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Part Two: The First American Yoga Cult Leader

Behind the Bastards

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The Bick Room Chowder Story

Bick Room started out as a yoga teacher in San Francisco. By the end of the 1980s he was making good money, and steadily expanding his business. He married Rajashree, a teenage girl who became his wife via an arranged marriage. The first signs of what we might call cult shit from Bick Room become apparent when he excommunicated his first student.

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