Leaving Siddha Yoga – The Stories
A French ex-SY is writing about his experiences. April 2021
Dorel Lavie describes Muktananda’s sexual abuse from the time she was 16. Posted January 2020
A tenant writes about a very bad landlady: Gurumayi. June 2017
Former Siddha Yoga Swami, Shankarananda, exposed – Dec. 2014
My Mom. A son writes of his mother’s destructive involvement with Siddha Yoga. (12/1/2014)
Washington Post article on John Friend, the protege of Gurumayi. Many more speak out of his abuses. Story here, or try this link to the Wash. Post website.
New York Times article, 2/28/2012, about sexual abuse in yoga communities, citing Joan Radha Bridges on Siddha Yoga.
How Swami Muktananda’s Sexual Abuse of My Wife Impacted Our Marriage. Received on 12/30/2011.
Paul’s Story – 11/2011. Paul shares his experience of the upheaval in Oakland when Chandra and Michael Dinga discovered Muktananda’s sexual predations.
Joan Radha Bridges has added a donation button to her Shadow of the Guru website. Please consider helping Joan, a courageous victim of abuse by Swami Muktananda, to advance her project to bring the issue of guru abuse to a wider public. Go to www.shadowoftheguru.com.
Salon.com piece on Eat Pray Love – quotes from Marta Szabo, Joan Radha Bridges and Dan Shaw 8/15/2010. Link to SYDA’s response at the bottom of the article.
SYDA’s Tax Exempt Status – articles discussing the controversies around SYDA’s tax exempt status in So. Fallsburg, NY. 3/21/2010
An UPDATE to Joan Radha Bridges story of sexual abuse by Muktananda. 12/2009
New Spanish Translation of Joan Radha Bridge’s personal story – press HERE.
The Guru Looked Good – a memoir of life in Siddha Yoga by Marta Szabo that SYDA would not want you to read.
FRom Swami Abhayananda (Stan Trout)
“I was involved in Siddha Yoga for over 12 years” (Aug 97)
“Just thought you’d like to know, I’m out of Siddha Yoga” (Aug 97)
“I was introduced to Siddha Yoga in 1983 and got involved in the activities right away.” (Jul 97)
I became involved in SYin Santa Monica