I hope that we can show that we are more than a cult. You can download the mp3 here. Today, Kara talks to Trae' Stephens, the co-founder and Executive Chairman of Anduril, about how the growing defense tech industry is using the power of AI and the speed of Silicon Valley to challenge "beltway bandits" like Lockheed Martin and Raytheon. So one of the things that I as a teacher, myself, and I do trainings in various yoga studios. This has to stop. Dear sister and sister-in-law of Susan and Stuart Kampel. And so from this one gym which was set up by the Maharaja Wodiyar in 1934, we have two of the pillars of the modern yoga evangelical movement. By that point, I'm talking to Karen Rain for two years. You can still love him, but it doesnt mean that you have to venerate him or say that he was somebody that he wasnt in public terms. And just to jump on that for a second around the nature of the adjustments, because weve discussed how theres a component of sexual assault in them, but the physical assault too the stories of people just hearing ligaments snap or rip. You know, I think the whole notion of the veneration of the photograph is so difficult for so many people because there was an intensity with which he would gaze at them or they would gaze at him. Well the last part of my book is written as a workbook for the yoga teacher training industry. 9:59. And so, yeah. At this point, after having read in the wake of MeToo so many accounts of sexual abuse by women conducted by men, I feel an almost primal shame of being male. Where was your newspaper report? The problem with that is that there might be some, some therapeutic application of that principle of well, You know, in this moment, do you feel as though you have agency with regard to how youre moving forward coming out of this experience. (Page 2) People asked for like a decade. Visit the archive for a tidy list of all my articles. But it implies this unbroken, usually familial, certainly intimate relational transfer of knowledge that depends on a whole series of social commitments and contracts in order to keep it stable. Marker Address Rent ? So I want to dive into that. Karen Eastland Master of Letters, BA 2017, MLitt 2019, member of the Golden Key Asia Pacific Honour Society 2020 March 14, 2012. I didnt initially. This journal arises as an outcome of the Centre for I just think people should be open to correcting it. Karen has finished Karen's high school education. You are making it up. We dont know whats going on. Its mostly a kind of clever elaboration or . I proved that I think in my book by citing the work of several historians of medieval yoga, or one in particular, Dr Jason Birch, who says theres no evidence for anybody physically assisting anybody else in a yoga posture prior to the 20th century. I try to lay out a number of tools that I think Im not an expert in this but I think will be helpful as teachers, students and administrators and yoga service providers and yoga academics as well go forward in figuring out how to identify toxic group dynamics. But theres something plausible about it. Love scar [ Flower Rain] EP.3 #Jerry Yan, Karen Mok. So youve sort of discussed a little bit about the spiritual interpretation and reframe of a lot of this behavior. She was 91 years of age. And she comes up with a conservative estimate of 300 or, sorry, 30,000 individual sexual assaults over whats likely a 30 year period. I realized then that I was a member of a cult. I feel like if Im going to these places,Im coming in not as a regular teacher, Im coming in for a workshop or a training. And so I dont think its a big leap for people to go, Oh, well maybe I shouldnt be so uptight about such and such, or maybe I shouldnt, ask too many questions, or thats private after all. Thank you for believing me now, for understanding that sexual, spiritual and institutional abuse are complex and for not shaming me for not recognizing what was happening to me at the time. Haberman retweeted a New York Times report from Friday that linked Florida officials, including the governor, to the "delayed" evacuation in Lee County one day before the hurricane made landfall . I think part of that maybe the threshold has to do with, its not like I was a professional journalist in sports or something like that, and I got wind of this story and people didnt know who I was, but, you know, Ive been writing as a cultural critic within the yoga world for the last five years. Great questions. Get Notified when Karen Rain's info changes. Lets be a collective of equals in which any form of teaching is not handed down in vertical relationships and where gurus can do as they please. Karen Rain is a tutor, writer, queer feminist, activist and nature lover. Privacy Policy| Terms & Conditions. Karen Rain is a writer, tutor and nature lover. In the last two blogs I've written, I have been discussing Sat-Chit-Ananda, an ancient yogic compound that describes the experience of yoga. Does it make me fame and fortune? And two of its leads are Scott Johnson from London and the UK. Im a yoga teacher and licensed acupuncturist. My office is in Room 2.14 in the Mathematical Sciences Building. But theres always something mysterious about the leader or the guru which is probably not a good word for these people that allows their behaviors to be endlessly bandied about as though, Well, we cant really know what he was doing. So even with people that were initially critical, theyve read the book and they feel that this is a very fair, balanced treatment and important that its out now. And so I just was terrified of the implications of what I was hearing and I resisted it for a long time actually. According to her family tree, she married Jimmy D. Golson on July 6, 1987 in Texas . And its that intimate contact of the adjustment or assist where this is the moment of abuse. Its also what has made it resistant to contemporary biomechanics and contemporary kinesiology and contemporary physical therapy. Well, I came to it reluctantly. And I think I really have the work of Alexandra Stein to thank for that because she uses this basic so just a caveat here, when we talk about the psychology of person whos victimized by a cult, its not to say that, you know, there was something inside them that made them more vulnerable. I get labeled as being judgmental. And all of that really is in the sort of public, very jousty sphere of blog work and social media. Im not understanding them, not letting them handle it in their own way. But when I first got into yoga, just to put a context on this, when I first got into yoga and started hanging around and studios that had an Ashtanga Yoga program, I did hear these whispers around certain kinds of adjustments and that the euphemism that was given for this kind of very intimate genital touch was called a mulabandha check. Karen Rain Phone Number, Email, Address & More - CocoFinder We dicovered 3 people named Karen Rain living in 3 states. Really. Id even say his own fans arent responsible for him deceiving them! Although its not like the reactions that theyve had to my more informal blog work over the years, which a lot of people have just been able to dismiss or to say its agenda driven or something like that or that, You just hate our community, or something. Right? Associated persons: Eloise Caldera, Joseph G Caldera, Henning Franzen (951) 227-3174. And then thats what gets exported to the world is the notion that Joiss system is ancient or that it goes back to Patanjali, or something like that when theres no evidence for that at all. You know: you have to make a distinction between people that you love because you love them and people who are triggering to your students. Reflecting back now on Mysuru (new de-colonialized name for Mysore) it was a classic example of The Emperor and His New Clothes. Actually colonial influences: gymnastics, harmonial gymnastics, weight lifting, bodybuilding. I think it behoves all us men to start treating women with more respect. 8 Critical Problems in Modern Yoga, and How to Work with Them, Hes probably BKS Iyengars most famous, most prominent, most senior student, and the one who most embodies his own teaching persona, Michael Roach of the Asian Classics Institute, solo truth and reconciliation tear on his blog, The Embodiment Conference and Beyond: A Trauma-Aware Call to Healing [Guest Post], Trump Eating Poison is a Sacrament of Charismatic Escalation, During COVID-19, Charles Eisenstein Invites You to Think Deeply About His Awesome Writing. The problem that I dont think Jordan Peterson or any of his kind of like alt right bros want to really face is that you cannot be responsible for having been deceived. Theres going to be a lot of calculations in there. You may unsubscribe at any time. The residency of Karen is at 775 Barnes Lake Drv, NYA, MN 55397-9276. So talk about that: the sexual objectification, with Jois. I hope that slowly gets in. I mean, for me its positive because there isnt that much, worth following on Facebook. Addresses. The year when you left, 1998, I wasnt there. I dont think that anybody asked him directly, what are you doing when you grope these womens breasts or when you put your hands on their buttocks or when you put your fingers into their vaginas, like: What are you doing? When he was confronted about sexual assault, the few times that I have evidence of it, he was very embarrassed. As Karen Rain says, this whole sort of slew of cryptic justifications arose around his behavior. As he stepped up forcefully from behind, he found it hard to catch his balance and had to hold on to my shoulders to not fall over me. Questioning the guru was certainly considered theory. Again Ill refer to TM in the book, who says that as soon as she was sexually assaulted, somebody who saw it happen came up to her and said, Okay, so you realize that what just happened to you that wasnt sexual. And she was very confused. View Karen Haberman's business profile as Director at Northern Plains Public Library. Its like, its 2010 and Anneke Lucas published her account and it got buried on Facebook. Karen M. (Haberman) Golson was born c. 1955. Marian C Haberman February 25, 1928 ~ November 29, 2019 (age 91) Marian C. Haberman of Blooming Grove, New York, a retired Office Worker for Walnut Pond Dentistry located in Annandale, N.J., died on November 29, 2019 at St. Luke's Cornwall Hospital, Newburgh, New York. Theyre following a series of postures that theyve been given in a successive stage-like manner. As an ashtanga yoga practitioner for the last 30 + years who has been physically (and emotionally) injured by physical assists in ashtanga vinyasa classes, I honor you both for your honesty, courage, and integrity. But when you asked me that question, I think of an amazing accountability statement made by Sarai Harvey Monk who is authorized by Sharath Jois sometime in the 2010s, something like that. Join Facebook to connect with Karen Haberman and others you may know. via Matthew Remski On November 11th, Karen Rain, formerly known as Karen Haberman, posted the following #metoo disclosure about her studies with Pattabhi Jois, creator of "Ashtanga Yoga": For eight years, Rain was in the top echelon of Jois' most accomplished students. They all openly talk about how, Oh yeah, he blew out my knee and he was doing this, but I got the posture or he led me towards a more advanced position in the series or something like that. Um, no. That did not happen. Looking for info on Karen Haberman? What the public is less aware of is that its fairly easy for your run of the mill yoga teacher to manipulate a whole class of people intellectually and then psychologically by claiming that they know more about yoga philosophy than they actually do. I think we have to then wonder what it means for his senior students and how they present asana or yoga practice to the world now. She had disappeared! Why didnt you go to a journalist? Karen has been found in 12 states including Wisconsin, Alabama, Oregon, California, Colorado. And I think theres something in there too around the connection between the yoga posture and a kind of sexualized performance. Prior to that, I was a Hausdorff Postdoc at the Hausdorff Center for MathematicsLink opens in a new window at the University of Bonn and a member of Prof Karl-Theodor SturmLink opens in a new windows group on Stochastic and Geometric Analysis at the Institute for Applied MathematicsLink opens in a new window. I am deeply sorry. So once I started getting more and more attuned to the fact that that was an underlying story that Mr. Jois had actually assaulted women throughout his career, and nobody had really published on it, I realized that I couldnt just put that into a chapter somehow. Theres a lot of aspirations involved there. Again, thanks for being an ally! She was like, What do you mean it wasnt sexual? And they had some explanation about Shaktipat or spiritual transmission. And I have to say, Im deeply grateful to you for your work because its helped me sort through how to engage with that. And thats a really good thing. I hate that phrase, but I think theres theres nothing to have been done about it. Current address 81693 Camino El Triunfo, Indio, CA 92203 $1,760: B. But somehow with sexual assault, we look at the survivor or the victim or the survivor and we say, why didnt you run away when actually the sexual and the physical assault have deprived them in many cases of their capacity to feel as though they are autonomous, to feel as though they can have individual agency, to feel as though they have their own bodies even. You know, theyre attached to money. Im getting drowned out, I think, I dont know if you can hear, Im getting drowned out by leafblowers, lawnmowers, unfortunately. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. And theyre not following a led series of instructions from the teacher. Its a system. Karen Rain, formerly Haberman, was one of six students in a very early-days video of Pattabhi Jois directing them through the Primary series, that I had watched repeatedly on mute. I think she uses, no, I dont think she uses my research to try to figure out how many women he actually came into contact with when hes away from the Mysore shala on world tour, you know, in California or New York or Boston or whatever, or Hawaii. We have 6 records for Karen Haberman ranging in age from 39 years old to 78 years old. And I still have Shadow Pose as kind of like a book structure. Yeah. And I found it very weird for a so-called therapeutic practice that people came to for spiritual benefit, but they also seem to be working themselves really hard in. She asked PJ ("Guruji") why she had back pain and got no nuggets of wisdom. Its an invention. It suggests that at the heart of this, you know, venerable, lauded, beloved, you know, spiritual/wellness practice, theres this really dark problem that, that hasnt been looked at and hasnt, and hasnt been addressed. In my case, it was, in my case, it was Michael Roach of the Asian Classics Institute or Charles Anderson at Endeavor Academy. It happens to people who arent educated at all. I was totally shocked. Trigger warning: descriptions of sexual and physical assault. After the first day my knees were swelling to the size of footballs and I could hardly walk. AI isn't just changing search. What did we overlook? This is a great apple! She said to me, What you say sounds much too difficult and tiring. I mean, objectification is just dehumanizing. But I remember at some point I performed a twist, while KP Jois adjusted the girl next to me in drop backs. And the cover-up is still going on. Karen L. Haberman, 74, of Nunn, Colorado, passed away on November 27, 2020 at her home. For security, use of Google's reCAPTCHA service is required which is subject to the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. He gives off a hint of reality TV . The Debates in Post-Development and Degrowth Journal, published by Tvergastein, is an academic journal dealing with debates and works focused on advancing postdevelopment & degrowth thought. One thing thats come up from me is that Ive had some studios on my schedule that still have photographs of Pattabhi Jois in their altar corner of the studio. Shiva Details: Visitors are welcome to return to the residence Sunday after the conclusion of the burial at the cemetery, and visitation will continue from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Shiva visits Monday and Tuesday from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Evening services will be held daily at 7:00 p.m. But how did you come to a focus on the Ashtanga yoga situation in particular and what was going on in that that you felt needed to be highlighted? It happens to mediocrely educated people. Im deeply and truthfully sorry. He gained the trust. I know youre not found at this guy and I think I have mixed feelings about myself, but I was glancing through Jordan, Jordan Petersons book and he makes some comment that I think is really relevant here where he says you know, if we deny a victim response, some responsibility, we deny them agency. Like I bring up the metaphor in the book that if you broke a persons leg and there they were on the ground, you wouldnt blame them for not running away from you as you came in to damage them further. So its been a combination of forms of evidence that, I think have moved it out of allegation territory, but more importantly, out of the territory of interpretation where the leader who has perpetrated crimes is somehow beyond the realm of the normal citizen who can be evaluated according to the same standards of evidences as anybody else. I have known Karen as Karen Haberman and have practised close to her for around 10 or 11 months through 1996 and 1997 in KP Jois little Lakshmipuram studio. The only information I unearthed was that she'd become "disillusioned". 2020 Matthew Remski. Is it about the clothing? Like what were the conditions under which they learned? But this feeling that people are getting individual attention and that when the teacher comes around and pays them that close attention. Jubilee Cooke is one of the women who gave testimony and she was one of one of the women who was there for eight months. Where did she disappear to? She got so far away from the Ashtanga scene in the yoga world in general, she changed her name and its like nobody wanted to ask a little bit further? In the past, Karen has also been known as Karen L Haberman and Karen Lynn Haberman. Im sure things will improve. Because I think thats essential. According to ZoomInfo records, Karen Haberman's professional experience began in 2005. Yeah. So that triple isolation is like this amazing idea. Your email address will not be published. I am asking myself how I could not notice the extent to which these things were going on. How can I make this up to her? And, you know, I think anybody who reads through that and you know, theres stuff around: dont venerate people who are sexual assaulters or rapists. And the format was quite broad. Warm regards You never know whether its actually for your benefit or not. Required fields are marked *. I also want to thank and acknowledge Anneke Lucas who apparently was the whistle blower on this affair. Opportunistic. Lick the Bowl, Retro, Cathy Haberman, Hands On Design, PATTERN ONLY ad vertisement by farmersattic Ad from shop farmersattic farmersattic From shop farmersattic. And that it was going to stand in the way of her spiritual development or something like that. Now here I am talking about providing a safe space where you can heal but I have to actually thank you for providing a safe space to me where I can come out. 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