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Line 24: From there, she presents the showman [[Pierre Bernard (yogi)\|Pierre Bernard]] and his relative [[Theos Bernard]], Pierre confusing yoga with tantric sex, complete with "lust, mummery, and black magic",<ref group=SB>{{harvnb\|Syman\|2010\|p=87}}</ref> Theos telling a carefully fictionalised account of his experiences with [[Hatha Yoga]] in India and Tibet.<ref group=SB name="Bernard">{{harvnb\|Syman\|2010\|pp=80–142}}</ref> A variety of straighter advocates of yoga followed. [[Margaret Woodrow Wilson]], daughter of American president [[Woodrow Wilson]], "turn[ed] Hindu" after she "found peace" in an[[Sri Aurobindo]]'s [[ashram]] in [[Pondicherry]].<ref group=SB>{{harvnb\|Syman\|2010\|pp=143–159}}</ref> A [[Hollywood]] connection was developed, featuring [[Prabhavananda]], [[Aldous Huxley]], [[Alan Watts]], and one of [[Krishnamacharya]]'s pupils, [[Indra Devi]], with her many celebrity pupils such as [[Greta Garbo]] and [[Gloria Swanson]].<ref group=SB>{{harvnb\|Syman\|2010\|pp=179–197}}</ref> In the 1960s, the scene was dominated by celebrity gurus, whether from India like [[Maharishi Mahesh Yogi]], or home-grown like the "[[Psychedelic drug\|psychedelic]] sages" [[Ram Dass]] (aka Richard Alpert) and [[Timothy Leary]].<ref group=SB name="Psychedelic">{{harvnb\|Syman\|2010\|pp=198–232, 256–267}}</ref>

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