Zara McDermott was left stunned as she took part in a female empowerment workshop during her new BBC documentary.
The former Love Island star, 28, travelled to Thailand for her new three-part series as she explored the darker side of the tourist hot spot.
Pushing herself outside of her comfort zone as part of episode two, Zara decided to sign up to a female empowerment class, where she soon found herself lying in a circle with topless women rubbing their breasts.
Arriving for the class, Zara admitted: ‘I don’t know quite how I am going to feel, I am a bit scared.
‘I’m not sure if this is something that I would have ever done at home but I am on a journey of self discovery here.’
And as the teacher explained the class to Zara, the presenter appeared shocked as she entered the room to find a vulva alter in the middle of the room.
Zara McDermott was left shocked as she joined topless women rubbing their breasts at a female empowerment workshop in her new BBC Thailand documentary
Pushing herself outside of her comfort zone as part of episode two, Zara decided to sign up to a female empowerment class
The teacher explained: ‘This is the vulva or a yoni. A yoni is a word in Sanskrit and its the whole female genital area.
‘And these are Jade eggs and this is used as a practice for inside the body. And through that practice we start to build a better connection with our vagina.’
Stunned, Zara asked: ‘Do you hold the egg? The egg goes inside the vagina? Wow.’
As the attendees entered the class they began with breath work before they began lying down and rubbing their bodies.
While some women chose to go topless, the teacher encouraged to ‘feel the connection energetically with your breasts and the female body’.
Looking around the room Zara seemed overwhelmed before she embraced the practice herself.
Speaking after the class she admitted: ‘My eyes feel opened to a new way to connect to myself, I don’t do anything like this so I feel I need to more. It was pretty wonderful so thank you.
She added: ‘That was an experience and a half, there aren’t many places in this world that you can go and be topless and rub your boobs. It felt quite nice.
As the attendees entered the class they began with breath work before they began lying down and rubbing their breasts
While some women chose to go topless, the teacher encouraged to ‘feel the connection energetically with your breasts and the female body’
Speaking after the class she admitted: ‘That was an experience and a half, there aren’t many places in this world that you can go and be topless and rub your boobs. It felt quite nice’
‘But actually it is deeper than that and is about connecting to yourself and being empowered as a woman and I am hear for that.’
Elsewhere in the documentary, Zara and her crew were almost arrested after they were threatened by the Bangkok police.
Despite BBC crew already getting permission to film in the bars, Zara said: ‘The whole sequence gets cut down. But that was over the span of a few hours of filming there, the tensions were starting to increase with the police.
‘We nearly got arrested because of the filming that we were doing, but, the interesting thing about that is that we’d got all the permissions in advance. We’d been okay to film there.’
‘And the bar owners were definitely, definitely kind of trying to throw their weight around a bit, and wanted us to get out of the area completely. In the end, the bar owners kind of, you know, they won in that sense, and we had to leave’, she added.
Zara added: ‘So that was also a really, really scary moment of not only, you know, us potentially being arrested, but us losing what we were there to do.’
The new programme, made by South Shore Productions, looks at what draws Brits to Thailand – as well as the darker side of the country, including the access to drugs and the sex work industry
Elsewhere in the documentary, Zara and her crew were almost arrested after they were threatened by the Bangkok police
The Strictly Come Dancing star has brought a range of thought-provoking and critically acclaimed documentaries to the BBC over the last few years.
The new programme, made by South Shore Productions, looks at what draws Brits to Thailand – as well as the darker side of the country, including the access to drugs and the sex work industry.
Zara’s main aim for the documentary is to discover why thousands of young Brits flock to the exotic location every year.
From backpackers to those who are seeking longer-term roots – the new documentary will unearth the secrets of the vast and varied country.
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