Some interesting thoughts and a good read I found on the net:
The NYT chooses Estonia’s “Smoke Sauna Sisterhood” as one of the best films of 2023
By Sten Hankewitz, December 3, 2023
The New York Times has chosen the Estonian movie, “Smoke Sauna Sisterhood”, as one of the best films of 2023.
Two film critics of the newspaper, Manohla Dargis and Alissa Wilkinson, compiled lists of their favourite movies of this year, and Wilkinson, who’s been writing about movies since 2005, picked “Smoke Sauna Sisterhood” as her seventh most liked film of 2023.
“A number of good and much buzzier films from this year – ‘Barbie’, ‘Poor Things’ – chronicled women’s journeys toward becoming their own heroes in a world still tilted toward patriarchy. But the Estonian documentary ‘Smoke Sauna Sisterhood’ is the one that’s stuck with me most,” Wilkinson said.
“Women gather in a smoke sauna (we see their tightly framed nude bodies, shot from the neck down, for most of the film) repeatedly throughout a calendar year. They discuss the painful and joyful realities of their lives: fears and hopes, romances and abuses, weaknesses and strengths. Visually striking and uncommonly frank, it gets at an authenticity that few fiction films can fully capture.”...
Today I went to visit the Arco of Los Cabos on kayak and paddle board, it was a fun adventure. The question here is, did I manage to have stood up at the paddle and maintained? Haha
Some interesting thoughts and a good read I found on the net:
Inside The Well: Scandinavia’s biggest spa where everyone goes nude
Forest walks (watch out for pine needles!), al fresco swims and meals are all enjoyed completely naked at Oslo’s famous spa. Madeleine Spencer strips off and joins in
By MADELEINE SPENCER, Nov 13, 2023
I am packing my suitcase the night before flying to Oslo for a spa break at The Well when my phone rings. It’s my plus one, Shireen, who doesn’t bother with any preamble: “Mads, are you packing swimming costumes?” I reply in the affirmative, to which she says, “Don’t bother. Look at the website — they are all naked! It is all naked! You are taking me to a naked place!”
I immediately cease folding clothes and look at the website. Shireen isn’t lying; a plethora of photos attest to the mandatory nudity at The Well, with everyone in them looking free and very happy indeed to be completely relieved of clothes. I phone her back for crisis talk. “It’s fine,” she tells me, “we won’t go naked — we’ll just arrange a towel over ourselves and scuttle around with the particulars shielded from view.”
Fixed on our plan of remaining at least semi-clothed, the next day we arrive at The Well after a fifty-minute drive from Oslo airport and are immediately impressed by the setup. Nestled in Nordic forests, it is home to the biggest spa in Northern Europe, and they didn’t just max out on square metre footage but also on the variety of offerings: 11 pools and hot tubs, 25 treatment rooms, 15 saunas and steam rooms, and many other areas in which to recline (nude), have a snack (nude), or go on a forest walk (also nude — I’d strongly advise you to beware of pine needles if you sit on a bench during your stroll)...
Some interesting thoughts and a good read I found on the net:
Nudists are planning a museum and library in Miami
By Deirdra Funcheon, Nov 14, 2023
Local nudists, or naturists, are working to establish a museum and library with a training institute and offices. They have been exploring potential sites from North Miami to Sunny Isles Beach.
What's happening: The nonprofit B.E.A.C.H.E.S. Foundation (Beaches Education Advocates for Culture, Health, Environment and Safety) hopes to establish a facility where people can learn about naturism through lectures, articles, legal documents and art.
It would house offices for B.E.A.C.H.E.S. and its sister organization, South Florida Free Beaches.
Why it matters: A 2017 study by nude recreation advocacy groups found that nude tourism contributes billions of dollars to Florida's economy.
Flashback: Grassroots activists worked with politicians, business leaders and other stakeholders to have a section of county-operated Haulover Beach Park designated as clothing optional in 1991.
It's now a mecca for naturism that advocates say draws 1.2 million visitors a year — 65% of which are tourists.
Context: B.E.A.C.H.E.S. promotes safe, family-friendly nude recreation and body-positive culture as well as environmental programs, beach access for people with disabilities, skin cancer screenings and more...
Some interesting thoughts and a good read I found on the net:
I visited a naturist retreat – the number of younger women surprised me and the staff can spot swingers a mile off
Georgie Culley, 19 Aug 2023
“SORRY madam, we are all out of sausages,” the waiter tells me.
That’s funny, because I’ve seen plenty at the breakfast bar this morning.
It’s 9am on a Thursday and I’m enjoying a full English at Clover Spa Hotel in the suburbs of Birmingham.
Everything feels totally normal, then I look down and remember I am starkers at a naturist B&B.
In front of me is owner Tim Higgs, naked and holding a steaming hot cafetiere in one hand and a tea towel in the other.
Since arriving the previous evening I have never given people quite as much eye contact as I have here in the past 18 hours.
Demand for naturist B&B breaks across England and Scotland has boomed during the summer.
“We’ve been busier than ever,” explains Tim, 67, an ex-farmer and father of four who set up the retreat 12 years ago.
“And we are seeing a lot more younger women booking with us.”
That’s certainly true. I meet lots of women in their late twenties and thirties who tell me they find naturism “exhilarating”...
Don't let fears stop you, grab that energy to push you to get what you want so much. Surround yourself with people who inspire you, so that when motivation falls, you remember why you want to continue.
A day at a nudist resort? The notion tingles, deliciously shocking. Then anger flares. Why should nudity shock me, or anybody else? We are born naked. Had God intended us to wear clothes, we would have popped out in tweed.
When I reveal my plan, my friends’ eyes widen. They envision, I can tell, either debauchery or a throwback hippie commune, faded as old Kodachrome. Yet France, Germany, Spain, Croatia, the Netherlands, Brazil—many parts of the world remain calm when someone undresses. “Most Munich residents do not find public nudity in the park to be anything special,” notes a travel piece. “Getting naked is a way for people to allow themselves to be who they are and to get away from the stress of urban Munich, which is why designated naked zones are put up legally.”
We have heard a lot that those who succeed is because they never give up, but what if giving up with intention is a way to get closer to your goals?
You are no longer the person who made those goals and it is worth giving it up to achieve other goals with the new version of yourself. Resign to move forward. ✨🙌🏽✨
Sleeping in a place away from the noise of the city, where I could be without clothes enjoying the heat and being scared of insects 😅 where nature gave me shows, those are gifts of life.
Thank you Veracruz I definitely will come back because there is still a lot to visit. For now, I will rest from the sea and enter the forested and desert climates.
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I love this phrase, because that's what life is, constant change and evolution.
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I've been searching the #naturist and #naturism tags this evening. Most posters seem to be German, and male. Interesting and curious.
There's a #nudist colony near where I grew up, in #StAlbans. I would be interested to visit. Far too cold to make sense in the UK though.