Editor’s note: This article contains references to emotional, physical and sexual abuse that might be triggering for some readers.
I was half-asleep in bed late one night in 2023, squinting at my phone screen, thumb sore from doomscrolling, when a post in a private Yogaville Facebook group caught my eye. “AI Swami,” it read.
Yogaville, the spiritual community in Buckingham County, Virginia founded by Swami Satchidananda, was the place I called home for years. I clicked the link and was blinded by a bright orange webpage.
