British woman arrested for teaching ‘sacred sexuality’ yoga
published : 6 Nov 2025 at 07:56
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Post Reporters
A British woman was arrested on Koh Phangan while teaching tantric yoga and "sacred sexuality" and charged with working illegally.
Police said the woman, 40, known on social media as Maria Sky, was arrested on Tuesday while teaching foreign couples about tantric yoga - a kind of yoga from India - at a local restaurant.
She was charged with working illegally as a yoga teacher, even though she has a permit to work as a customer relations manager for an accommodation firm, police said.
The woman charged each student 400 baht for a basic course and 7,440 baht per couple for an advanced course. In an advertisement, she introduced her courses as relating to “sacred sexuality”.
Police were clamping down on foreigners who offer sex-related yoga courses on Koh Phangan because they affected the tourism image of Thailand.
In March police arrested a Polish YouTuber who gave introductory courses on tantric yoga on this tourist island.
Vocabulary
- arrest: (of the police) taking someone to a police station because they are believed to have committed a crime - การจับกุม
- clamp down: to make a determined effort to stop people from doing something bad or illegal - กำจัด
- image: an opinion that people have about someone or something - ภาพลักษณ์
- permit: an official document that gives you permission to do something - ใบอนุญาต
- sacred: considered to be holy - ศักดิ์สิทธิ์
- sexuality: the feelings and activities connected with a person's sexual desires - เรื่องทางเพศ, ลักษณะทางเพศ
- yoga: a set of physical and mental exercises, Indian in origin, which is intended to give control over the body and mind - ระบบการบริหารร่างกายและการควบคุมลมหายใจ
- Keywords
- Koh Phangan
- tourism
- yoga
- tantric yoga
