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🕑 Added 2022-11-13 02:34:00 +0000 UTCWhat were you taught about being naked?
How have your views changed as you go older?
Do you associate nakedness with sex or can you separate them?
How wonderful is it that we laugh because our bodies cannot contain the joy :)
When was the last time you laughed out loud?
Reliving the vologlam days.
When I first started shooting this art my heart was full in the freedom and love I had for being in my body. I cried the first time I saw my first naked yoga flow in Germany (the emotion took me by surprise) because it was the first time I saw me the girl behind the masks and shame. She was free and happy and it took me by surprise I could feel so much joy. However, my mind was scared and vulnerable to share to a world that did not understand. It hurt to receive the hatred, shame and misappropriation back, but it hurt more to live with masks and shame. So I keep doing it and still do.
Some of my most freeing and happiest moments exists within art and movement. It healed me, liberated me, created fun and connection I never imagined and helped me to bring the joy back in. No words can describe the gift it has given me and those that I have worked with.
Every day still leaves me vulnerable as I share to a world that still is not sure of the difference between, art, healing, sensuality and sexuality and how it can all coexist and bring beauty to the world not just have to be good or bad.
I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair, but I was born too late to a world that doesn't care....this song line always sticks in my head for me.
We humans are born to feel it all and experience all life has to offer. I hope one day the world allows more people to shatter glass ceilings and feel the magic of the shards of glass raining down with the infinite possibilities before us and the only limits are the ones we create ourselves.
Life goes quickly and is short. So many of us are waiting for the right time and place and people to save us. However we create the time for what really matters. We matter and your life matters so be wise with it and create time for it and your joy. When you are on your death bed these are the things that will remind you the value of life.
My truth is that we are our own heroes. Life has a destiny but within that destiny we get to choose our own adventures. We are born and we die and we end up on certain paths but our choice is how we respond to each path and what and where we go with it. Do we sit and complain, do we dare to grow or take risks, do we stay in our comfort or do we just watch life go by?
-Tell that person you love them at least you have the answers.
-Create friendships even if you can't have relationships at least you will always be connected to the thing that makes your heart soar.
-Do the unthinkable even if you can't at least you know you tried.
-Give to those you've been waiting for a special occasion to give to.
-Work on your dreams nothing will align for them you have to simply work and choose now.
In the last 9 years life has taken me through financial challenge over and over again, moving, losing friends, gaining friends, doing things that I never thought I would and becoming who I never thought I would. Writing a book I never made money from but helped me heal and others. Creating art that made people dislike me but helped me to breathe. Holding a retreat I lost money on that has made this year extremely taxing financially but rewarding personally knowing I can. Personally I never thought I would be known as that naked yoga girl, yet here I am.
Every day my daughter looks at the art and she says you look beautiful in your clothes and beautiful without your clothes. I smile in hope that one day there will be a world filled with souls like her that life is not a look, it is a feel and we can love each other not because of what we see but because of what we feel and what we do for ourselves and each other.
So please stop waiting and saying you can't because It is hard to make things happen but it is also hard to sit there watching your life go by and not ticking any boxes. So:
-Reach out to those people you care for and make sure they know it.
-Take an adventure you've been waiting for.
-Read that book you always wanted to read.
-Eat that beautiful piece of food you desire.
-Tell that person you think they are beautiful and you dream of them.
-Take chances and tick as many boxes as possible whilst working on your dreams. Why you probably keep saying it is not that easy you probably are thinking and yes you are right... Nope it isn't easy. I know that and it ain't easy living either in a life that you don't enjoy. I know that too that is why I attempted on my life. However now at least I want to live and get joy struggling doing it. The art of suffering well I call it..... So you may as well try I promise the joy will shine in much more and life will become the art of suffering well for you too. It wont be ground hog day it will be days filled with challenges of course but also joy and magic too. That is a life worth living to me.
Because one day you'll look back if you do not and you will see it was all the things that you were waiting for that held you back from joy and a good life and all the things you never got to say and do you will regret or wish for.
Have a wonderful weekend
Rhy xo
