Practicing Nude Yoga Outdoors with Photos
My first session of yoga was at a Naturist event and for several years such events where the only place I did yoga and always outside. A Naturist swim club of which I was a member started to add yoga once a month to their weekly meetings, so while they were nude, they were indoors. These days I attend yoga sessions 2-3 times a week at my local gym, so sadly both indoors and clothed! (But at least all year round)
During the pandemic my yoga at the gym stopped, so I did take myself out when the weather was good enough. Attached are a couple of pictures from that time. Just about the only pictures I have of me doing yoga.
Too many Westerners ( Non Hindus ) associate Yoga with simple physical postures. In India, on the verge of being the most populous Nation on Earth, Naturist Naga Sadhu Monks, among others, have, for Centuries if not Millenia, Practiced Nude Yoga as a tool vehicle for Connecting with Ones True Self & Ones Self with Nature & All of Creation : God / The Atman / Brahman / Joy / Happiness / Nirvana ... however One chooses to define that transcendental Experience.
After One ditches the artificial vain superficial distracting unnecessary over priced clownish bodymasks, mandated by civilization?, & can feel taste digest communicate/intercourse with the invigorating vitality of the Earth Air Sun Water & dazzling colors & textures & deafening Silence & august Symphony of the Natural Environment, it is difficult not to develop a deep affinity if not a addiction or dependence on that Experience weather in pristine places like Cedar Lake/Minneapolis, Trinity Alps, California, Americana Riviera/Sacramento/CA State Capital, East Bay Regional Parks/SF Bay Area, Maryland Regional Parks/DMV..
Wilderness is usually considered to be something good and in need of preservation. The beauty and awesomeness of it dominate our attention. We are attracted by wilderness, the Otherness of it, the sense it is something inevitably outside of us. Always beyond us, it is what is ultimately real. We cannot adequately appreciate this aspect of nature if we approach it with any taint of human pretense. It will elude us if we allow artifacts like clothing to intervene between ourselves and this Other. To apprehend it, we cannot be naked enough.
- Henry David Thoreau
I have heard of a dog that barked at every stranger who approached his master's premises with clothes on, but was easily quieted by a naked thief. It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes."
- Henry David Thoreau
Too many Westerners ( Non Hindus ) associate Yoga with simple physical postures. In India, on the verge of being the most populous Nation on Earth, Naturist Naga Sadhu Monks, among others, have, for Centuries if not Millenia, Practiced Nude Yoga as a tool vehicle for Connecting with Ones True Self & Ones Self with Nature & All of Creation : God / The Atman / Brahman / Joy / Happiness / Nirvana ... however One chooses to define that transcendental Experience.
Sad but true. The Yoga Sutras one of the penultimate texts of yoga defines yoga as follows
yoga is the cessation of the modifications, or fluctuations, of the mind
In the foreword to the Hatha Yoga Pridipika another ther sacred yoga text Sri B.K.S. Iyengar one of the three great yoga masters to introduce yoga to the western in the says this
Hatha yoga, or hatha vidya (the science of hatha yoga) is commonly misunderstood and misrepresented as being simply a physical culture, divorced from spiritual goals.
The text has only has a few yoga asanas.
Western "modern yoga" mostly ignores the spiritual (not religious) and philosophical non physical parts of yoga for a focus on the physical. Making it nothing more than what Bryan Kest of power yoga fame calls eastern calisthenics.
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