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The Difference Between Being a Victim and Being Victimised

September 20, 2018 by Guest Author

by Freya Vajra, Fierce Mystic 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, recently got 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 … [Read more...]

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

Ana Forrest on Breaking Down the Barriers With Yoga {video}

December 12, 2014 by Kara-Leah Grant Leave a Comment

by Kara-Leah Grant Meet Ana Forrest. Ana is the creatrix of Forrest Yoga, an internationally renowned yoga teacher and medicine woman, and the author of Fierce Medicine. She's also headlining Wanderlust NZ 2015. Ana's approach to yoga could be summed up in this quote from her: "If you want to use yoga to heal emotional pain, you must find out where it resides in your body and learn to take your breath there. I don't teach yoga to help people to transcend. I want people's Spirits to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Paid, Teacher Interviews Tagged With: abuse, addiction, Ana Forrest, B.K.S. Iyengar, Fierce Medicine, Medicine Woman

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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