The MISA Yoga School is protesting what it says is the association of the Association’s name with a man suspected of raping an 11-year-old girl. MISA says it is not responsible for what students do outside of the few hours a week they attend classes. The reaction came after prosecutors announced the arrest of a man from Bucharest, known as a member of MISA, who allegedly repeatedly raped an 11-year-old girl from Vilca County.

“In order to correctly inform public opinion and in the spirit of truth, we remind you that since 1990, tens of thousands of people have taken the courses of our integral school of esoteric yoga. This does not mean that our Association is in any way responsible for what these people do outside of the few hours a week they attend our courses, nor does it make them “MISA members” as the media insists about each individual , which had the least connection with any yoga course of our school”, – representatives of the association reported, reports News.ro.

They claim that the teachings of the MISA School of Yoga promote “the exchange of values ​​and aspirations of a spiritual nature, promoting a way of life in full harmony with universal, divine spiritual principles”: “It in no way encourages behavior. which are contrary to the country’s laws and spiritual values, but is also not responsible for the actions and behavior of all people who choose to attend our courses.”

• “From the evidence provided in the case up to this point in the criminal investigation, it became known that the defendant, a member of the Movement of Spiritual Integration in the Absolute (MISA), in the period from November to December 2022, on two consecutive evenings, during which the victim at the age of 11 was at his home , taking advantage of the minor’s inability to freely and consciously express her will, entered into sexual relations with her due to her young age.
• At the same time, the defendant is accused of contacting the victim by phone between February 23 and 24, 2023, asking her to move to Bucharest, where he lives, with the aim of maintaining, again, sexual relations. relationship, the culmination of which was that the minor went by herself to Bucharest by transport, where the defendant was waiting for her, but was stopped by the intervention of the police,” the prosecutor’s office at the Vilcha court sent to the press on Sunday. to release, announcing the arrest of the husband.