Editing Kundalini yoga (section)

== Controversy ==

There have been accusations that modern Kundalini Yoga practice and related groups including [[3HO]] and Ra Ma are cult-like<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=2021-12-01 |title=The Second Coming of Guru Jagat |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2021/11/the-second-coming-of-guru-jagat |access-date=2023-05-20 |magazine=Vanity Fair |language=en-US}}</ref> in practices, financial abuse,<ref name="Orecchio-Egresitz">{{Cite web |last=Orecchio-Egresitz |first=Haven |title=Before the sudden death of its leader, Ra Ma Yoga Institute was accused by some former members of being a cult. What happens now? |url=https://www.insider.com/followers-said-ra-ma-yoga-was-cult-what-happens-now-2021-10 |access-date=2023-05-20 |website=Insider |language=en-US}}</ref> and sexual abuse.{{cn|date=November 2024}} Practices may include the use of crystals, wearing white, and restricted diets and are tied to medicine denial and encouraging practitioners to solve medical problems with costly retreats. "Norton said students were told that any problem they had  — addiction, mental-health issues, procrastination — could be solved by investing more time and money into Ra Ma events and programming. [...] Jagat's practitioners were told not to wear black because it shrinks their aura and not to wear rings on their middle fingers because it interferes with their connection to Saturn."<ref name="Orecchio-Egresitz"/>