Yeah. Previously, I was a postdoctoral fellow in the Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions at Sorbonne Universit with Prof Ugo Boscain and a member of the Inria Paris team CAGE. Theyre not going to be trained to take care of your subluxated disc in your back, and theyre not going to be trained to fix your labral tear. Visit the archive for a tidy list of all my articles. The fellowship was funded by the FSMPLink opens in a new window (Fondation Sciences Mathmatiques de Paris). If you are deceived about why you are in a place, about what is going to offer you, then youve really already had your agency taken away. And I think theres something in there too around the connection between the yoga posture and a kind of sexualized performance. Really. How much of that have men done to women through the ages. Karen Rain (pictured) says Ashtanga yoga guru Pattabhi sexually assaulted her and other women while she studied with him in Mysore, India, in the mid 1990s. Meanwhile, their colleagues are not supposed to be looking. Why shouldnt the intimacy of their, you know, their deepest selves be somehow exposed? Filter by age or state to narrow your search to find the person you are . Thats what they said. Karen E Haberman Indio, age 58, female. I am glad that I strongly advised any of my students not to go there. You know, theyre attached to money. Right? Ive been thinking that AY teachers who want to continue to venerate Pattabhi Jois and teach yoga adhering to his tradition/lineage/method ought to call it Vinyasa Yoga (honesty in advertising). Whats judgmental or perhaps the better word is just inept, is to continue to keep your head in the sand about what the person that you love did to people. When I started to get a sense of how grave the issue was, I really resisted going into it because I thought that my gut was that if it really was true that Pattabhi Jois was a serial sex abuser and that he did it in broad daylight and that there were an untold number of women victims and that none of them had been able really to speak out publicly about it until Anneke Lucas in 2010, and that the community had not done anything about it. What psychiatrists came up with in the 1950s where they self imposed theyre starting to break it with Trump now but a lot of professional clinicians, have this self-imposed rule that theyre not going to diagnose people that theyre not in clinical practice with. I could have been one of the women who simply smiled at you, shook their heads and walked on when you approached them about the sexual abuse. What the public is less aware of is that its fairly easy for your run of the mill yoga teacher to manipulate a whole class of people intellectually and then psychologically by claiming that they know more about yoga philosophy than they actually do. Right. It happens to people who arent educated at all. And one of the things that she says this creates is this amazing I say its amazing, its awful, but its amazing to me because it articulates my own cult experience so well she describes a triple isolation in which youre isolated from the outside world. Now thats new. Heres another example. This is true. Its very, very difficult to protect yourself against being deceived. You are yourself a survivor of two cults, and I know that part of this work in this book has been a bit of a healing journey for you. But thats gonna take a long time. So even with people that were initially critical, theyve read the book and they feel that this is a very fair, balanced treatment and important that its out now. So I hope those are helpful ideas. Why arent we talking about that more? I have lots of friends in the Ashtanga Yoga world. My knees were getting better at the time and I could again do most of my practise. Let me introduce us. It does hit me on a personal level. I will address you, Karen, now directly and will get Matthew to forward you my response. But also under Krishnamacharyas tutelage was his brother-in-law BKS Iyengar. That crossed my desk a little while ago and I did very much appreciate that. As Karen Rain says, this whole sort of slew of cryptic justifications arose around his behavior. Yeah. Oh, okay. Recent News About Karen Haberman . View Details. He was given kind of free reign to pontificate about every aspect of a persons life, you know, so its not just that he was teaching people asana, but he was also telling them to stop taking their medication or he was telling them that their back didnt need surgery or, you know, he was giving them spiritual advice perhaps or, or what have you. Right, and thats part of what alienates you from your own, even your will to, to propose an alternative or to ask questions, which of course youre not allowed to do. Find Karen's age, current and past home addresses, mobile phone numbers, email addresses, and known relatives. He is the author of eight books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction including Threads of Yoga: A Remix of Patanjalis Sutras. And I dont think you have to be worried about virtue-signaling by referring to what survivors of sexual assault need. Sometimes as early as 4, 4:30 AM. . And you could meditate your way into believing that there was perhaps, but most people are not actually having that experience and we shouldnt be telling them that they should. But we dont have any evidence that physical adjustments in yoga existed prior to the 1920s. Again, thanks for being an ally! When you look on Instagram today at #yoga you will see images that really had their birthplace in terms of their sensuality their, their structure, the whole aesthetic really comes out of the Jois movement. During my last stay in Mysuru in 1999 I shared all of my doubts with a friend. So I mean, okay. We dont know whats going on. But youre not getting anything out of those confrontations if youre trying to teach there. Karen L. Haberman, 74, of Nunn, Colorado, passed away on November 27, 2020 at her home. But the thing is, is that administratively we have this sense that while hes been excised, somehow hes been amputated and, you know, were all fine now. Woops.]. Lets be a collective of equals in which any form of teaching is not handed down in vertical relationships and where gurus can do as they please. This has to stop. They are watching sexual assault taking place like before their own eyes and theyre saying, Oh, we dont know whats happening. And he created a victim-centered narrative. I should have trusted in my intuition and pursued that until it would blow up in some form or another. Karen Haberman Entrepreneur and Internet Visionary Hawthorne, New Jersey, United States. I made a few attempts to discuss these things with senior teachers (I was a newie then and didnt practise enough series to be taken seriously) but the response was usually along the lines of Do your practice and all is coming or Yoga is 99% practice and 1% theory. I am a Harrison Early Career Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Warwick. You know, there are very few, I would imagine in North America and Europe, yoga teachers who are cranking people today the way that Jois cranked people in his day. I want to explore that more. . "Maybe This Time". Thats, thats mixed. via Matthew Remski On November 11th, Karen Rain, formerly known as Karen Haberman, posted the following #metoo disclosure about her studies with Pattabhi Jois, creator of "Ashtanga Yoga": For eight years, Rain was in the top echelon of Jois' most accomplished students. And I think its had a huge ripple effect. You dont know, I dont know whats going on in Pattabhi Joiss head. I remember to this day her clarity and steely determination in her eyes when she looked straight at me and said with a smile, Forget about it. Its almost incredible to say, but you know, story after story, testimony after testimony, this is what we come up with and it doesnt make sense for 30 years of such activities to to take place in plain sight without there being a network of complicity thats supporting and enabling them. Theyre following a series of postures that theyve been given in a successive stage-like manner. And that hes doing it for his own gratification and that theres no therapeutic benefit to this. I have known Karen as Karen Haberman and have practised close to her for around 10 or 11 months through 1996 and 1997 in KP Jois little Lakshmipuram studio. The cover-up has to stop and what has been done has to be owned. It was really, really effective. And I think thats really all important to say, but it actually hasnt gone very well for me with these places. I dont think so. View Karen Haberman's business profile as Director at Northern Plains Public Library. 35 records for Karen Haberman. And theyre not following a led series of instructions from the teacher. 80421 Camino Santa Elise, Indio, CA 92203, lived here in 2016 $1,760: C. 80621 Avenida San Fernando, Indio, CA 92203, lived here in 2015 Karen Rain (Haberman). Or if you tried to, youd be told, Oh no, thats not what it was. Lets not give psychological advice or talk about peoples medications. Yeah. And thats a felt, phenomenological experience. But anyway, their list of the things that you can do is all laid out for you. I never really pursued Ashtanga yoga myself. And it also shows how effective and immersive the propaganda was around Joiss power that the senior students openly joke about how they all crawled crying out of practice everyday. And then that second layer of isolation leads to a kind of internal isolation from your own moral sense, where its like you had values that helped you navigate the world. Like he was, he was a bad man. And so in that ongoing story, which is still unfolding, we have this sense administratively within IYNAUS that you know, hes been delisted, hes been decertified and the Iyengar family has removed his right in light of these crimes, which cant be prosecuted theyre all outside of the statute of limitations but in light of these behaviors, hes been prevented from using the Iyengar trademark in his teaching going forward. And the second chapter was to be an analysis of interview data coming from the Ashtanga world. They wanted to indigenize these physical culture practices, as forms of national physical culture, but also anti-colonial pride building. And so theres a way in which people show up in spaces like this and they are working so extrovertedly with their bodies in very vulnerable positions and theyre told that this practice will have kind of like a total effect upon their bodies, minds, emotions, psyches. After high school on Long Island, New York, she went . And I still have Shadow Pose as kind of like a book structure. Ive really enjoyed talking to you and Im really super appreciative of the work youre doing. Karen Rain Speaks About Pattabhi Jois and Recovering from Sexual and Spiritual Abuse. I follow you also in the common threads and youve rolled up your sleeves, the knuckles are out and its bit of a knife fight in there, but youre fighting the good fight. Why was it me? And with regard to my profile, well, we all have jobs and you know, my job as strange as it is and as self-made as it is, is that I look at abuse and spiritual communities. She is survived by her four children Amy (Richard) Stathus, James (Jessica) Habermann, Heather (Nolan) Long, and Ashley (Brendan) Thibault along with her thirteen grandchildren Jennifer, Devin, Derek, Amber, Erica, Collette, Alexander, Henry, Cali, Deacon, Hadley . Jubilee Cooke is one of the women who gave testimony and she was one of one of the women who was there for eight months. Yeah. BKSs gruffness, his shouting, his way of both electrifying and terrifying a room at the same time. Reflecting back now on Mysuru (new de-colonialized name for Mysore) it was a classic example of The Emperor and His New Clothes. So on one hand, yeah, on one hand the bad apple argument just doesnt work because nobody assaults Jubilee Cooke estimates that theres 30,000 her conservative estimate is that theres 30,000 distinct episodes of abuse or assault . Love and respect! And hes published a lot of really beautiful pieces about that are basically, What the heck were we doing? It's changing national security, too. [Correction: its the Goldwater Rule. and I kept coming back for more. They dont know what they are doing! There was going to be a lot more work to do on that. At this point, after having read in the wake of MeToo so many accounts of sexual abuse by women conducted by men, I feel an almost primal shame of being male. So people are capable of all kinds of BS when it comes to the interpretability of the magical person. Yes, this seems to be a common story. I also want to thank and acknowledge Anneke Lucas who apparently was the whistle blower on this affair. Theres always something mysterious or like, or a little bit beyond or childlike or innocent or super spiritual about the leader, about Mr. Jois or about Manouso Manos. We cant really interpret You bring up the video evidence. So youre basically practicing independently and then the teacher comes around and adjust you or, quote-unquote assists you. He would come behind women and digitally rape them by actually pressing his fingers through their tights and into their genitals. I think we have to then wonder what it means for his senior students and how they present asana or yoga practice to the world now. Authorized teachers. She enjoys dancing, going for walks in the woods with her three cats and playing games with friends. And so I didnt actually you asked the question and I didnt want to go on a rant about . So you know, I appreciate your confession. Sorry to hear that you got assaulted by Jois, too. That did not happen. I think part of that maybe the threshold has to do with, its not like I was a professional journalist in sports or something like that, and I got wind of this story and people didnt know who I was, but, you know, Ive been writing as a cultural critic within the yoga world for the last five years. Karen Haberman 1958 Karen Haberman, born Circa 1958. What has been some of the response youve received or seen in light of the stuff coming out and also in light of your book. And you know, even if hes abusing you, maybe hes helping you get over ego. I mean, for me its positive because there isnt that much, worth following on Facebook. She said to me, What you say sounds much too difficult and tiring. I am a Harrison Early Career Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Warwick. But I remember at some point I performed a twist, while KP Jois adjusted the girl next to me in drop backs. And teachers like you and Monica Gauci and others are much more deserving of the label Ashtanga (8 limbed) Yoga teachers. The first chapter was going to be an examination of the interview data of senior students of Mr Iyengar. The reform so far has been strong in some areas in the zone of sentiment, rather than action. And I think I really have the work of Alexandra Stein to thank for that because she uses this basic so just a caveat here, when we talk about the psychology of person whos victimized by a cult, its not to say that, you know, there was something inside them that made them more vulnerable. Yes. Updated: June 20, 2015 . On file we have 38 email addresses and 35 phone numbers associated with Karen in area codes such as 256, 608, 541, 970, 909, and 13 other area codes. Thats what they said. And you know, we dont know whats going on. You had a compass that was a shining light for you, but now its kind of broken or its been occluded and the wisdom of the group has entered in and has kind of overwhelmed what youve been able to decide for yourself in terms of your moral values throughout your life. In the last 24 hours I have hear from several sides that the video showing KP Jois sexually assaulting and adjusting violently students has been taken down several times by petitions of Jois followers. But one of the things that has come up for me and trying to talk about it with these hosts and these other studios is, its hard to escape a little bit the idea of or the dynamic of virtue signaling, where you kind of come off pious or sanctimonious: Look, you have this photograph up and youre silencing victims and doing your part of an institutional enablement. I watched it on mute because there was something vaguely military about Jois' staccato Sanskrit counts. Facebook gives people the power. Im a yoga teacher and licensed acupuncturist. What all of the 16 women who gave their testimony for my book I describe is that you know, they werent people to him. And so I just was terrified of the implications of what I was hearing and I resisted it for a long time actually. You never know whether its actually for your benefit or not. Karen Rain, formerly Haberman, was one of six students in a very early-days video of Pattabhi Jois directing them through the Primary series, that I had watched repeatedly on mute. Yoga. She had disappeared! Scope of practice or defining a scope of practice for a yoga teacher is a keystone of that effort. Bless you. Yes. So once I started getting more and more attuned to the fact that that was an underlying story that Mr. Jois had actually assaulted women throughout his career, and nobody had really published on it, I realized that I couldnt just put that into a chapter somehow. Heres to continued improvement. I mean, thats just, thats basic adulting for one thing. He has recently had allegations, numerous allegations of sexual assault verified against him by an independent investigation that was commissioned by the Iyengar Yoga Association of the United State, or IYNAUS. I hope that people are able to begin to look at the communities that they live in a little bit more critically, to look at the kind of leadership that they have a little bit more critically and start modelling that critical thinking. I had two similar smaller occurrences when the girls in question simply smiled at me, shook their heads and walked on. PS This post is only a fragment of what needs to be said but I hope to be addressing all that later down the track. Also known as: Karen D Haberman, Karen Haberman, D Karen Haberman. No, thats not what they said. Lets take our power back and stop projecting it on people who are as flawed as we all are. People who have that response really have to get educated in what it means to be in a toxic power dynamic, that confuses your basic capacity to feel as though you have agency. And that by his, usually its his touch, or their gaze or they can strike you with a peacock feather that theres a literal sort of a transmission of spiritual realization into the students body. Loving mother and mother-in-law of Michael Whitla and the late Lisa Haberman, the late Jennifer Haberman, and the late Becca Haberman. Just briefly take me through the math on that. Its a system. And apparently he would stop from time to time, but like somebody who had clearly an illness, he wasnt able to stop for very long. It doesnt make any sense. Its a pleasure to talk with you. A book is a different thing, you know, when its editorialized and fact checked and theres legal backing of publication behind it, its 380 pages long and theres 380 foot notes or whatever, its well-cooked. So talk about that: the sexual objectification, with Jois. I would like also to thank you, Karen, for being so clear in your interview what constitutes assault and going through all the intellectualizations and rationalisations, that are trying to explain KP Jois behaviour away. Now it also implies that the knowledge thats being transferred goes way back in history and has been tested by time. But in terms of evidence being clear, because this sometimes comes up when I have conversations with people about.They refer to the allegations. Theyre supposed to be concentrating on their own stuff. Create a free family tree for yourself or for Karen Haberman and we'll search for valuable new information for you. I dont want to interrupt. Karen has been a freedom fighter ever since she was 19 and maybe before that when she was just a rebellious child. Hes probably BKS Iyengars most famous, most prominent, most senior student, and the one who most embodies his own teaching persona. Hopemissema. See my privacy policy to learn more about how I use data. Karen's Current Address 11 Cullen Hill Rd . And part of the story that started to accrue around what Jois was doing as he was sexually assaulting women and possibly men too, thats not verified by first person testimony though. Right. People argued about that for years. There is also, as you mentioned, a scope of practice for the yoga humanities that I think would be a good idea. New information found for Karen Haberman. Karen Haberman was born circa 1958. It was the students who said these things about him. Find the latest phone number, email address, home address and more ThatsThem for free. There were people who would say that. I was totally shocked. Prior to that, I was a Hausdorff Postdoc at the Hausdorff Center for MathematicsLink opens in a new window at the University of Bonn and a member of Prof Karl-Theodor SturmLink opens in a new windows group on Stochastic and Geometric Analysis at the Institute for Applied MathematicsLink opens in a new window. Braver than I was. Hopemissema. I want to contribute to your healing by providing a safe space in which you can come forward and express all this. Its really the beauty and the artistry and I would say the sensuality and the sublimated sexuality of and sometimes not-sublimated sexuality of that imagery that is directly coming from Jois. And theres been a lot of divided opinion about the value of what I do ever since then. Its an invention. Theyre implying that it has the weight of several generations of validation behind it. Find the obituary of Karen Haberman (1946 - 2020) from Nunn, CO. Leave your condolences to the family on this memorial page or send flowers to show you care. And I just want to thank you for that. That doesnt make sense. I hope that slowly gets in. Also lets not BS about history and philosophy either because its becoming increasingly clear and I want to cite my colleagues Theodore Wildcroft here for coming up with this analogy its becoming increasingly clear that Yoga teachers are not physiotherapists. Im sure things will improve. And its that intimate contact of the adjustment or assist where this is the moment of abuse. After years of healing my knees came good and I have a well-going daily Ashtanga practice 20 years on. Every day, Karen Rain and thousands of other voices read, write, and share important stories on Medium. March 14, 2012. And so I think its very confusing. I am asking myself how I could not notice the extent to which these things were going on. As all these things are being revealed the cult-like, fundamentalist tendencies in Ashtanga Yoga have only increased. He gained the trust. I do know that whether theyre accurate interpretations or not, there are all kinds of yoga or Buddhist or pseudo-yoga or pseudo-Buddhist ideas around, emptiness, interpretability, the play of Lila, karma, all kinds of, of terms that are correctly or incorrectly used to describe or to rationalize things that we would rather not confront as being abusive. Is it about the clothing? Well this is interesting. The way in which this group of people was inculturated to withstand pain is extraordinary. And at a certain point I realized that the injury question in the Ashtanga world, which is profound, its, it goes deep was still a surface question to the abuse issue that had been silent for many, many years, but also carried by a number of women survivors in a kind of whisper network as well. We have 6 records for Karen Haberman ranging in age from 39 years old to 78 years old. Well actually, you know, I just want to interject too, is that the people that Im in contact with, that had said that actually have read the book and have actually completely changed their tune. People asked for like a decade. But in 2012, there was a big hagiography published of Joiss life featuring interviews with 40 students, and everybody talked about how wonderful he was and what a grandfather and father figure he was, and a spiritual teacher and all of that. I think I have two feelings about this question. I think its really kind of awful serendipity really because it was reportable. I guess the other thing that Jois would do is that he would just steal money from students. And you also from there, you then expand into an analysis of sort of structural, systemic conditions that do kind of disorient and confuse and create this kind of vertiginous internal phenomenology for the person that makes it very difficult to see one way or the other. And you know, the relationship between the teacher and the student is sacred. I know were closing in on your time a bit and I do want to get into maybe the path ahead. The book that started to emerge out of that research project was originally called Shadow Pose, and the project name was What Are We Actually Doing in Asana? Or the opposite, which I hear a lot too is Okay, well if these people, like with Karen Rain going back again and again and getting continually assaulted: Whats going on in her psychology or someones psychology like that, that keeps them there? The birth date was listed as January 1, 1948. And so what that means is that theyre saying that a technique that Jois developed in the late sixties and changed several times as his shala got busier, theyre implying that that is traditional in a way. And they wont hurt because of it financially. The bogus-parampara juggernaut is still being propelled forward. Thats a huge, hugely important piece that I think gets overlooked. So I had the sense around 2015 or 16 that if what I was hearing was true and I believed that it was true, that it would really rock the foundations of this particular community. Thats not safe for the people who come to your studio. Im not understanding them, not letting them handle it in their own way. I hope that we can show that we are more than a cult. I studied Asthanga yoga for 10 years in the 90s but somehow avoided going to Mysore. And, you know, I think anybody who reads through that and you know, theres stuff around: dont venerate people who are sexual assaulters or rapists. Theyre implying that they belong to a heritage rather than a branded family business. As an ashtanga yoga practitioner for the last 30 . You have no idea what was going on in Chogyam Trungpas head, you have no idea what, what the inner life of Bikram Choudhury is like. In the past, Karen has also been known as Karen L Haberman and Karen Lynn Haberman. 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