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Part One: The First American Yoga Cult Leader

Behind the Bastards

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The Hatha Yogis

The Hatha Yogis are not the most mainstream chunk of the yogic discipline. They're kind of seen as weirdos at the time by a lot of people, right? There's a number of Mesoamerican groups who were like mix urine with tobacco or whatever. This is this is kind of as far as I can tell, you wouldn't go wildly amiss and kind of looking at this the way that most Americans look at snake handlers in the pastel tradition.

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