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It’s 10 o’clock on a Sunday morning at One Taste Urban Retreat Center in San Francisco. A dozen or so participants have just begun an hourlong yoga class, moving from group meditation to traditional yoga poses - downward-facing dog, baby cobra, warrior - with the help of an instructor.
But there’s something different about this yoga class: No one is wearing any clothes. For the past two years, One Taste has offered two weekly nude yoga classes - one coed and one women-only - where students practice yoga without inhibitions.
“I felt an acceptance of my body that I hadn’t felt before,” says Nicole Halpern, a spokesperson for One Taste who has taken the class. Yoga in the nude, she says, “allows you to feel a connection to your body in a new way.”
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