Mothers, Daughters and Body Dilemmas:
Nirvana. Absolute Paradise. https://s3.amazonaws.com/ola-naturist/beach-fuck.html were the only words when thinking back on my day at Rock Lodge that were sufficient to describe my encounter and all in a brief visit to this enchanting safety.

"Packing light?" my husband joked with me as I set my sarong, towel and hat in my canvas beach bag. Conspicuously missing https://s3.amazonaws.com/ff-naturist/young-nudist.html , I grinned. I had desired to visit Rock Lodge all summer - a nudist paradise - beautiful lake, scenic hiking trails, wildlife and nature in wealth and the alternative to be certainly clothes free. I'd offered to educate a naked yoga course at 11:30am that day and after a few wrong turns on my experience there, I arrived just in time for the course. I was joy-filled to see a broad range of yogis in the course, as old as seventy and as young as seven, each celebrating their body and the spirit of yoga sans clothes. Inside my yoga practice thus far, naked yoga had been about consciously removing clothing and the identities behind them and thereby finding a fresh, deeper layer of freedom that'sn't normally accessible in the harried metropolis of Awesome York City living.
Yet, now I was faced with a group of individuals who already had that layer of independence accessible. There was no disrobing ceremony. These powerful yogis were already in celebration of their body, adored yoga and wore whatever clothing at Rock Lodge that felt appropriate in the present moment, including, most commonly, nothing whatsoever. Sitting, meditating, Om-ing with this community, I thought - nirvana is truly here on earth. This is what a world looks like when we're free of shame, guilt and panic.
Mothers and Daughters Free From Shame
Speaking over a potluck supper that evening with my host Sandy, he mentioned of one young woman - eighteen years old, a budding opera singer and regular at Rock Lodge since she was eleven. "She'll never have an eating disorder," Sandy said very frankly to me over our potluck. "When one grows up with body love and acceptance in all shapes and sizes and sees their parents adopt that, one never feels the need to alter who they are."
I knew precisely what he spoke of. I envied this young woman who had been exposed to heaven from the impressionable young age of eleven, while I grew up fighting with body image issues from pre teen to adolescence. I remembered immediately, like moving through a memory box of graphics, the photos of shame I had felt in my body from a young age - my rejection of wearing shorts in middle school because of my perceived ugly legs, walking out of a room backwards after making love with a college honey so he couldn't see my buttocks and thighs that I believed were unsightly, feeling the self-judgment and loathing of my body the first time I was naked in public as the young French lad I was dating stripped and encouraged me to join him and his pals in the skyclad hot tub as I strove to conceal myself and my shame under the darkening night.
While these recollected seconds felt like historical memories and my shame long since transformed, today, seeing a awesome possibility being educated to future generations of girls and young women left me rolling through the memory box seeing just how far we have come.
During my paradise day-trip to Rock Lodge, after swimming across the lake twice, I pulled myself up onto a pier at the center of the lake and sprawled flat on my stomach, my buttocks and thighs entirely exposed to sunlight, the components, the community, with not a twinge of shame in my body. There was no notion of hiding, concealing, judging what my body should and should not look like. Here, in the nude-ness of nature was the quiet euphoria of oneness. https:/s3.amazonaws.com/viva-naturist/beach-spy.html hiked. I swam. I discussed with friends old and fresh. I bared myself to the world.
I wondered what my life would have looked like if my mom had modeled for me how to love my body instead of loathe it. I wondered for sometime what our world would look like if moms taught and modeled for their daughters that their bodies could be both holy and shame-free. It'd be in our blood. It wouldn't be something we'd have to hunt for, starve ourselves for, we'd only be in it, nude in nature, in side crow, in love of our bodies.
Sensual Shaman
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Isis Phoenix is a sexy shaman who facilitates ceremonies for people wanting to create transformation in the area of sexuality, spirituality, intimacy and relationship. Isis facilitates individual training and group Shamanic Immersions and retreats. She's also the creator of Naked Yoga NYC, a bare yoga movement that continues to get international attention. Isis Phoenix and her work was featured in Jane Magazine, Vogue, Elle, NY Post, BBC News and MSNBC. To find out more visit www.sensualshaman.com or email [e-mail protected]