Mick Brown

The tyranny of 1970s self-help gurus

Clients pursuing ‘true self’ were expected to wear identical clothes, shave their heads, self-flagellate and be ‘given hell’, while paying through the nose for it

Group yoga at the Whole Earth Fair in Boulder, Colorado, July 1970. [Getty Images]

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