The practice of naked yoga is nothing new. Even the ancient Rig Veda mentions ‘air clad’ ascetics who wandered without clothes.
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. … Read the rest of this entry »
