He is Bikram Choudhury, 69, the father of the famous Bikram yoga.

The reach of Bikram yoga is so far and wide that you can find a Bikram yoga-affiliated studio in almost every continent.

The man now finds himself in the midst of allegations of sexual assault and rape by women who had attended his classes.

Ms Diane Lee, 46, director of BYCH Hot Yoga here, had trained under him in 2004 at his international headquarters in Los Angeles.

She has been practising yoga since 2001 and Bikram yoga since 2003.

She says he never behaved inappropriately towards her and she did not see him misbehave with the other female students either.

But he had a habit of saying politically incorrect things.

"He said that all the time in my training. We just laughed about it.

People did say that enough is enough and it is true, it was wrong.

"But we all knew he is politically incorrect. He just says what he thinks.

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Local yoga teacher saw no sexual abuse from Bikram founder