This is another beautiful image from Petter Hegre’s nude yoga collections. Here Luba Shumeyko demonstrates a nude plow pose against a dark background.

The easiest way to get into this pose is to start in shoulderstand, then stretch out the legs a bit by lowering them to the floor and raising them back up one at a time. Then carefully lower both feet to the floor, tucking the toes.

It’s really important not to turn the head from side to side, as you could cause some pretty serious neck damage.

The Sanskrit name for the yoga plow (or plough) pose is halasana.

Not only is Luba beautiful, but she’s quite adept at some of the more difficult hatha yoga poses. Here we see a nude study of the locust pose — salabasana in Sanskrit.

Sometimes called the grasshopper pose, this posture is so named because in the final stages of the pose, the practitioner looks a bit like the bent-legged insect.

How to practice the locust pose: The best way for a beginner to practice locust is to do it one leg at a time. Strictly speaking, this is a different yoga asana, ardha salabhasana, or half locust.

Bring your chin to the floor, arms by your sides, palms down, shoulder blades down the back. Reach back through your toes to lengthen along the floor. Press one leg into the floor as you lift through the other. Breathe fully. Switch sides.

As you gain experience and ease in half locust, you can start to lift through both legs, putting more pressure in the arms to bring your weight forward.

To practice the naked yoga versions of locust and half locust, all you have to do is take off your clothes!

Beautiful Luba is back, meditating in the nude.

Luba is sitting naked in lotus position, or padmasana. This takes practice and a great deal of hip flexibility. Don’t force it, or you could damage the knees. Work up to it by doing hip-opening poses like bound angle (baddha konasana) and pigeon pose (kapotasana).

Luba’s hands are in shanmukhi mudra, or six-faced gesture. The idea of this mudra is to close all the orifices with the fingers (don’t go there). With the facial orifices closed, the meditator can focus inward or on the sound of the breath.

This photo comes to us courtesy of DOMAI (Dirty Old Men’s Association International).

Here Luba shows us a naked gomukhasana, literally, the “cow-faced” pose. Some also call this post the “face of light.”

Find out more on Luba’s nude model page.