Today on
@alittlebitculty we’re finally sitting down with
#AshleighFreckleton, one of the central voices in the
@AppleTV docuseries
#TwistedYoga and a former devotee of
#MISA/
#AtmanYoga, the transnational yoga-tantra empire orbiting fugitive guru
#GregorianBivolaru.
We’ve been versation up for years, and it was worth every time-zone fail and calendar mishap to get her in the (virtual) studio.
Ashleigh takes us back to the moment yoga and meditation felt like the only things keeping her afloat—and how that genuine relief became the doorway into a “serious spiritual school” that slowly revealed itself as a high-control group with a global footprint.
She walks us through the pipeline: starting with online Atman classes, moving into the in-person community at the Tara Yoga Centre in London, and eventually realizing the whole network feeds back to one very problematic “master” in hiding.
We also get into how these groups weaponize spiritual language to train you to ignore that constant low-grade anxiety buzzing in the background. Ashleigh describes what it’s like to see her story hit the screen after years of healing: the stress before the doc dropped, the relief of being believed, and the weird emotional whiplash of dragging an old, well-filed trauma box back out of the closet and cracking it open for millions of strangers.
alittlebitculty.com/episode/twiste…
#alittlebitculty #cults #atmanfederation #tantricyoga #appletv
