INTRODUCTION
These are responses from Goldi Berman, Peri’s mother, and
Charles DeFay, Peri’s husband to Terry Rondberg’s, Roxanne
DePalma’s and Melinda DePalma’s website: Myths/Truths Who
is Peri Ness.
We don’t need to answer the slander but we do wish to expose
the real truth about their ludicrous and damaging accusations and
slanderous site. We are doing this for our students around the world
and all those who have trained with us to become teachers. Because
this work and the training is valuable, as are our teachers, we decided to
publish answers to their fabricated website. We wish to protect
our teachers who are out in the world teaching Synergy Yoga,
some for the last ten years.
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This is not really a complicated story, it's very simple. It's about these 3 things:
1) Terry injured Peri's back doing a chiropractic manipulation and does not want
to get sued for malpractice.
2) Roxanne admitted using crack-cocaine while employed and teaching at the
Yoga Room. She is trying to save her reputation.
3) Melinda committed fraud at the Yoga Room. She's trying to avoid jail.
This entire regime aimed at lynching Peri, started with these three people,
who assembled a mob of previous teachers, students and employees to
support their untruthful and evil cause. These ex-employees have gone to
the Labor Board and are making all sorts of untrue claims. It was really
Roxanne and Melinda who made lives miserable by constantly harassing
people during their employment there. (Peri was trying to recover. For
several months, she was not at the Yoga Room. She was up North and
spoke to the staff everyday.)
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Myth = Peri Ness states that she was trained in yoga since 3 years
of age by Mani Finger.
Truth = She actually attended boarding school and has a background
in ballet.
The Real Truth:
Goldi:
Actually she started when she was two,
unless you count the times in my belly before birth.
I studied with Lita Conway when Peri was in my
belly and then she came with me to yoga class
to Mary Jobse and did postures. I then took
her to Mani Finger, and she practiced with her
cousins often.
She actually attended boarding school when
she was 12. She did practice ballet and won
many honors and accolades. She practiced
both yoga and ballet until 16 when she
stopped ballet completely and concentrated on
purely yoga.
Charles:
3 year old kids come to yoga at The Yoga
Room regularly. This is not unusual
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Myth = Peri claims to have only attended one or two Bikram classes.
Truth = Peri studied Bikram Yoga with Jimmy Barkan in Florida for
about 2 years in the early 1980s. She also studied Bikram at various
Bikram studios in San Francisco, Portland Oregon, and even in
Los Angeles with Bikram himself.
The Real Truth:
Goldi:
Peri and I wanted to take class from Bikram
out of curiosity, being a student of Bishnu
Ghosh. His wife Rajashree was teaching, not
Bikram. Peri had been to two Bikram classes
before that. Those are the only classes she
took from Bikram himself.
She did not study with Jimmy Barkin in Florida
for two years in the early 80’s. She was with
us, her family, in London and was at business
school and running a business with her
brother. She met Jimmy in 1987 and did class
at his place for a couple of months. Peri also
practiced at other yoga studios in Florida on a visit before
coming to Encinitas with the aspiration to
become a nun in the SRF ashram. Jimmy is an
SRF devotee and considers Peri his spiritual
sister and has said that Peri has inspired him in
is Sadhana and also has helped him develop
his yoga flows. He split from Bikram and now
does his own thing. Jimmy has said that Peri
came into his life to reawaken his love for God
and Guru and his Sadhana.
Peri has studied many styles of yoga and did
Give a training in Portland Oregon with Conrad
Zeveley. He was an ex-Bikram teacher and
was very influenced by Peri and Synergy. This
also explains why Peri honors the Bikram flow
in her creation of Synergy as she learned from
every teacher and friend involved in Synergy
Yoga. Conrad was very involved with Bikram
until he began practicing Synergy Yoga.
Conrad is very dear to Peri.
Peri lived in San Francisco for one year and
studied many styles of yoga with many
different teachers. Peri studied Ashtanga with
Tim Miller always practicing the entire Synergy
flow first. After teaching Synergy for awhile,
Peri practiced only that flow except one time
when she went back to Tim Miller, a favorite
teacher of hers.
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Myth = Peri’s key phrase is “trust the process”
Truth = Bikram’s key phrase is also “trust the process”Hmmm…
what a coincidence!
The Real Truth:
Charles:
The phrase “trust the process” is used in many
workshops and is a general psychological term.
Concerning the 10-day, it works very well.
Trust is important in learning because if you do
not trust, you cannot learn. It’s many peoples
key phrase. The Ten Day is a professional and
unique yoga training experience that has been
offered for 16 years to many hundreds of practitioners
of all walks of life and it has provided a career and an
excellent living for many people.
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Myth = Peri claims to have created a unique Yoga Therapy and
Posture clinic
Truth = Peri participated in The Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy
training with Michael Lee. The Synergy Yoga Therapy and Posture
Clinics are modeled after Phoenix Rising.
The Real Truth:
Charles:
Peri did do Phoenix Rising Therapy Training in
1992 and Michael Lee of Phoenix Rising asked
Peri to join his team but she had her own work
to do and already a large business running.
She loved his work, however, there were
elements that she did not agree with and
continued her own development of Yoga
Therapy. Bishnu Ghosh was a Yoga Therapist
and that is her first influence in yoga therapy.
Peri has encouraged many people to take the
Phoenix Rising Therapy Training even as a
healing modality for their own self. She has
certified no one in Synergy Yoga Therapy
training as yet.
The posture clinics are Peri’s creation. Phoenix
Rising does not have posture clinics. Peri’s
posture clinic in our ten day is unsurpassed
and unique. She runs the clinic in a way that
only few can, using her intuitive healing
abilities to help participants to be open to
healing.
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Myth = Peri claims Synergy Yoga is Paramahansa Yogananda’s yoga
Truth = Paramahansa Yogananda does not have a specific flow and
Synergy is not Yogananda’s yoga
The Real Truth:
Charles:
Nowhere in our publications does Peri claim
that. Peri claims Synergy is inspired by
Yogananda’s teachings. Her first teachers
were initiated in Kriya Yoga by Paramahansa
Yogananda himself and her path has lead her
to the flow given to her in a spiritual
experience and garnered from her own
experience and from her original teachings.
All know it works, it is authentic; her Guru
helped her. Anyone who has practiced this
flow consistently knows it brings healing and
optimum health on all levels. Peri is a loyal
devotee of Paramahansa Yogananda and would
never do anything to go against his teachings
and wishes. SRF does not have a specific yoga
flow. Peri does claim that; however,
Synergy was inspired by Paramahansa
Yogananda through his direct disciples, her
yoga teachers. Yogananda taught Bishnu Ghosh.
Bishnu taught Peri's teachers and many others,
Bikram included.Thus, we state the yoga is inspired
by the tradition of Yogananda.
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Myth = Peri claims to have extensive training in therapy and be an
accredited yoga teacher.
Truth = Peri is NOT a licensed therapist or psychologist, NOR a
certified yoga teacher. She is self proclaimed and holds no certification
by anyone but herself.
The Real Truth:
Goldi:
Peri is a certified yoga teacher and Yoga
Therapist. Peri does have extensive training in
psychology but she chose not to get a license.
You cannot practice psychology and yoga
combined unless you are practicing Yoga
Therapy. As a psychologist, you cannot put
your hands on your client, but if you are a
Yoga Therapist that is your job. Peri is a Yogi
and a Yoga Therapist teacher. She is greatly
experienced and has been through many
training programs. She has been doing yoga
since she was a child, all her life, and has
trained and certified many teachers in her style
for over 16 years now. Her teachers told her
that teaching yoga would be her Dharma, her
work, and she is fulfilling it teaching teachers.
Charles:
Synergy Yoga withdrew from Yoga Alliance, we
were not kicked out. We withdrew because we
did not want to affiliate with them. Many years
ago, Peri was automatically grandfathered in
as a certified teacher and has been for many
years since the start of the “Alliance business”.
She has been a certified yoga teacher and
therapist for over 15 years. We decided to
withdraw from Yoga Alliance after we
discovered them to be doing something unethical.
When we did not certify a student who was
definitely not ready for certification due to
many important issues, the student
complained to Yoga Alliance who certified him
anyway against our request and recommendation.
This is not representative of ethical business practices,
especially yoga. Alone, financial motivation without
genuinely caring about yoga certification and qualification,
should not be tolerated. We currently sign with North
American Studio Alliance (NAMASTA). Synergy
Yoga Certifications standards are higher than
Yoga Alliance. Yoga Alliance’s 250 hour certification
isSynergy Yoga’s 500 hour and Yoga Alliance’s 500 hour is
Synergy Yoga’s 1,000 hour certification.
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Myth = Peri had a policy that teachers are not allowed to date the students
Truth = Initially all Synergy yoga teachers were required to sign a contract
stating that they would not date the students. However this policy was void
after Peri began dating her student, Charles DeFay. Charles DeFay
currently holds the title as Peri’s third husband.
The Real Truth:
Charles:
Peri does not have a policy about dating
students. In our teachers training manual, we
have the “California Yoga Teachers Association
Code of Ethics” and we encourage teachers to
follow these precepts.Many, many marriages, relationships
and friendships have begun over the years at the
Yoga Room. Terry and Roxanne met at the
Yoga Room! What the contract does state,
that the teachers signed, is that they will not teach Synergy
Yoga within 10 miles of the Yoga Room. This
is the issue which has caused many attacks from past
teachers as they want to teach within this 10
mile limit. And though they signed the contract
stating they would not, many are. This
behavior places them “out of integrity” with
the Yoga room. We are inundated with Yoga
studios in Encinitas, 95% of whom trained and
studied with Peri at the Yoga Room.
Goldi:
Peri’s first marriage didn’t get past the
honeymoon; it was a mistake. Her 2nd
marriage to Warren Ness lasted for 3 years.
Warren is a beloved friend of Peri. And now
Charles DeFay, her beautiful heart of gold
husband is her soul mate.
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Myth = Peri claims to be modest and teach humility
Truth = Peri owns a beach front condo in Encinitas, a Mercedes, a pure
breed Chihuahua. She can often be seen wearing gold rings, gold necklaces,
and pearls and she demands that her teachers address her as “The Master Teacher”
The Real Truth:
Charles:
Synergy Yoga teachers address Peri as the
“master teacher". Peri never called herself that
or gave herself that title. She would not, she is
actually a shy person and has no desire for
being revered. Concerning "master teacher"
this also is a traditional form of respect in most
professions. For example "master mechanic",
“master chef, "master builder", "master karate
teacher", etc. The students and teachers in
the training started calling her that many years
ago. She did not request it.
Peri loves gems and has made sacred healing
Mala necklaces for many years and has given
to many freely and generously to help people
heal. Peri is very intuitive and every necklace
she makes is blessed with her love and prayers.
The gems are loaded with healing energy. She has
given many thousands of dollars worth of gems away.
She gives them anonymously for others to sell for charity.
Many of this disgruntled group of people have received
numerous items made from Peri over the years.
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Myth = Peri claims to abide by the law
Truth = Peri refuses to pay her employees overtime, while working
them over 8 hours in a day without proper compensation in accordance
with the California labor laws. She demands that her apprentices teach a
minimum of 108 classes for free and perform “seva” or service work.
The Real Truth:
Charles:
Peri has never broken the law. Our business
has an excellent reputation and we pay
everything by the books. We have an
excellent CPA and attorney. We have a policy
that every employee signs in the employee
agreement that they do not work overtime.
We do not believe it is healthy and people are
not effective working long hours. If in a rare
event they have to, they of course get paid
overtime. Our mistake was taking people for
their word, even their signed agreements.
Melinda DePalma offered work for the tenday tuition,
and then asked for overtime hours. Melinda
was hired to enforce this policy. She is
responsible for much of the financial downfall
of the business. She came to work late. She
admitted to being under the influence of drugs and
came to work in her pajamas and slippers on
more than one occasion. On the first week of
her job, she tried to expose Roxanne, her sister, for
having severe drug problems and tried to get
her fired. She told Peri that she had intense
jealousy of her sister and thought that she
would always be the overweight and ugly
sister. Peri’s response to her accusation of
Roxanne being on drugs was that she knew about
Roxanne’s past and had been assured
that Roxanne was not doing drugs anymore.
Peri had worked with her for 5 years and was
wondering why Melinda would sabotage her own
sister’s job at Synergy Yoga. Roxanne had
promised Peri that she had given up her drug use.
Melinda is currently under investigation for
fraudulent activity with our bank and is a main
driving force in the conspiracy and defamation
against Peri, Synergy Yoga and the Yoga Room.
Roxanne begged Peri not to get Melinda prosecuted
and arrested. Peri loved Roxane, so she did not prosecute.
Our apprentice program is excellent and
completely legal. Most places offering
apprenticeship, no matter what the profession,
require payment for the apprenticeship. We
require that students practice with a mentor (who
we pay) a certain amount of classes of each
style that we teach, until they have a good
proficiency and can safely teach Synergy yoga.
Our standards are high. This program works
extremely well and has created many excellent
teachers over the years. ‘Seva’ means
‘service’, a yogic quality we try to develop
and ask our teachers to do little things. I.e.,
help clean mirrors, empty trash bins, help
check in classes as part of their training in
the apprentice program, in preparing them to
run a business. Many who have left
the yoga room in a negative way complained.
Almost 90% of the time, we do not follow up
with letters and telephone calls to them, but
there are those who have worked
with us every single day for years who have
become more than just a working relationship.
We have friendships, spiritual connections and
physical healings; we meditate together, due
to the fact that this is a yogic environment. It
is different to most other work environments.
In many cases it has been those who have
received the most healing, who then leave.
Peri is a modest, humble, truthful person.
Peri never claims that she is the
“gateway to Samadhi” as their site claims.
She never claims to be more than a sincere
devotee of Yogananda. She would never claim
that she is a reincarnation of any other Avatar.
All those who follow the SRF path and know
Peri know this is completely ludicrous.
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Myth = Peri claims that anyone who leaves The Yoga Room is
“out of integrity” and has turned their back on God and their Guru.
Truth = No one can destroy your relationship with God and your Guru.
Peri is not the gateway into Samadhi.
The Real Truth:
Charles:
Peri would never say anything like that. If
people leave in a good way without
dishonesty, there are no problems and
we have had several changes of the sweetest
nature. Life happens. People get married,
have children, move, but the love never goes
away. When people leave in a negative way,
we always encourage them to come back at
any time to clear things up. As Charles said in
his testimony, “We are always open to
resolving issues.” When people leave, they
leave, but for us the love is still there and
always will be. Our philosophy is to teach
what goes around comes around, actions have
results, karma.
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About Our Ten-Day
Charles:
To list our schedule is illegal. This is publishing
someone’s copyrighted work. It is damaging
and it is theft. To write defamatory statements
about our special processes is appalling,
especially as each one of these people has claimed
that it was a huge honor to participate in those
processes. We do not encourage anyone to
share secrets. We do not encourage anyone to
do anything they do not want to. They are
encouraged to practice yoga, to stay calm and
to nourish and look after themselves. It is an
intensive, however, and everyone is fully
aware of it when they sign up. People are
informed that the days are long, but not
excessive. The Ten-Day is a transformational
healing retreat that many people of all walks of
life have taken part in. Almost everyone states
at the end that it was the best and most transformational
thing they've every done. Even though they have
published our Ten-Day schedule, noone can
recreate it like Peri and the Synergy staff.
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About The Synergy Advertisement
This evolved from Peri working with Conrad
Zeveley who was one of Bikram’s main
teachers. Peri honored him as he did help in
the initial teachers training that she offered.
She honors everyone she has worked with.
Since Bikram decided to sue anyone using his
name, we decided to remove it. She never did
teach Bikram yoga. Bishnu Ghosh taught
Peri’s teachers, Bikram and many, many other
teachers. Bishnu’s #1 teacher was Buddha Bose.
Bishnu Ghosh stated in the forward to Buddha
Bose’s book that he learned everything from
his brother and Guru, Paramahansa
Yogananda.
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About Peri’s Back
It is claimed on their website that Peri’s back
has been hurting her since her accident in
2001, almost 7 years ago. This is absolutely
untrue. For six years after her accident, Peri
never went to the hospital or received any
treatments except for a few sacral cranial
sessions. She never had any back problems or
any issues. She practiced yoga almost every
day and did advanced class (2-1/2 hours of
extremely advanced and challenging physical
exercise) with no problems for 6 years. And
she had no problem walking or had none of the
extremely debilitating pain she’s had since
receiving her adjustments from Terry
Rondberg. Someone asked why did Peri get an
adjustment, if yoga is self-chiropractic. Yogis
believe in and have written about Chiropractic
work as a form of healing. At one point in
September and October of 2007, Peri could not
even do yoga. She could not even walk. She
chose Chiropractic over surgery and it did get
her walking again and eventually doing yoga.
When Peri received her last adjustment from
Terry Rondberg, she stated “I will never let
him touch me again”, and did not. She was
hurt physically. Outi, Charmaine and Charles
were there and she told Roxanne later.
Roxanne admitted without a shadow of a doubt
that Terry gave Peri a bad adjustment. It was
Charmaine and Roxanne that first took Peri to
the doctor.
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About Our Signs
Charles:
We took our signs down to make space for a
new buyer and we have attracted the perfect
people. We are very grateful and happy with
this transition. Our beloved students put up a
beautiful sign saying “We love you Peri and
Charles. Encinitas will never be the same” and
we got a huge response from the community
as many did not know what was happening.
That first night, the people who have sought to bring
down the Yoga Room with untruths stole the sign.
Students hung a replacement sign. Someone has
suggested to us that Peri will be the “Martin
Luther King of the internet”. She is strong
enough, even though this whole thing is offensive and
baffling for all of us; the attackers have not ceased
their efforts.
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About The Synergy Flows
Charles:
They accuse Peri of not creating her yoga
flows. Peri created all her flows based on her
original training. Peri created her gentle flow
and Jacqui Freedman, who Peri adores and
considers a dear, long-time friend. She first
taught and helped develop Gentle Synergy at
our Highway 101 Studio next to Flower Frenzy.
When we expanded, we consolidated in our 2nd Street location.
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About Our Staff
Charles:
I have witnessed so many ex-staff who are not
willing to take responsibility for mistakes or for
even very grievous actions. Many of them
have received so much love, tools, healing,
friendship and money and deny the friendship
and connection which existed. I have seen
Peri continue to trust in people after being repeatedly
decieved for years. When their job becomes
inconvenient, they walk out. But Peri has
been there for all these years continually. They
use Peri to build up their business, friendships,
mailing list, and connections. They work in her
business and betray her, and then get very
upset when called to integrity.
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About the Picture They Have Used
Charles:
This was taken on Peri’s last birthday after a
wonderful packed class that I taught. Roxanne
made the beautiful lei that is around Peri’s
neck and Peri consented to wear the lei for a
photograph. This is not her usual attire.
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About Terry Rondberg, Roxanne and Melinda DePalma
Charles:
They have somehow hypnotized our young
teachers and staff: Elia Nikolaev, Charmaine
Calcara, Derek McCartney, Lizzy Henry, Shane Robson,
Daniel Casey, Matt Caron, Jaleh Jaffari as well as
Ben Mendohlson (not a student, but Charmaine’s boyfriend)
who claims to have put up the
site. You can see these people on the video,
outside the court (Elia and Derek were there
the first day, not that day). After the 2nd
hearing the judge ruled in our favor, and they
were ordered to take down their website
immediately. The next day, not only did they
not take it down but they are blogging on other
sites. Their defiance to the judge explains
what we are dealing with. There is a new
studio nearby where many of these ex-teachers
are teaching including some from the
past that have never cleared up their negative
departures from the Yoga Room. Their
schedule is identical to the old schedule at the
Yoga Room. The owner solicited clients for her
business from The Yoga Room for the last ten
years in the changing rooms. They now teach a
made up version toget around copyright laws.
We have tried to practice Ahimsa (nonviolence)
for 6 months. When people say this
is a fight, we did not pick the fight. What
people don’t realize is the shock to Peri and me
and all the staff, especially the incredibly different
attitude of these people involved from the
whole time they’ve been here, until one week
before they walked out. Elia sent an email to
Peri saying “good riddance” when we told
everyone we were leaving. Elia was loved by
Peri and Charles and he had professed love for
them. He was at their house for birthdays,
lunches; they were friends as well as
employer/employee and teacher/student. Elia
acknowledged many times he did not know
where he would be without Peri and me. The
change in attitude just shows how evil can take
hold of the weakest side in all of us, especially
in a group environment, evolving to a mob mentality.
Paramahansa Yogananda says “environment is stronger
than will”. These young people do not realize that trying
to destroy a magnificent business that has
benefited so many people including themselves,
is not OK, especially as their slanderous
allegations are completely false. This business
was worth over a half million dollars per CPA’s,
and has been incredibly successful, however,
it’s been challenged by mismanagement.
It is ironic that we have the greatest manager
that we have ever had right now; she has dug
us out of the mess that Melinda, Charmaine and
several prior to her have left. People blame Peri
because the leader is always criticized and
targeted. Peri is the teacher and works incessently.
She hired and paid excellent, high salaries to many who
misrepresented their abilities to manage such a
business. These young disillusioned teachers seem
to have forgotten everything wonderful in
the darkness they have been swept into. The
staff and teachers we presently have are the best of the best:
Outi, Jen and Linda, have been here for over 5
Years, Sumathi 3+ years, Kim 2+ years, and Caroline, the
newest, strongest, youngest one, survived all the
other young people leaving. Peri is in shock but calm
and trusting. She still offers sweetness, even though crushed.
We also know that Roxanne was on crack, and
Terry’s wife told us she thought he was on crack because
he was so thin, having nose bleeds and had
hyper energy. Please see the testimonial
section where Roxanne admits to student Julie
Thomas that she is “responsible for writing most
of the blogs on their site and that she will
continue to do so until she brings the Yoga
Room down.”
Melinda misrepresented herself as someone
able to manage the business, improve it and
save money. She was there for 5 months and
was incredibly destructive. She deliberately
set us up for fines and financial disaster.
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False Accusations
Somewhere in their website they say Peri was
abused. Peri was not abused; however
Roxanne and Melinda were, and their abuser is
presently in jail. That is public knowledge.
Roxanne and Melinda are accusing Peri of
behavior that they themselves did. For
instance Roxanne was abusing staff and saying
things like "Peri said…". We have a major policy
at the Yoga Room that staff do not use the
words “Peri said”. The staff must take
responsibility for their jobs and their own actions.
Roxanne was head mentor and she would use Peri as an
excuse when she was the one who was
abusing the staff and giving harsh feedback.
Roxanne also denies taking drugs and accuses
us of saying untruths about her. This is the
last thing that we would do. The last thing we
want is for others to know that the Head
Mentor of The Yoga Room is a crack addict.
Right before Roxanne’s birthday, she called Peri
and told her she had been lying to her face for six years,
and that she had been using crack-cocaine the whole
time and much more very recently. In fact she said two
nights previously she had “free based” crack – cocaine
and almost died (overdosed). She was crying and apologizing
and said how embarrassed she was, and asked if Peri was
going to fire her. She said she couldn’t tell her mother or Terry.
Peri and Charles immediately sent her to the William Hitt
Drug Rehabilitation Center. It was then that Terry wrote
his apology letter, on January 13th, 2008. The very
next day, he went on a rampage against us. We would never
have told anyone, if Roxanne had not admitted it to Linda
herself, and then started lying about The Yoga Room.
This knowledge of her drug use explained her behavior.
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Letters They Are Publishing
Charles:
Peri does not type. She had Charmaine Calcara write all of
her personal letters. Usually, she would compose
three or four drafts of a letter, which helped Peri process.
The attackers have published letters that we’re not intended
to ever be sent. The letters were preliminary drafts instead
of final drafts, and they even added in words. Charmaine
Calcara and Jeff Calcara have access to the entire Yoga Room
computer system and Peri's confidential letters. This is, of course, a
concern. Charmaine sent many inncorrect drafts to Peri’s most
important correspondents. Even though Charmaine did work at the
Yoga Room since she was thirteen, she worked Sunday’s only,
and took many breaks from that job. It was only since her
Ten Day about 1 ½ years ago that she started working
full time at the Yoga Room.
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Goldi’s Last Word:
Peri points things out for the best of a person, even though the person might never have heard it before, and might be shocked, or have an offended ego. Peri is all love. Peri’s yoga therapy workshop transformed me. I was a changed person after that. She transformed me from having a chronic habit of tardiness, always late, unfocused and ungrounded. I became a different person, hardly ever late and naturally focused. It’s been an enormous improvement to myself and to those around me. Peri's openness and honesty, even when one does not want to hear, or when it’s difficult to hear the truth, does get through, and people acknowledge it’s the truth and an improvement is needed. She is sweet but straightforward. Peri is loving and giving to a fault, for which she often receives knocks instead of gratitude. Peri has looked after many people for a long time. There have been countless people who have exclaimed “You’re Peri’s Mother!” and thanked me. They say “Thank you for sending Peri to Encinitas”, and “I want to tell you that your daughter has saved my life.” She deserves rest and blessings.
Peris standards are high, they have to be to run a large business like this. She helps people out of their negative state into higher awareness. Ive seen her give over and over again to those that behave very badly to her. As Doctor Parker once said, Peris love permeates the yoga room. That's what people feel there. Also, Charmaine told Peri she could never be friends with Roxy because she led a double life and Charmaine did not like the other side of Roxy. I was in Point Arena with these girls and they were very close and loving with Peri. Terry Rondburg was there behaving very strangely. He sat in a circle at the end of the workshop and thanked Peri profusely for her love, forgiveness and acceptance. He said she had literally saved his life!
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