Abuse hearing into yoga ashram re-opens

A national inquiry into how a NSW Yoga Ashram handled allegations of child sex abuse re-opens in Sydney on Wednesday.

The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse will hear oral submissions in relation to the Satayananda Yoga Ashram at Mangrove Mountain, at Governor Macquarie Tower hearing room in Sydney's CBD.

The public hearing started in December last year when the commission heard from 11 former child residents of the Ashram.

The group gave evidence of physical and sexual abuse by the ashram's former spiritual leader Swami Akhandananda Saraswati in the 1980s.