Dechen thurman yoga scandal

  • Uma Thurman's yoga-teacher brother Dechen Thurman is an alleged “sex addict” who has slept with many of his students at the hip Jivamukti Yoga School in.
  • Dechen Thurman, 41, is accused of using his yoga classes to 'pick-up' students in his Jivamukti yoga classes; The claims come from a former.
  • Should we worry about claims that yoga instructor Dechen Thurman (brother of actress Uma) is a sex addict who sleeps with his yoga students?

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    By Ed Staskus

       There’s nothing new about scandals, be they personal, political, academic, corporate, celebrity, religious, or financial. They are a dime a dozen. The reason they are so cheap is because there are so many of them. Crack a newspaper, vända on a TV, open a browser, and there they are, today and every day. They take all shapes and sizes, not just nowadays, but way back when, too.

       Back when the Olympics were the Greek Olympics, an Athenian pentathlete bribed his opponents to secure victory. He was found out and both he and his hometown were fined. He paid his fine, but the hometown of Athens refused. It took the Delphic Oracle threatening in no uncertain terms that there would be no more oracles for them to pay up.

       Five hundred years ago the Borgia’s, two of whom ruled the Holy City as Popes, were conniving entrepreneurs who bought their way to the top, and poisoned friend, foe, and family alike. They didn’t suf

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    Jivamukti Yoga NYC closes: a photo essay

    “Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.” ― Jack Kornfield

    Life moves on, like a river flowing, ever changing even though we don’t notice much from moment to moment. inom dipped my toes into the world of Jivamukti Yoga at their teacher training in , and by was fully immersed, living in NYC and working as Web Editor at the mothership. I stayed there until the summer of when we parted ways. On December 22nd, , the Jivamukti Yoga School in NYC closed its doors, and an era ended.

    In my job, I was entrusted with archives going back to the heady early days when Jivamukti Yoga was founded in and rose up in the East Village, then moved to Lafayette St in Sharon Gannon and David Life are the founders, who poured their hearts and spirits into building a lineage that honored its roots in the ancient teachings of Patanjali and the Bhagavad Gita, while integrating elements of modern wes

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    Uma Thurman’s &#;yogi-gigolo&#; brother &#;sleeps with students&#;

    Uma Thurman’s yoga-teacher brother Dechen Thurman is an alleged “sex addict” who has slept with many of his students at the hip Jivamukti Yoga School in Manhattan, according to a bombshell claim.

    While Uma is about to star in the upcoming movie “Nymphomaniac,” some lurid claims are being made about the sex life of her younger brother and his multiple affairs with students.

    According to a posting on , Dechen — who teaches around nine classes a week at the Union Square center — admitted, “Sometimes there are as many as five or six women in the class who I have slept with,” and adds more students are in love with him.

    The claim was posted by Columbia media law adjunct professor Maria Sliwa — a former NYPD officer, publicist, and younger sister of Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa — who has branded Thurman a “yoga gigolo.”

    She tells us, “I was a close friend of Dechen and he told me he suffers from sex addict