Winter Swimming - the Nordic Tradition & a Big Announcement Ep. 5
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ก.ย. 2024
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Cecilia Blomdahl is originally from Sweden and moved to Svalbard 6 years ago. She works as a photographer and videographer in Longyearbyen, and with her social media channels. Check her out on tiktok and instagram! Here on youtube she posts videos about her daily life in her cabin with her boyfriend Christoffer and her dog Grim, living just outside of Longyearbyen. Subscribe for videos about her daily life as well as adventures on an island close to the North Pole. They have polar bears there!
Whilst I love the Svalbard prints which show the absolute beauty of the landscape, I believe your true talent lies in portraits. The one of Fenris is truly accomplished, as are those portraits on your own wall and those that I see on your instagram feed etc. Massive congratulations on the launch or your print shop Cecilia :)
Wow, thank you so much! :):)
I wholeheartedly concur. It makes me almost, quite genuinely sad that I'm only now finding the channel and the Fenris Ghost portrait doesn't appear to be available anymore. It's darling and makes me feel so much.
Oh Cecilia I am glad you two are recovering. Mom and Dad dodged a bullet! I am so grateful that you realized where you live is so fantastic and different. AND that others may want to see it. I love your channel. Your parents must feel proud to have raised a strong woman who can live so successfully in such an environment.
The drone footage and music in this video where amazing. Congratulations on the print shop. The photos look fantastic. I’m still amazed that people go winter swimming but think it’s awesome 🤩 i’m sure your parents had a terrific time visiting with you. Keep making videos 😁
I just get lost in your videos- the tranquility of your voice and the mesmerizing world in which you live! I live in America- at a beach in Delaware- and I long for snow and polar nights! So I’ll continue to “visit” you, Christopher, and sweet baby Grim! And living vicariously is a good thing! Have a great day! 💕
Congratulations on your print shop so exciting! So glad you and Christoffer are feeling better.
The prints are gorgeous!! Congrats on getting your storefront up & running! Hope you & Christoffer continue to recover from Covid. Hugs to Grimm! 💛
Thank you so much! 🧡
Can’t wait for traveling restrictions to ease up so that I can have hopes of visiting Svalbard~ Watching your videos gives me life after nearly 3 years of no traveling! Love from South Korea ❤️
From Paris France 🍾🗼
So agree with what you said!😀
My japan tourist group planed travel have been canceled due to covid19 and to Russia/Ukrain war!
The flight modified with increased price so high thatno more possible and the travel agency canceled it
So disapointed 😣
Waiting for peacefull time to travel 🌹✈
Lets hope returning to normal life after more than 2 years with covid19 and now this horrible war in Ukraine with consequences on prices on our every daylife!
Enjoy your video no more masks in Paris just few days ago!
Lets hope returning to normal life again 😷
Same here …. I have postponed so many travel in different country’s for the past 2 years … And in east coast Canada 🇨🇦 right now we are having pandemics 6 coming our way … full blast 💥 It will hit us hard. So, if we can this summer, we will travel on the west coast which is beautiful. We can’t complain, we are healthy. But I miss traveling towards other culture. I bet you do understand right ? 😆 I love my country but I am on this earth to discover the other side … you know … 🌎
You’re just a wonderful, gifted and charismatic artist! I really love your filming🙏🏼🥳🥳👍Greetings from🇦🇹❣️
I'm so happy for you, Cecilia, for getting your print shop going. The prints are gorgeous and so was the video. Sending you and this community those good vibes you mentioned. Thanks for your channel. ❣️🌺❣️🌺
What beautiful photos, the hard part what to purchase first….decisions, decisions. I loved them all. Glad to hear everyone is on the mend and your parents avoid getting sick.
I LOVE you channel so much. I'm obsessed with winter and this all looks like a dream land to me. Your home is stunning and your videos are so soothing. Keep up the amazing work.
Cecilia, you are a breath of fresh air 😊 your enthusiasm for life is infectious!!! Honestly you have inspired me to really enjoy life 😊 thank you for being you ❤
Lots of love from Minnesota. USA.
Hugs and kisses to Grim 😊🥰
Glad you are feeling better and congrats on your launch. Shipping has become insane.
Makes sense to navigate areas in EU to ship. Hope all your work has watermark.
Take care
Amazingly beautiful! I'm from the Caribbean and have always dreamt of living in a place with gorgeous snowy mountains and landscapes. Not able to at the moment though but absolutely loving your channel...experiences, pictures..all of it! Thanks for sharing with us. 💖
Living in Caribbean is a dream to many others too.
I'm a 57 year old male from Texas...myself an wife got covid in December and I was sick for a month...my wife about the same....it's no joke like you said....it kicked our butts!
'My wife and I".
Svalbard remembers me so much about Iceland, the glaciers the ice the snow the mountains with the same layers, so beautiful!
Greatz from Holland
I will definitely be getting one of your prints, they are glorious!! I just realised why I love Svalbard and the landscape there so much (other than the fact it's stunning and fascinating)...at school many, many years ago (30+ years ago, how did I get so old??!!!😄) my favourite subject was physical geography and my absolute favourite part was learning about glaciation and periglaciation!!!! I'd forgotten as it was a lifetime ago, but it explains my love of your videos and seeing the beautiful sights where you are. And you, Christoffer and Grim are lovely and I love seeing what you all get up to. More baking soon I hope, too!!!
Off I go to decide on a print to purchase💙💗
I also got covid after managing to avoid it for 2 years. Had the cheek to go out and enjoy myself for once😆. Hope you both feel better soon, it really does leave you tired.
hahah I will never leave the house again if this is what happens 😂
Fantastic!! The Walrus photo is perfect for my Granddaughter. All of your photos are spectacular!!!
What a beautiful experience! Thank you for bringing us along! Glad you’re better❤️
This video had a different cinematic quality than usual, did you do something different? The swimming looked so invigorating, it made me crave doing it. We are just coming into cooler weather in Melbourne so I'll have to jump into the bay soon!
It could be because the light is changing with Polar Night ending.
Northern polar places has better light, it's more crisp and clear. Snow footage is always very sharp because of that. Atmosphere is cleaner, sun refecting on ice creates pure light.
She now has the DJI magiv 3 pro. Way better cinematic footage.
I’ve noticed that change too ❤
When I had a horse a few years back I decided to do a little trail ride before going grocery shopping. The outside temperature drop quite a bit during our ride and I did not know there was a cold front coming through so I didn’t dress for it. By the time I got back to the barn and got all of the tack off of the horse and put away my thighs were like blocks of ice. It took a few hours for my legs to warm back up and it was painful during the process. I wrote all of that to get to this . . . I don’t think I could bring myself to get into that frigid water even for a few seconds. I’m sure it does have good aspects to it but all I can think about is how painful it was when my legs got so cold riding that day. I’ve been enjoying your videos and love getting to see a glimpse of your life in that fascinating town. ❤️
I love your music choices for your videos. I would love it if you would share the titles! You are so accomplished in so many ways! You have such a wonderful lifestyle and you are so brave!
I love it when I see you have posted a new vlog. I have been lucky enough to visit Svalbard a couple of times, but only in the summer. I am so pleased your prints are up for sale as I want a print of the Aurora. I hope your health keeps improving as it sounds like you were hit quite badly with the Covid virus. Take care x
As someone who's extremely sensitive to the cold, I aplaud your bravery for jumping into the freezing water.
So happy your feeling better, my whole family had it. Pictures are amazing! I hope your business does super well. Is Christopher still working with you at home, since printing is elsewhere? Thanks for sharing 👍
Same! I could never
I'm also so sensitive to cold, yet I think I'd love to try this...as long as I could sit in the sauna afterwards. 😅
And I’m so sensitive to heat, but I love the sauna experience. I just can’t do it for a whole hour, sadly. Cecilia, I’m so glad you’re recovering and hope Christoffer is too. What a relief that your parents didn’t get it! It is such a random virus, and that seems to be one reason it’s so scary. I wish you all the best! Your videos and photos continue to inspire me, always
Agreed....
Beautiful life beautiful Grimm. From a senior in Canada. Makes me realize how much I missed the life I should have followed. Oh well God has kept me safe in this fallen world. Enjoy while you are young, being a good person!!
I remember the first time I entered a sauna. I couldn't take it for more than 20 seconds. I remember that I kept asking, "So people do this voluntarily? Like...on purpose??" My body refuses to breathe hot air. It just won't do it. I live in the northeast U.S. I dread every spring because it means hot weather will be here soon. Once the temperature goes over 73°F, I'm so miserable that I'm a bear. I've fantasized living in northern Alaska or northern Canada since I was a very small child (maybe I was a sled dog in a former life). I really, really envy you, Cecilia and Christopher. You live in a piece of paradise.
I'm so glad you're recovering, Cecilia. Take it slow and steady. Your strength and energy will come back. Love to you all!
You are a gifted photographer Cecilia! You are like a proud mama showing us your photos. Every one "This is my favorite.....!". ❤❤ Congratulations!!!!!
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Congratulations on your new print shop! 💕. You have such a special energy, hope that other countries besides America can get the prints!
Love from Argentina 😘
Love how you show the latitude & longitude 👌 My family think's I'm crazy for liking the cold water. In Florida we have the springs, a constant 72 D all yr long. Love the refreshing feeling it gives me. A sauna is lovely as well! Glad your recovered from Covid too. I 💙 the picture of the Northern light's ~ I'll be saving up for that print 💙
As a Canadian who lives on a lake, there is NO WAY I would go in that water!! Good for you guys!
Greetings from Tennessee, USA. I found your vlogs and loving all of them. I'm sorry you and Chritoffer got sick. You made a fast recovery as you take care of yourselves. I love your home, your life and Feneris and Grim! I'm sure they were at your side while you were resting from COVID. Chris is so kind and talented. He took good care of you and the dogs. I bet he made you some good soups. Fen looks great in glasses. ♥ your prints.
Here in Yellowknife NT Canada I once did take a polar dip when it was -30°C outside In the frozen Great slave lake. The water in the hole we made was 1°C
I love how that is a common practice over there and here in the States we learn that going from extreme cold to extreme hot temperatures (or vise versa) increases the risk of stroke by a lot.
Thank you for making our little world a whole lot more beautiful by sharing your part of the world that so many of us will never be able to visit!
These videos are everything. Thank you for sharing your unique and beautiful life with us Cecilia 💛 I’ll be buying a print soon to support you!
What a cozy vlog
Haha. I’m from Florida. No one believes me when I say that my favorite day of the year is the coldest day! ❄️ Swedish genes 🧬
So glad you and Christoffer are on the mend from the virus. Love your print shop. I'm thinking of the one with the walruses.
Glad to see you are back to your self your work is getting better.
I like your prints too, the one with the window frame and candle especially. What your selling are images that evoke emotion, and that image reminds me of being warm and cozy on a winter day staying inside. The emotion is of calm, safe, warm, hot chocolate, blankets etc, what a great addition to a room it would be.
So glad that you are recovering and feeling better. Going through any illness makes us more appreciative of the life we have isn't it? As usual your videos do not disapoint. My goodness how beautiful it is over there! Every thing looks so crisp and clear, no pollution, just beautiful nature. Your prints are stunning, If i could i would buy all of them to hang on a gallery wall, however I have to wait as we are immigrating to the UK, but it is something i will definitely look into. Thank you for the amazing video.
You are so talented and unique. Thank you for sharing your beautiful landscape and family with us. I am happy to have found your youtube channel.
I’ve recently become fascinated with Nordic cold bathing and sauna culture. I live in the southern US, so cold water is hard to come by here. Luckily, we just had a sauna place open up down the street, and they have a cold plunge pool. I plan to make it a regular part of my routine.
That looks like so much fun! I would do it during the day but I don't think that I could at night. When I was very small, say 3 to 4 years old my father was stationed in Panama and part of his duty was take military big wigs out fishing. His favorite thing was to show us children huge hammerhead sharks swimming underneath the boat. So big, in fact, that their head would be on one side of the boat and tail on the other. This was a very large yacht usually. It wasn't one shark, it was pods of them. So now, I'm terrified of deep water and doubly terrified of dark water. Maybe, my husband and I should do this to face it down.
I want all of them! This video transported me. I needed that. This video is being saved because it's has the amazing compilation of your print stories 💜 ❤️
I love cold plunges too. It wakes me up like nothing else. If feels like you have a brand new body and mind. Try it! It’s a real HIGH.
Gorgeous, Cecelia, love this video! You look so pretty and happy. One would never know how sick you've been. It really hit you hard and hope you're feeling much better! Grim is wonderful and beautiful, precious boy. So awesome and exciting for you and for us that your prints are now available! Congratulations! ❤️
Ooooh!!! I can’t WAIT to get prints of Grim and Fenris! I’ve been waiting! I’m so excited!!! They are my two favorite pups, after my own pup Leo. ❤️❤️❤️
Winter dipping vs winter swimming!
I've always wanted to do winter swimming. I love the exhilarating feeling of cold water and the feeling of being alive that it gives you. 💙❄️ Congratulations on the print shop as well! Super exciting!!
Cecilia, I just can’t thank you enough for your vlog and content and day in the life. I have given up regular TV and I watch you and Cristoffer and Grim and Fenris all day. I am just smitten with all things Svalbard. Your talents are beyond amazing. All the best.😊
Oh nooooo so sorry you got Covid. We caught it this summer, right at the beginning of the Summer Vacation for our daughter. We have never in our lives been SO miserable! My goodness! It really is no joke! Even now, after 2 months, we are still dead tired after just taking a shower. Like...seriously.... But I'm glad it was after your parent's visit and also glad they didn't get sick!
WOW those prints look amazing! I love the one with the mama and baby walrus! So adorable :-) It's not easy trying to start a webshop huh?! I tried it too the past 2 years. I sold sustainable tshirts, hoodies and sweatshirts with fun prints on them(printed with ecofriendly paints!) Even my business cards had like wild flowerseeds in them so that if they would somehow end up somewhere in nature, flowers would grow out of them. But it was no success sadly :-( I put my heart and soul in it and nobody here in Belgium was interested. So I really hope your print shop will be more successful! I really wish that for you because your work is amazing and your location is so unique, those photo's are not something everybody has so I love that!
Almost caught up on your videos....I'm getting there...hoping to finish watching all of them by the end of this week! :-)
Your photography is amazing. They are beautiful.
Beautiful! You have opened my eyes to the beauty of a landscape that is completely foreign to me, a dweller of the subtropics. Your work has the ability to take us there. I can almost feel the snow!
Glad you are feeling better. Me and my family got covid around Christmas with milder symptoms. Get better and stay strong.
Beautiful prints! All of them, stunning! You are seriously talented and blessed. 💖
I’m watching this video from a still warm Qatar , and I cannot even imagine jumping into water that cold but I guess you wouldn’t imagine stepping out of your home into 52degree C heat in our midsummer …which is something I do fairly often in my daily work . I love your videos ❤
The values of blue in your photographs and videos are exquisite!
Some of the vocals in the music selections almost sound like mountain echoes.
Magical!
Interesting you prounounce it “saw-na”. I grew up with my Finnish grandmother saying “sow-na” and we just followed suit.
I’m Canadian and up in Northern Ontario, where our family cottage is located, there is a significant Finnish population who all say “sow-na”. I get the strangest looks when I return to southern Ontario and use the Finnish pronunciation! 🇫🇮🇨🇦☺️
I NEED the ghost dog print. That’s going in my house. 🤣
Perfect way to start my Sunday morning. Thank you, Cecilia. ❄️💙
PS......I just love your life. So fun!
Love your prints. Glad you are getting better.
You have some beautiful shots of the red/orange terrain of Svalbard during the summer…I hope you get some up in the shop!!
Ooooh, those photos! My God! All of them are gorgeous! With all these blues, all the shades and whites and it's just wonderful! Frankly speaking, put up everything you've got! Nobody will ever complain from beautiful views and fluffy puppies! I loved some of the shots from above you showed between the prints! And glaciers! That awesome cave you showed us recently...so interesting!
Just amazing photos! 😍🤩👍 ❤🎉Congrats on your shop!
And I loved the one taken in the fall with the red building down in the right corner. My colors too!
You seem so fulfilled, living in a basically hostile environment yet cozy in your place and busy with your life’s passions. Lovely.
Your creativity is amazingly vast and yet so detailed. The visuals you share with us are beautiful and I thank you for sharing such beauty and positive spirit. LOL though, a super hot 90F sauna. It was 88F where I live today, 5/5. Here the popular sport is running. In the afternoons at the hottest hr of the day the streets and sidewalks are covered with enthusiasts. I love that U love UR ice bathing. I love my heat running.
Thank you for your kind words! 🧡🧡😍
Love "Mountain Views" from your print shop. The interior/exterior captures the coziness of inside with with darkened room and lit candle and the crispness of the cold winter outside with the snowy mountainscape.
Omg YES I would LOVE that gorgeous crisp print if it’s not on the shop already!!!
This is the prettiest video so far. Love music, photos and seeing the sauna swimming. Excellent!
The Fenris ghost photo is STUNNING. A true work of art 😍
haha I love that you think so! 😍
Love all the prints, beautiful work.
That boat moment could be a print In itself on this video ❤
My goodness I have no idea how you are able to muster the will power to swim in that water. I honestly couldn't do it. I used to have trouble getting into our pool in Malaysia first thing in the morning! You Scandinavians are from hardier stock than myself that's for sure 😄
The prints are gorgeous! So very happy that you’re feeling better ❤️❤️❤️
I’m so excited for you guys, the print shop is something you’ve talked about for some time! And honestly Svalbard is gorgeous! I’m catching up with your videos as I have been on a knitting spree and I can’t watch your videos while I need they are too precious, I need to be paying the attention they deserve. I hope you’re feeling better from covid! Love from Portugal ❤️
You are so brave jumping into dark water! I would be more scared of swimming at night time off a pier than the cold water ❄
Congratulations on the launch of your print shop ! You photos look really amazing!
Glad you both feel much better after covid :-)
On an another note 😮 your cold dip/sauna swimming 😮 I am from Greece 🇬🇷 and I was feeling cold watching your video 🤣🤣🤣
Thank you very much for all your beautiful videos. It is a great company on Sundays 💖
My sister and I are both planning to move and we really, really love these for our wall art!
I just love watching your videos. I’ve been on Grim binge for 3 days now💖💖💖
My son (29) has CVID (an immunity disease) and for those reasons he and I still have to wear a mask now (2024)! Every month we have to go to the clinic where he gets a baxter. That for the rest of his life! I have to go along because he (like me) also has a muscle- and connective tissue disease and he also has a physical disability. We have escaped COVID so far and hopefully it will continue like that, because I have heard so much from people who have got it and what the consequences can be. I sincerely hope that all people (not just those who got Covid but anyone who is sick), who are good at heart & disposition, will recover completely! Wishing you all the best from the bottom of my heart, lots of love, stay safe & healthy, Pinkie
Cecilia, I just love your videos, they have been my escape through the hard COVID winter while working at the hospital. You have inspired me to come and visit Svalbard and this June I will finally come to see this gorgeous place for myself. Love from Berlin 🇩🇪
Wow! I was there in Svalbad, the sauna just a couple of days before this video was released. The area was frozen in sheets, the rental person told us it was about -2C in the water.
congrats on your printshop! Your photos and videos are breathtaking!
looks like some prints shown in this video are no longer available in the printshop
I just started drinking matcha two years ago. It has almost completely replaced coffee for me. I love it. Hope you feel better soon. I had covid at the start of the new year, and it took 4 weeks for me to recover. Even now (2.5 months since I exited isolation), I am still feeling certain after effects. I hope yours heals quickly and that you are back to your old self soon.
The colours are stunning in the pictures ❤️
Cecilia, glad you both are ok and covid wasn't too terrible. Just a reminder that we love your videos and the life you share with us all. You have absolutely done an excellent job of showing Svalbard to the world and no doubt have caused many of us winterlovers to want to visit. I hope someday you will do tours for tourists as Im sure many of us would love to meet you guys. Give Grimm a snuggle for us!
Cheers!
Discovered your channel a few months ago and can’t stop watching! You really have such a talent for cinematography/photography - so happy for your print shop! Congratulations!!
Literally, each print you held up had me audibly saying "stop whaaaaatt" "goooorrrgeeouuss" "wOOOOw"
Lovely to see you and your parents enjoying a sauna and swim, looks fantastic 👏 Your prints will sell so well, who wouldn't want a picture of beautiful Svalbard on the wall?! Glad you and Chris are shaking off the Covid bug, Grim💗🐾
I received my print today! It’s even more beautiful in person! I love it! ❤️
Your video was what I needed this morning. I feel so calm, inspired and motivated through your videos! Thank you! And congratulations on the print shop! I especially love the prints where the sunlight hits the ice and the earth tone ones.
As I shared before swam off of Maine/ New Brunswick as a child. First feet/ legs turn red then almost painful tingle…as you wade out it takes your breath away. Now in bathtub of Florida.
Loved Svalbard on visit. I also contracted CoVid on first venture out to sing in a chorus. Mine extremely mild, vaccines & boosters. We both proved how valuable mask are. Love your photography. I take many photos of birds. Jeanne retired RN
You are too brave my dear. That frozen water makes me shiver. I am cold and its about 70 degrees but cloudy. Lovely drone shots and Grim looking beautiful as ever. Enjoy your week.
In California we do polar bear jumps on New Year’s Day. I like it but I’m not used to the cold lol.
Congrats on the new print shop! The prints are so gorgeous! I am definitely a winter girl and these landscapes would make me feel winter vibes all year. Please add the print that you were unsure about in the video. I absolutely loved that one with the lake and cracked ice in the foreground. Also, is the walrus print still available? I don’t see it in the shop. I wish you a speedy recovery. Hugs from Chicago. 🤗💙🤍
I love your drone shots. Looking at them really helps me relax ready for sleep. It's such an amazingly unique and unspoilt landscape you have.
Great video! Love the photography. You’re very talented.
Your prints are exceptional, and I loved everyone you shared on your video. The one with Grim in front of the glacier looked like a watercolor! I hope I can one day purchase one to enjoy in my home. Thank you!
I'm glad you feel a little better, it takes time. I'm still recovering so I totally understand that. Take care x
Loved this, the prints are amazing! At the end made me giggle also started drinking matcha alternating coffee.☕🙌🏽😂