The opening scene of the fictional web series “Namaste, Bitches” starts with some very un-yogic behavior. Sabine, a yoga teacher and recent transplant to Los Angeles, is driving on the freeway and is cursing repeatedly at her GPS while smoking a cigarette — hardly a model of Zen healthy living.

This is intentional.

The show is meant to both expose and parody the multibillion-dollar yoga industry. Conceived and produced by Summer Chastant, a former yoga teacher herself, the series, she said in a phone interview, is a heightened version of her own experience. She taught the discipline in New York and Los Angeles at studios including Kula Yoga Project and Pure, from 2007 to 2013, and apparently saw some things.

Sabine, a teacher played by Ms. Chastant, snorts lines of cocaine, sleeps with a student (in the studio) and calls another teacher “a slutty bitch” to her face.

One may think it is insensitive to parody the yoga world after two of its titans, John Friend and Bikram Choudhury, were accused of sexual misconduct by their students. But the series has struck a nerve, perhaps because the yoga teacher behaving badly here is a woman.