One woman said her yoga teacher, Manouso Manos, stuck his toe
into her vagina through her tights while she was in a seated pose.
Another woman said he stroked her genitals while she was performing a
standing yoga pose. And yet another said he put his finger in her anus
through her clothing while she was in a standing pose, bent over with
her head toward the ground.
An investigation into Manos, a prominent international yoga teacher
based in San Francisco, has found that several allegations of
“inappropriate sexual touching” during classroom instruction have “proven to be true,” according to a report released April 5 by the national body overseeing the Iyengar tradition in the United States.
Manos, a disciple of and right-hand man to the founder of Iyengar,
B.K.S. Iyengar, used adjustments of yoga poses as a cover to sexually
abuse students and to groom them for such acts, wrote Bernadette
Sargeant, an independent investigator and Washington, D.C., lawyer hired
by the Iyengar Yoga National Association of the United States (IYNAUS)
to conduct the probe.
Manos, through a spokesman, said last fall that he denied all
allegations — past and present. “Manos emphatically denies any
wrongdoing,” the spokesman said in a statement on Friday.
Sexual Assault Allegations 'Proven to Be True' Against Famed S.F. Yoga Teacher | The California Report | KQED News
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