Cindee Rifkin Yoga, What is Naked Yoga? Follow up to Bethenny Show Hello my beautiful viewer, I am Cynthia Cherish Malaran, the founder, the face and the yogi behind Healing House Publishing, and I want you to get to know this yogi. Cindee Rifkin. Hi, Cynthia. Hi! So great to be here. So, Cindee and I you might have seen us and our crew recently on the Bethenny Show, talking a bit about naked yoga, and we felt that it was a little bit, what's the word? Incomplete. Incomplete. That's a really good word. So we're here to just give you a little bit more information about what naked yoga is, and what it isn't. So, what is Naked Yoga, Cindee? Naked Yoga is a practice. It's a yoga practice and it is done without our clothes on, and it helps to heal the body, it helps to heal what's inside the body that we don't always see, and it gives people a chance to really celebrate who they are around the same kind of people. So like minded people who are interested in healing and connecting with themselves in a way that you don't normally do on a regular basis, at home, in private or in public. Naked yoga is not a lot of things like? it's not weird. It's not a place for people that aren't seeking a spiritual path. Right. it's not a place for people to just voyeur and stare. It's not a place where you will feel unsafe. Right, I screen everybody prior for them to come, so everybody who comes into that room, I have a relationship with. That's very important, and practicing with Cindee I can attest to it's definitely a safe space and a very comfortable space and one of the most respectful spaces I have been in with 9, 10, 11, 12 people and we know we've been in places with 9, 10, and 11 clothed people that was a very disrespectful space. and this is completely the opposite. So now you'll hear from some more of us who have something to say about what naked yoga is for them. What Kind of people practice naked yoga? Happy, healthy people practice naked yoga. After my first naked yoga session I felt a number of things. I felt as I said before, very liberated, I felt taller, confident that I could do now what I am afraid to do, from anything, from you know, learning how to swim, fear of the water, I just feel like this has changed me and I am comfortable with my body which is fine because I know I could look better but I wasn't embarrassed. I wasn't embarrassed and I was just showing the class this is me and I looked at everybody and everyone was just on the same page, same wavelength, just enjoying a yoga class, you're just doing it naked and I found it to be a good experience for me. I just feel better about myself. I feel like I am sexy no matter how much I don't like my belly or if my breasts don't look as perky, I feel like I am comfortable, you know, I am comfortable with me. It's not about the sexy. It's more I am comfortable with me. Just do it. You're not going to know unless you try something that you do not like it. So you giving this one chance to see if you could do this, because this is a big deal for a lot of people, but if they fear it they fear it but you they are someone who has a fear but there is something inside them that wants to try something new this is a good way to start because I feel that if you can conquer this, you'll conquer the next thing that you're afraid of. I think that if you are someone who has issues with your body or has many fears, taking your clothes off in front of people you do not know and experiencing a yoga class, will be so liberating for you, that if you have something inside you that wants to try it, but you don't know what people are going to say, I would just do it, you don't even have to tell anybody. Just do it for yourself. Do it for you. It's not about, you know, broadcasting it to everybody, but just do it for you if you feel like there is something about you that you feel you could do this but you're really shy or you're really insecure, I think you should just go for it. It's a really good experience, from when I walked in, to when I walked out, completely two different people. Before naked yoga, shyness controlled my life. I was afraid of doing different things. Talk to people. Now, since, I'm not shy anymore. I do what I want, talk with people, like night and day. Just to try. You couldn't be more afraid than where I was, and I tried. You should try. You should definitely try. Stop letting fear run your life. I give permission to myself by having confidence. To try new things. Before, shyness was controlling my life. Since, now I have control. I recommend naked yoga for anybody who is for whatever reason, drawn to challenging themselves, to the community, to stepping outside their normal experiences, or to continue something that maybe they do in the practice of their own homes. For me, personally, I spent a lot of year trying to maintain my sole residency in my head. For More Text, Click the Transcript icon above.

• published: 03 Dec 2013
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