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Transform your vacation into a wellness retreat with For The Love Of Ice. Enjoy guided breathwork, deliberate cold exposure, and contrast therapy. This transformative practice promotes healing with benefits such as anxiety and depression relief, reduced inflammation, improved sleep, mood enhancement, and more. Rejuvenate your body and mind with this restorative experience, perfect for team bonding, bachelor and bachelorettes, and ladies weekends!
Breathwork
Breathwork serves as an excellent way to open and prepare your nervous system for the ice, while also standing strong as a transformative practice on its own. It helps release stress hormones, reset the nervous system, and enhance both physical and mental well-being.
In one breathwork session you can:
- Reset your nervous system by shifting from your sympathetic nervous system into your parasympathetic nervous system
- Clear stuck, stagnant energy from the body
- Balance blood pressure and strengthen your respiratory system
- Stimulate the lymphatic system and detoxify the body
- Improve your immunity, sleep, and digestion
- Release stress hormones from the body
- Remember that every body is unique, and every body will experience the impact of breathwork differently.
Ice Baths
Embrace the cold right at your vacation rental! Gillian and her team offer packaged private breathwork and ice bath sessions that can be brought right to your chalet. Perfect for bachelor and bachelorette gatherings, ladies weekends, golf getaways, work retreats, or any celebration! Gillian is a certified guide and will work with you no matter your experience.
Why Cold Exposure Works - an explanation from Gillian
Exposure to cold is known to activate the sympathetic nervous system and increase the blood level of beta-endorphin and noradrenaline, and to increase synaptic release of noradrenaline in the brain as well. Noradrenaline is a neurotransmitter of the brain that plays an essential role in the regulation of arousal, attention, cognitive function, and stress reactions. Increasing noradrenaline can make you more focused and provides a sense of euphoria.
Along with the radical increase in norepinephrine during cold therapy, short periods of mild hypothermia also activate a release of dopamine in your brain. This, paired with soaring levels of norepinephrine, explain why you can't help but smile and feel incredible after you've plunged into a cold bath.
You might also experience a huge burst of motivation and determination, which can last long after your cold water plunge!
Are you ready to be guided into the cold?
