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.