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One might think it’s an odd time of year in which to encourage people to consider how to incorporate naturism into their lifestyles, yet it is ideal in many ways. While we all reflect on the past year and step into 2023, there’s no better time for people to examine their thoughts and feelings around their bodies. It doesn’t mean they should be berating themselves about all the wine and chocolate they consumed around the clock during the holidays — just the opposite. It’s a great time to embrace their natural self and consider any negative feelings they may have about nudity, and what causesRead More →

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A guide is a person who helps you in your journey to reach a destination and that’s exactly what Nikki’s blog is aiming to do for those also on a body acceptance journey welcoming you to her journey and possibly yours. Our bodies exist for us, not for the visual pleasure of others. Some may know Nikki from her yoga and meditation classes, as a past staff member, or even just a friendly face around Bare Oaks but you may not have caught her recent project, a body-positive blog The Guide to the Natural Self. https://www.GuideToTheNaturalSelf.ca/ “My goal with Guide to the Natural Self is toRead More →

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“But what about creepy men?” It’s the question I get asked most frequently by men and women alike when I say I work in a naturist resort. I typically reply that I could get as much creepy attention from men working at a Starbucks, and probably more. Yes, from time to time there will be a fella, almost never a woman, who makes a gesture or a comment that makes me very conscious of my body. But in my experience, it happens less often when I’m at work than it does on the street. For example, after one of my first shifts at Bare OaksRead More →

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On International Women’s Day 2012 (March 8) a group of women launched The Nude Photo Revolutionaries Calendar in support of Aliaa Magda Elmahdy. In October 2011, Elmahdy, a 20-year old Egyptian university student, posted a full-length nude photo of herself on her blog in a protest against free-expression and her society’s attitude towards women. The reaction was, not surprisingly, intense and polarizing.  Elmahdy’s blog received millions of visits. She became the target of enumerable death threats. But she also received extensive support from individuals and women’s rights groups including a group of Iranian women and men who risked death by posing nude with slogans against IslamicRead More →