California's yoga, wellness and spirituality community has a QAnon problem

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A world that has long embraced love, light and acceptance is now making room for something else: QAnon.

QAnon is the baseless conspiracy theory that President Trump is battling a powerful group of elites who, among other crimes, run a child sex ring.

After the failed insurrection at the Capitol, QAnon is now something of a “damaged brand,” said Matthew Remski, a cult researcher and co-host of the “Conspirituality” podcast. Corn said some of her acquaintances who have fully embraced the conspiracy theory would be embarrassed to be described that way.

Last spring, extremist researchers began to note with alarm that bigoted, far-right ideology was being laundered through vivid sunset photos and slickly designed “educational” slides on Instagram. That recruiting tactic, aimed largely at women, has since been dubbed ““Instagram is the platform where yoga and QAnon intersected,” said Cécile Guerin, a yoga teacher and extremism researcher at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue in London.

Yoga teacher Laura Schwartz saw that rhetoric rear its head last year, when one of her acquaintances in the yoga community in Alexandria, Va., began to rant on Instagram that the COVID-19 vaccine, which was still in development, contained aborted fetuses.

 

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Folks got mad at Obama 4 saying that folks wanted to cling to their guns and their religion. But you see NOW that he was RIGHT. We in the Black community have always known this, it's just that now everything is out in the open for ALL TO SEE with their EYES if you pay attention!

What is 'false conspiracy theory'?

Almost like people who are primed to believe pseudoscience and have extreme distrust for medicine and doctors are the type who are vulnerable to conspiracy theories 🤷‍♂️

yoga and meditation are often used for spiritual bypass. Instead of doing the healing work, trauma work, etc, an attempt is made to meditate or yoga through what’s actually here. Avoidance coping, essentially.

Woo woo is the new Q

Lost my BFF who is in the wellness/yoga/self improvement communities to Q and vaccine conspiracies. Saw a correlation between this when the wellness accounts started to become more radical and pseudo-science based. Not surprised but also sad

She is Andre Herring art

Is there any law in America for prosecuting liers? Why is Donald Trump allowed to lie persistently and stir up violence? Unbelievable to see such happening in civilized countries like America.

Wow

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If you're doing yoga, and ur mind is filling up with conspiracy theories! You've joined the wrong kind of yoga club.

I liked it better when “Q” was all about StarTrek and johndelancie

'broken friendships, sadness', that's rough!😓

That's bent.

Sounds more like California is the problem..

These two SEEM incompatible. But are they?

JDsBunker Los Angeles Times trying to fight conspiracy theorist by out conspiracy theorying them.

What was it a professor once told the class, well me, be careful not to have a mind so open anything can fall in there.

Q has connected Trumpers with those who see themselves as somehow ‘anti establishment’ - Yoga instructors, holistic medicine users, evangelical home schoolers, essential oil mlm moms, free spirit surfer dudes….

Sounds like the media.

Nevada County. Check.

'.....aspiring wellness influencers were told that “being controversial, taking definitive positions that make people love you or hate you, is a great way to build your brand,” 🙄 🙄🙄 Hard pass.

One of the best unintentionally hilarious quotes I've ever read. Good show.

This has always been so strange to me, how many crunchy granola moms are wrapped up in Q anon conspiracy BS. 🤔

imagine being the author of this article ...........🤡

crazy how y’all are posting this after john mcafee 🧍🏾‍♀️ just suspicious

That last part carrying a lot of weight right now:

They were afraid teaching yoga in schools would be teaching children India’s peaceful religious philosophies, but now instead they’re getting QAnon. That wild! WPS

A group of 'wellness' folks getting caught up in conspiracy theories? Who would've thought? Also, now please buy my essential oils, Rodan + Fields lotion, and ItWorks face masks!

A Call to Protect People and Nature! Thread to Watch/read, T'h'a'c'k'e'r Pass, Nevada:

ChrisMegerian Duh. These yoga moms were the anti-vaxxer movement - of course, they are super susceptible to propaganda. And, just an observation - almost everyone who has told me they are all about spirituality and love and wellness - is usually a mean-spirited, thoughtless, selfish SOB.

Promoting 'wellness,' while subscribing to The (modern day) Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

Media getting dumber

Probably because all that pseudo-religious bullshit runs together

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