Amit
Appearances
Cult of Body & Soul
3. "Noon on Monday"
To be honest, I'd never seen anybody like her before. She was so unique and different from the world that I grew up in, the world that I was currently even living in in New York City. She had dreads. She had a bunch of tats. She had these bright, bright green eyes. There was something about her that was really bewitching. And I... just signed up and didn't really think too deeply about it.
Cult of Body & Soul
3. "Noon on Monday"
I just knew there was something special about her, and I needed to know more.
Cult of Body & Soul
3. "Noon on Monday"
And I remember very, very distinctly sitting in the back row. And when she came out and she got on the pedestal and she got on the podium and she got on that bike and she commanded the room, every fiber in my body was paying attention to her. And it was not something I had ever experienced. And I wouldn't say that it was spiritual or sexual, but maybe it was something in between.
Cult of Body & Soul
3. "Noon on Monday"
So I think it was interesting to have that kind of reaction to a woman as a woman who is, you know, fairly straight, all the things. But it was a button that got pushed in my brain and I needed to keep pushing that button.
Cult of Body & Soul
3. "Noon on Monday"
And when I left, I mean, it was next level. And I signed up immediately for the next class and the next class and the next class. Like, I just kept going.
Cult of Body & Soul
3. "Noon on Monday"
I think what was really special about the Monday at 8.30 class was that it was family night. That was what Stevie called it. And if you were really in the inner family, you would get tapped to meet her afterwards and have a drink or have a snack.
Cult of Body & Soul
3. "Noon on Monday"
There definitely was a ritual about going to class and what happened after class, right? So it sort of started off in a smaller way on Monday nights where, you know, I will never forget the first time Stevie tapped me. She came up to me a couple of minutes before class and she tapped my hand. It was the first time she had physically touched me and I remember it quite well. And she said, Hey, um,
Cult of Body & Soul
3. "Noon on Monday"
are you available to come out and have a meal with us afterwards? You know, it's family night. And I was like, oh yeah, sure. And I, you know, tried to play it cool. I definitely wasn't, but I thought, yeah, of course. It was one of those things when we walked in, you know, she was the lead rock star and we were her acolytes and we were really a known entity. People saw us in the neighborhood and,
Cult of Body & Soul
3. "Noon on Monday"
They knew we were wearing SoulCycle clothes. I mean, my brother called it the Manson family, which I didn't think was really the nicest way to reference it. But I know what he meant. And, you know, and she was a celebrity. People would like, you know, in the neighborhood, people would see her and wave at her. You know, I would watch sometimes people surreptitiously taking pictures of her.
Cult of Body & Soul
3. "Noon on Monday"
I mean, you know, all sorts of crazy things. I think it just highlighted how special everything was. And I think she loved celebration, right? So when it came time to have a holiday like Thanksgiving or Christmas or New Year's, we were even doing that together.
Cult of Body & Soul
3. "Noon on Monday"
It was like we were all kind of working in tandem, I think, for her and with her, you know, and I think that's where the line started to get a little bit muddy. But I think the first time I realized that That things were maybe like, gosh, what is happening here is when I did my year-end finances and I looked to see how much money I had spent on SoulCycle.
Cult of Body & Soul
3. "Noon on Monday"
And I will not share that number right here, but I will tell you that that number is somewhere between 6,000. and nine thousand dollars it was something like that i think i think it was eight thousand dollars and i wasn't traveling without money i wasn't investing that money i was spending that money to spend time with stevie and i felt that that was my number one priority
Cult of Body & Soul
3. "Noon on Monday"
It was like when things started to when the cracks started to appear, right? And inevitably, the cracks are going to appear and they appeared outside of the studio, not in the studio, right? Outside of the studio, things started to happen. There were inconsistencies, maybe there were things that were happening that didn't add up. And I wasn't quite sure what was happening.
Cult of Body & Soul
3. "Noon on Monday"
And I knew that I wasn't getting the full story. But I also was nervous about my place in the group. And I didn't want to upset the apple cart. So I think I would just look the other way a lot. And I think that's also part of being in a cult, right? Is when you can't call it out. You're like, Well, that doesn't seem right. But la la la la la, I want to keep doing this. I don't want to let it go.
Cult of Body & Soul
3. "Noon on Monday"
You know, or maybe it's just maybe it wasn't a cult. Maybe it was just a really bad relationship. And by the way, I never really drank cocktails until SoulCycle. I was a total wine drinker. That was all I ever drank. But Stevie didn't drink wine. She drank cocktails. So the next thing I knew, I learned how to make all the classic cocktails.
Cult of Body & Soul
3. "Noon on Monday"
I learned everything there was to know about Negronis and Manhattans and martinis. It was just not what I drank at all. And then all of a sudden, I was a cocktail queen. So, so crazy. I know. It's so fucked up. It's like, look at all the therapy I've been in to figure this out, you know?