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Part Two: The First American Yoga Cult Leader

Behind the Bastards

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The Bick Room Story

In 2002, he started registering trademarks and applied for a copyright for his yoga. That eventually led to a long series of lawsuits which get settled in 2012 when the US Copyright Office and a federal judge say like, no, you can't do this. You can't copyright yoga. So it is unclear when precisely Bick Room started to sexually harass and abuse students. But we do know that this was a fairly regular occurrence by the early 2000s when Sarah Bond took her first class in Washington state. She says he told her they knew each other from a past life and kissed her on the cheek. The third night, as students were demonstrating postures, she found Choudhary staring at

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