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Beth uses a Karate studio for her yoga Image courtesy of the artist and the MCA. that is spacious enough for 30 guests, with an outer room. This day, the outer room held a table spread with snacks and drinks, and we were delighted to see some dear friends had turned out for the event. Though Beth offers the classes every week, this class was special because of a television camera that had been invited in, and our cameras. Thus, even more of a treat that so many were comfortable with March 31, 2012 anyone knowing they enjoy being clothes- free. Getting naked with Stuart Classes are located in Vernon, New Ringholt at the Museum of Jersey. Please check Beth’s website for times PHOTO - AFP Contemporary Art March, 2012 and dates. She responds quickly back to When the MCA reopened, as part of the those who leave an e-mail message. Though performance, participatory and site-specific Naked Dining PHOTO: REUTERS Naked dining has become a bit of a craze, young, my son has some physical limitations. art exhibition, Local Positioning Systems — now also spreading to Australia. Tue, Feb 21, 2012 His comment, at the end of the class was “I curated by Performance Space — Australian Although. Just like with the New York haven’t stretched this much in years and felt artist Stuart Ringholt will provide a tour of Naked, pregnant model naked diners club, waiters and chefs stay so good!” Thank you to all who attended for the show. A personal tour of an exhibition led clothed, everyone else gets together in the walks runway in London the press, and to Beth for providing this by an artist featured in the exhibition. The altogether. The only item that is not optional by Jessica Pauline Ogilvie service to the nude community. Be sure to only catch, as it’s described by the MCA, is is a towel to sit on...also for health reasons. Unexpected boobs are a surefire way to get plan to attend, when in the area! that “the artist will be naked. Those who source: news.com.au people talking, and Welsh milliner Robyn wish to join the tour must also be naked.” Coles took advantage of that fact at her NJ YOGA GROUP — PHOTO: BERN LOIBL AFP/Getty Image Compulsory nakedness. The Row for Freedom Team debut show in London over the weekend. To The literal removal of “material barriers” showcase her newest line of hats, Coles March 3, 2012 to get buff in the buff, there are always between artist and audience aims to give the didn’t just send nude models down the Students shed DVDs they can follow in the privacy of viewer a new perspective on works by runway — she sent a nude, pregnant lady their own home. viewing them entirely naked, works that deal down the runway. inhibitions, clothes Jennifer Kries is the creator of Yoga exclusively with themes of fear and Sophia Cahill is about one month before for naked yoga Undressed. She advises students to embarrassment. One of Ringholt’s best- her due date, and she ambled down the “suspend judgement and give it a try.” known works is a series called Embarrass- catwalk wearing nothing but a blue hat. Studies have shown the many health “To those people, those folks who start ment, in which the artist stood in public Coles also used models of varying ages and benefits of yoga, from stronger muscles to off by saying ‘eww’ or ‘yuck,’ you know I places with toilet paper hanging out of his sizes, and told the Daily Mail that she did so lower blood pressure and a calmer state of meet them with great compassion,” Kries trousers, or wore a prosthetic nose for a day. not just so that people could quote the mind. Now devotees are touting a new kind told CTV. “I say ‘it is important for you to A nude cyclist protests for better safety measures The naturist tours have previously taken doorman in “Knocked Up,” but because you of yoga class to boost body acceptance: suspend judgement and give it a try.” on the road in Lima, Peru. place at MONA in Tasmania and the can be any size and wear a hat. naked yoga. Kries said she believes naked yoga Australian Center of Contemporary Art in Oh, and naked people get asses in seats. Nude yoga classes have been sprouting allows students to “liberate themselves from March 10, 2012 Melbourne. “As an unknown designer,” she said, “you up at yoga studios across the United States negative body image.” She also calls the Commencing on Saturday April 28th at have to find ways of getting people to your and Canada, including at Follow Your Bliss practice empowering because students can Nude cyclists hit 5:45 pm, the tour is adults only and the show.” in Toronto. see their muscles at work. the streets of Lima curated exhibition, featuring five other thegloss.com Instructor Dee Dussault, who leads an Shedding their Lululemons may make Australian artists and the UK-based some practitioners also shed their to demand safety all-female class as well as a session for collective Walker & Bromwich, will PHOTO: REUTERS couples, said the concept allows students inhibitions, and Dussault says she hopes to measures conclude on June 3rd. General admission February 16, 2012 see naked yoga “take off as a trend.” who are embarrassed to be undressed in by Alexander Besant tickets are $21.95. Naked rowers break front of others face their fears, and then let source: CTVNews Hundreds of under-dressed Peruvian cyclists source: pedestrian.tv them go. took to the streets of the country’s capital Atlantic record “I have some people who have never Lima to demand better safety measures for The Row for Freedom team broke the done yoga before and feel safer taking it in Naked Yoga Day bikes on the road. Atlantic crossing record last month with this environment because they are afraid of in New Jersey Protestors say that thousands of cyclists crew members going naked for most of the the standard studio culture,” Dussault told by Sherry Stafford-Loibl have been killed on the roads because of journey. The unconventional tactic helped CTV News. poor safety measures and reckless drivers. them counter the boils and sores that can Dussault said she makes the setting For a month I looked forward to meeting “This is our body. With this, we go out result when clothes rub against skin. comfortable for her students by dimming Beth Nolan and enjoying a naked yoga class in the streets. We don’t have a car to protect source: CNN.com the lights and encouraging them to close with her. She had said “yes” when I asked to us,” event organiser Octavio Zegarra told their eyes and focus on their own videotape a bit of the class toward our future the Associated Press. experience, rather than their classmates. video on NJ naturism, and now the day has Between 300 and 500 cyclists took part One of her students, Tanya Dunn, said arrived. Not knowing who might show up, in the demonstration that demanded, among when she told her friends about the class, we decided to invite a few people we knew other things, the government install dedi- 76-year-old Masafumi Nagasaki has made the response was: “I want to try it.” were not camera-shy, my son, his girlfriend, cated lanes for bikes, according to the BBC. Sotobanari island in Japan’s tropical For those who may be shy but are keen and a friend of theirs! “I have gone naked because it’s the way Okinawa prefecture his retirement home, to raise awareness of our rights for example with a dress code of nothing at all. the bicycle lanes that are never free, there Naked, he braves lashing typhoons and are always taxis parked, police sleeping,” biting insects as a hermit in the buff. protester Milagro Esquivel told the Reuters. “I don’t do what society tells me, but I do Official statistics show 2,830 people follow the rules of the natural world. You died in traffic accidents in Peru in 2011. can’t beat nature so you just have to obey it It is the seventh annual naked bike completely,” he said. protest in Peru. “That’s what I learned when I came here, globalpost.com and that’s probably why I get by so well.” 8 N A T U R A L L Y • S U M M E R 2 0 1 2 N A T U R A L L Y • S U M M E R 2 0 1 2 9.

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