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| Bikram Choudhury |
A yoga guru who founded a rigorous routine of exercises practiced in steamy rooms around the world is facing lawsuits by six women who claim he sexually assaulted them.
The most recent case, filed on 13 February in Los Angeles superior court, claims Bikram Choudhury raped a Canadian woman who had paid $10,000 from her college fund for a nine-week class so she could teach the 26-pose technique to others.
Jill Lawler said she went into the class elated to learn from the master, but things quickly soured as she was expected to massage him while watching Bollywood movies late into the night with hundreds of other students and was sexually assaulted on several occasions.
“Throughout the sexual abuse, defendant Bikram Choudhury offered multiple explanations and justifications for his behaviour,” the lawsuit said. “He would say ‘I’m dying, I need to you to save me. If I don’t have sex I will die. You are saving my life, you are helping me.’”
Has anybody else noticed that virtually everybody that Sarah Palin associates herself with is either accused of sexual impropriety or says rapey things about women?
However, assuming that other Hot Yoga instructors take their cues from Choudhury, at least now this picture makes more sense:
