Matthew Remski
[1][2][3][4] Remski was instrumental in exposing inappropriate physical contact in Yoga classes through an article that he wrote for The Walrus in 2018.He received a Tantric initiation from Roach's lama, Khen Rinpoche Geshe Lobsang Tharchin, in 1998, visited India and Sera Mey monastery in Tibet, and studied Tibetan.In 2008 Remski studied Jyotish Shastra, an East Indian form of astrology, at the Vidya Institute.[10] Tara Henley, reviewing Practice and All is Coming for The Globe and Mail, writes that Remski's "riveting" book "takes a deep dive into the 'toxic group dynamics' at play, mainly in the context of Ashtanga yoga, referencing numerous interviews Remski conducted with women who allege its late founder Pattabhi Jois sexually assaulted them".[11] Remski examines the "'classic cultic triad' of deception, dependence and dread of leaving", isolating the follower and preventing them from thinking clearly about what is happening.