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This nude photo blog makes me hundreds of dollars a month even though I hardly post on it and it has several problems I’m too lazy to fix.

Want to do the same (without the problems)?

Here’s a quick how-to guide to building a money-making adult blog:

1. Find an available domain name. A niche or fetish-oriented domain name will suit you well.
2. Sign up for a hosting account at Dreamhost. Use the coupon code SAVE24 to get $24 off your hosting plan. Dreamhost is one of the only inexpensive hosts that allows adult content. Plus they give you your first domain name (the one you researched in step 1) free. They’re a green company, which is good for the environment, and even better, they make installing your blog software a snap with their one-click installation and automatic upgrades (many times better than Fantastico, if you’re familiar with that). Sign up here.
3. Follow Dreamhost’s instructions on registering your free domain name and then under “Goodies” click the “One-Click Installs” then click “Install New Software — Advanced.” From there it is pretty clear what to do to install WordPress. Be sure to set up your email.
4. Once your blog is up (could take a day or so), pick a WordPress theme you like. Dreamhost automatically gives you a bunch to choose from, or you can download more (or find out anything else you need to know about how to use WP) from the WordPress site.
5. Sign up for affiliate programs that will send you free nude photos or free nude videos, plus give you a cut of any sales they make from traffic you send them. I make more money from this program than all the others combined.
6. Depending on your niche, adult dating affiliates like Adult Friend Finder can also make you some money.
7. Be sure to sign up for a FeedBurner account. Under “Publicize,” be sure to set up PingShot. Also make sure to use the FeedBurner FeedSmith plugin.
8. Start blogging. Make sure you don’t do anything illegal. I can’t advise you on that.
9. It’s a good idea to add a meta tag for RTA to help keep kids off your site
10. It’s a great idea to start building a mailing list that visitors can sign up for. One way to do that is to have blog posts sent by email, and you can set that up through FeedBurner or another service. I prefer an autoresponder system, and this is the best autoresponder program I have seen. Be careful what you send and to whom — laws are getting stricter, so be sure to read up on it.
11. Submit your blog to directories and rss syndication sites.
12. Also sign up for Google’s Webmaster and Analytics services so you can see where traffic comes from, what keywords people use to find you, and any errors that are occurring on your site you might not know about. In your webmaster account, make sure you sign up for the Enhanced Image Search under Tools so that your images will find their way more easily into Google Image search.
13. Once you have several posts, make a banner for your site (use a stock photo — you probably can’t use an affiliate photo), and sign up for some “top list” sites like you see in the bottom right of my home page.
14. Tell Fleshbot and other adult site reviewers about your blog to get the traffic rolling.
15. Keep producing content, write about the photos in your posts so search engines will know what your blog is about, use keyword-targeted “tags” and “categories,” and get as many links to your blog as you can.

This is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. For detailed instructions on how to use your WordPress adult blog to make a passive, residual income by working from home in your spare time, go here: Make Money with an Adult Blog.

It’s a report a friend of mine is working on that will guide you through the process more in-depth.

Personally, I really like that I can have a beautiful, fine erotic art blog that isn’t porno. It makes money. If there’s a niche you’re interested in that relates to eroticism or sex, you bet there are millions of other people like you. And plenty of photos and videos available for you to cash in on.

Click here for the full report on adult blog profits.

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Here are some tips to make sure you — and everyone around you — has the worst experience possible in your nude yoga class:

1. Refuse to take off your clothes at the appointed time. Watch everybody else instead. Giggle.
2. Leave your phone on. When your buddy calls, answer it and say, “Dude, I’m in a nude yoga class. You won’t believe the girl next to me…”
3. Stare. At every person. So they notice.
4. Laugh when the guy in front of you raises his buttocks (and bollocks) into downward facing dog.
5. Eat airy foods before class, release at will.
6. Use your neighbor’s towel to wipe the sweat off your privates, saying, “Thanks, I forgot mine.”
7. When you get an erection, display it proudly exclaiming, “I think my kundalini is rising!”

Observe the opposite yoga etiquette from what is described above, and you will probably have a great experience.

Enjoy!

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Self-directed nude yoga practice

Self-directed naked yoga is as simple as taking off your clothes and doing the yoga you normally do, whether a vinyasa flow, holding poses, or some combination. Depending on the type of yoga you practice, pranayama and meditation may also be part of your naked yoga session.

Beginners and advanced yoga students alike can benefit from watching a yoga DVD during their self-directed practice from time to time, but this should not be the basis of a self-directed practice, whether naked or not, for it draws the attention outward rather than inward.

For the solo naked yoga practitioner, an uncluttered practice area is very important. You may want to think beforehand of the poses you would like to do, or simply see what asanas the prana (life force) leads you into. Be sure to leave some time for relaxation, and have blankets nearby in case you get cold.

Nude partner yoga

Practicing yoga in the nude with your partner is a wonderful way to build trust and intimacy. Not only that, but naked partner yoga allows you to explore the asanas in new and different ways, getting deeper stretches with less force.

In fact, many partner-yoga poses you simply can’t do on your own, for they depend on four hands, four feet, or the balancing of body weight of more than one person.

There may be partner yoga classes already in your area, if not, yoga teachers sometimes offer partner yoga weekend workshops or private partner yoga lessons. You can take what you learn home to practice in the nude. There are also a number of quality books and videos on the subject, though some of the videos are more entertaining than instructional.

Private naked yoga lessons

One-to-one nude yoga lessons can be very helpful for your yoga practice, as you will have individualized attention to your breathing and alignment while in different asanas. It is much easier to see alignment without the restriction of clothes.

Practicing nude yoga in front of someone also invites you to drop your inhibitions. At first it is very scary to “open up” so much in front of another person, but this can also be very freeing, inviting us to be more accepting and less judgmental of ourselves. In turn, we become more accepting and less judgmental of others.

To find a yoga instructor who will have a nude practice session with you, your first stop would be the yoga teacher who already leads a naked yoga class. If there isn’t one in your area, you might check advertisements on Craigslist or advertise there yourself. Be careful with such classifieds, however, for they often attract people who are looking for sexual encounters rather than actually practicing yoga.

Other yoga teachers in your area who don’t offer nude yoga classes already may be open to one-to-one naked yoga private sessions, but don’t expect them to shed their clothes (although some may be willing). Remember, this experience isn’t about seeing others free of clothing, it’s about setting yourself free and coming into the uninhibited experience of your own body.

Group naked yoga classes

Whether straight or gay, male or female, group nude yoga classes are highly recommended.

Though it’s a fairly easy thing to practice nude yoga in the privacy of your own home, it’s an entirely different thing to get naked in front of a dozen or more strangers.

Again, it can be liberating, allowing you to let your guard down and stop judging yourself and others by the surface layer. Rather, you feel a part of a close community, sharing deeply.

A quick Internet search will show you the nude yoga classes near you. If there aren’t any, you might look on Craigslist or Meetup.org for other people interested in naked yoga classes. If you can get a few people together, you are more likely to convince a yoga teacher to conduct a clothes-free or clothing-optional class.

The major difference between nudity in the practice of the proto-yoga of the Vedic Age and nudity in the practice of modern yoga is the meaning ascribed to the nakedness.

In the old form, ascetics wore no clothes as a sign of their renunciation of the world. They renounced worldly lives, including sexuality. Even today, some ascetic yogis in India from the Hindu and Jain religions practice nudity as part of their total renunciation of all things separate from the spiritual world.

The nude yoga we’re becoming accustomed to in the West stems from a tantric tradition of affirming the world, including sexuality, sensuality and everything else, as a means for transformation. In tantra, all things are, or at least can be, of a spiritual nature. Tantric yoga also comes from India, but is a later development.

Nude yoga classes have proliferated over the last several years, popping up in invitation-only settings as well as openly advertised in large urban studios. In these public classes, rarely does yoga become oversexualized, even though the teacher and practitioners are all stark naked.

On the Internet, however, nude yoga has taken on a different form. Nude yoga photos of both men and women have proliferated on adult sites, not so much for the purpose of personal transformation as for the profit motive.

It sounds worse than it is. In tantra, we can embrace our own darkness. Our sex desire can actually bring us closer to God. However, this is clearly a dangerous path and a ’slippery slope’ to either spiritual freedom or karmic suffering.

So I will recommend looking at nude yoga photos on the Internet for a much more practical purpose, that is to study alignment of the body in various yoga poses.

No doubt it is much easier to study proper alignment without clothing hindering your view. There are now multitudes of beautiful, tasteful naked yoga pictures on the Internet where yogis and yoginis display picture perfect posture.

There are even more photos of nude adult models simulating yoga poses, obviously without the background knowledge needed to hold the postures safely or well enough to maximize the movement of ‘prana’ or energy.

However, even the latter case can be informative and educational. Nude yoga photos can show us what to strive for in alignment as well as what to avoid.