But the motivations that are driving the blossoming of naked yoga sessions and encouraging ‘skyclad’ men on to their mats on a regular basis appear to have little to do with sex. It would be easy to dismiss this as a manifestation of ever more sexualised gay lives. Altogether Yoga Naked yoga allows a generation of tech addicts to reconnect There is even a city in Asia where men are breaching rigidly held and enforced cultural norms to get together and share their nude downward-facing dogs and tree poses.
There are regular sessions in the larger North American and Australian urban centres and outposts in Argentina and Brazil. Now groups of (mostly) men keen to strip off and stretch together are growing in many of the European capitals. However, gay and bi men are certainly at the forefront of its growing popularity.įive years or so ago there were only a handful of cities where nude classes were available. Teachers are also establishing co-ed and classes for women. While most of the men who come to my classes, and those of the teachers I know and have interviewed, would say they’re same-sex attracted, there are often a few straight guys. Of course, naked yoga is not exclusively a gay and bi men’s thing. Naked yoga has made its way into most people’s consciousness and taken on the world. Then their imagination would kick in and they’d have a barrage of questions for me… or, in a small number of cases, they would clamp their teeth together and change the subject.Īfter almost a decade of leading classes for men, though, my profession is no longer the sensation it once was. Slack-jawed and briefly speechless, men would occasionally be a bit shocked when I told them I was a naked yoga teacher.
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