How Dark Conspiracies Infiltrated California Yoga

COVID adds to California yoga and wellness QAnon problem

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-06-23/covid-adds-to-california-yoga-wellness-qanon-problem

Yoga teacher Laura Schwartz closed her studio and moved to Carlsbad after QAnon conspiracy theories, including false claims about the COVID-19 vaccine, came …

How conspiracy theories "infiltrated" the wellness community

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-19-vaccine-conspiracy-theories-online-wellness-communities/

Barkataki recalled. Conspiracy theories "infiltrated slowly," she said, helped along by the fact that some members of the yoga and wellness communities were …

She was a popular yoga teacher who embraced QAnon : NPR

https://www.npr.org/2023/01/02/1146318331/yoga-guru-qanon-conspiracy-theories

To understand what wellness and conspiracy theories have in common, I decided to follow the radicalization journey of a Los Angeles-based Kundalini yoga teacher named Guru Jagat (to hear the full ...

QAnon Is Taking Over the Yoga and Wellness Influencer …

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/qanon-wellness-influencers-seane-corn-yoga-1059856/

Yoga and spirituality influencers have been watching the mainstreaming of QAnon with horror, so they decided to take a stand. A few months ago, Shannon Algeo, a yoga and meditation teacher in Los ...

The yoga world is riddled with anti-vaxxers and QAnon believers

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/yoga-disinformation-qanon-conspiracy-wellness

Yoga influencers who have amplified anti-vaxx or QAnon conspiracies have denied endorsing them, and have instead embraced the well-known rhetoric of ‘freedom of thought’ and self-exploration.

Yoga Influencers Are Battling to Quash QAnon Conspiracy …

https://www.insider.com/qanon-conspiracy-theory-yoga-influencer-took-over-world-2020-11

As a far-right conspiracy, QAnon might seem an unlikely endpoint in the stereotypically left-leaning yoga community. But it's an established phenomenon that …

Q-Anon has infiltrated SoCal’s yoga and wellness community

https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/conservatorships-qanon-documenary-guacamole/la-wellness-misinformation

That’s the conspiracy theory that the government is run by Satan-worshipping pedophiles and it conspired against former President Donald Trump. …

Is QAnon alive and well in the yoga community? Check the real …

https://filmdaily.co/news/qanon-news/

The Los Angeles Times recently reported that QAnon has infiltrated the New Age yoga and meditation scene to an even greater degree during the pandemic. …

Does yoga have a conspiracy theory problem? - BBC …

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-55957298

He says yoga also shares three core beliefs which are key to any conspiracy theory: everything is connected, nothing happens without a reason, and nothing is as it appears. "If you have trained ...

The Terrifying Story of How QAnon Infiltrated Moms’ Groups

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/09/the-terrifying-story-of-how-qanon-infiltrated-moms-groups/

Katy Strang, who moderates a moms’ group in Camarillo, California, told me that before March, she only occasionally had to remove a post. These days, she removes 30 to 50 posts every week. “It ...