Back story to my teaching and how it all began: Deepen hamst..

Back story to my teaching and how it all began: Deepen hamstrings, hip flexibility, open the chest, & help you find new strength & perspective.A very long time ago I was the first yoga teacher to teach yoga & this pose naked fire fly. A piece of art done in Germany after the fire fly tutorial this is when working with others began. I took a leap of faith and decided to heal my pain not hide from it and all the fear in the world but tell my story. This tutorial I did went viral now FireFly is back by popular demand at p@treon not to be missed: https://www.rhyannawatson.com/insta-offerings/ click here first link or link in socials. This took me a long time to teach again it was a very long journey to healing and learning self love again. A long time ago I decided there was nothing wrong with the human body. I wanted to share my teaching free and in the human form with no clothes. I had been practicing learning self love this way. I was asked by a site to teach a few sequences. One of them was FireFly. I never knew the consequences would be so big from doing this. The videos went viral and were misappropriated on many sites. The bullying began online through many yogis hating me and many people shaming me and calling me pörn. I was bullied on instagram by some yogis. They would block me from seeing their stories and share passages of messages I wrote to them about my rÄpe and my life experience, calling it BS. As a mother and a human that had experienced trauma, losing a ch1ild, physical and mental abuse and coming to yoga to heal it was shattering. I was trying to heal and here were hurt people hurting people. To me this is what is wrong with the world, not our pain but our hurt being transferred and judgment and shaming being done that stops us healing. I do not understand how we as a society and especially a yoga community are still not practicing kindness and being the change in ourselves. I do not understand why society keeps teaching yoga from the outside and fitness from the outside when it is from the inside where everything happens. Social media is a great gift for connection however it is also causing egotastic behaviours by the likes and algorithms and we need to work on this and ourselves to see this. I did not hate and do not hate these women and yogis that hurt me. However I do feel sorry for them as what has the world done to them that they can be so cruel to someone? Personally I nearly lost myself and it took me to a very dark place and it also rippled into my family life where family members became cruel too. It was a very hard time in my life. I felt ashamed & hurt by strangers misappropriating me, yogis judging and sending hate messages on social media and just a world I did not realise could be so cruel. For me I realised I grew up very different to most. I was always taught an honest approach to nudity. “I grew up with a father who would happily walk around the house naked. Through him, I associated the body as a tool for life. It was something that was part of our day-to-day life and did not have a ‘look.’ It had a feel. To him, the body was neutral and natural, as it is for me too. My mother however was very shy and uncomfortable in her skin, due to her upbringing and past experiences, and her self-worth was sadly lacking. She was beautiful to me however, even if she didn’t swim much and wasn’t comfortable showing her body.“In 2010, when I went to Austria for the first time, I had my first naked sauna experience with the family I was staying with. It was all so normal. We went to a unisex change room, which included families getting changed for the pool all together. We then went to a unisex sauna. I met the head of the Police and the Town Mayor, and still cannot recognise them with clothes on to this day!”She has a similar attitude to body positivity. “It’s about accepting ourselves for who we are, and others the same. It is not about whether you wear clothes or not; it is simply about feeling good within yourself. I respect that my dad was comfortable naked, and I respect that my mom prefers clothes. I believe we need to allow people to be themselves, and never force anyone into something they are not comfortable with, or label them. It’s why I don’t necessarily call myself ‘a naturist.’ I am simply a human. Just like when someone asks me what yoga I do. I simply do yoga. I don’t need labels to show who I am. I am just me, and allow others to do the same. I think as soon as we label ourselves we already set up invisible barriers. Why can’t we just ‘be’?“I have been naked all over the world in many places, creating art, experiencing different cultures. My favourite place to be naked? It always changes, because the only constant is change. My most recent favourite place was with a good friend, creating art in St Louis in the woods and by the river. But it is always about the joy it brings, not where I am.” During this experience online one yogi, a very famous lady, reached out to me and told me that she was sorry what was happening and that if I ever needed support or someone to talk to she would be here. She told me yogis were reaching out to her telling her not kind things about me asking why she followed me? It was at that moment although I was struggling and hurt, I realised that there were some people that practice true yoga and there were kind soulsp in this world true to their word on social media and in life. Although this experience taught me how innocent I was in terms of seeing the world sexuality and the online world being so sexual it also taught me how there were great people in the world and those were the voices that matter not the voices of hate, shame and misappropriation. It also reminded me even more why I was doing it and how important it was for me to change the narrative of sexuality for my daughter and future generation. Not long after this I got contacted by Watkins Publishing who asked me to write my story in a book now published https://www.amazon.com/Brave-Beautiful-Baring-All-Happiness/dp/1786782898 They found me through Instagram. When they did their QA of me before proceeding with me writing my book they also told me what they had found on the internet about me. It was a very embarrassing and comforting experience. So I sat down and talked to them about what happened. They were shocked and horrified. At first when they saw me online they were going to cancel the book deal it seemed. However after we sat and talked they thought it even more important I tell my story. It was a whirlwind and a very hard experience, not only dealking with all this but also re telling my story for the world to read. I am glad I have done it but I can tell you every day I am still challenged by it and others perceptions and still have healing to do. I am just grateful that there are kind people in the world willing to let the real stories be told, see people rather than judge them, so we can allow people to see the truth. In the end I hope it helps others as I know many people have suffered in their own way through similar things to me. Although teaching naked yoga and fitness has been very difficult with the naysayers I feel most at home doing it and it has helped me heal from my trauma and self hatred. I feel like it is world changing and life changing to understand sexuality and sensuality co exist and helps us to become more whole as humans and also with others. My journey to teaching naked has been confusing and overwhelming and often painful. There has been no easy about it and not a lot of unkindness until recently. I did it before there was Nude Yoga Girl https://www.instagram.com/nude_yogagirl/?hl=en was sharing more of her art, true naked yoga started their platform https://www.instagram.com/true.naked.yoga/?hl=en, Audri Asana started creating workouts https://audriasana.live, the nude blogger https://www.thenudeblogger.com became well know etc. Now I am grateful that many others are doing it. I am not the most famous but I know in my heart of hearts I have always lived in my truth and done it from a place of love and realness. I am so grateful now also to collab and work with like minded women Audri Asana and also so grateful to be working to create our next retreat together next year with a mix of yoga, art and fitness in Europe. Stay tuned for more details. I hope one day more people will see me and these beautiful healers, artists and movers with kindness. I know personally I do not have the most perfect video edits, content or a whole team supporting me to make it magical like many. However I have me, my heart and soul and put all of that into everything I do. Thank you for reading. I hope this helps you to learn more about me and see all of us naked teachers and artists here with more compassion. Have you ever tried a FireFly pose? What do you find most hard about it? Did you know my back story? What were your assumptions of me? This is only some of my story. Blessings Rhy