Ashleigh Freckleton

That's sort of their umbrella one.

Then I eventually joined the London branch, which is Tara Yoga Center.

But they go under so many different names.

They're called Natha Yoga Center in Scandinavian countries.

And they go by...

a whole list of different names depending on where you are in the world.

No.

And MISA is the main kind of originating school as well, which came out of Romania.

So it was Movement of Integration into the Spiritual Absolute.

Yes, and this is a really big part of the story that the leader kind of latched onto in that he was a dissident of the communist regime and he was persecuted for practising yoga during that time, which is partly true, and he did receive refugee status in Sweden.

Mm.

So it kind of lended an air of credibility to the whole thing because he did have that genuine refugee status at the time.

I became aware of him fairly early.

I was...

doing the online classes and I was talking to this friend that had kind of drawn me into the school.

And he was based in Romania at the time and we were talking online and he started to talk about his spiritual master or his spiritual guide.

And then he sent me links and gave me his name, which is Gregorian Bivalaru.

And it immediately raised red flags for me because he said he's in hiding.

He's wanted by Interpol.

But, you know, look what happened to Jesus.