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Part One: The First American Yoga Cult Leader

Behind the Bastards

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The Hatha Yoga of India

The Hatha yogis were one of like the earlier examples of this. Their yoga included kind of what would sound to modern people like a it includes kind of a peculiar variety of health acts. One of the things they would do was suck water up through their anuses to perform a self-inima. This is a concept that goes that is kind of like very common all throughout different kind of Indian religious traditions.

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