‘Sister Wives’ Star Meri Brown Goes Tantra Yoga Speed Dating

Sister Wives star Meri Brown is on the search for love following her divorce from polygamist Kody Brown and is open to unconventional approaches, including tantra yoga speed-dating.

Meri opened up about single life on Sunday’s (November 8) episode of the TLC reality series, where she traveled to her hometown of San Francisco and met up with her sister, Rebekah. Meri told her sibling she was attending a tantra yoga speed-dating event later that evening.

“I thought it was really, really, really super inappropriate at first,” Meri told her sister, per People. She continued in confessional, saying, “When I think of tantra yoga, I think of very sexualized yoga, and positions and closeness. And I’m like, yeah, no, I’m not going to do that with a speed dating event when I very first meet somebody.”

However, she ultimately decided to give it a go back in Salt Lake City. Meri told Rebekah that if the women were interested in a man, they’d place a bead in his pouch and touch his chest. “This is why the men don’t do it, because women have boobies and that would be awkward,” Meri quipped.

Meri was the first wife of polygamist Kody Brown, who went on to marry Janelle Brown, Christine Brown Woolley, and Robyn Brown. The plural marriage, which was documented on TLC’s Sister Wives, fell apart over the past few years after Christine, Meri, and Janelle separated from Kody.

Now that she’s single, Meri said she loves going to speed-dating events. “I feel like I’ve spent so much of my life in the shadows,” she shared. “When I was a kid, after we moved to Utah, my mom was teaching us, homeschool. And in the ’70s… you don’t do that. They wanted everybody in the school system.”

“We had to hide because of the homeschool. We had to hide because of the polygamy,” she continued, noting her parents were also in a plural marriage. “Even into my adulthood, I didn’t tell people who I was. I was just always hiding.”

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Meri is now putting herself out there, even if she admits it can be “awkward and uncomfortable.” She also said that dating is a new experience because it was “not something that was really promoted in our church. Like, you date with the intention of getting married.”

“So maybe just dating in and of itself is weird, and not just at this age,” Meri added before the episode ended with her walking into a speed-dating event.

Earlier in the season, Meri opened up about her friend Ron, the man she met at a speed-dating event last year. She spoke about their “connection” but noted that, for now, they’re “comfortable in the friend zone.”

“I think he and I are both in a place in our lives after, like, long marriages that we’re just individually just trying to figure out, like, what we want,” Meri told friends in the October 18 episode. “He and I have become really, really good friends. It’s really cool.”