It was early summer when I joined a yoga class that I saw advertised online. The class was for 1.5 hour sessions of clothing optional stretching, starting out with solo stretching for the first half of the class and partnered stretching for the second half.
I felt a bit nervous to go at first, but I wanted to push myself and build my body confidence.
I entered the space in a dance studio on the upper levels of an old building. The room had big windows that let in bright light and could be opened on a warm day to let in the breeze.
There were about 10 men in the room who had already disrobed and set up their mats in rows on the warm wooden floor. The men represented a diverse range of ages and body types. Younger and older, smooth and hairy, athletic to solid build, pale and melanated skin. This was a room full of unique and interesting, beautiful male bodies.
While most of the guys were naked, a couple of the guys wore underwear or a jock strap. As a few more men entered the room to join the class, I set up my mat next to an early 30's Taiwanese guy who greeted me with a friendly smile and introduced himself.
I began to take off my clothes.
As I removed my t-shirt and shorts, I felt eyes on me from some of the men already seated on their mats. Everyone seemed friendly and perhaps a little nervous.
I decided to leave on my underwear, for now.
I lay down on my yoga mat, closed my eyes for a moment and felt the warm sun coming through the window onto my body.
I chatted quietly to the guy next to me and he shared that this was his first naked yoga class also, but that he really enjoyed being naked around other men, so thought he'd give the class a try.
Feeling more comfortable, I decided to remove my underwear. As I slid down my briefs, revealing my penis, I felt the eyes of the other nearby men looking at my body.
I felt a small throb as my penis responded, lengthening and thickening slightly under the gaze of my neighbour, who had helped me feel at ease. I closed my eyes and tried to think of other things, anything to prevent my cock from growing to a full boner.
The teacher entered the room and walked to a mat at the front of the room. He slipped off his black briefs to the floor, revealing a well tanned and toned body with a thick, soft, circumcised penis hanging perfectly centred over his smooth testicles.
Welcoming everyone, he told us all to listen to our bodies throughout the session. He talked about consent and that we must always respect each other's boundaries and ensure we are clear about our own.
If at any stage, we feel uncomfortable, we could excuse ourselves to sit at the side and observe. He also told us to feel free to follow the paths of pleasure in our bodies. This made the space feel so safe and friendly.
We commenced the yoga session, working through various standing and seated postures.
We moved onto hands and knees in a posture where our butt and penis is visible to the person behind as we moved through a pose where we arch our backs like a cat, then drop our belly like a cow, pushing our butts up and back, moving between the two stretching postures.
We moved into downward dog and then into a series of sun salutations, reaching up high and then moving into forward folds. It was so beautiful to observe the movement in the other men's bodies and how their muscles and skin moves and flexes through the stretches.
With the sun coming through the windows and shining onto the bodies, the skin began to glisten with small beads of light sweat. The instructor opened the windows and a gentle breeze of cool air blew in. I felt the air cross my damp skin, refreshing my body.
The instructor announced that we were half way through the class and would now move into the partnered portion of the class. This section of the class would be a mix of gentle stretching and sensual touch.
He asked us to move our yoga mats into a circle and numbered us off as we stood at our mats as 1 or 2. I was a 1, while the guy next to me was 2 and so on.
Those people who were numbered as 1 were asked to lay down on our mats face up. I laid down, wondering what would be coming next.
The men numbered as 2 were then told to lower themselves to hands and knees over the top of the guy laying down, with a knee beside each ear and face hovering above the body of the person below. This kind of looked like a 69 position, but without the direct physical contact.
The guy I was partnered was a guy in his 40's. He had a slim but average build, with a little hair on his lightly tanned chest and body. He leant down and asked me, "Are you ok if I do this?" I nodded my head.
He crouched down and placing a knee beside each of my ears, positioned himself above me, moving to hands and knees with his face above my groin.
His penis dangled right in front of my face and I had a full view of his thighs leading up to his scrotum, perineum and butthole. He had neatly trimmed dark pubic hair, and his uncircumcised penis was average length.
It was flaccidly dangling there, gently swinging as he got comfortably in position.