The purpose of the photos is to let everyone know that they are beautiful and to let everyone know that in their most natural state, confidence and self-love is everything,' she told the website. 'I was prompted to post naked yoga photos because it was freeing, liberating, and truly a form of art that not many people had seen before. Kirsty, who was raised in New York before moving to North Carolina, began studying yoga on January 1st, 2016, and last April became an instructor by completing a 16-day immersion intensive in Pahoa, Hawaii. The former cheerleader was inspired to practice yoga after seeing people's skills on Instagram, and wanting to be able to strike such complex poses herself, according to Charlotte Five. 'How much self-destructive stuff they have had to erase from their memory? Don't patronize someone for feeling confident because you don't know the process that went into building their self-esteem.' 'Why are people so mad at girls who are okay with themselves? Do you know how many problematic things they have had to unlearn?' Kirsty wrote alongside one of her nude pictures. Friends: She is currently on a long-month trek across the nation which offers stunning backgrounds for her nude photos