Michael Albert Doh believes yoga provides genuine physical, mental, and spiritual benefits.

“His genuine enthusiasm about the physical, mental, and spiritual benefits of yoga were very infectious, and it put many of his students at ease around him.”

Spiritual leaders often use the promise of prosperity and wealth to manipulate followers into participating in their yoga programs.

“and so the the evolution of the teachings then turned to really the prosperity gospel and that’s why I mentioned televangelist at beginning because it’s very much the same same vein and just in a new age sort of point of view.”

Kundalini yoga practices act as tools to concentrate life force in the nervous system and shift old patterns without requiring intellectual analysis.

“What the kundalini yoga kas do do is they create a bit of like an interception of that. They help to kind of break through old patterning in a way that bypasses my need to analyze it, my need to understand it intellectually”

Yoga should be practiced with an understanding of its history and ethical roots rather than being used merely as an individualistic, fitness-oriented activity.

“I call that sort of like respit yoga or on this new book wellness yoga. It's it's still yoga, right? But like I feel like it can it's not doing as much as it could do. I think in this particular political moment it's also like bypassing yoga, right? Like you go to the yoga studio to unwind and to un”

Individuals must test and evaluate different forms of yoga to determine which path is most appropriate for their own personal journey.

“What I'm saying to you is which yoga is appropriate for any human being only that human being can figure out. And you can only figure it out by trying and testing and looking and quieting your heart and opening one of you.”