Naked Yoga: Would you try the newest trend?

Imagine yourself holding a perfect Downward Facing Dog. Except you're naked. You're in a yoga class full of naked people.

No it's not a horrible nightmare, it's a real yoga class. And it could be coming to the UK to help us become more in tune with our bodies.

A studio in New York is already offering Bold & Naked vinyasa flow classes in the buff designed to help practitioners celebrate their bodies - and it's not meant to be titillating in the slightest.

"There are a lot of things that separate us in a normal yoga class, like what brand of yoga clothing you're wearing or how you look when you're wearing it," Vanessa Kennedy, a naked yoga class attendee, told Reuters. "But when we're naked, it's like we're all the same."

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Attendees can choose a mixed class or stick to one for their gender, but either way, they are warned to be prepared for instructors to administer posture corrections physically - as in any normal yoga class.

On its website, B&N explains why de-robing for yoga can be so good: "There is a sense of freedom practicing yoga naked. While many equate being naked with sex, this couldn't be further from the truth in a naked yoga class. It's about being comfortable in your own skin and the amazing confidence that comes with it. It's about knowing, accepting and loving yourself at your core."

It also adds that if you have body issues it can be a very healing experience.

Observers are not allowed and there is strictly no photography.

We haven't heard about it before but apparently naked yoga has been around since the 1970s, as part of the freedom movement.

If men are worried about geting turned on, they should be reassured that B&N has seen it all before.

The site explains: "It rarely happens, but when it does it's okay and nothing to be embarrassed about. It will pass quickly. Erections happen for a lot of reasons and are not limited to sexual attraction. Yoga moves a lot of energy throughout the body and sometimes erections happen. But once we start moving, there is no way an erection could be sustained, because of the physical nature of Vinyasa Yoga."

Would you give it a go?