December 2007 - Posts
By Linda Dahlstrom
What it is: Totally Nude Yoga & Tai Chi DVD ($19.99)
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Dr. Leonard’s Online Healthcare Catalog, which sells the DVD, says that because you can see the “naked, well-toned bodies of the female instructors, you can follow each exercise and achieve the proper form.”
Our experience: First off, let us be clear that there is a small, legitimate movement of people doing yoga in the nude. Practitioners, who insist the method is strictly non-sexual, say that without the restraint of clothes, they are free to fully move, stretch and exercise.
That is not what this DVD is about. What it is exactly is hard to pin down. On the surface, it looks like a yoga video – for about the first 15 seconds. It starts to get weird immediately after words proclaiming “Beginning exercises” appear on the screen.
I’ve taken a fair amount of yoga classes and I have to say, most of these poses were foreign to me. Particularly the ones where you need two other naked ladies to be your partners. Particularly if all of the participants are doused in glycerin that is supposed to look like sweat. Particularly if the three of you are on a giant rotating disc. And especially if you have trouble seeing each other because of the fog machine.
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