30 December 2008
( Kuala Lumpur, 28th December) A female yoga practitioner was harrassed by a male yoga teacher, she was molested by the yoga teacher at his home and was force to perform oral sex to him, and nearly raped by him.

The victim is a 21 year-old female. With the company of her friends, she lodged the police report at Cheras Police Station to reveal this sex scandal of yoga teachers to the public.

The victim enrolled herself at one of the renowned yoga centre in kepong and came to know about this 28 year-old yoga teacher.

She mentioned that this yoga teacher is quite famous in the yoga world, and he was professional and well-behaved in the class. Besides teaching whole-heartedly, he is also kind enough to remind the students in the class if they over-exposed their body. The yoga teacher also exchanging phone number with the students so that students can reach him by phone to share the yoga knowledge.

"Since 2 months ago, he was exceptionally concerned about me, he will sms me personally when I didn't turn up for his class", she said," he also sms me last saturday and showed his favorable impression to me by inviting me for a date on Sunday."

Then, they met on Sunday and the yoga teacher invited her to his home at Cheras by giving an excuse that he wanted to pass her a present, as he is her yoga teacher, without any doubt, she followed him back.

"When I reached his house, he started to kiss me and hug me, he also asked me to perform oral sex to him and molested my private part. He took out a condom too."

She was nearly raped but the yoga teacher, fortunately he couldn't erect and didn't let this happened. The yoga teacher then drove him back to her house, the victim was extremely angry and annoyed with what happened and she then condemned the yoga teacher by sms and also refused to keep any further contact with him anymore.

Couple of days later, the victim received an sms from this yoga teacher and told her that he has 'lost interest' on her and also asked the victim not to sms him anymore. The victim only came to know that she was fooled and played out by this yoga teacher.

"I had never done anything wrong to her, I'm a gentleman", the yoga teacher said when interviewed by the reporter. He also told the reporter that though he has interests on the victim, but he just felt that he couldn't progress further with her, and he also believed that the victim can find a more compatible lover in the future, hence, he sms her and hope that she could let go of him.

When interviewed, the yoga teacher denied that he was teaching in any yoga centres in Kepong before, he also mentioned that he had quitted yoga as career for some time. However, the yoga teacher asked for the victim contact number from the reporter as he mentioned that he had deleted the victim's phone number. He also informed the reporter that his intention to obtain the victim's phone number is to understand the actual situation better from her. However, the reporter refused to provide the phone number of the victim to the yoga teacher in order to protect her interest.

When the reporter tried to contact the other friends of the victim, only the reporter came to know that the yoga teacher already contacted the victim and also lied to the victim that he had apologized about his wrong-doing to the reporter, he also tried to persuade the victim not to lodge any police report.

"I was all the while refusing to have any body contact with him, but he couldn't stop to take the advantage and molested me", the victim said. She also told the reporter that the yoga teacher is good in using sweet words to seduce her, and try to convince her to believe that he really likes her, that's the reason she agreed to meet him, but never expect this unfortunate incident to happen.

She also confessed that after this unfortunate harrassment, she experienced severe mental stress and was phobia to see or meet any male strangers. In order to have a relief from the mental stress and fear, she decided to let the whole world know about this sex scandal.

Lastly, she also told the reporter though she's extremely disappointed with this yoga teacher, she will not give up her yoga practice, and she hope that she can become a yoga teacher one day.