Gregorian Bivolaru

Gregorian Bivolaru also known as Magnus Aurolsson and nicknamed Grieg, Grig or, by the press, Guru (born 1952) is a Romanian tantric yoga guru, and the founder of the Movement for Spiritual Integration into the Absolute (MISA), also known as the Atman Federation. At the age of 18 he began teaching yoga, an activity deprecated by Romania's communist regime. He was twice jailed and once forcibly hospitalized in a psychiatric ward under the regime, which ended in 1989. MISA teaches a combination of yoga and tantra. The teachings derive from multiple religious sources such as Hinduism, Kashmir Shaivism, and Western esotericism. The tantra teaching is oriented towards sexual practices. A principle of polarity is emphasized, with male and female as fundamentally opposite energies of the universe. Quotes about Bivolaru [Swedish scholar] Liselotte Frisk has noted that, since Bivolaru’s teachings are centered on the Mother Goddess, every woman who pursues this path of Tantra can imagine herself as the incarnation of Shakti, and her body exalted as a feminine symbol of the Divine. Ten years behind America’s Second-wave of feminism, in far-off Romania a yoga teacher was developing a spiritual movement in which naked yogis and yoginis meditated on the ancient deities of India and prayed to Shiva and Shakti to accept the fruits of their lovemaking. Susan J. Palmer, "#SheToo: The Experience of MISA Women. 6. A Form of “Second-Wave Feminism”?", Bitter Winter (February 6, 2025) External links Category:Yoga teachers Category:1952 births Category:People from Romania