So first of all, make sure you are dressed warmly enough. Especially cover the lower back, override the desire to wear low cut jeans with your belly naked, wear jackets that protect your torso down to the hip at least. As we lose most of our body heat through the skin of the head, cover your head even if you don’t feel cold on the top of your head.

Also, be aware of your bodies reaction to cold and as you step into the cold “send a note” to your muscles from your mind: “I will be back to warm again soon” and consciously relax your muscles. Drop your shoulders, open the elbows and if dressed warm enough your body will be happier to adept to the Holiday Season as well.

“One of the greatest gifts I have experienced by practising Bikram Yoga in the heat, is as my body got used to handle the heat, it became more adaptable to cold as well. Somehow extremities of weather don’t affect my body that much anymore. I guess our inner thermometer can be trained as well!”