Inst@Guru: Bentinho Massaro is a Podcast offshoot of a Television Series almost five years in the making. It examines the world built around Bentinho Massaro, a Dutch-born spiritual influencer who has amassed a global following through social media, retreats, and an elaborate system of teachings promising consciousness, transcendence, and love. What his followers found instead is a story that is by now familiar to anyone who has watched a high-control group up close… and one that is still unfolding.

The series draws on dozens of interviews with people who were inside Massaro's organization, including three primary subjects who lived at the center of it, and who agreed to tell their stories in full, despite significant six-figure penalty clauses in the NDAs they signed. It also features Dutch investigative journalist Ivo van Woerden, whose book In de Greep van de Goeroe (In the Grip of the Guru) is the most comprehensive investigation into Massaro yet published. Together, these voices build a picture not just of one man, but of how these things happen - who gets drawn in, how they are kept, and what it costs them to leave. Bentinho Massaro has been invited to participate. That invitation remains open.