Introducing Season 4: Imperfect Paradise - Yoga's "Queen of Conspiracy Theories"
Imperfect Paradise
LAist Studios
4.5 • 535 Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2022
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
Before her sudden death in 2021, Guru Jagat had become a famous Kundalini yoga teacher based in Los Angeles. But as the global pandemic grew, she started talking like a far-right coronavirus conspiracy theorist. What does her journey down the rabbit hole tell us about the appeal of conspiracies in the yoga and wellness community?
This 3-episode season explores Guru Jagat’s rise to fame and follows along as she responds not just to the pandemic, but to a #metoo movement scandal that rocked the Kundalini yoga world in early 2020. It also explores themes of misinformation, how a healthy distrust in government and medicine can turn dark, the "relativism around truth" in the wellness industry and the influence of social media on radicalization.
Episode #1 will be available to stream on January 3rd.
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| 0:00.0 | It's March 16th, 2020. |
| 0:04.0 | In just three days, California will go into lockdown. |
| 0:08.0 | I want to do some things with you that will help you with the pressure of this time, |
| 0:12.0 | so not just for the immune system, but for the way that the mind gets distracted and weak. |
| 0:19.0 | And sitting cross-legged on a stage, in a yoga class that thousands of students will later |
| 0:24.7 | watch on YouTube is a white woman in a white turban and flowy white clothes. |
| 0:29.6 | Right? |
| 0:30.6 | That's our plan. |
| 0:31.6 | We're sticking to it. |
| 0:32.6 | And we have three more backup plans in case that one doesn't work. |
| 0:36.6 | So this is bunker one. |
| 0:38.0 | We have bunker two. |
| 0:38.7 | We have bunker three. |
| 0:39.5 | We have bunker four. |
| 0:41.1 | Before the pandemic, this woman, Guru Juggett, she was a famous Kundalini yoga teacher. |
| 0:47.4 | She was kind of a girl boss. |
| 0:49.0 | She had a no bullshit teaching style that got her celebrity clients like Alicia Keys. |
| 0:55.1 | She had a fashion line, a book deal, a streaming platform, and a podcast where she said stuff |
| 1:00.5 | like this. |
| 1:01.5 | Well, one of my favorite mantras of 2020 is no, or even better than that, fuck no. |
| 1:10.8 | Because true compassion often comes with no. |
| 1:13.6 | She's so funny. |
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