The Daniel Yores Podcast #64: Othership Co-Founders Amanda & Harry on Resilience Through Heat, Cold, and Breathwork, Building Community, and Creating an Authentic Human Experience at Othership
Amanda and Harry are two of the co-founders of Othership (@othership.to). Othership is a vessel for transformation that invites us to collectively explore our extra-sensory faculties through the practicality and potency of the elements. It is a physical space located in Toronto where you experience sauna, cold plunges, and breathwork to build resiliency, improve your health, connect with others, and so much more. Visit othership.us/physical to book a guided class. For those outside of Toronto, they also have an accompanying breathwork app with over 500 classes. The app is available to download here.
Visiting Othership is an incredible experience that I believe everyone in Toronto or the GTA should experience. And if you live elsewhere, I’m not sure there’s anything quite like it, but you can join in the practices of heat and cold. Sitting in a hot sauna for an extended time while doing breathwork and light movement can get tough, your body tells you it wants out – and that’s where the benefits kick in. There’s a whole bunch of science to support this, as we discussed through the episode, but when you feel it, you know it.
You move from the hot sauna into a cold plunge where you sit for 2 minutes. The cold is the opposite extreme and the effects are quick. As soon as you hit the water your mind screams “out”, and yet, this is where the benefits kick in. There are many purely physical benefits to all of this. But perhaps the most important is the building of resiliency – the ability to do hard things in a controlled environment. This way, when real life smacks you in the mouth, you can be prepared.
Amanda and Harry did an excellent job outlining all the ways the heat and cold benefit us, how the community aspect of Othership plays a huge role, as well as the value of having these authentic human experiences.
If you live in Toronto, Othership is located at 425 Adelaide St W, and you can visit the website to book a class here. For everyone else, you can download the Othership breathwork app here. Also, follow Othership on IG @othership.to and @othership.app.
I would love to organize a visit to Othership with listeners of the podcast, so if you’re in, send me an email or a DM on IG and I will put you own for it.
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