We have been in contact with the survivors’ groups to offer moral and financial support and we invite you to do the same. We are appalled at the betrayal of the total trust which the victims, and their parents, placed in their spiritual teachers. We send our heartfelt support and love to those whose lives have been so scarred by these hideous experiences. We are sickened by what we have read about the abuse of women and children in Satyananda ashrams (Bihar School of Yoga) in Australia and in India. We have found the opinions of our colleagues Matthew Remski, Richard Miller, Abhijeeta Saraswati, Christopher Gladwell and Theo Wildcroft to be helpful to consider: It is also instructive to read reflections from the Satyananda Survivors Facebook community page. Reports from the Commission and other testimonies are available through the Satyananda Yoga Reveal The Truth Facebook page. If you are not aware of any of the revelations referred to in our statement then we recommend that you read the transcripts of the current findings of the Royal Commission. We have been moved to make the following statement because we are disgusted and distressed by the findings of phase one of the Australian Royal Commission of Enquiry into Institutional Responses to Child Abuse in Satyananda Yoga Ashrams. We write from a place of deep shock and sadness. A statement from Uma Dinsmore-Tuli and Nirlipta Tuli, founders of the Yoga Nidra Networkĭear colleagues, students and yoga friends,
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