History of MANS

Men's Active Naked Stretching [MANS] classes met for the first time in person in the fall of 2010.

The MANS class was the cautioned answer to requests made by local men who traveled an hour's drive each week to attended the Men's Cambridge Naked Yoga classes held across the Charles River from Boston, Massachusetts, USA. One night, sharing a ride to the class, one of the men, knowing that I was currently teaching a one hour co-ed clothed Active Stretching class, asked me if I would consider teaching a men's naked Yoga class in my classroom. I told him I had no training in Yoga and was not certified to teach Yoga. He responded with "Then teach your stretching class!" I promised I would consider the idea and spent the next several months agonizing over what the ramifications might be if it was learned in my tiny everybody-knows-everybody town that I was teaching naked classes. Eventually I decided to give it a try and the rest is history.

I have purposly kept the class basically a secret from the general public and no one has created any problem. So far!

The class populated and the numbers grew to a comfortable number of students, with some men driving well over an hour to attend the MANS classes. One man from afar attended by staying overnight at a nearby motel. Men came from not only Massachusetts but also from New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Conneticut and Maine.

When the pandemic was declared in March of 2020, the MANS class as well as everything else social came to a screaching halt. We all waited to see where this new way of life was taking us.

Recognizing that COVID and the pandemic were not going away anytime soon, the MANS classes were resumed via ZOOM in August 2020. Reviving the class was a slow process of  Barry learning a new way of doing the class, having new technology to deal with and new equipment to purchase. 

Gradually more men became interested in the class again and the class population spread from being mostly local men to the international student population that it is today.