Also free on Hulu right now: http://www.hulu.com/watch/313726/ame%CC%81lie

Is someone posting comments over there under my name? ~ Waylon

You know how it is, Ben, you've been there and you're a far sweeter and wise writer! Welcome to the internet, where everyone knows your name...and you don't know anyone's.

Thanks, Ross, for the context. That's great to hear that John is indeed planning on taking a much-needed retreat to work on his path.

It is as someone just said most important that we all learn to speak up and speak honestly to our teachers and one another, without malice. No more muting what BB referred to as her gut.

Ummm...there's a huge one of her right up top, perhaps you missed it. It's been there from the beginning, and comes direct from BB.

The smaller photos of John are meant to break up the long text and remind folks of the reach of John and Anusara...for it is in remembering the might of the fallen that we remember how remarkable it is that so few spoke their truth for so long.

~ Waylon Lewis

My initial reaction was that it was probably mostly true but, because it was hosted by an anonymous site with a clear agenda, we'd wait until we had facts or more information before destroying a man's reputation and his community. Not that we have more facts, including my interview and the pension documents, any destroying of his reputation and his community is John's own responsibility.

I continue to hope that we can as a greater community learn from this and not repeat these mistakes. I don't think John's accepting blame is important, but we also have to learn that we don't need to put teachers up on pedestals. A relationship between teacher and student should always be based on mutual respect and critical intelligence.

Why do you prefer anonymity? Genuinely curious, since it's clearly caused some confusion here.

Yours,

Waylon

Great. Whew. Me too. While we're obviously taking different approaches here, and you and I have had our differences personally over the last week, I'm not interested in offering anything other than respect for team yogadork or yogadork yourself here. While I wish your wish for respectful debate was shared by your friends, I thank you for your clarification.

Yours,

Waylon

"It’s an old story, not exclusive to Yoga. Each time it is repeated, real people suffer real harm."

Scott Newsom: http://bit.ly/wEJ2rL

Here's one article, with criticism: http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/02/no-john-fr...
here's another similar: http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/02/the-auspic...
here's another: http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/02/yogi-maste...
here's my interview, with lots of tough questions (reread them before you scoff, not one of them is close to indirect or easy, though I readily admit to trying to frame the context of the tough questions in an open, fair, kind manner): http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/02/my-intervi...

I also reported on and broke the news about my friend Amy's resignation, and Elena's, Darren's, Christina's. We're ignoring nothing, here. I think you, blinded perhaps by your own style, which is your own...mistake fairness for support. The only thing we support is getting after the truth. Also, I do not enjoy going after blame...what I enjoy is seeing things as they are, or trying to—and then and only then figuring out how to move forward.

Yours,

Waylon

http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/02/anusara-te...

Yup. We reported that earlier. Seems like the first joy I've seen online in some days...some relief that things are becoming clearer.

I've invited them both to share their stories here...despite being "the propaganda wing of John Friend"..!