Gregorian Bivolaru (nicknamed Grieg, Grig or, by the press, Guru) (born 12 March 1952) is the founder of the Movement for Spiritual Integration into the Absolute (MISA), a former member of the International Yoga Federation. In 2005, the Supreme Court of Sweden agreed to grant political refugee status to Bivolaru in response to his claims of persecution by Romanian authorities.
Gregorian Bivolaru was born in Tărtăşeşti, Ilfov County, (now in Dâmbo...
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Gregorian Bivolaru (nicknamed Grieg, Grig or, by the press, Guru) (born 12 March 1952) is the founder of the Movement for Spiritual Integration into the Absolute (MISA), a former member of the International Yoga Federation. In 2005, the Supreme Court of Sweden agreed to grant political refugee status to Bivolaru in response to his claims of persecution by Romanian authorities.
Gregorian Bivolaru was born in Tărtăşeşti, Ilfov County, (now in Dâmboviţa County), Romania. He studied at a high school in Bucharest and in 1971 he started to teach his first yoga courses. The Securitate (Romanian State Security) began watching him due to his correspondence with Mircea Eliade a historian of religions, philosopher and writer who was considered to be a "public enemy" by the communist regime.
In 1977, he was charged with distribution of pornographic materials by the totalitarian communist regime (a typical cover-up accusation for political repression) and sentenced to one year in prison, but he...
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