| Lost password
745 users onlineYou are not loggend in.  Login
?Current Collagenase Approval Status?
 1 2
 1 2
07/06/2005 23:33
Erin Strome

not registered

07/06/2005 23:33
Erin Strome

not registered

?Current Collagenase Approval Status?

Does anyone know the current status of collagenase trials for treatment of DC? Or know where to find the information or whom to contact to get the information?

Thank you.

07/06/2005 23:20
Bill Jones

not registered

07/06/2005 23:20
Bill Jones

not registered

Collegenase

Collengase is dead! Yoga works better anyway. I have Dupuytren's disease in both hands. I live in San Jose. I take yoga class at a Yogiraj Bikram Choudhury yoga teacher. They heat the room to 103 and we do all kinds of stretching. After I warmed up my bent fingers got loose and they straightened out. You have to keep up with the stretching to keep them straight.

07/07/2005 23:41
toM

not registered

07/07/2005 23:41
toM

not registered

Bikram is a Fraud

Please do not be mislead by the followers of the snake oil salesman Bikram. He is the virtual Don King of the yoga world and is little more than a power/money hungry egomaniac.

I've posted links, in other threads, and articles that expose this person for the charlatan he truly is.

07/07/2005 23:43
toM

not registered

07/07/2005 23:43
toM

not registered

Bikram

To make it easier, here are the links one expose of this money hungry fraud. I can't imagine why they continue to visit here. Must be trying to exploit a new market.

An article from Business 2.0 magazine details many of the abuses occurring within the yoga world include the previously mentioned Bikram.

A copy of this article 'Yogis Behaving Badly' can be found at:

http://www.rickross.com/reference/general/general478.html

Another article, pasted in after this link, can be found at:
http://www.adishakti.org/pdf_files_2/greed_and_lust_(indian.express.com).pdf

* Start
Greed and lust make Yoga gurus tie themselves in knots

America’s Yoga teachers are now patenting poses, seeking sex and giving spirituality a bad name

Peter Carlson

Washington, September 1
East meets West in The Guru
How much scandal can America take before its poor battered heart just breaks in two? There are the money scandals in Big Business. The sex scandals in Big Religion. Now we learn about money and sex scandals in, of all places... oh, say it ain’t so, Joe... Big Yoga! Shocking but true: The folks at Business 2.0 magazine have discovered greed, lust and egomania among the swamis and gurus of the stretching and breathing set. The sordid details are revealed in an article aptly titled ‘‘Yogis Behaving Badly.’’

Yoga, the ancient Hindu practice of exercise and meditation, is now a multi-hundred-million-dollar business in America, and the yoga tycoons currently battling over market share are exhibiting the same sort of spiritual enlightenment and inner peace previously demonstrated by the likes of, say, John D. Rockefeller or Bill Gates.

‘‘Yoga has become cut-throat, mafia-like,’’ says Thom Birch, identified in the article as a disillusioned former yoga teacher. ‘‘Many of these people are the biggest thieves, bullies and sex addicts — all of it under this veil of spirituality.’’

Birch exaggerates a tad — nobody is accusing any swamis of having their rivals bumped off by hitmen — but the battles are getting ugly. In Beverly Hills, Calif., Bikram Choudhury, who calls himself the ‘‘Guru of the Stars’’, has trademarked his favourite yoga poses so nobody can teach them unless he gets a cut on the take. In New York, the owners of the Jivamukti Yoga Centre — which teaches 2,000 students a week and boasts of such celebrity clients as Steve Martin and Monica Lewinsky — are threatening trademark action against former employees who’ve left to start their own schools.

Bikram Choudhury
In fact, folks trying to teach yoga anywhere in America are finding that nearly all the formerly holy words of yoga have been trademarked. If you want to use them, you’ve got to shell out the dough. Meanwhile, reports writer Paul Keegan, yogis are accusing Yoga Journal, America’s foremost yoga magazine, of ‘‘thuggist behavior’’ in its hardball pursuit of a monopoly in the lucrative yoga conference business.

Then there are the sex scandals. In 1994, Amrit Desai, a Massachusetts yogi who touted celibacy as one of his precepts, was forced to resign after admitting to affairs with three female disciples. In 1997, a woman won a $1.9 million lawsuit against a Pennsylvania yoga centre after claiming that she’d been sexually assaulted by her swami. Rodney Yee, once described by Time magazine as the ‘‘stud muffin’’ of yoga, is being sued by a former teacher at his Oakland yoga school, who charges that he fired her when she complained about his alleged sexual affairs with students.

‘‘Clearly, the world of big time yoga in America is undergoing a profound crisis but won’t admit it,’’ writes Keegan. ‘‘The most influential players, like Yoga Journal — well positioned to monitor ethical lapses — are also the worst offenders.’’ I wish Keegan had spent more time on Choudhury, the aforementioned ‘‘Guru of the Stars.’’ I’m a sucker for a colourful rogue and this guy clearly belongs in the pantheon of America’s great huckster holy men, right up there with Jimmy Swaggart, Jim Bakker, Aimee Semple McPherson, Father Devine and Reverend Ike.

An Indian immigrant, Choudhury has franchised his ‘‘hot yoga’’ method to 600 studios nationwide. He taught yoga to Madonna and Michael Jackson. He compares himself to Jesus and Buddha. He claims he can cure any disease. He lives in a Beverly Hills mansion with his collection of classic Bentleys and Rolls-Royces. ‘‘Everybody knows I’m superhuman,’’ he says. ‘‘My spirit is in cosmic consciousness.’’

Choudhury’s response to the yoga sex scandals is brilliant: He claims that his students blackmail him into having sex with them. ‘‘What happens when they say they will commit suicide unless you sleep with them?’’ he asks. ‘‘What am I supposed to do? Sometimes having an affair is the only way to save someone’s life.’’

Boy, that’s good! Even Bill Clinton didn’t think of that one. — LATWP

07/07/2005 23:20
Anon

not registered

07/07/2005 23:20
Anon

not registered

toM

It seems our *friend* has a great time tweaking toM. toM takes the bait every time.

07/07/2005 23:51
toM

not registered

07/07/2005 23:51
toM

not registered

Sorry Anon

Trying to keep people from being screwed by a charlatan is called being 'tweaked'?

Try Responsible. Perhaps that is not in your dictionary.

07/07/2005 23:15
Anon

not registered

07/07/2005 23:15
Anon

not registered

Sorry Anon

I didn't write that to you toM. Our troll is back. *sigh*

07/07/2005 23:40
tOm

not registered

07/07/2005 23:40
tOm

not registered

Sorry Anon

Sorry Anon if you were offended by my response.

It's unfortunate that this freak has so little to do that it has decided to pollute this board.

My thoughts about this little coward tend toward expletives but that too, I soon see, is a waste of energy also.

It maybe that this person is so pathetic that bothering others is the only way it can garnish attention.

Perhaps we should offer it pity instead.

07/07/2005 23:57
Patty

not registered

07/07/2005 23:57
Patty

not registered

get along please

What is going on in here???? Are we not in here to help each other?
Hey, let this, calm down, and let us all do some constructive help for each other, in a disease that is hurting all of us.
Let's get back on track here.
I will say, that I have gotten alot out of what Anon, Randy and many others have posted. You have helped me alot in my questions, and worry.
If we can all just settle down, and just do what we need to do, and help each other, that would be refreshing.
Thanks, Patty

07/08/2005 23:04
Troll Patroll

not registered

07/08/2005 23:04
Troll Patroll

not registered

Reality Check

Patty,

Though this Forum has probably done more good for more suffers of DC than anything since the invention of OS (and that was a long time ago), you have to understand that as a completely unregulated public place anything goes here, and sometimes does. Many of the posters here are passionate about their positions, and for good reasons. But like any public place, the town drunk sometimes gets up from his sleep on the park bench and seeks to make trouble for his own amusement.

That's what happened with the post on this thread on 07/08 at 12:20 when this sorrowful individual posed as "Anon" and took a shot at toM. toM defended himself, but not against Anon, but our resident drunk. I kinda though Anon wouldn't have posted that, and sure enough, the original Anon had not.

The Troll is no big deal, just keep your eyes open and pick though the Anti-Truth. It is certainly worth the effort!

 1 2
 1 2
multi-hundred-million-dollar   participating   enlightenment   Unfortunately   aforementioned   Massachusetts   manufacturing   side-extended   spirituality   consciousness   Collagenase   ‘‘Everybody   dupuytren-online   Shoulder   Choudhury’s   ‘‘thuggist   frrozenshoulder   behavior’’   confidentially   America’s