The world of yoga is huge.  Many people often think that yoga stops at Yoga Asana (postures), or rather, they stop growing in their practice once they have perfected their Yoga Asana.  If one were to look further, they would discover that the yoga they learned in the gyms, and even most yoga studios is only a drop of water in the vast ocean of knowledge that is offered in this science.

The sages and yogis dedicated themselves to not only unraveling these ancient mysteries, but how to make these ancient mysteries more accessible to everyone. One of the mysteries that has been revealed is the Koshas.

There are many benefits to learning and understanding the Koshas. Accessing them helps you to thrive at every level of your life. Once you access them also gives you many different views and experiences of the infinite, and the universe of infinite possibilities.

This podcast gives you a glimpse into the first Kosha; the Body.

What is Karma?  How does it apply in our yoga practice?  How do refine our awareness? 

In this Podcast, Aaron answers these questions and more.

Join Aaron Star and Darren Main in this very explicit Podcast as Aaron Interviews Darren on the inner dynamics of Nude Yoga, why we practice it, and much more.

Who is Darren Main? He is a well-known yoga and meditation instructor and author. His books include Yoga and the Path of the Urban Mystic, Spiritual Journeys along the Yellow Brick Road and The Findhorn Book of Meditation. In addition to his writing, he facilitates workshops and gives talks on yoga and modern spirituality throughout the United States and abroad and is the director of the Yoga Tree Teacher Training Program. He currently lives in San Francisco. Books by Darren Main Darren John Main is an internationally known yoga and meditation instructor and author. He facilitates workshops and gives talks on yoga and modern spirituality throughout the United States and abroad. He also runs the Nude Yoga Group in Sanfransisco. He is the author of Spiritual Journeys along the Yellow Brick Road (Findhorn, 2000) and Yoga and the Path of the Urban Mystic (Findhorn, 2002). He lives in California. You can also search for his Podcasts on Itunes. Please search for "Inquire Within" and subscribe for free. With gentle humor and obvious knowledge, Darren Main shares with us his practice and understanding of yoga. He does a beautiful job of interspersing his life experiences with the classical teachings in a way that makes them clear and alive. You will enjoy this book. —Judith Hanson Lasater, Ph.D.

 

According to most spiritual traditions and teachings, the chief cause of our suffering is due to our ignorance.

In this podcast, we discuss the causes of our ignorance, and how lessen it.

The following podcast was recording by Erich Schiffmann, who has given his permission for this recording to be shared with you.

Erich shares a beautiful practice and teaching which is shared on his website www.movingintostillness.com and in his classes and retreats.

In this talk, Erich, very articulately and in a practical way, shares his views on why we need to meditate.

This is a potent and delightful sharing.

Much shanti Aaron Star

In this Podcast, I share a conversation with Adam and Steve about our visions and hopes for our community, Costa Rica and our vision for what we would like to accomplish. 

This Podcast is two years old now, and it was fascinating to listen to it and noticing that our vision is just as powerful and as focused as it was then.

Namaste
Aaron

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JOIN AARON STAR in Costa Rica for the Hot Nude Yoga Retreat in 2010.  Please click here for more information.

While filming our Hawaiian DVD series and documentary, "What is Hot Nude Yoga?"  we had a few group discussions about Hot Nude Yoga, the community, what it means to be apart of Hot Nude Yoga, and where we could go.

While these interviews did not make it to the final cut in the documentary, we added it here to you can hear from students about their thoughts and experiences on the Hawaii retreat.  The also share many other ideas and hopes for Hot Nude Yoga.

Please join us on a future retreat!

Wade Imre Morissette was born in Ottawa, Canada, just minutes before his twin sister Alanis. The twins took to music at an early age; Wade studied piano as a child and took on guitar and djembe in his teens, but their paths diverged when Wade began to study yoga.

During one of Wade's many visits to India, he began to travel on the path of Devotional Yoga and started chanting, a process that stills the mind, dissolves worries, and opens the heart. "It's a natural way to tune into the frequency of love," says Wade.

Already making appearances at yoga conferences, retreats and studios around the world, Wade will tour North America this summer in support of the album. At each performance, he begins with bliss dance and ends with a kirtan. Wade, on guitar and harmonium, sings out a phrase; the audience responds until the musicians and audience mesh. He also performs several of his own songs for those who prefer to listen and observe.

With features in Yoga Journal and Macleans Magazine and appearances on Entertainment Tonight Canada, BCTV and Toronto's Yoga Series, CTV's E Talk Daily Canada, and CBC Radio in Canada, Wade has established himself as a sought-after yoga instructor and talented musician. He has also been covered by the Vancouver Courier, The Province, Globe and Mail, The Sun and Shared Vision in Vancouver, and his music is heard often on SacredSoundsRadio.com

This is a FREE download from HNY.

Part Three of a three part documentary series titled, "Unleashing the Power of Chanting and the Voices of Hot Nude Yoga. "

In producing this series, my hope is that you can experience my own passion with chanting and song, and be able to experience the energy with the men who share their voices in song.

A retreat can teach you much more and in fact, not only will you relax, but you will release layers of cumulated stress, and come back from a retreat with some tools on how to stay more relaxed in your life.

In this Hot Nude Yoga Podcast series, I want to share with you some of what was revealed at the France Retreat, the sense of community that was build, and what the boys of Europe had to say.

This is Part Three.

Click here to read more about our upcoming retreats!

Who are Aaron Star's parents? This is a question I often get asked a lot. So to help remedy the situation, I decided to interview them for you.  As far as interviews go, this one was probably the most interesting to date, because even though they are my parents, I did know what some of the answers were going to be. So it was as revealing to me, as it will be to you. To read more about my relationship with my mother, please visit the "Mother Star" series in the HNY ARTICLE section. (Click here to read more. You should also be logged in to read ALL of the entries.)

While filming our Hawaiian DVD series and documentary, "What is Hot Nude Yoga?"  we had a few group discussions about Hot Nude Yoga, the community, what it means to be apart of Hot Nude Yoga, and where we could go.

While these interviews did not make it to the final cut in the documentary, we added it here to you can hear from students about their thoughts and experiences on the Hawaii retreat.  The also share many other ideas and hopes for Hot Nude Yoga.

What is the Goal of Yoga?   According to the teachings, we are told the on the path to enlightenment, "All future suffering can (should) be avoided."

But how?

In this three part podcast series, we will look at the goal of yoga, the causes of suffering, and the fastest way to end it.

This is PART TWO.

I had the rare pleasure of interviewing Ramiro Fernandez, a Cuban Native, who has been part of the HNY Community for the past five years.

Ramiro Fernandez was born in Havana to a family involved in the pharmaceutical industry.  He left Cuba in 1960, settling first in Palm Beach County and then in New York, where he was a photography editor at Time Inc. for 25 years.  He was involved in the launches of Entertainment Weekly and People en Español magazines, and worked at Sports Illustrated and People.  As a witness to the revolution in his youth,  Fernandez’s consuming passion has been to build a photography collection that can serve as a testament to the Cuba he remembers.  He began collecting photographs in 1981, and today the collection numbers over 3,000 works.

We discussed his life at people, his experiences in India, and more, his accomplishment in creating this incredible montage of Cuba, but together in a fabulous book titled, "I Was Cuba."  " I Was Cuba" showcases rare images from the nineteenth century through the revolutionary period, exploring the everyday and the eccentric.  Assembled over the past three decades, this never-before-seen collection spanning the 19th century to the post-revolution era is unique for its focus on the unusual and the vernacular.

This book features over 300 of the collection’s most compelling images, exploring a long hidden Cuba and examining the paradoxes of this fascinating island.

Aaron Star is like many other yoga teachers around the world with one big exception. His yoga classes are taught in the nude. His teaching began in New York, but his unique and controversial approach to yoga had landed him international recognition. He travels extensively to major cities around the world and has a whole line of DVDs for men. Please find him on the web at www.hotnudeyoga.com

The following podcast is a talk I gave in New Mexico on "How to Pray?"

In these times of uncertainty, our prayers can help to guide us and give us strength, and they can also steer us away from the path we are meant to be treading, giving us no sense of peace at all.

In this Podcast, you will find out how the sages teach us to pray and how to thrive spiritually in life.

May these teachings inspire us all.

Namaste

This is a FREE download from HNY.

Part Two of a three part documentary series titled, "Why Do We Chant? The Voices of Hot Nude Yoga.  Part 2"

In producing this series, my hope is that you can experience my own passion with chanting and song, and be able to experience the energy with the men who share their voices in song.

In this particular episode, I interview an Indian man who taught me in India.

What is the Goal of Yoga?   According to the teachings, we are told the on the path to enlightenment, "All future suffering can (should) be avoided."

But how?

In this three part podcast series, we will look at the goal of yoga, the causes of suffering, and the fastest way to end it.

This is PART ONE.

A retreat can teach you much more and in fact, not only will you relax, but you will release layers of accumulated stress, and come back from a retreat with some tools on how to stay more relaxed in your life.

In this Hot Nude Yoga Podcast series, I want to share with you some of what was revealed at the France Retreat, the sense of community that was build, and what the boys of Europe had to say.

This is Part Two.

Click here to see Hot Nude Yoga's upcoming retreats, or please visit us on the web at www.hotnudeyoga.com

What is Hula? Why is it taught and why is it past down. There is so little written about this tradition and art, and yet it is such an integral part of the Hawaiian People's tradition and lives.

So enjoy this wonderful podcast and come to Hawaii with HNY to learn the Art of Hula on our next retreat there.

Namaste

Aaron Star

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Although yoga was developed in ancient India and has been practiced largely by Hindus and Buddhists, it is not a religion in and of itself.  In fact it is a mystical path that can be practiced by people of any faith.  Many westerners have noted that the principles of yoga are very similar to the teachings of Jesus, and many Christians have come to discover that rather than replace their faith, practicing yoga deeply enhances their beliefs.

In this Darren explores the similarities between the life and teachings of Jesus and yoga and examines just how complementary these two paths can be and how reading the Gospels in the light of Eastern philosophy can add new dimensions to our understanding of Jesus and his message of compassion, forgiveness and charity.

Truth is One: I have often said that if Jesus, Krishna, Buddha, and other true emissaries of God came together, they would not quarrel, but would drink from the same one cup of God-communion.
—Paramahansa Yogananda

Over a year ago, I (Aaron Star) took a group of men to the Himalayan Mountains for a trekking Pilgrimage experience in September of 2007.  During the final decent, on the final day, a boulder that was twice the size of a bowling ball hit me in the side of my leg, thus breaking the femur.   At an altitude of 14, 500 feet and a 10 hour walking distance from where we were keeping our vehicles and drivers.

About six weeks later, I interviewed Robert and Brian from the trip, and this is that piece.

This experience not only reshaped me in ways that I still can not convey, but also reshaped the lives of those who came with me and walked with me through this experience. 

For me this experience embodies the best of what Hot Nude Yoga is, what it can be, and what it can offer.  For me, this was an example of Hot Nude Yoga at its finest.  The ability to meet life head on.

To read about this experience, please click here or visit the HNY site at www.hotnudeyoga.com.  Please go to HNY Newsletters, and read, The Eternal Fire: The story of what happened to Aaron Star in India.

Rocky Heron has been joyfully practicing yoga for the past 5 years, and is thrilled to be bringing his passion to New York! He has trained extensively on the west coast with such teachers as Brian Kest and Tamal Dodge, and is a certified instructor specializing in Vinyasa Flow yoga for the last two years.

During his time in L.A. Rocky joined Luca in LA and became part of the Naked Yoga LA team.

His classes are a seamless combo of stretching, flow, humor, insight, music, strength training, and personal inspiration. There is only one stream of magnificence of which we are all a part, and by just stopping our resistant struggle upstream we can all turn and go with the flow, that's what yoga is about!

You will also receive a pleasant surprise in each of Rocky's classes.

The following is a recording on the

Maha Mrityunjaya Mantra - The Maha Mantra of Great Liberation

Om Tryambhakam Yajamahe
Sugandhim Pushti Vardhanam
Urvarukamiva Bandhanan
Mrityor Muksheya Mamritat

The Maha Mrityunjaya mantra is a health, nourishing and rejuvenating mantra that bestows health, long life, peace, prosperity and contentment.

The mantra protects us against accidents, illness and misfortune.

It ignites a fire within us that consumes negativity and purifies our entire system (Shiva, the destroyer).

Feel the vibration in your body as you chant. Sanskrit is a vibrational language. The sounds/letters correspond to the chakras and the vibrations affect your body. In this case, the vibrations awaken our internal healing powers and attract nature’s healing forces leading to overall increased health and well-being.

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A retreat can teach you much more and in fact, not only will you relax, but you will release layers of accumulated stress, and come back from a retreat with some tools on how to stay more relaxed in your life. In this Hot Nude Yoga Podcast series, I want to share with you some of what was revealed at the France Retreat, the sense of community that was build, and what the boys of Europe had to say.

This is Part ONE.

This is a FREE download from HNY. Part One of a three part documentary series titled, "Why Do We Chant?" In producing this series, my hope is that you can experience my own passion with chanting and song, and be able to experience the energy with the men who share their voices in song.

This PODCAST was recorded by Darren Main, who gave me permission to publish it on the HNY Site. This thought provoking topic is given to those who are looking to deepen their spiritual understanding.

Namaste
Aaron Star
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Although yoga was developed in ancient India and has been practiced largely by Hindus and Buddhists, it is not a religion in and of itself.  In fact it is a mystical path that can be practiced by people of any faith.  Many westerners have noted that the principles of yoga are very similar to the teachings of Jesus, and many Christians have come to discover that rather than replace their faith, practicing yoga deeply enhances their beliefs.

In this Darren explores the similarities between the life and teachings of Jesus and yoga and examines just how complementary these two paths can be and how reading the Gospels in the light of Eastern philosophy can add new dimensions to our understanding of Jesus and his message of compassion, forgiveness and charity.

This is the sound only from our Hot Nude Yoga Documentary. Please go to our store to see the full box set collection of Hot Nude Yoga Coming Out In Hawaii!
What is Hot Nude Yoga all about?

While nudist colonies are nothing new, experiencing Hot Nude Yoga for the first time is. Lead by Hot Nude Yoga founder Aaron Star, the "Coming Out In Hawaii" Box Set is an exploration of the pleasure and trepidation of practicing Hot Nude Yoga. It features a complete collection of Yoga and Tantric touch sessions that can be practiced alone or with friends.

The retreat begins with Coming Out In Hawaii, a documentary which explores the who and why of Hot Nude Yoga; from taking that first bold step of exposing oneself to ultimately feeling completely secure in a room full of like-minded men. These life altering experiences, and many other intertwining aspects of Hot Nude Yoga, are explored by participants in candid moments, interviews and group discussions about Hot Nude Yoga and its deep impact upon participant's lives.

In this podcast, I was interviewed by one of the staff / writers at Easton Mountain Retreat. Easton Mountain is where the Hot Nude Yoga Retreats take place during Memorial Weekend. (The last weekend in May.)

Please click here to read more and the benefits of going on Retreat, and why go at all?