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An endless series of tombstones.
by Elena, Lucia, Michaela
My colleague Christiane
Havranek and I scan the
graves by name and deaths.
It is autumn 2023.
The descendant Nathalie took
us to a cemetery in Romania.
Google Maps is about to send
us to a certain place.
Let’s listen to what
Nathalie says.
So that is the rough direction
now.
So if you stand in front of
the chapel and run towards
the main streets,
it is on your left side and
not so far clean, but relatively
close to this path that
stops from the main
road to the chapel.
Nathalie was already standing on
that grave.
A woman from the
yoga movement was buried
there, she says.
A woman from Germany.
Only Nathalie knows her
last name.
Because we need it to find
relatives, we are
now looking for their grave.
At least that is the area.
I am super sure.
Nathalie could tell us her
first name and her
death date.
I was there the day she
was stuck in our house.
And that was pretty
violent.
It was also the first
time I was in contact
with a death.
This is a soul captain.
The toxic tantra.
A podcast by Christiane Havranek
and me, Katja
Peisen-Petersen.
Following 7. Expensive herbs.
Why do we tell you about
this woman?
Because her death has brought
us to the trail of what
is thought of in the yoga movement
about disease.
And about healing.
What terrible consequences
such thinking can
have.
Do we go to the chapel?
We go to the chapel.
No, even three of them.
Come, let’s go differently.
The woman, Natalie tells us,
had cancer.
It was 2021, Corona, and she didn’
t want to go to the hospital.
That’s why Nathalie briefly
cleaned her room in a
WG she shared
with other yogis for her.
Nathalie was there all the time, cared for
the woman, along with others
from the yoga school, until
her death.
That was really angry
so because they
ended up holding
super a lot of pain
and really didn’
t.
According to the motto, you don’
t need, you don’t need.
That is what Nathalie remembers.
Their feeling was that it
had primarily spiritual reasons.
Because of the school and because
it is raised there, so according
to the motto, so now go to the
hospital right and since somehow
get an irradiation
and tralla to do so is not
going to stop at all, is
not at all somehow
good for you and so on.
What does Misa say about it?
Is there a medical
treatment for
serious diseases?
We get the answer in
writing.
The board of the yoga school
has never heard of such
cases.
Alternative healing methods such
as yoga techniques and herbs
should not replace treatment
with a doctor.
But they also write that many
diseases can be cured even
with herbs.
This is scientifically proven.
Yes, in part, the treatment
with herbs is even superior
to conventional medicine.
This whole theme of health and
healing, as Misa stands
for, we want to learn more
about it.
That is your karma.
And you have something inside
you so emotional
that you can’t let go.
And that is why it is
as it is now. You could
have done it with
the plants somehow.
With enough yoga,
you can save it.
She believed it too, didn’t she?
So that there is somehow something like that...
Emotional was not right,
and she just should have
done more yoga.
Natalie has never heard someone
tell this woman, don’t let
yourself be treated, don’t
go to the hospital,
do more yoga instead.
This ill woman has voluntarily
chosen this path.
Like many other people
outside the yoga movement,
they reject cancer
therapies.
Apparently, however, some in the
yoga movement think that
the natural way is the better.
Shortly before our cemetery
tour we found numerous articles on
the subject of health on
Misa’s websites.
One says that 75 percent
of doctors reject chemotherapy
for themselves.
Right under this article
is also a source, Natural News,
a fake news website,
right-wing and full of
conspiracy theories.
We found more articles
on the mispages.
There were studies that were presented
that allegedly show
certain plants, fruits or
herbs are natural remedies
for cancer and some
more effective than
chemotherapies.
We don’t know if the woman
whose grave we are looking for
has read all these articles
on the MISA pages.
Natalie tells us...
Then she was in Bucharest
when it really got worse, and then
she is there in such a
detox clinic from our school.
That was really the
case with any crystals
and whatever they did.
The Detox Clinic is located
just outside Bucharest.
It has officially nothing
to do with Misa,
but we find several
clues to links with the
yoga school.
And we talked to
a healer who practiced
there himself.
He also says that there are people
who come in and out of the house.
Therapies, in large
reference, include colour
therapy, synchronization
of the large brain hemispheres,
forgiveness therapy,
pulsed plasma and
ozone baths.
In this detox clinic, the
seriously ill woman can
be treated, says Nathalie.
She then returns to
Nathalie’s old room.
I also knew she had
written a letter
to him.
This letter also went to
Gregoriam Bivoularou.
She wanted to know about
him, says Nathalie,
if she can get conventional
treatment.
With an operation.
He simply did not
answer it.
And then she stopped,
so I can’t do it.
So, even with such
life-threatening stories,
I don’t trust myself
enough to
make such a decision.
And then I wait for him
to send me a response.
If he doesn’t send me anything,
I’d rather die.
This is Nathalie’s memory.
We cannot check this.
We need to find the
grave and talk to
the family.
It is not as we know of cemeteries
that there are paths and
you look
to the left and right
for graves.
The graves are tight.
You have to get through
the tombs like that.
So we only have to look for it.
by name and by
death.
We walk and
we walk.
Sometimes everything becomes blurred
in front of our eyes.
We really spent three
hours now, I think, looking
for this tomb.
We burn our eyes, our
legs hurt,
we didn’t do it.
and frustrating.
I really get a head shake now,
I only see crosses and tombstones
in front of me and numbers
above all.
And Maria and Elena and
Ionescu and yes, so that was it.
It is shameful.
We start another attempt.
We ask another outbound,
read.
The woman we met on the
ceiling in the park.
Read may have been
at the same time as the
deceased woman at the
yoga school in Germany.
and hi.
Yes, I have met them.
It has gone through a lot and
has found a lot of standing
in this community.
And it has given her a
lot of stopping and hope to
have this profession as
a superperson and contact.
and trusted person.
I think she wrote
a lot to him.
Over all possible, they
also acted very intensely.
That is read memory.
It sounds almost the same
as what Nathalie told us.
By the end, when I
was already on the way
out, I also learned that
she was dead.
And it was also very much presented
that it was God’s will that
it was the plan, that everything
was already good and
right as it is.
Or that their soul chose
it, so two witnesses
who independently
confirmed the story
with the deceased
woman.
We will start a few more
attempts, but we will not find
out more about the woman.
And many other things that
disturb us.
When we address reading on the
subject of health, it becomes
emotional.
She has a chronic
illness, which
requires regular
check-ups.
In that the whole outside
world was also portrayed as
evil, this is important again.
So really all the
institutions, authorities and
so on, everything outside
was evil, was Satanic.
I have not been to the
doctor for a long time.
Liz thought she could heal
herself with yoga.
But during her time at yoga school,
she has been carried away with
illnesses, she says.
Because you are often
told in this context that you
should be attached to the upper and
that the physical needs
are really unimportant
and that you must learn to
control and suppress
them because that is the
lower instincts.
So the body is very strongly
demonized, the rule, for example,
was also considered a
total taboo.
So the goal of yoga was
with certain yoga asanas
that you can best not get
the rule offer at all, which
is also super sharp for
a woman.
Nathalie also told us
that she learned at
Wiluza how to suppress
your period, allegedly
because it is
taking energy.
She rejected it as crazy stuff.
Read it seriously.
I just came out of a
context that I had started
to love my body and find
my peace with my periodic
bleeding.
It was so rough that it turned
out to be the opposite.
And that really the bleeding
is something negative and
dirty and sinful and
something desirable to have
no more.
To rationalize, to ward
off, to juggle away.
She thought she didn’t need doctors
anymore.
She had her guru
and he gave her
instructions.
It all happens in the Corona period.
He is a member
of the German Academy
for Traditional
Yoga.
It is officially described
as a place of short or long
retreat from conventional life to
deepening spiritual practice.
Read still remembers what
she should do to get in.
Then write a letter
to Greg personally.
One should specify all your
dates somehow, your date of birth,
what zodiac sign you are
and how many hours you were born.
They can then create
a birth chart, astrological
chart, and then have somehow
super insight into you
and where your
nodes are and your
planets.
Read this letter beginning with
the words Dear G.
G for Grieg.
She writes what she is
in the depths.
Your concerns, your wishes.
Her chronic illness does
not mention her, but mental
problems.
She writes that she is grateful
for all the healings, for
all the energies of the yoga
teachers in the school and from him.
She is finally ready
to get rid of her ego.
He thinks it’s a good
idea to get into the ashram.
And then I sent this
letter and then you wait
all the time like
a little child
for Santa.
Either you get a response
from Grieg or not.
Either you are chosen or
not, because some have never
really received a response.
They were not accepted.
Liz gets one.
She is given to her
at the yoga school.
In a DIN-A 4 large brown
envelope with two glittering
heart stickers on it.
In Romanian, it means treatment,
in large letters.
There is a letter in it, nine
pages, written on the computer.
He is not signed.
But Liz is sure he comes
from Gregorian Bivoularo
in his own right.
That means, in order to
overcome their ego, Liz should strive
to embrace various divine
attributes.
Love, courage or courage.
Then a cleaner
is recommended.
Head standing for 10 minutes.
And it is written in English,
we also send you a treatment
with medicinal plants that
will help you immensely.
But that is secret.
She must swear by the Bible.
Read a recipe.
What was so cute
with so many covers.
It was freaky too.
It talked to my inner
child.
He felt completely out of
the way and so on. Oh you love me!
Sticker is!
Over several pages, the
names of herbs and
plants are listed in a table.
116 for psychomental
balance.
This reads from rosemary, mint, grenade.
Most of them, however, they do
not understand, because the
names are only in Latin
and Romanian. As well as the
dosage and indication of
contraindications.
Fortunately, there is
a question-answer catalog in
somewhat hollow English.
Read translates it for itself.
How long does the treatment
usually take unless otherwise
indicated?
Treatment must be carried out
over a period of seven years.
This is true for severe
illnesses, in other cases three
years.
Do you break your oath if
you forget to take the plants
four times a day?
Not if you do not
do it intentionally.
Where do you get all
the herbs now?
Will she collect them all?
Continue reading in
the Question-answer catalog.
There is a name.
Do you break your oath by
showing the plant list,
for example, at Stauer
Divina?
They take the plant list.
You go there and ask for
these plants without
telling anyone what
you are buying. Stay of Divine.
The name of this
company has already been mentioned.
With Jasper. With Natalis Jasper.
He also received a
list of herbs and ordered
the plant preparations
from Stauer Divina.
Super widespread in school.
You stand there, take something.
And you actually get it always
when you have any health
problem where you have another
problem.
And super expensive, of course.
This is a Romanian
company.
And in this company, yoga
students from Misa work.
for their karma. We were
in Stauerdivina.
Almost by chance.
In Bucharest, at the sloping lecture
with the aura measurement.
To get into the
yoga seat, we had to
go through another room first.
It smelled like a reform
house and there were herbage
dusts everywhere.
We go through the lists of
Liz and Jasper with
our translator Anka.
This is Tanne.
Quattasciori, Cellului, that is
the sheep’s neck.
The air part, what is the air part?
and Paterian. Maybe the salmon.
What is in the column?
How much you should take,
and here are the contraindications,
side effects,
and when not to take it.
For example,
the first one they say you have to
be careful when you are sensitive,
because it can cause irritating
reactions, such
as the heart.
Bleeding, epistaxis and hemorrhoids.
You should not take more
than 4 g per day.
Anka is looking at a large
Romanian online store to
see if the products are there.
of course.
And here you see, Staua
Divina, 133, you say.
Schilajit, 60 capsules, 58 leather
are, a little more than 10 euros.
If you have to take this
for 7 years of course and a
whole series of them.
She has a list of 116 products,
but the other had
over 300.
363 different plant preparations.
I think you can really
make a lot of money with it.
The company treats its
customers in this way.
What a business model.
People go to yoga, and
then you get the customers
for herbs.
We will continue to discuss
this with MISA officials
in Bucharest.
We’ve been undercover so
far, but that will soon
change.
We will go to
the MISA Information Center.
After we went through the accusations
again in the hotel
room today, I must
honestly say that somehow
such an inner
anger has just fully arisen
in me.
I am going with a wide chest.
Now let’s drop the
mask.
Absolutely.
The Mieser Info Centre is hidden in a
residential block without a bellboard.
As we entered, a woman came
to us, the secretary.
We tell her that we
are journalists and want
to inform us about Mieser.
She says we should wait.
You have to clarify this with
your press secretary.
We have them on the phone.
I said again, is it
not an official
information center?
He said no, not to
journalists.
It is not open
to journalists.
It is a private place and journalists
are not allowed to
clean because we have bad
experiences with them.
We are asked to leave
the info center and
to send an official email
with questions.
My favorite moment of this
whole visit was that
we asked for the name
of the press spokeswoman.
She wrote it handwritten
on a note.
The secretary called
the press secretary.
The press secretary said my
name would not be revealed.
Then she teared the note
from my hand and crushed
it and threw it away.
So I have never experienced anything
like a press spokeswoman
not wanting to name her
name in front
of journalists.
The press secretary
then revealed her
name.
by Cosmina Oprah.
She says the poor board
must agree to an interview
with us.
We don’t have much hope
at first, but then we actually
get an interview with her
via video.
It has only one prerequisite.
She wants us not to
translate her answers.
Our question catalogue, our
accusations of women descending
to Mass are so long
that we fear not to get rid
of them all.
But it takes a lot of time
for us, three hours.
In the end, she will say that
she has never given such
a long interview before
and there will be
some surprising answers
for us.
Okay, so if you’re ready, let’s start.
We ask of course for the
herbs of Staua Divina.
A private business that
has nothing to do with Misa
except that it was founded
by former and current students.
The Lucky
Love Club was
similar.
Private affairs of students and teachers.
As a company, Misa is not
allowed to do business.
We also ask how the yoga
school stands for healing with yoga.
So, improving vision through
yoga is supposed to go
well, but all these exercises
would not be referred
to as treatments or healings.
This is just in addition
to what doctors recommend.
We must think of
the herb letters and of Gregoriam
Bivolaru.
He no longer taught at
school.
It seems like his role
is quite small.
We experienced this differently
at our Schnupper lecture in Bucharest,
where he moved the compass
needle in the video.
He has written books and delivered
lectures at Misa-Camps.
and?
This is also the case at the
German Academy of Traditional Yoga.
He is a spiritual teacher,
for some participants, it is
stated on the website.
But no more. Not a Guru.
We ask Kosmina Oprah if yoga
teachers at Misa are in contact
with Bivou Laro, whether
they are forwarding letters
from students to him, as
we were told.
So you would say he didn’
t communicate directly with
the yogis?
No, no, I say that,
I don’t know, there
may be cases I didn’
t recognize.
And I also say that not all
people say they should take
it that way.
You should not believe everything
that is told.
You could ask him questions.
For example, they had mental
health problems or
health problems.
And you answered him.
Let me tell you something,
you said mental health problem.
Everyone was accepted in our school.
The only requirement, the only
special condition, so to
speak, is not to have mental
health problems.
So I have serious doubts that people
with mental problems, mental
health problems, would be in
the school and then ask
for advice, I mean he is not
a doctor, psychiatrist.
For this for sure didn’t happen.
She is sure that no
one has written Bivularo
for mental problems.
Those who have it are not
allowed to go to
yoga school.
Conditions of participation.
We also ask for the bikini
photos for the camps.
I’ve spoken online that joggers
in a bikini or swimsuit
need to send
photos to participate.
Why is?
It is in a
bikini.
We’re not talking about
pornographic photos or
other things I’
ve talked about in the press.
Because when you look at the
person’s body, bikini
photos as a health check?
Oh so is it.
So many women have
told them that Bivou
Laro could read their aura
from the photos.
So she says, maybe it’
s been said to some, but no, that’
s her message.
As long as Vivu Laro is
not at the camps, she’
t know how to get
the photos.
And whoever has a problem with
the photos, he doesn’t have to
come to the camp, she says.
The same applies to
HIV and syphilis tests.
Cosmina Oprah confirms that these
are also the
conditions for participation in
the camps.
Misa wants to secure itself legally.
We come to Velouza, the
house that Nathalie told
us was a kind of
sex training camp.
The house rules.
The naked photos.
Why should it happen
there if it doesn’t happen
elsewhere?
Maybe because the Wiluza
is surrounded by a look dense
fence.
The messy press spokeswoman
can obviously only give information
about things she has experienced
herself.
We hope she was at least
at the Miss Shakti contest.
Was there pornography?
They are against pornography,
but there are erotic films
made by some Tantra
teachers and their students.
But that is something separate,
regardless of the Shakti competition.
There, in what she found
out, there were no shootings
for erotic films.
The next is karma yoga.
And again, if a yoga
student works as a camgirl,
then it is a pure personal
matter.
The school has nothing to do with it.
We are slowly wondering
what Misa has to do with.
Of course, we also asked Cosmina
Opera about the allegations
of human trafficking, about
the initiation at Bivolaru in
Paris, about his arrest.
We will tell you about this
in the next episode.
We make a break here.
The cemetery. The yoga student who
died of cancer.
We still want to know how
mere Gregoriam Bivolaru’
s abilities in illness are
assessed.
We also read about very
special meditation events.
They may supposedly
enable miraculous healings and
give divine grace to all who
fall out of the Father together
with his archangels.
We never heard him
say he is a healer.
But some supporters seem
to think so.
And they post it on the
Misa websites.
Miraculous healing, my
spiritual guide removed a
huge tumor, stands there.
And that Bivularo has freed someone
from belt rose.
But read felt so.
When Liz receives this
letter, with a list of
over 100 herbs to take
for 7 years, she is pretty
quick, pretty helpless.
They have their
own herbs.
Somewhere in Romania, I think,
they have somehow had a
school or they have
built something that
they can grow.
And then you can
contact and call and
buy it for a lot of money.
It was all about money
and I had no money,
as always.
What should she do now?
Here the herb letter helps too.
If you don’t have enough money
to buy all the plants
in the treatment plan, or if
you don’t have money to
continue treatment from
a certain point on, then
you break the oath?
This shows their lack
of determination
and determination.
Then you break
your oath.
Reading is ready. And she
is determined.
I was super stressed
that I need to buy
these herbs now so
I won’t get thrown
out.
So it was like being on
drugs, constantly watching
the videos, constantly doing
all kinds of meditations,
so right so you-
du-du-du-du-du-du-du-du-du and constantly
in that fear of doing something
wrong, any divine trials,
so every day was like
a divine test and yes,
it was super stressful
for me because I never
had money, not even to
eat and I also have a
lot of that too so
on this existential
level I was also a
bit dependent on those.
And that’s why it was somehow
double burdening that I had
to push up somehow
for some kind of herbal
money.
That is proof of my
loyalty to this
group.
Because it was also the case,
if you didn’t spend the money,
it means you didn’t
really want it.
And that you didn’
t really try.
So depreciating again.
You are to blame.
But as much as Liz gives
up on everything else, as
much as she tries to scratch
that money together,
she just doesn’t manage
to.
And she feels terrible because
of this, inferior, failed
on her path to enlightenment.
So, he takes a radical
step.
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