VDC: Bikram: Predator in the Studio (Repeat from Summer 2022, with changes)

Course | Registration opens 12/9/2024 8:00 AM EST

Penn State York, 1031 Edgecomb Avenue York, PA 17403-3398 United States
Main Classroom Bldg, Conference Center, 31 B and C
Members and nonmembers
2/12/2025 (one day)
3:00 PM-5:30 PM EST on Tue
$8.00

VDC: Bikram: Predator in the Studio (Repeat from Summer 2022, with changes)

Course | Registration opens 12/9/2024 8:00 AM EST

People who signed up for Chaudry Bikram's popular "Hot Yoga" classes did so because of his reputation as a top-notch teacher.  Many knew the classes would involve extreme physical exercises.  They did NOT know about the ongoing vulgar and offensive remarks toward many of them, or the groping and sexual assaults....but that's what they got.  This video shows what the classes were like from an insider's point of view.  A question to ponder:  WHY did some just laugh it off and STAY with him, despite what was happening in front of them?  Was he a Yoga star or Monster?

Marc Benton

Marc Benton has an  MA in Communication from University of Kentucky; an M.Div. from Yale Divinity School; thirty years as a Presbyterian Pastor in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New York; and thirty years of college teaching communications at SUNY Orange, York College, and HACC with special interests in religion, perception, personality, and marketing.