Black queer people. This class is centered for Black queer men, women, trans people, and gender-nonconforming folks who want to practice nude yoga in a space built around their experience. Allies are welcome and won't be centered.

Allies are welcome. Showing up means agreeing to the community guidelines. You are entering a space centered around Black queer people. Listen more than you speak. Take your cues from the room. The experience may not be oriented around you and that's the point.

Clothes carry information. Taking them off removes one more layer between you and your own experience. The parts of your body you usually keep private (your belly, your genitals, your lower back) hold tension, memory, and habit. Practicing without them on invites your attention there. Confidence, self-intimacy, fuller awareness of your body: these aren't promises. They're what a lot of people find on the other side of trying this.

Most people in class don't have what the wellness industry calls an ideal body. Bodies here also carry histories that most wellness spaces don't account for: anti-Black beauty standards, medical trauma, the specific ways queer and trans bodies get policed. This class exists for that. Showing up and sitting on your mat is often the hardest part. A lot of students leave saying it was quieter and kinder than they expected. Even arriving counts as a win over the voice that told you not to come.

You'll have something new in common. Everyone holds the same community agreement around privacy and respect. The room is built for Black queer people and their guests across a wide range of identities: gay, bi, trans, gender-nonconforming, curious, partnered, single, younger, older, local, visiting. Navigating this together tends to build connection fast.

Yes, in most cases. If something's going on in your body, letting the teacher know before class means modifications are ready when you need them. If you're starting any new movement practice, checking in with your doctor first is worth doing, especially if your condition involves your heart or joints.

This class is built for all levels. The sequencing is detailed; nothing is assumed. Rest whenever your body asks for it. No explanation needed, no permission required. The room is designed to make movement accessible, not to perform it.

Flexibility of mind matters more here than flexibility of body. The practice asks you to release expectation, breathe, sweat, move, and pay attention. Your hamstrings are welcome wherever they are.

What if I get aroused?

This is a non-sexual class, and arousal still happens sometimes. Moving without clothes spreads sexual energy across your whole body rather than concentrating it in one place. Once class is underway, the postures pull your focus and the arousal usually passes. If it doesn't, a resting posture is always an option, or you can keep moving. Erections happen. Regular students know this, and it's rarely a distraction. There's less charge in any one part of the body when the whole body is present and working.

COURAGE runs on a community agreement: everyone in the room is fully nude. That shared condition is what the space is built around. The same vulnerabilities, the same freedom, for everyone.

Everyone in the room participates. Observers sit outside the container we're building together, and that container is what keeps the space safe. Video and photography are not allowed.

You're in close quarters with other people, all of you nude, moving and sweating together. A shower, brushed teeth, and a bathroom stop before you arrive make the room better for everyone. Comfortable clothes to arrive in are fine. We undress together after the opening circle and consent conversation.

Late arrivals break the container for students already inside it. The door locks within five minutes of the start of class and your spot is held until then. Arriving fifteen minutes early gives you a buffer against transit or anything that comes up last minute. The class begins on time.