Gaia restaurant owner

Video streaming service

"Gaiam" redirects here. For the distribution company, see Gaiam Vivendi Entertainment. For the company also known as Gaiam, see Chorion (company).

Gaia, Inc. is an American media company founded in by Jirka Rysavy in Louisville, Colorado.

It owns and operates Gaia TV, an over-the-topsubscription video on-demand service consisting of original and licensed alternative media documentaries. While the content on Gaia TV initially focused on yoga, mindfulness, and alternative medicine to complement the company's yoga equipment distribution business, the latter's divestiture led to a greater emphasis on content promoting conspiracy theories and pseudoscience.^[3] The service has been criticized and deplatformed from social media platforms including Facebook and YouTube for hosting videos promoting vaccine misinformation and conspiracy theories such as the Illuminati, UFOs, and Atlantis.^[4][5][6]

As of Septemb