reported that one of the women said that Choudhury "had whispered sexual advances during classes, and had assaulted and groped her in a hotel room and at his home."

According to court documents, Choudhury stands accused of inappropriate contact while adjusting Baughn’s posture, making sexually charged comments, ordering her to kiss him while other trainees were around, and assaulting her in a Acapulco, Mexico, hotel room.Baughn's suit alleges that Choudhury "pinned her against the door, and sexually assaulted her by kissing her neck, chest, and face, and grinding his penis against her leg" during the hotel room assault, While Baughn’s lawyer declined to mention whether her client had previously reported the alleged crimes, she claims that Baughn did speak with the teacher at Los Angeles’ Yoga College of India. Others are walking away.“A lot of people have blinders on,” said Sarah Baughn, 29, a onetime Bikram yoga devotee and international yoga competitor whose Mr. Choudhury, who remains the face of his yoga empire, his A statement issued by lawyers for Mr. Choudhury and his yoga college, which is also named as a defendant in the lawsuits, said that “Mr. Another plantiff, Jane Lawler, accused him of repeated instances of sexual assault.

Choudhury is shown calling students bitches, climbing onto women in mid-pose and ruling over his broiling studios while sitting on an air-conditioned dais. She said he had whispered sexual advances during classes, and had assaulted and groped her in a hotel room and at his home.In the other case involving a 2010 teacher-training, Mr. Choudhury’s lawyers argued that the woman had waited too long to file the lawsuit, beyond the statute of limitations. The Times claims that Choudhury didn’t start turning a profit until receiving a crucial piece of advice from Shirley MacLaine, a former student.“She said no American respects anything that’s free,” Choudhury said at the 2012 Bishnu Charan Ghosh Cup, a yoga competition named after his mentor.Nowadays, the legendary yoga instructor charges $25 per class across hundreds of studios, earning the moniker “Yoga’s Bad Boy” from Yoga Journal, the New York Times reports. “Sarah dropped out of college to study with Bikram, and every penny she had went to him,” said Mary Shea Hagebols, Ms. Baughn’s attorney, the NY Times reports. “After a thorough investigation, the Los Angeles County district attorney declined to file any sexual assault charges against Mr. Choudhury or the college for lack of evidence.”An August trial date has been set in Ms. Baughn’s case. During trainings for hopeful yoga teachers, he paces a stage in a black Speedo and holds forth on life, sex and the transformative power of his brand of hot yoga. The new Netflix documentary “Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator” is the Oscar-winning filmmaker Eva Orner’s portrait of the rise and fall of the yoga magnate Bikram Choudhury. It is partly the enduring exotification of India that allowed Choudhury to market his sappy guru persona. Today, Haute Yogi offers "Bikram Method" on its schedule -- in varying time lengths. But the judge denied parts of the lawyers’ argument, saying the woman, known in court papers as Jane Doe No. Images of a free Choudhury leading training sessions around the world are interlaced with testimony from his victims, The film’s narrow focus on Choudhury prevents it from asking broader questions about the culture that allowed for Bikram’s specific brand of success. Bikram Yoga has collapsed in the heat — from a slew of sex-harassment suits, that is. Lawler was afraid to speak up, the court papers said, and having spent $10,000 from her college fund on the training, she felt she had to complete the course. The founder of Bikram yoga is embroiled in a sex scandal, after a former student accused him of discrimination and sexual harassment. Baughn claims that her massive financial investment in her teacher trainings, which can cost $11,000, contributed to her decision to continue working with Choudhury. Friedman had been doing Bikram-style yoga for years, and she said that after buying a studio in 2008, she decided to attend a teacher-training in San Diego. In February, Zumba instructor Alexis Wright was accused of attempting to solicit a pizza delivery man for sex.

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