Body & Brain Yoga Tai Chi: “The Cult FKA Dahn Yoga”

Was I In A Cult?

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🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

What if the yoga class you signed up for wasn’t yoga at all, but the doorway to something much darker?

In this episode, Angel takes us inside Body & Brain Yoga and Tai Chi — a strip-mall wellness studio that seemed harmless enough. Until it wasn’t. Instead of stretching, you’re told to march in circles, punch your stomach, chant about your mother’s failings, and spill your deepest traumas to a room full of strangers.

What Angel didn’t know was that Body & Brain isn’t just a quirky yoga chain. It’s a nationwide empire with 70+ locations, millions in revenue, luxury retreats in Sedona — and a founder who flew private while his followers drowned in debt.

And that’s just the beginning. Dig deeper and you’ll find that Body & Brain is nothing new at all… it’s the rebranded face of Dahn Yoga — one of the most notorious modern cults.

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0:00.0	The views, information, or opinions expressed by the guest appearing in this episode solely
0:04.4	belong to the guest and do not represent or reflect the views or positions of the hosts,
0:09.4	the show, podcast one, this network, or any of their respective affiliates.
0:15.3	People who are in the know are like on the Google reviews being like, this is a cult, stay out.
0:20.1	But that's pretty much all
0:21.3	you can see in terms of challenging it. So I wanted to provide a platform for when people are
0:28.2	eventually looking at body and brain, they'll see something that kind of confirms what they're
0:32.3	experiencing and get out earlier.
0:42.8	Yeah. it out earlier. Welcome to Was Ina Cult.
0:44.3	I'm Tyler Mism.
0:45.5	And over here is Liz Ayakutsi, right?
0:48.9	And today's episode, guys, I don't know.
0:52.7	I think I'm going to quit.
0:53.7	I think I can't do it any longer. I just,
0:56.1	I can't believe how many cults there are in our world. You can't quit, Liz, because there's
1:02.8	so many more cults to do. In fact, as of September 2025, there are over 90,548 active cults in the world, And I got that off of stats that aren't real.com.
1:14.2	I made it up, but there's a lot of cults out there.
1:17.1	And we can't sadly give you guys a concrete number of how many active cults there are today
1:22.0	because of the way these cults operate.
1:27.0	Yeah, most of them are secretive.
1:28.6	They change names.
1:29.5	They splinter into offshoots.
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