AUSTRALIA
Daily Mail
By Khaleda Rahman For Daily Mail Australia
A woman who was raised inside a notorious ‘cult-like’ yoga ashram has revealed horrific details of her traumatic childhood.
The woman, identified only as Sandra although that is not her real name, opened up about how her upbringing inside the Satyananda Ashram – now known as Mangrove Yoga Ashram – left her broken in a heart-breaking piece published on news.com.au.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse found children in the ashram – located in the foothills of Mangrove Mountain on the NSW central coast were raped, sexually assaulted and threatened with violence.
Although Sandra was not sexually abused, she revealed the brutal treatment she endured there from the age of four in the 1970s and 1980s left her traumatised for life.
‘I did not receive the nurturing tha
t is needed as a child so that I could grow up to be a normal functioning person,’ she wrote.
‘Instead, my upbringing broke me. I might even go so far as to say that it fragmented me.’
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