French police last week arrested more than 40 key members of the Atman Yoga Federation, a network of yoga schools present in some 30 countries. It claims to offer followers a path to higher consciousness through tantric practices – but former members told RFI they were psychologically manipulated and pressured into sex.
At the Mahasiddha yoga school in Rishikesh, northern India, students sometimes end tantric sessions with an “angel walk”: passing, eyes closed, through a corridor formed by their classmates, who reach out their hands to stroke them as they go.
