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The Siberian winter is snow joke, but some local yoga practitioners are so used to the cold that they practice yoga in temperatures as low as -42 Fahrenheit wearing only their thin bodysuits. While anyone else might lose a finger to frostbite, Ekaterina and Yulia, two yoga lovers from the Siberian town of Tynda in Russia's Amur region, aren't afraid to fight back against the cold with some super hot yoga moves.
The Siberian village of Sosnovka now has its very own functioning Orthodox church, the very first church here, thanks to a resident named Alexander who built the structure entirely out of ice so that the village faithful wouldn't have to travel far just to pray. Inside his icey construction everything looks like in the usual church – there is an altar, a copy of the New Testament and dozens of icons. Alexander named his church after the Christ’s birth – ‘Christorozhdestvenskaya’. In total, the functioning chapel features an impressive 106 square feet of prayer space to worshippers. The cross at the top of the church brings the frosty building to over 15 feet in height. Alexander spent a total of one and a half months to build his chapel and used over 400 cubic feet of snow in its construction. Before the start of the construction, he asked for a blessing from the local archpriest. Now the small church offers Sosnovka residents a holy place to pray. It will take a real miracle to keep the church standing once the warm weather starts to come around, but Alexander proved that all things are possible with a bit of faith.
Siberia can be a harsh and unforgiving land. The winters in Russia's east are world famous for being some of the harshest in the world. Naturally, only the toughest people can resist the toughest climates, but Russian mothers have a trick to prepare their children for the deep Siberian chilly season. They take their young children, some younger than 10 years old, and dive into the icy waters of Lake Baikal, the deepest freshwater lake in the world. The lake freezes over in the winter and the ice can be over a yard thick. These women are devoted members of the 'Pribaikalsky' club, and swimming in ice-cold temperatures during the winter is one of their favorite pastimes. They bring their children to swim by their side, dunking their heads under the water in special pools carved into the ice. Ice swimming is thought to boost the immune system and keep the kids from getting sick in the winter. It also increases the children's resistance to the cold weather and helps kids enjoy outdoor fitness activities in the dead of winter. Of course, the kids are treated to a warm bath after taking a dip in the teeth-chatteringly cold water. Would you ever let your kids try this Siberian winter therapy?
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