Referring to messages posted on the website yoganonymous.com, Page Six reported that Dechen Thurman said, “Sometimes there are as many as five or six women in the class who I have slept with.” This quote was said to have been published by Maria Sliwa, a former student in Thurman’s yoga classes. Sliwa said, “I was a close friend of Dechen and he told me he suffers from sex addiction. He is a good teacher but he has problems with women and his technique is unfortunately very hands-on. It is unsafe for the students. He needs therapy.”

Sliwa, a professor at Columbia University at the time, reportedly took her concerns to the director of Jivamukti Yoga School, who responded to say that action would be taken. However, Sliwa expressed, “The whole thing has been swept under the carpet.”

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An article on the same claims published by the Daily Mail quotes a Facebook post written by Sliwa in which she says, “When the school promised me many things, but did not follow through, I had no other recourse than to take this to a public forum. I do not believe that his present situation at Jivamukti is safe for himself as well as for others.”