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5th Anniversary - Cape Men's Yoga - 26 June 2016

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Cape Men's Yoga is a community based, voluntary naked yoga practice. It was born from a visit to Nude York Yoga while visiting Manhattan. Frankly, the idea of doing yoga naked seemed ridiculously and distracting when I first heard about it. Indeed, it has been an ancient Indian tradition for millennia but in our modern context - would it not just come to focus on more desires, male-competitiveness and different types of external distractions? After my first class i realised I had completely misunderstood the missing ingredient - community - naked yoga creates and honest and caring space for men, and sometimes men and women, to practice yoga in all honesty. There is no expensive lycra, no ideal body type, no age limit - rather than creating a space of surface attention, stripping off all the clothes took away all of the surface - just leaving the vulnerable inner reality as the yoga space - as it was always meant to be. Guys with uneven pectorals, a few kilograms more than la...