Imperfect Paradise: Yoga's "Queen of Conspiracy Theories": Part 2 REDUX

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🗓️ 24 January 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Part 2: Kundalini Royalty
Katie Griggs, a young woman from rural Maryland, discovers Kundalini yoga in her early 20s and goes all in. She transforms herself into Guru Jagat, a beloved and controversial yoga and wellness influencer in Los Angeles. In this episode, her friends, family, and coworkers grapple with how she changed in the final years of her life. And we explore the connections between yoga and conspiracies like QAnon.

(Original Air Date: Jan. 11, 2023)

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0:44.0	Hey, I'm your host Antonia Cérijido.
0:51.0	Hey, I'm your host Antonia Cérejido. This is imperfect paradise, yoga's queen of conspiracy theories, part two.
0:58.0	A story that follows the wellness to Q-Anon pipeline, told through one yoga teacher's journey down the
1:04.0	conspiracy rabbit hole. On the last episode, Guru Juggett started the pandemic
1:09.0	as a beloved charismatic yoga teacher. She's actually kind of like Kundalini royalty and ended up as
1:16.4	someone who defied lockdown orders. Question vaccines and interviewed fringe
1:20.5	conspiracy theorists on her podcast.
1:23.2	We're in this global lockdown.
1:24.6	We know there's other reasons for it besides what they're telling us.
1:28.8	In this episode, how Guru Jagat became a celebrity yoga teacher, and what was it about her yoga practice that led her towards radicalization?
1:38.0	I immediately figured out what I was, wait a minute, I said that sounds like some Qenod bullshit. Here's Laius correspondent Emily
1:46.7	Gerin. I first contacted Guru Juggett's mom Nancy a year ago. She calls her daughter
1:58.7	Katie, which is the name she gave her at birth. At first, Nancy agreed to an interview, but then she changed
2:04.8	her mind, and this happened again a few months later. But in early November 2022,
2:10.4	something changed. I wanted to apologize Emily too because I was grieving and called before and I was angry.
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