There are many practices from around the world, which can be considered yogic practices. Today I want to share one of these practices because it has helped me with everything from meditation to physical recovery and so much more.

This is the practice of cold thermogenesis: a practice in which you consciously expose yourself to the cold for two main reasons: mental discipline and physical benefits.

Lunches made, check. Papers filled out, check. Laundry down, check. Helped with homework, check. The list goes on. Our parenting duties together with career responsibilities, relationships with our significant other and family members are continuous, and let’s face it, at times all encompassing. Add on the unpredictability of life – the curve balls. This year is unlike any other faced with a global pandemic. We all share in the trepidation of the unknown.

Moved to Coquitlam from Vancouver Island a year ago, Kaitie found Jai Yoga Studio in her neighbourhood resembling the yoga studio she used to practice yoga back home in Victoria. “It took me a while to find the right studio ever since I moved here. But when I came to Jai Yoga, I knew this is it.”

We may feel small and insignificant when it comes to politics but if we are centred and balanced, then we are able to become stronger and achieve much bigger things. We become focused.

Whenever Fall arrives, I always get inspired to retreat within and introspect on how I want to finish up the year. As Coquitlam is in the northern hemisphere of the planet, we move from Summer into Fall and the energy starts to move from an outward, extroverted, masculine state to an inward, introverted, feminine state.

Here’s some food for thought - you’re not the same person you were this morning. Why? Because that was in the past. The past doesn’t exist right now. If you are not the same person you were yesterday, then what is the point of guilt and regretting the past?

Welcome to this first blog post! I’m going to be straight out honest with you. This is my eigth attempt at writing this blog post. This made me think, “wow Prem, you’re super judgemental about yourself.”