Wolf Terry: The Yoga and Wellness Worlds are Sick

Wolf Terry joins Laura Tucker for a conversation about her controversial Yoga Journal article “Getting Vaxxed Was My Act of Ahimsa.” Wolf Terry is a contributing writer for Yoga Journal. She left teaching yoga at the beginning of the pandemic after years of working at every level of the $88 billion industry in order to become a full-time writer. In 2018 Wolf lost her younger brother and best friend to suicide, mere months after her child was born. Since then she has been an advocate for mental health, as well as an outspoken activist on crucial social justice issues. Wolf recently came under fire in the Yoga and Wellness community for her Yoga Journal article “Getting Vaxxed Was My Act of Ahimsa” in which she calls out the yoga community for abandoning its ethics. Host Laura Tucker is a survivor of the 2009 fatal sweat lodge at a spiritual and self help retreat in Sedona, Arizona. She and Wolf discuss their common concerns for the yoga, wellness, spiritual and self help industries including: what Ahimsa meansethical concerns when profit comes before peoplespiritual bypassingtoxic woo culture in westernized yoga and spiritualityindoctrination and cult dynamics in wellness communitiesthe influence of the racist and misogynist ideology of the QAnon and Pastel Q influencers on vaccination rates and the spread of misinformation and disinformation across the internet Mentioned in this episode Wolf Terry's Yoga Journal article - Getting Vaxxed Was My Act of Ahimsa Yoga Journal's teaser post on Instagram The Story Behind Free Your Inner Guru Documentary - Enlighten Us: The Rise and Fall of James Arthur Ray Wondery podcast - Guru: The Dark Side of Enlightenment Conspirituality Podcast - Ep 61 - From Anti-Feminism to Anti-Vax with Dr Annie Kelley Dr Annie Kelley's podcast Vaccine: The Human Story Free Your Inner Guru Leadership Community on Discourse Lindsay Keefe Yoga Therapy Steve McCready - The Sensitive Rebel Podcast Connect with Wolf Terry Instagram - @wolfginiWebsite - wolfgini.com Become a podcast supporter Become a patron on Patreon - https://patreon.com/freeyourinnerguru the fun new hoodies, t-shirts and sustainably printed notebooks. (Use LAUNCH15 at checkout for 15% savings.) - https://freeyourinnerguru.com/shop Connect with Free Your Inner Guru® online Website - freeyourinnerguru.comInstagram - instagram.com/freeyourinnerguruJoin our Leadership Community! Live conversation twice a month on Zoom, and full access to our Discourse community. freeyourinnerguru.com/community