Why Skin Deserves Its Own Yoga Practice

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We spend so much time talking about yoga through muscles, flexibility, strength and joints that I think we forget about the enormous sensory organ covering all of them. Your skin is constantly reading the environment around you: temperature, pressure, texture, movement, moisture, vibration and touch. It made me realise there is another reason I love practising yoga naked that has very little to do with simply taking my clothes off. Without fabric between my body and the world, the practice physically feels different.

I notice it most when the room isn't perfectly controlled. Cool air comes through an open window and moves across warm skin. Sunlight lands on my back while the floor underneath me is cold. As I move, my body gradually heats, my skin flushes and eventually there is that first little trace of sweat. Then the air that barely registered at the beginning of the practice suddenly feels incredible against me. None of this changes the pose, yet it completely changes the experience of being inside it.

And then there is touch. Skin doesn't experience every kind of touch in the same way. Slow stroking, sustained pressure, warmth and a quick functional touch send different sensory information into the nervous system. It is one reason being touched can feel comforting in one moment, intensely sensual in another and almost insignificant in another. Context, anticipation and attention become part of what we feel.

This is where naked yoga, dance and movement becomes particularly interesting to me, because suddenly yoga doesn't have to be something we only perform. It can become something we explore through the senses. A hand travelling slowly along the thigh before opening into a stretch. Fingers following the ribs as they expand with a breath. Palms pressing into the hips after they've been working. Skin against the mat as the pelvis changes position. Hair falling across the back. The warmth that remains in a muscle after you've stopped using it.

And yes, some of that can feel sexual. I don't think we need to keep stripping sexuality out of nudity in order to call it healthy. Sensuality begins with sensation, and sexuality is one of the extraordinary things our sensory body is capable of. The same nervous system that lets us feel the pleasure of sunlight or massage also allows a tiny change in pressure, temperature, rhythm or touch to become intensely erotic in the right circumstances.

That is something I explore here in Patreon. I want you to put me on your screen, make the room somewhere you want to be, take your clothes off if you feel comfortable and experience it with me. We can play with warmth and cool air, different textures, self-massage, slow movement, deeper stretches and touch, and see how much more there is to a body when we're paying attention to what it can actually feel.

And of course, you don't have to practise every second with me. Part of the pleasure of this space is that you're allowed to watch. To enjoy movement as art, to appreciate the naked body, to find something beautiful or sexy, and perhaps become curious enough about what you're seeing to get down on the floor and experience some of it yourself.

That's the kind of world we need more of and is created here on Patreon: somewhere health, movement, naked art, sensuality and sexuality don't have to be separated into different rooms.

Sometimes the practice can simply begin with closing the door, pressing play, and seeing what your skin notices first. We spend an extraordinary amount of our lives looking at bodies. I think there is something rather beautiful and wonderfully sensual about spending a little more time actually feeling what it is like to live inside one.

When was the last time you really noticed your body?

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