So we are here to answer your questions about going to Iceland for the Intentional Vitality Retreat this November.

Now, some of you are already signed up and some of you are thinking about it.

We are expecting a few more people, so we will.

I will let them in whenever they join us.

But do you have specific questions that you would like me to answer?

To start with, you can either type it into the chat or you can unmute yourself.

Okay, I have a question.

How should we dress?

What type of clothing and shoes do you recommend?

I am not a.

I don't like cold weather, so this is really out of my.

Okay.

Yeah.

Usually what I find is that in places that are other countries than the U.S.

they tend to have the indoor temperatures a little bit more with the seasons.

So they will be a little warmer in the summertime and a little cooler in the winter time.

But that just means that you will not likely find yourself wanting to be in a T shirt and shorts in Iceland in November.

You will still want to be in long pants and a long shirt.

And I suggest layers because of course, if you have the seat close to the heating, the heater, the radiator, you'll be warmer.

And if you're close to the window, you'll be a little colder.

Yes, but I'm more talking about yes.

So that's for inside.

Yes.

Now for outside.

Yes.

You're gonna want to make sure that you've got a good set of warm boots and, you know, hot earmuffs or a really good hood because you don't know if it'll be windy or not.

You don't know if.

If it'll be sunny or cloudy.

So of course, you know, if it's sunny, then it doesn't have to be as warm because the sun warms you.

You can handle slightly colder temperatures if it's sunny, but if it's cloudy, then the same temperature feels a lot colder.

So if you plan for cloudy and you think about what is the warmest jacket that you have and the warmest pants that you have, I can tell you what I wore.

But that may not be exactly what makes your body comfortable.

So when I was there, I.

In November, I have a.

One of the lightest weight down jackets that you can find.

So it's not a super heavy, but it is down.

And I wore my normal like fleece hoodie kind of shirt underneath that.

And I had a little wool headband kind of thing that I used over my ears.

So I had my little fleece hood and my little ear protection and my down jacket and then on the bottom I had fleece pants.

And you know how I wear these fleece skirts a lot in this in the wintertime over my yoga pants.

So I wore the fleece skirt over warmer pants and I was quite comfortable as long as I was moving.

Right.

If you're sitting, if you're sitting or standing, of course you have to be much more well wrapped up.

But since I went outside for the purpose of taking a walk and not a purpose of standing and staring at anything, I was comfortable in those clothes.

Okay, perfect.

Perfect.

That's what I was thinking.

I would have been totally way overdressed because I don't really like the cold weather, so.

And I always dress in layers because I'm a runner and I've, you know, and cold weather before.

But it's totally different because your body temperature is going to rise anyway, about 5 to 6, right?

Yes.

If you're running, that is a very different matter.

Now when I was there in November, I would see people who were very clearly native or had been in Iceland for a while running on the same area that I was walking.

And they looked like they were in, you know, like a single layer of sweatshirt, sweatpants.

Sometimes it didn't even have anything on their head.

And I was like, wow.

They either, they're probably a combination of really used to it and also they're running and I do not wish to run.

I am gently walking for the purpose of exercise and looking at the beautiful nature.

I don't need to rush through it.

Got it.

Does that make sense?

Okay, so that should be good thing.

So I'm used to running in, you know, 20 degree weather and I don't know and I can always look it up, but the temperature is normally like in November in Iceland.

So is it normally like in the.

30S, 40s when I was there, the high would have been 40 on, on any of the days that I was there and that would have been a sunny 40.

So that was warm.

But that would have been for maybe two or three hours in the afternoon.

Oh, okay.

And since the daylight hours are short, sunrise takes about three hours, sunset takes about three hours.

There's a lot of time when it's lit, it's just not always very bright.

And so that means it takes a while to warm up in the morning and then it cools off early in the day.

So most of the time that I was walking it would be you know, a combination of like after 10am so it was all the way light but still not particularly warm.

And then I would take another walk after dinner, and it would be about the same temperatures.

Okay?

Perfect.

But when I was there in November, it was very good.

Bright, sunny, beautiful weather.

And that may not happen this time.

We might get cloudy and rainy, and then it always feels colder.

So better to have more clothing than you need than to have less.

Gotcha.

Perfect.

Thank you.

You're welcome.