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Gregorian "Grieg" Bivolaru (born 12 March 1952 ) is a controversial founder of Movement For Spiritual Integration Into The Absolute , a so-called yoga organization. EARLY LIFE Born in Tărtăşeşti , Ilfov County (now in Dâmboviţa County ) he is allegedly the half-brother of Gabriel Bivolaru , a Social-Democrat senator. Gregorian Bivolaru studied at a high-school in Bucharest and starting 1971 he worked as a plumber at the Bucharest Metro . When he was 20 years old, he married a woman seven years older. In 1977 , he was charged for distribution of Pornographic Materials and convicted to one year in prison, but he did not complete it due to a collective pardoning made by Nicolae Ceauşescu . Bivolaru started teaching Yoga in Bucharest in 1978 , allegedly collaborating with the Ministry of Health and the Association of Psychomatic Medicine in Bucharest. A few years later, the Communist Government forbade yoga, together with other courses that had oriental influences, like Martial Arts . Gregorian Bivolaru continued to teach it illegally. In the following years, he was watched by the Securitate , his residence was constantly searched and he later was arrested, spending two years in jail for being a yoga teacher. In 1984 he escaped Rahova Prison , as he claims, using his paranormal capabilities. In August 1989, he was committed to the Poiana Mare Psychiatric Hospital, near Piteşti , with a diagnosis according to which he had a "personality which has a paranoid developing, with obseso-phobic elements on a psycho-schysoid background". This diagnosis was revoked in January 1990 and Bivolaru was freed. , Romania, 27 August 2005]] MISA After the Romanian Revolution of 1989, practicing yoga was again legal and Gregorian Bivolaru founded the ''Movement for Spiritual Integration into the Absolute'' (MISA). MISA came to be the largest yoga school in Romania , reportedly with more than 30,000 followers. He published over 22 books and translated many others. He has also became famous for introducing Tantric Sexuality for the first time to the Romanian people. At Gregorian Bivolaru's suggestion new and original ways of practicing group meditation have been introduced, such as The Yogic Yang Spiral , a group meditation where hundreds up to thousands of people, alternating man and woman, in the logical order of the zodiacal signs, form a spiral with anti-clockwise rotation by holding hands. Gregorian Bivolaru is an honorary member of the European Yoga Council, a branch of the World Yoga Council comprising more than 70 yoga schools in Europe. He is also an advisor to the World Wide Yoga Council (International Yoga Federation - a federation of 300 yoga schools around the world). LEGAL PROBLEMS Even after 1990, he was persecuted by the police. In 2005, he was charged for eight counts, including having sex with a minor, tax evasion and illegally crossing the border. In March 2005, Bivolaru asked for asylum in Sweden , motivating that he fears persecution in Romania. On April 4 2005 , the Swedish police of Malmö detained Bivolaru. On April 15 , the Romanian police emitted a second warrant in his name, in which he is being accused of "person trafficking and other charges related to organized crime" (related to an allegedly sequestration of some persons in some Ashram s and forcing them to prostitute themselves. On 21 October 2005 , the Supreme Court Of Sweden rejected the extradition request and set Bivolaru free. The Supreme Court judges concluded that Bivolaru would not benefit a fair trial in Romania. Anette Swedow, the chief prosecutor in the Gregorian Bivolaru case declared: ''The final decision is that should Bivolaru be extradited in Romania, he runs the risk of being deported, persecuted and harassed, because of his religious beliefs he applies within the yoga movement.'' This decision has been transmitted to the Romanian Ministry of Justice on 16 December 2005 and after this, the Justice Minister, Monica Macovei , sent the general prosecutor a request to urgently verify the manner in which the investigations in this case took place. The same request has been sent to the president of the Romanian Supreme Court, Dan Lupaşcu. The decision of the Swedish Immigration Authority that Gregorian Bivolaru shall be granted political asylum has been made public on the last day of 2005. EXTERNAL LINKS
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