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Some interesting thoughts and a good read I found on the net:
Inside The Well: Scandinavia’s biggest spa where everyone goes nude
Forest walks (watch out for pine needles!), al fresco swims and meals are all enjoyed completely naked at Oslo’s famous spa. Madeleine Spencer strips off and joins in
By MADELEINE SPENCER, Nov 13, 2023
I am packing my suitcase the night before flying to Oslo for a spa break at The Well when my phone rings. It’s my plus one, Shireen, who doesn’t bother with any preamble: “Mads, are you packing swimming costumes?” I reply in the affirmative, to which she says, “Don’t bother. Look at the website — they are all naked! It is all naked! You are taking me to a naked place!”
I immediately cease folding clothes and look at the website. Shireen isn’t lying; a plethora of photos attest to the mandatory nudity at The Well, with everyone in them looking free and very happy indeed to be completely relieved of clothes. I phone her back for crisis talk. “It’s fine,” she tells me, “we won’t go naked — we’ll just arrange a towel over ourselves and scuttle around with the particulars shielded from view.”
Fixed on our plan of remaining at least semi-clothed, the next day we arrive at The Well after a fifty-minute drive from Oslo airport and are immediately impressed by the setup. Nestled in Nordic forests, it is home to the biggest spa in Northern Europe, and they didn’t just max out on square metre footage but also on the variety of offerings: 11 pools and hot tubs, 25 treatment rooms, 15 saunas and steam rooms, and many other areas in which to recline (nude), have a snack (nude), or go on a forest walk (also nude — I’d strongly advise you to beware of pine needles if you sit on a bench during your stroll)...
Some interesting thoughts and a good read I found on the net:
Nudists are planning a museum and library in Miami
By Deirdra Funcheon, Nov 14, 2023
Local nudists, or naturists, are working to establish a museum and library with a training institute and offices. They have been exploring potential sites from North Miami to Sunny Isles Beach.
What's happening: The nonprofit B.E.A.C.H.E.S. Foundation (Beaches Education Advocates for Culture, Health, Environment and Safety) hopes to establish a facility where people can learn about naturism through lectures, articles, legal documents and art.
It would house offices for B.E.A.C.H.E.S. and its sister organization, South Florida Free Beaches.
Why it matters: A 2017 study by nude recreation advocacy groups found that nude tourism contributes billions of dollars to Florida's economy.
Flashback: Grassroots activists worked with politicians, business leaders and other stakeholders to have a section of county-operated Haulover Beach Park designated as clothing optional in 1991.
It's now a mecca for naturism that advocates say draws 1.2 million visitors a year — 65% of which are tourists.
Context: B.E.A.C.H.E.S. promotes safe, family-friendly nude recreation and body-positive culture as well as environmental programs, beach access for people with disabilities, skin cancer screenings and more...
Some interesting thoughts and a good read I found on the net:
I visited a naturist retreat – the number of younger women surprised me and the staff can spot swingers a mile off
Georgie Culley, 19 Aug 2023
“SORRY madam, we are all out of sausages,” the waiter tells me.
That’s funny, because I’ve seen plenty at the breakfast bar this morning.
It’s 9am on a Thursday and I’m enjoying a full English at Clover Spa Hotel in the suburbs of Birmingham.
Everything feels totally normal, then I look down and remember I am starkers at a naturist B&B.
In front of me is owner Tim Higgs, naked and holding a steaming hot cafetiere in one hand and a tea towel in the other.
Since arriving the previous evening I have never given people quite as much eye contact as I have here in the past 18 hours.
Demand for naturist B&B breaks across England and Scotland has boomed during the summer.
“We’ve been busier than ever,” explains Tim, 67, an ex-farmer and father of four who set up the retreat 12 years ago.
“And we are seeing a lot more younger women booking with us.”
That’s certainly true. I meet lots of women in their late twenties and thirties who tell me they find naturism “exhilarating”...
@Bernd: "Angela [Russell] used to be the president of British Naturism and is now head of the International Naturist Federation." When did Stéphane (and/or Sieglinde) step down from the INF-FNI presidency? 🤔 There is no "Angela" in the Central Committee: https://inf-fni.org/about-inf-fni/inf-central-committee/
Some interesting thoughts and a good read I found on the net:
Charlotte Nude Yoga Embraces Naturism at Big Love Yoga Barn
Founder Huck Broyles builds Charlotte's CYNA community with open arms
By Annie Keough, November 6, 2023
Getting naked is the hard part. Everything after that is rather easy.
Leading up to my first Charlotte Nude Yoga class on Oct. 13, I was so preoccupied with the idea of being naked around strangers that I hadn’t actually considered the challenge that physically taking off my clothes would hold.
The first decision involved where I would strip down.
“I usually find myself at the front [of the class],” Huck Broyles told me. It made sense that Broyles would be front and center, as he is the founder of Charlotte Nude Yoga. I, on the other hand, chose a corner where I felt comfortable.
I noticed the barn was warm but not oppressively so; the large fan to my right provided calming white noise along with cool air. Red and yellow curtains covered the windows of Big Love Yoga Barn’s garage door to my left and a dark partition stood in front of the door next to it.
The dimmed lights accentuated the swirl of neon covering all four walls, the “You are love, share love” sign on the front wall offset by the intricate circle focal point.
Broyles said he tries to get to classes early to set up and strip nude for incoming participants. He’s found that doing such eases the awkwardness and encourages newcomers to reach the comfort level to undress...
How many times are we slaves of our fears, insecurities, prejudices?
We are so afraid that we forget to live and we prefer to remain prisoners of our mental barriers.
A day at a nudist resort? The notion tingles, deliciously shocking. Then anger flares. Why should nudity shock me, or anybody else? We are born naked. Had God intended us to wear clothes, we would have popped out in tweed.
When I reveal my plan, my friends’ eyes widen. They envision, I can tell, either debauchery or a throwback hippie commune, faded as old Kodachrome. Yet France, Germany, Spain, Croatia, the Netherlands, Brazil—many parts of the world remain calm when someone undresses. “Most Munich residents do not find public nudity in the park to be anything special,” notes a travel piece. “Getting naked is a way for people to allow themselves to be who they are and to get away from the stress of urban Munich, which is why designated naked zones are put up legally.”
Description Skinny dipping after the WNBR in Brighton
Date 11 June 2017
Source Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Author Funk Dooby from Kent, UK #nudist #nudism #NudistLifeStyle #nude
Nudism has taken me to see incredible places, like this forest a few minutes away from Mexico City. Even though going up there was exhausting, when I got there and saw that breathtaking view, it was worth every minute of the walk. And still people ask me why I love nudism?
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