Can You Find God in a Bikini? | The Free Press

Tamara Rodriguez, a 33-year-old actress who was born in Mexico, watches the scene as she dangles her feet in the water. She says she knows how this all looks. 

Oh, these are just some Hollywood kids living their yoga life, she imagines a stranger might say. 

Hell, she even thought that when she came to her first Secular Sabbath, held at Joshua Tree. But then she dispensed with her judgment when she realized how good it all felt.

The first time I saw pictures of this, I was like, mostly everyone is white, so you re like, What is this yogi community that s trying to create some sort of cool kids club? But then you go into it with an open mind and see through it.

Now, she says, she considers Secular Sabbath a church, but the kind where no one has to say anything specific or meet a certain dress code to belong. In some ways, it s similar to Hillsong, the evangelical megachurch in Hollywood that once attracted Justin Bieber, Kevin Durant, and Kylie Jenner with its emphasis on rock music and a party atmosphere. Although that movement died down after its pastor became the subject of multiple scandals, including cheating on his wife, its lesson prevails: people will come to church, if it s a place to be seen. 

This is, like, take off the clothes of your day and be more you, Rodriguez added. Be more human, authentic, so you can return to the world and something more truthful to you.

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In heaven, everyone will keep their clothes on.