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22nd October 2023

The empowering adventure of social nudity

The best adventures bring us beyond our comfort zones, ask us to be vulnerable, and allow us to grow into a new, more expansive normality by rising to the challenge. Which, as Meleasha Carbado explores, makes social nudity one hell of an adventure.

22nd October 2023

Living for a year in fancy dress

In October 2022, Bear Intentions finished a year of total silence. He then jumped straight into a year of only wearing fancy dress in public. This is his story.

Authors

Meleasha Carbado

Meleasha Carbado

Meleasha Carbado is from Birmingham. She currently travels around the UK working at festivals with her lovely boyfriend Chris as part of festival venue The Magic Teapot. A naturist for over five years, she now holds the voluntary post of Equality and Diversity Officer at British Naturism. As a woman of mixed English, Jamaican and Cuban heritage, and proud member of the LGBTQ+ community, fighting for equality and diversity in all spaces and having a sense of community is really important to her. Beyond naturism, she is an avid yoga fan, recently becoming a certified yoga teacher. She also loves travelling on a budget, volunteering, Lidl’s bakery section and anything arty or creative.

Tina Burchill

Tina Burchill

Tina Burchill trained as a wilderness vigil guide with leading mythologist Dr Martin Shaw, graduating in 2018, the same year she gained an MA in Myth and Ecology. She has continued to work under the umbrella of the School of Myth in Devon, where she is also a member of the core faculty team. She also has a small homeopathic practice (she qualified in 2005) alongside working as a consultant in event management, and writing work. Her previous career in journalism included working as a freelancer in the UK for national magazines and newspapers.

Bear Intentions

Bear Intentions

Bear Intentions is a personal trainer, yoga and meditation teacher, and massage therapist. He's fascinated by health and how to best manage tension. And so, in September 2020, to further his understanding, he created a four-year rite of passage: The 4 Years of Intention.