Lawyers for Choudhury said last year that he was nearly bankrupt.

The founder of a popular hot yoga method on Monday was ordered to pay more than $900,000 to a lawyer who said she was fired for investigating allegations of sexual harassment against the guru.

A Vancouver woman has filed a lawsuit against famed yoga guru Bikram Choudhury, alleging he sexually assaulted her in 2010 during a training course in Las Vegas.