Nude Yoga Classes
SCNA strives to provide activities that our members have requested. Nude yoga has been a perennial request. There are currently three yoga instructors that offer nude yoga for SCNA members. One is a monthly men-only class in Canoga Park. The second holds clothing-optional classes in online for mixed groups or for women only.
Canoga Park
Nude Yin Yoga for Men
The hallmark of Yin Yoga is that poses are held for about three to five minutes at a time in order to the stretch the connective tissue around the joints
Beginners to advanced. Discuss health issues with the instructor prior to attending any classes.
Your instructor is a Certified Personal Fitness Trainer. For over 20 years he has conducted classes in yoga, stretch, pilates and cycling all over the USA and Europe.
Classes are scheduled for Saturday mornings from 9:30 to 11:00. (Current health directives may cause the cancellation of previously scheduled classes.)
A minimum of five students is required for a session to be held. Due to Covid-19 restrictions, there is currently a maximum of nine students per class.
Cost:
$40 per person
Dates:
Reserve:
Men who would like to attend this class should RSVP directly to Johny at malenakedyoga@gmail.com. Directions will given upon your RSVP. Payment should also be made directly to the instructor.
Online
Kundalini Yoga for Men and Women
This 90-minute Yoga class is Co-Ed and will be taught by a certified female Kundalini Yoga teacher.
Kundalini Yoga is considered to be the most comprehensive of yoga traditions combining meditation, mantra, physical exercises, and breathing techniques. You'll learn to reduce stress, increase your vitality and stamina, and also learn deep relaxation techniques. Kundalini Yoga is the yoga of awareness. Beginners need not worry: the emphasis is more on breathing and meditation than on difficult postures.
If you choose to practice nude in this Zoom class, please leave your camera off.
RSVP's should be made at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/104095739158
Once you make an RSVP at the link above, you will receive the Zoom link.
A $15 donation is suggested.
Start your day, and week, off right!
Namaste!
Kundalini Yoga combinines meditation, mantra, physical exercises and breathing techniques. Beginners need not worry, the emphasis is more on awareness and relaxation than on difficult postures.
These classes are now clothing-optional to give more students a comfortable introduction while still providing the opportunity for nude yoga practice. The focus is on mental and physical well-being, not any particular state of dress.
Your instructor is Christina Sirgun Powers, a certified Kundalini Yoga teacher and owner of the Yoga For Balance studio in Altadena.
Due to the COVID-19 regulations, Christina has begun offering weekly online classes via YouTube and Zoom. With each class, you will have access to a privately posted YouTube channel recorded each week. You will also have access to questions and answers with Christina via email and or scheduled Zoom meetings. (10 minutes). You have unlimited access to the class to repeat as often as you like in your own home as a daily practice.
Classes are available each Saturday morning.
Cost:
There is suggested donation amount of $15 requested and the link to signup for the classes each week will be posted on our SCNA Meetup page at https://meetup.com/nature-519.
Dates:
Reserve:
Advance registration is required.
Register for the Co-Ed classes
Christina has many other clothed classes and programs available at her studio. Please contact her directly at sirgunkaur1@gmail.com for more information on them.
West LA/Venice
These classes are independent of the SCNA, but are of interest to our members, so we make them known here. The classes are Vinyasa Flow yoga for the Beginner to Intermediate level. They are managed via the Los Angeles Nude Yoga Meetup group. To find the class schedules and reserve a space, one should join their Meetup group and make a reservation there. The cost of the classes are $25 per person.
Dates:
Classes are currently held every Sunday morning from 10:30 to 11:30
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.
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.
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./
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.