Would YOU do naked yoga with your partner? Couples are stripping off to do downward dog in group classes (lasting more than two hours) to re-ignite the spark

  • Perth couple Rosie Rees and Ares hold nude yoga workshops for couples
  • Nude yoga can help bring a couple together and re-ignite a lost spark
  • Couples engage in yoga poses that are done whilst maintaining contact 
  • The practice builds non-sexual intimacy between a couple
  • The classes are held in a group and go for two and a half hours  

By Lauren Grounsell For Daily Mail Australia

Published: 22:21 EST, 22 September 2015 | Updated: 03:38 EST, 23 September 2015

In soft, candle-lit rooms across Australia couples are staring in to each other’s eyes – completely naked.

With slow, deliberate movements they are leaning in to yoga poses, stretching together to re-ignite the spark so often lost in relationships.

Yogi and couples coach Rosie Rees told Daily Mail Australia nude yoga for couples is growing in popularity, and the intimate bond is creates between two people makes you see your partner in a different light.

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Letting go: Rosie Rees and her partner, Men's Life Coach Ares Chaplin, hold nude yoga sessions for couples

Letting go: Rosie Rees and her partner, Men's Life Coach Ares Chaplin, hold nude yoga sessions for couples

Namaste: Couples take part in yoga moves together, helping re-ignite the spark in their relationship

Namaste: Couples take part in yoga moves together, helping re-ignite the spark in their relationship

‘People come in and they’re usually nervous, as you expect,’ Ms Rees said.

‘The class allows you to express to your partner what you’re feeling and often partners don’t say anything at all, they don’t need to, it’s non-verbal communication that occurs.

‘A lot of couples fight or talk a lot, but this is not about talking, it’s about feeling and being with each other.’

Finding inner peace: The couple is travelling around Australia, bringing nude yoga in to the main stream

Finding inner peace: The couple is travelling around Australia, bringing nude yoga in to the main stream

Stripped bare: Nude yoga 'removes the mask, inhibitions and insecurities' that plague day-to-day life

Stripped bare: Nude yoga 'removes the mask, inhibitions and insecurities' that plague day-to-day life

Ms Rees, of Perth, is currently on tour with her partner, Ares Chaplin, and together they hold nude yoga workshops for other couples.

While nude yoga builds a non-sexual intimacy between a couple, it can help re-ignite a lost spark long term.

‘Although it’s not a sexual practice at all, being naked is considered in society these days to be quite sexual,’ Ms Rees said.

Finding intimacy: While nude yoga is a non-sexual practice, Ms Rees said in today's society being naked was considered quite sexual

Finding intimacy: While nude yoga is a non-sexual practice, Ms Rees said in today's society being naked was considered quite sexual

‘For women it is important to open up to a man, looking in to each other’s eyes and touching.

‘It removes the mask, inhibitions, insecurities and especially the armour.

‘Essentially it strips back the layers that are but between you with work, with your kids, with money, with stress.

‘It removes anything that is between you both physically and emotionally and you’re just there together, naked.’

Brought together: Nude yoga strips back anything that comes between a couple, be is physical or emotional

Brought together: Nude yoga strips back anything that comes between a couple, be is physical or emotional

The group classes are held in a candle-lit studio with no more than 20 people, or 10 couples, in a class.

Ms Rees said while it could be confronting for people to be naked in front of strangers, you become present with your partner and forgot the others around you.

The classes, which go for two and a half hours, cover basic yoga moves that are done whilst maintaining contact with your partner at all times.

'It strips back the layers': The two and a half hour class is held together with other couples 

'It strips back the layers': The two and a half hour class is held together with other couples 

The class opens with a talk and meditation, and at the end they share a raw snack and talk about their experiences.

Ms Rees said the class was not just for experienced yogis or people who are in long term relationships - in one class they had a couple who were on their first date.

‘It’s for anyone who wants to build a stronger bond,’ she said. 

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