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Nude Yoga: Bare Facts
Nude Yoga or Naked yoga is any form of Yoga practiced with
minimum or no clothes on. In general, such absence of Yoga apparel is
the main and probably the only factor that distinguishes Nude Yoga from
the rest of Yoga styles, such as Hatha
Yoga, Bikram
Yoga or Kriya
Yoga.
As you could have learned from other articles of our site, Yoga is not
a religion, but it is a 5000-year-old universal philosophy aimed at
establishing communication between spirit, body and mind, achieving
perfect consciousness and finding harmony with the Universe.
In the modern times, unfortunately, Yoga is often simply viewed as an
effective system of physical exercises that strengthen and rejuvenate
the body. Indeed, Yoga helps cure many diseases and become graceful and
flexible, but it is not all about building the musculature; an
incomparably wider range of benefits can be derived from different Yoga
systems with sufficient attention paid to balancing the mind and the
flesh.
In this sense, Nude Yoga helps cast away all prejudices and concentrate
on the primary goal of the practice. While Nude Yoga practitioners are
not restricted by any form of clothing they can take any pose freely
and only listen to what their body is telling. We all know that the
skin needs to breathe, too, thus practicing Nude Yoga is good not only
for the health, but for the beauty as well.
Naturally, public nudity has always aroused many controversies in the
society, and some people tend to associate it with voyeurism,
homosexuality or even depravity. However, it is important to understand
that Nude Yoga practitioners are not interested in one
another’s
anatomical peculiarities but concentrate on their own unity with the
world.
Yet, this concept is still difficult to grasp by many people, so, to
avoid unpleasant accuses and other kinds of discomfortable situations,
Nude Yoga is often practiced at home or in private surroundings, such
as clubs, where one is left tete-a-tete with nature or can join the
company of like-minded persons without feeling self-conscious or shy.
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