Showing posts with label cults. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cults. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Poet speaks out against weird "yoga" cult

In the Feb. 18 issue of Rolling Stone, there's an article about Dahn Yoga, and even after reading it I don't understand what the hell Dahn Yoga is, but the folks in the article claim that it's a cult. Even a poet says so:
"In 1999, the celebrated Korean poet Jiha Kim, a onetime Dahn member, held a press conference and claimed that at least 200 women had been fondled by [Dahn Yoga leader Ilchi] Lee under the guise of spiritual training. (Lee has denied all claims of sexual misconduct.) Kim went on to call Dahn a 'criminal enterprise,' likening it to a Stalinist regime."
I know: a poet giving a press conference? What?

Dahn Yoga seems to borrow from The Peoples Temple à la Jim Jones, Scientology, New Age spiritualism, and, well, yoga, if by yoga you mean exercising an insane amount.

Sounds fun! Sign me up.