Vanier Chilli Cheetahs
Disclaimer: Cold exposure is like weightlifting, it can empower your body, but when you overdo it, injury or worse can happen. This is why Chilly Cheetahs will be extremely beginner friendly with the highest temperature of a cold plunge being 15 degrees Celsius. This is cold enough for benefits but nowhere near cold enough to harm a beginner.
Keep up with the lingo!
Chill definitions: Lax means loose.
What does it mean for you to re-lax? What is this state of lax that you are re-turning to? If you must re-lax more than once then what keeps tightening you or should I say re-tightening you? When did you go from lax to tight for the very first time? and how might you re-lax yourself every time you are re-tightened???
-Question from a curious chill cheetah.
Imagine free meals, sleeping whenever you want, all while you’re suspended in a fluid that makes you feel weightless!!! Now imagine no longer, since what I’m describing is a disappeared memory you still yearn to relive; your lax life in your mother’s womb.
People spend upwards of $100 to re-feel this calm weightlessness in sensory deprivation tanks. These tanks are filled with salt water that offer a very calming experience for those who lay in it. To this I say what’s so calming about spending 100$ to get what you could get for free? Because here’s a secret: you don’t need to spend so much, all you need is your breath and cold exposure to discover this calmness. Meaning The C.
Before discussing further, let’s return to the womb. As you know, despite your love for your life in the womb, gravity and the muscles of your own mother (How dare she!!!) pushed you out into a confusing world of some pleasure but mostly pain at every corner. Pain that by the time you turn ten you have learned to be afraid of.
“YOU CAN’T GO OUTSIDE LIKE THAT WEAR A JACKET OR YOU”LL GET HYPOTHERMIA”
Is the warning you’ll hear from guardians with the subtle implication being: “The world is far too scary and dangerous for your body for you not to always hide from it, so zip that jacket all the way up to your chin even if it starts to itch : ).” Even though its implication can be troubling, the ‘wear a jjacket’ message is still wise when given to a child. However it is the dead skin you must slither out from if you intend to mature out of childhood’s simplifications into adulthood’s ambiguity.
Just as you’ve hopefully come to learn that the term “stranger danger” was just a simple slogan to protect your past curious child mind from people in white vans offering puppies, rather than to help you as an adult to make new friends. I hope for this cooperative to dismantle the slogan that “the cold makes you sick” because it is not only not true, but also yet another over-simplification from childhood. Yet it has been so effective that to this day we still name a host of viruses that affect the upper lungs under the category of ‘the common cold’.
To clarify, yes, excessive cold temperatures and chronic exposure to cold temperatures is dangerous. This is 100% undeniable. But appropriate and safe exposure to cold temperatures has insane benefits*. With one of them even being a much stronger immune system.
This is why it is our mission to give you:
1.Access to cold plunge tubs that are at a cold enough temperature to elicit benefits with minimal discomfort.
2.Teach calming breathing exercises to feel centered in the cold.
3.Create a space for meditation in the cold plunges.
Everyone should be able to participate in cold exposure therapy without cost. For as we are in Canada if we aren’t able to stand bold in the cold then half of the year we will feel discomfort outside. If we are tough, we no longer must tighten up to the world. We can let go of past childhood lies and come out anew. Able to be excited and ready to feel the world to its fullest and fully understand what it means to re-lax.
