Mothers and Daughters Free From Body Dilemmas
Mothers, Daughters and Body Issues:
Nirvana. Absolute Eden. Those were the only words when thinking back on my day at Rock Lodge that were sufficient to describe my experience and all in a brief visit to this enchanting sanctuary.
"Packaging light?" my husband joked with me as I put my sarong, towel and hat in my canvas plage tote. Conspicuously missing a swimsuit, I grinned. I had wanted to see Rock Lodge all summer - a fkk paradise - amazing lake, picturesque hiking trails, wildlife and nature in wealth and the alternative to be absolutely clothes free. I had offered to educate a naked yoga class at 11:30am that day and after a few wrong turns on my adventure there, I arrived just in time for the course. I was joy-filled to see a wide range of yogis in the class, as old as seventy and as young as seven, each observing their body and the spirit of yoga sans clothes. In my yoga practice thus far, naked yoga had been about actively removing clothes and the identities behind them and thereby discovering a fresh, deeper layer of liberty that isn't generally available in the rushed metropolis of New York City living.
Yet, now I was faced with a group of individuals who already had that layer of independence accessible. There was view disrobing service. These strong yogis were already in celebration of their body, loved yoga and wore whatever clothes at Rock Lodge that felt appropriate in the present moment, including, most often, nothing at all. Sitting, meditating, Om-ing with this community, I believed - paradise is truly here on earth. This is what a world looks like when we are free of shame, guilt and anxiety.
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Discussing 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 will never have an eating disorder," Sandy said very honestly to me over our potluck. "When http://hometeacher.com/__media__/js/netsoltrademark.php?d=golilopa.xyz grows up with body love and approval in all shapes and sizes and sees their parents adopt that, one never feels the need to change who they are."
I understood precisely what he spoke of. I envied this young woman who'd been exposed to eden from the impressionable young age of eleven, while I grew up struggling with body image issues from preteen to adolescence. I recalled forthwith, like moving through a memory box of pictures, the photos of shame I 'd felt in my body from a young age - my rejection of wearing shorts in middle school because of my perceived horrible legs, walking out of a room backwards after making love with a college sweetheart so he could not 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 boy I was dating stripped and encouraged me to join him and his pals in the skyclad hot tub as I tried to hide myself and my shame under the darkening night.
While these recollected minutes felt like early memories and my shame long since transformed, today, seeing a fresh 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 nirvana 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 completely exposed to sunlight, the elements, 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 nudeness of nature was the quiet ecstasy of one-ness. http://hero-movie.com/__media__/js/netsoltrademark.php?d=golilopa.xyz hiked. I swam. http://augustimagery.com/__media__/js/netsoltrademark.php?d=freenudism.xyz talked with friends old and new. I marveled at a young Israeli mother and her seven year old daughter who practiced side crow yoga model on the swim deck nude as a crow.
I wondered what my life would have looked like if my mother had modeled for me the way 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 sacred and shame-free. It'd be in our blood. It wouldn't be something we'd have to seek for, starve ourselves for, we'd simply be in it, naked in nature, in side crow, in love of our bodies.
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Isis Phoenix is a lusty shaman who facilitates ceremonies for individuals wanting to create transformation in the area of sexuality, spirituality, intimacy and relationship. Isis eases individual training and group Shamanic Immersions and retreats. She's also the creator of Naked Yoga NYC, a nude yoga movement that continues to gain international interest. For more information visit www.sensualshaman.com or e-mail [email protected]