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People who swim in Lake Ontario every Sunday are the followers of a natural health system by Teacher Porfiry Ivanov.

                                             
Porfiry Ivanov’s natural recovery twelve points system  “CHILD” (”DETKA”) help to achieve the harmony of body, mind and soul.  The system is based on training your body by exposure to cold as well as other adverse impacts, such as fasting. Everyone can follow the rules, even if he/she is weak or sick.  It is important to believe in your ability, “open” to the life-giving forces of nature.
Take your place in nature.  Only your own affairs and labor in nature will benefit to you, it is easy.

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1.  Twice a day, bath in cold, natural water so that you feel good.  Swim, where you can: in the lake, river, bath, take a shower. This is your environment.  Make the cold bathing follows the hot bathing. 
 2.  Before bathing, or after it, and if possible at the same time, go to the open air, stand with your bare feet on the ground in winter snow for at least 1-2 minutes. Breath through the mouth a few times and wish for health to yourself and all the people. 
3.  Do not drink alcohol and do not smoke. 
 4.  Try at least once a week to go completely without food and water starting at 18-20 pm on Friday to Sunday noon.  This practice will give you the sense of achievement and inner peace.  If it is too hard, keep fasting at least 24 hours starting on Friday. 
 5.  At noon on Sunday get outside to some natural environment, breath and think as described above.  This is the feast of your body.  After that you can eat anything you like. 
 6.  Get used to this.  Say Hello to everybody, especially in older people.  If you want to be healthy say Hello everywhere. 
 8.  Help people with what you can, especially the poor, sick.  Enjoy doing it.  Listen to the peoples’ needs, soul, and heart.  You will get your peace of mind! 
 9.  Overcome your greed, sloth, complacency, money-grubbing, fear, hypocrisy.  Believe people and love them.  Do not talk about them unfairly, and not keep any bad opinion about them. 
 10.  Free your mind from thinking about diseases, ailments or death.  This is your victory. 
 11.  The idea is not separated from the nature.  Reading is good but the most important is DOING IT! 
 12.  Pass on your experience of the practice, but do not boast, and do not feel superior for doing  it.  Be modest.     

We have made the new video. This is the spring 2008.

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Spring-Summer 2008

I would like to show the location where you can meet us every Sunday at 12.

Also you can look at our Facebook page

We swim at Humber Bay Park in Etobicoke since 1997. Every Sunday at the noon.

We don’t write the manuals of winter swimming. We don’t tell the stoires “How I dip into the cold water”.

We just do it. We practice. It’s not once year dip, it’s the life style.

PLAY VIDEO “Everybody welcome”

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PLAY VIDEO “Winter 2008″

We were thinking about the 19th of October, 2008, 7pm. The reason? Well I met a lovely girl on the subway today and it reminded me of how this all started, and how many people I tried to “recruit” that said they were scared of freezing to death (this won’t happen) so didn’t want to try it.

Therefore if we start a wee bit earlier this year that excuse won’t be valid!

With that in mind and as I mentioned, the first swim will be at Cherry Beach [Google map it] (walk to the end of Cherry Street until you hit the lake) at 7pm on October the 23rd 2008. Be there with towels, a smile on your face and a hot drink if you fancy.

Footwear of some sort is recommended as the stones can be a little sharp!

Email me (Roo) or Shannon if you have any questions..