by Gregor Maehle | Jul 6, 2019 | Ashtanga MeToo, Teaching
Here a letter from Guy Donahaye (erstwhile’s editor of Guruji – A Portait Through the Eyes of his Students) from the 18th May 2019. It’s an excellent example of somebody who took part in KP Jois’s unrealistic glorification now taking steps to...
by Gregor Maehle | Jun 22, 2019 | Ashtanga MeToo, Ashtanga Yoga, Teaching
New article from Karen Rain and Jubilee Cooke in Yoga International on how to respond to sexual abuse within a yoga or spiritual community. The article also covers How a Community Can Begin to Address and Prevent Sexual Violence The need to seek education from experts...
by Gregor Maehle | May 25, 2019 | Ashtanga MeToo, Ashtanga Yoga, Teaching
I’m a lifelong Ashtanga practitioner. Well strictly speaking I’m practising for around 30 years but I consider it lifelong because I think if there was something that would have made me stop I would have likely found it by now. As a lifelong Ashtanga practitioner I...
by Gregor Maehle | Nov 21, 2018 | Ashtanga MeToo, Ashtanga Yoga, Audio/Video
You may have already come across this podcast but I’m a bit behind posting as I’m currently on a teaching tour across Europe and South America. With this latest podcast I seem to have again sparked controversy. Some ultra-orthodox and hard-line Ashtanga...
by Gregor Maehle | Oct 12, 2018 | Ashtanga MeToo, Ashtanga Yoga, Teaching
As we have recently seen women are still discredited for taking a long time to speak out against powerful men like Brett Kavanaugh. In this article Karen Rain describes the slow and painful process to admit to herself that she had been victimized. She recounts the...
by Gregor Maehle | Aug 4, 2018 | Ashtanga MeToo, Teaching
Today I want to honor the woman who blew the whistle on sexual abuse in Ashtanga-culture, Anneke Lucas. As Beryl Bender Birch recently said in a podcast even back in the 1980’s everybody knew about Jois’ actions. While everybody knew and few confronted Jois, it took...
