SCNA - Nude Yoga

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Nude Yoga Classes

SCNA strives to provide activities that our members have requested. Nude yoga has been a perennial request.

Since we’ve had two former teachers move out of the area and discontinue their classes, we only have one instructor left at this time who offers a monthly live outdoor nude yoga class. We are searching for other teachers and spaces conducting nude yoga classes.

LIVE CO-ED CLOTHING-OPTIONAL YOGA CLASS & GUIDED MEDITATION

LOCATION: Altadena
COST: $30

Since this class is held outdoors in Altadena, the instructor, Blaize, has decided that the class will be postponed until the weather gets warmer, most likely in March or April. The classes are usually held on Friday or Saturday mornings at 10 am and the dates will be posted here once they resume.

In order to attend, you must RSVP to blaizeemilyhall@gmail.com and pre-pay her via Venmo @blaize-emily or via Zelle.

The class is $30 but if that cost is prohibitive, please reach out. We want everyone to be welcome and able to attend! Registration will close on Thursday before the class date at 10 am, so please be aware if you're considering attending. This class is for ALL body types, ALL genders, and orientations, 18+.

The class will be held outdoors in a gorgeous, big, and very private backyard in Altadena. The address will only be provided upon your paid RSVP.

The class will start promptly at 10 am, so please come early to get yourself situated, find parking, etc.\

Please bring your own yoga mat. A couple of mats will be available for purchase if you do not have one or forget to bring one.

The class will be one hour and will be geared towards average mobility, with modifications available for all bodies. If you desire to stay in the child's pose or sit in meditation the entire class, that is 100% A-OK! We will close with a guided relaxation into “savasana.”

Class Requirements

Bring a towel, a mat, drinking water.
No NOT wear perfume or cologne.
Do NOT eat 2 hours before class begins.

Why Nude Yoga?

Nude Yoga Enables a Positive Body Image

Nude yoga helps anyone who wishes to be free of the emotional shackles that prevent us from celebrating all our unique physiques and capabilities. When people who suffer from low self-esteem and poor body image can practice without clothing in a safe, nurturing environment, they come to appreciate their bodies and understand that their feelings of shame are not their own, but a kind of inherited mind-state that comes as a result of societal judgments. It helps you discover an entirely new way of looking at your own body, inspiring you to take embrace your imperfections and open your heart to yourself and to the world with pride, courage and confidence.

Group of nudists arm in arm looking from the rear.

Nude Yoga Furthers the Mind-Body-Spirit Connection

When we consider the role that clothing has played in society, it seems to be in direct opposition to the spirit of yoga. By design, clothing reminds us of our differences and serves as a distraction that leads us away from a central yogic principal: the commonality of all living things. So a well-designed yoga class without the restriction of clothing promotes a greater sense of freedom, confidence, and an enhanced appreciation for the body. Seeing and feeling the body as it stretches and moves from one pose to the next results in more stress reduction, increased energy, enhanced overall strength, stamina and flexibility, plus improved respiratory, cardiovascular, endocrine and brain function.

Nudists doing downward dog in yoga.

Nude Yoga Creates Numerous Physical and Mental Health Benefits!

Nude yoga allows people to experience freedom from inhibitions, opinions of others and any shame about the body, which can lead to low energy and poor health. As you learn greater self-acceptance, negativity burns away and any physical repercussions resulting from holding toxic emotions get resolved. The body, mind and spirit unite and heal, and you feel deeply energized, vital and calm.

Young nudist woman in yoga pose.

Nude Yoga is Sensual!

While nude yoga in its true form has little to do with society’s preconceived notions of sex or eroticism, make no mistake, nude yoga can be very sensual internally. It’s the feeling of being authentically connected, confident, and alive. Nude yoga gives people permission to feel joyful and radiant, at home in their own skin, blissfully unselfconscious and aware. It encourages practitioners to uncover their most primal, powerful, sacred, sensual, integrated, original selves.

Nude Yoga Reduces Self-Shame

Nude Yoga teaches us how to harness the transformative kundalini shakti, our sacred life force, while experiencing the freedom of moving through space without clothing to restrict our movement, and more importantly, freedom from the shame that restricts our souls.

Whatever you learn in any given class, whether it is a new way to focus your breath or a technique to lengthen and strengthen a muscle, or a way to draw earth energy up through your bubbling spring points, you get to take it with you. Yoga is a state of mind, a way of being. It is the ultimate fitness for body, mind and spirit. It can help you to transform your life. And it will inspire you to be the very best you can be.

NUDE IS THE NEW COOL!