Naked Heart Walks

[Since1980_v2]

I’ve been looking at the court farm lakes walk for a while. Only about an hour from me. Probably the may date.
It’s only a short walk around it but it would be my first public event with others naked so I guess that’s probably easier to do.

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[ptHarry]

I know there’s none planned in London so far this year, because I check eventbrite  regularly.

I did the one in RSPB Rainham two years ago. That too isn’t quite London, but it was near enough. But a change of staff meant that they couldn’t run it last year and it’s not on this year’s plans either.

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[John]

Bit of a drive but there’s walks at Horsham 14 June and 14 September, venue Leonardslee Gardens. About 40 miles?

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[ptHarry]

At first, I thought Leonardslee might be achievable, but it is not by public transport.

Getting there would be easy. There are trains from London and then a bus. But getting back isn’t so easy. There are no buses on Saturday evening.

The alternative is a 2 hour walk back to the station, which in itself is not a problem, but preferably not at night on unknown roads that may or may not have lighting or pavements. And then no buses at all on Sunday.

 

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[Julie]

<p style=”text-align: left;”>That’s about a 5 hour drive for me. Not practical. I came to look because the idea of a walk that’s organised is interesting. Less of a crossover with the sexual area than the formal experiments feel, and maybe less completely male than I’m told the swim sessions tend to be?</p>
 If one of there was within a 2 hour drive then I might consider it. I’d be on my own though. That’s outputting.

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[John]

I’ll post a full list later today. There is another one in the north of England.

[Julie]

Dorothy Clive Gardens Naked
Heart Walk
The Dorothy Clive Garden • Willoughbridge, England
13 Aug at 18:00

I’ve found this one, which I will think about.

[Julie]

Crazy as the idea seems, I’d rather not be on my own and would be interested to arrange with a couple of you (even though it’s pretty obvious I would be the only woman).

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[John]

Fri 16 May Court Farm 3-7 Lydney gl15 6p

Same venue Fri 16 August

 

Sat 14 June and Sun 14 Sept

Leonardslee Gardens Horsham rh13 6pp

6 -8.30

 

Sat 28 June 4-7 and sat 9 August

Himalayan Garden Ripon hg4 3da

 

Sat 5 July Cwm week 2-5

Kerry sy16 4at

 

Sun 27 July waters meet Bishampton 4- 7

Open water swimming wr10 2lz

 

Wed 13 August Dorothy Clive gardens 6-8 tf9 4eu

 

[John]

I already have a ticket for the Dorothy Clive Gardens if you wanted to go.

[Julie]

Is your car fixed now? I’ve booked this event — I’ll consider it a donation if I end up backing out. I’d be happier to go in a group, even as the only woman. The “clothes optional” tag makes me feel that it might still be hard to actually strip off, if more people are clothed than not.
Have any of you been to one of these already?

I’m not going with anyone I know in real life. That opens a different can of worms.

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[ptHarry]

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I went to one of the Naked Heart walks in Rainham a couple of years ago. Sadly it’s not happening again. But I will probably be going to one of the Leonardslee walks as they seem to be the only ones I can get to by public transport this year.

The “clothes optional” tag makes me feel that it might still be hard to actually strip off, if more people are clothed than not.

The event is organised with the intention that most participants will be naked. It’s clothing optional to encourage newcomers to also take part, and that some of them will feel comfortable to get naked too.

There will be many more naked than clothed, but most of them will be men. Sadly, that will always be the case with clothing optional events.

At the Naked Heart walk I went on last year, all of the men were naked but there were also several women (I guess all partners of the men there) some naked, some topless, some fully clothed.

 

 

[Julie]

Yes, that’s a possibility.
I am interested.

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[Julie]

I’m not doing it as a fundraiser though!

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[Julie]

I’m already having second thoughts about this I’m afraid. Planning anything that far ahead seems unwise. I think this whole thing is an example of an intense ADHD hyperfocus, which I will get past and move on from before that date comes round. I’m going to try to wean myself off this forum and get back to life. It’s taking over.

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[ptHarry]

Maybe it’s time to take things easy for a while. Stand back and look at things from a distance. Come back here occasionally, even if it’s only to find out about possible future activities.

I can confirm that a Naked Heart walk would probably be a good choice if you do decide to go somewhere. They’re clothing optional so you don’t have to get naked if you don’t feel comfortable. The one I went to had about 5 women, one fully clothed, one naked and the others topless. Men will vastly outnumber the women but that’s to be expected at any naturist event, unless it’s specifically “couples only” which wouldn’t work for you unless you could get your partner interested too.

But for the moment you only need to put their dates in your diary and try to keep them clear. Then wait until a week before and make the decision. I’m sure I only booked a week ahead for mine.

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[John]

Take care, do what’s best for you. Be good to see you on here occasionally though if you can limit yourself..

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[Since1980_v2]

I get heavily into challenging myself in 2023 and wary 2024 because of being here. It did kind of become an obsession for me to find new ways to be naked and get naked in public to experiment with my levels of caution. A couple of times I went to far and got caught. 1 situation wasn’t anything the other worried me a bit for a while and I took a step back for a while. I’ve learned how to control myself and stop myself from just doing stuff because i want to be able to post. Don’t get me wrong I’m still out doing challenges for myself but now it’s a bit less public and not more quieter times.

With some of us we go into things hard and start to forget about the real world and just focus on the one topic. After a while you can find easier ways to get a balance and sort stuff out. You have been a breath of fresh air livening up the chat the last few days. Would be a shame to see you disappear completely but do whatever os best for you. Hope to see you coming back still to check in sometimes

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[Julie]

Thanks. This forum feels good, but my reaction to it is more than I can handle just now so I an trying to calm myself down before I do anything I regret.
Thank you all.

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[ptHarry]

Update: despite what I said before, it looks as if I might be able to get to Leonardslee (or more precisely, might be able to get home the same evening).

bustimes.org is showing evening buses back to Horsham in June, but traveline.info (which I normally use for journeys outside London) isn’t.

It seems I need to wait until mid April to find out which one is correct.

 

 

 

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[Since1980_v2]

I was worried about a random letter turning up on the doorstep relating to a walk. Kind of made me nervous to sign up, checked the faq and it wasn’t clear.
Well I double checked with them on email so you don’t have to. No letters,  all correspondence goes via email for these walks. Just incase anyone else was like me wondering about that letter to call them out on the doorstep

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[Julie]

I’ve taken the plunge and booked for Clive Gardens on August 13th.
It remains to be seen if I actually get there. It’s about 90 minutes drive from home, but I wouldn’t be comfortable if it was too close.

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[John]

Good luck. I pick up my car next weekend, and will be there.

From what I can tell of these things, nearly everyone will be naked, unless the weather is bad, I believe most wear shoes of some sort.

Don’t feel any pressure either way though if you do come. Just do what you are comfortable with at the time.

 

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