Fascist Yoga: Grifters, Occultists, White Supremacists, and the New Order in Wellness -- Stewart Home, Paperback

Yoga promises peace, self-realization, and release thanks to the power of its 'mystic' Indian origins. But what if this is just hype? In Fascist Yoga, Stewart Home sweeps away the half-truths to tell a new origin story of the world's first modern yogi - a Californian escapologist who added some Hindu fairy dust to gym and circus exercises.

Ever since, the world of yoga has been full of grifters, occultists, and white supremacists, all out to exploit and recruit via the medium of exercise. From cult leaders to brainwashed followers, TV celebrities, and fake gurus, the story of yoga involves some of the strangest currents of humanity.

Today, the COVID pandemic has activated elements within the modern yoga movement to espouse far-right conspiracies, and QAnon's fascist political programs mirror some of yoga's key early proponents. In this new expos?, Stewart Home shows that nothing is sacred.

Author: Stewart Home
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Published: 05/20/2025
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9780745351124

About the Author
Stewart Home is a legend of counterculture. He is an artist, filmmaker, pamphleteer, art historian and activist, and the author of countless pulp fictions, including most recently Art School Orgy and She's My Witch. He regularly performs to audiences worldwide and recently started making headstand paintings with the canvas placed above him and brushes held in his toes. He was born and lives in London.