Sister Wives star Meri Brown tries tantra yoga speed dating after Kody split
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The gist
Sister Wives star Meri Brown attended a tantra yoga speed-dating event in her hometown of San Francisco.
The episode shows her rebuilding a dating life after her split from Kody Brown.
Background
Meri Brown is a star of TLC's Sister Wives, the reality show that documented her plural marriage to polygamist Kody Brown as his first wife. The family fell apart over the past few years after Christine, Meri and Janelle separated from Kody. In the current season Meri has been re-entering the dating world, and the show is following her first steps, including a speed-dating event where she met a man named Ron.
How it unfolded
- 1990 -04Meri legally married Kody Brown, becoming his first wife.
- 2014Meri agreed to divorce Kody so he could marry Robyn Brown and legally adopt Robyn's three children from a prior marriage.
- 2023Kody and Meri announced their split.
- Sep 12, 2025Meri shared that she is keeping her last name despite the end of her marriage to Kody.
- Feb 1, 2026On the Sister Wives One-on-One special, Meri discussed Ron, the man she met at a speed-dating event earlier in the season, saying "I am happy."
- Nov 1, 2026Meri claimed on Sister Wives that Kody was "nice to me for, I don't know, maybe a month" after the 2014 divorce sacrifice; Christine said in the same episode she saw the legal divorce as the breaking point for Meri and Kody.
- Nov 8, 2026On the Sunday episode, Meri traveled to San Francisco, met her sister Rebekah and said she was attending a tantra yoga speed-dating event that evening; she also told best friend Jenn that Kody "liked to choose the clothes that I wore." A recap of the same episode shows Meri, Janelle and Christine gathering at a jeweler to torch their rings.
Key terms
- tantra yoga
- An esoteric yogic tradition that developed in India from the mid-first millennium CE, emphasizing mantra use.
- plural marriage
- A marriage in which at least one spouse has more than one partner, as opposed to monogamy.
Source: Wikipedia
Who’s saying what
- Meri
- She said she is putting herself out there after years of feeling she had to hide, adding "I feel like I've spent so much of my life in the shadows."
- Meri
- She said she found tantra yoga speed dating "really, really, really super inappropriate at first," associating tantra yoga with "very sexualized yoga, and positions and closeness."
- Meri
- She claimed Kody chose the clothes she wore and now calls it "really weird and very controlling," though she "didn't think it was weird at the time."
- Christine
- Christine said she saw Meri and Kody's legal divorce as the breaking point for their relationship.
Still unverified
Meri's claims that Kody dictated her clothing choices are presented as allegations ("allegedly dictated") and have not been confirmed by Kody.