In this opening episode of Magnolia Sez So, I share a personal written piece that marked a turning point in my spiritual path. It’s about the moment I stopped bending to systems built by men—and started reclaiming what was mine.
This is the foundation for everything that follows.
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Magnolia Zuniga
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health & fitness · religion & spirituality · society & culture
A video went viral this week. A woman said: if I handed you a dozen donuts and told you one was full of shit, you would avoid all of them. She's right. And I want to go further. This episode is about Cornell University, where a 20 year old woman was assaulted by seven fraternity members and some of them were offered the option to write an essay as punishment. It's about Jivamukti Paris, where a survivor trained for over 800 hours and was asked to stay silent to protect the studio. It's about ...
7 Jul 2026
MAHA (Make America Healthy Again) Didn't Discover This
Last week the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in favor of Monsanto. A Missouri farmer named John Durnell developed cancer after decades of exposure to Roundup. A jury gave him over a million dollars. The Supreme Court took it back. The Trump administration filed a brief on Monsanto's side. MAHA protesters were outside the court in April opposing this exact ruling. The administration they put in power was inside arguing the other way. This episode is about that. But it is also about something older an...
31 May 2026
Meal Prep Is Not Nourishment
I grew up watching my grandmother feed nine kids. Frantic, funny, explosive, beautiful, and tired. All of it at once, all day long. I watched her and made a vow: I am never being that woman. By thirty that vow had become embarrassing. I had a college education, a yoga practice, an Ayurvedic framework, and I could not feed myself. I learned to cook in India, from a woman who had zero patience for my relationship to the kitchen as a political statement. She just cooked. She knew what her body n...
3 May 2026
The Yoga Bro and the R A P E Academy Bro Are the Same Male
Some of the most submissive males I've ever met are yoga males. But they are only submissive to other males. In March 2026, CNN published a months long investigation into a hidden network of men coordinating online to drug their wives to sleep, rape them, and film it. A French lawmaker called these networks online rape academies. I made a short video on Instagram saying yoga bros and those men are the same. In this episode I explain exactly what I mean by that. We cover: Why the performance o...
28 Mar 2026
"Not All Yoga" Is "Not All Men"
"Not All Yoga!" "I'm not lineage-based." "I never studied with a guru." I keep hearing this. And every time, I think...this is "Not All Men!" In this episode, I break down how all modern Western yoga (whether you were ever in a lineage or not) was built through exploitation/survivors. -The cultural legitimacy. -The lack of regulation. -The wellness industrial complex. -The devotional residue. And what it means that everyone teaching today inherited that structure...
23 Feb 2026
Inspiration Is a Product. Transformation Is a Threat.
What if the wellness industry's most beloved and famous names can't actually help you? In this episode, Mags breaks down why universal appeal and real transformation are structurally incompatible...and why that's not just a business problem. From Oprah, Joe Dispenza, etc to your popular neighborhood yoga studio, she examines how scaling inspiration requires silence on the things that matter most: power, abuse, systemic harm, genocide, geopolitics. If nobody's ever upset with you, ...
31 Jan 2026
When Slogans Replace Thinking
I've been off social media for a while. I came back after seeing what's been happening in Minneapolis and around the country. I've been watching yoga and spiritual spaces scramble for certainty through slogans. "Yoga is my resistance." "Yoga is not resistance." "Rest is my resistance." "If your spirituality doesn't include anger, you're bypassing." This episode isn't about picking the right slogan. It's about what gets lost when slogans replace thinking and what we actually need to be doing r...
12 Jan 2026
Ethical Literacy Is Missing in Yoga
Yoga spends a lot of time talking about intention, healing, and self-awareness, but very little time talking honestly about power. In this episode, Magnolia Zuniga explores why harm in yoga spaces doesn’t usually come from “bad people,” but from unexamined hierarchy, compromised consent, and a lack of ethical training. She explains why good intentions aren’t enough, why ethics is a skill rather than a personality trait, and why so many students and teachers are taught to doubt themselves inst...
23 Nov 2025
Record #2: Cult #2, Mysore, India
CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains detailed, explicit accounts of sexual assault in a yoga context. In this episode, I tell the story of my first trip to Mysore, India to study with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois—the founder of Ashtanga yoga and a man revered by thousands of practitioners worldwide. What I witnessed in that shala wasn't hidden. It wasn't secret. It was normalized. Women were being sexually assaulted during "adjustments" while dozens of students watched. And the most devastating par...
2 Nov 2025
Record #1: Cult #1, Berkeley, CA
Record #1: Cult #1, Berkeley, CA Berkeley, 2001. I was twenty-something, restless, and aching for spiritual direction when I drove eight hours through the night to knock on a tantric yoga teacher's door. He told me I needed to do something extraordinary to prove my devotion. So I showed up in the fog at midnight. This is the record of a tantric yoga community in the Berkeley Hills led by a teacher who claimed lineage with Swami Satyananda Saraswati and Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati at the Bi...
26 Aug 2025
The Myth Of The Balanced Woman
We’re told that the goal of a “good life” is balance. Balance between work and family, activism and self-care, health and relationships. But what if balance isn’t real? What if the myth of the balanced woman is actually a trap designed to keep us exhausted, ashamed, and profitable to a system that was never built to support us? In this episode of Spiritual Autopsy, I unpack how “balance” has been sold as control: eat perfectly, work out perfectly, manage your stress, stay calm, never tip too ...
19 Jul 2025
I Don't Take Spiritual Advice From Men
In this opening episode of Spiritual Autopsy, I lay down the foundation: why I no longer takes spiritual advice from men. Drawing from decades of experience as a Clinical Ayurvedic Practitioner and long time yoga teacher, I unpack how systems of “truth” often erase women’s bodies, needs, and realities in the name of transcendence. I weave personal story with scientific research, challenging the male-defined standards of healing, discipline, and surrender that have dominated spiritual and medi...
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