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The Difference Between Being a Victim and Being Victimised

September 20, 2018 by Guest Author

by Freya Vajra I was chatting with a good friend of mine the other day, about all this Agama/sex cult stuff. For those of you who don’t know, one of the biggest Neo tantra schools in the world, Agama, was recently outed by Be Scofield for a whole load of sexual assault and misconduct by the heads of the school. It’s a school I have trained at and didn’t stay at because the waft of dogma and abuse was so strong. My friend, who spent a number of years there, was saying how she felt that she had … [Read more...]

Filed Under: The Process of Waking Up Tagged With: abuse, Agama, Freya Vajra, trauma, Victim, yoga

How yoga helped me… find steadiness and beauty within my body

May 9, 2010 by Guest Author 3 Comments

Revealing steadiness and beauty in Trikonasana

  Submitted by Zoe of the North Island (not her real name) The sexual abuse of the body started before I turned 4. I say it that way because although it happened to all of me, separating from the body it happened to became a way to survive. I could vanish into the wallpaper or the light shade in an effort to tolerate the intolerable. By the time I was in my mid-twenties my life was coming unraveled. A fiercely honed intellect wasn't sufficient for living a fully engaged life. A … [Read more...]

Filed Under: How Yoga Helped Me, Yoga & Body Image Tagged With: abuse, ahimsa, satya

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