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Daily Mail (UK)
‘It is the most shameful thing in my life’: Woman was forced by abusive leader to have sex with boy, 14, at yoga ashram
The partner of an abusive yoga master broke down in tears while admitting she had sex with a 14-year-old boy after her guru forced her to, an inquiry has heard.
The woman, known as Shishy, was the sexual partner and second-in-charge of Swami Akhandananda at the Satyananda Yoga Ashram on NSW’s Central Coast during the 1970s and 1980s.
Shishy, now in her mid 50s, told the child abuse royal commission on Friday that starting her sexual relationship with the young boy, known as APQ, was ‘the most shameful thing in my life’.
The former handmaiden was 25 at the time when she was instructed by Akhandananda to start initiating the boy the same way he had been having sex with underage girls on the ashram.
‘It’s one of the things I really resent Akhandananda for,’ Shishy said.
However, the commission heard Shishy continued the sexual relationship with the boy after she left the ashram in 1985.
The pair later had a child together and the boy lived in her house.
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