sdwy

This is an amazing book. Steve has done incredible work in the de-programming field. I benefited from his work myself coming it of a yoga based cult. Steve's work is really inspiring. Well done for getting out. Being born into something like this is tremendously difficult to extract from, especially in circumstances like you're in where there is a lack of family support also. Well done trusting yourself.

EDIT: I'm surprised there's a little less awareness about yoga based cults. Perhaps this has to do with the modernisation of yoga and for westerners it's about fitness more than a path to spiritual enlightenment. Yoga is about a spiritual path, including lots of meditation. A cult easily forms in these scenarios when a 'teacher' claims to have unique spiritual insight that only they (usually 'he') can pass on. Therefore the student/seeker gradually becomes dependant on the 'wisdom' and 'insight' of the teacher. This can quite easily lead otherwise rational and sane people to do some pretty outrageous things.