Infrared Yoga Sauna
Infrared Sauna with Chromatherapy, Red Light Therapy, and Halo One Therapy
The ClearLight Infrared Yoga Sauna at Arise Wellness Center is large and comfortable, unlike many smaller size saunas at other facilities. It is large enough to do Yoga, hot workouts, or sports training stretching while enjoying the benefits of our in sauna red light therapy tower or the various chromatherapy options. For those who prefer relaxing, pair your phone or tablet to the Bluetooth speakers and sit back in the wave lounge chair and listen to your favorite music, podcast, or downloaded tv/movie programs. For those who like company, their is space to share with other family members. Sauna sessions range from 15 minutes to 45 minutes depending on individual health and tolerance. It is advised to start with shorter sessions and lower temperature settings and gradually build up to longer and more intensive sessions. Sessions can be booked online through our site and include towels and red light glasses. Make sure to bring your water bottle and utilize your toxin binding supplements before/after your session depending on your health/detox needs. Arise Wellness does have a sauna comfort pack that can be purchased in office and includes items to make your session more enjoyable and effective. Food should not be consumed for 1 hour prior to sauna use for optimal health benefit.
Benefits of Infrared Sauna Therapy
Infrared Sauna acts an antioxidant nutrient. It is a powerful way to manage everyday toxins!
Skin Rejuvenation: Our skin is our largest organ and in most people the skin is inactive, congested, and toxic. Infrared sauna slowly restores elimination through the skin creating a healthier body.
Enhanced Sweating: Sweating gently and safely eliminates toxic chemicals and metals. Sweating helps eliminate toxins via the skin thereby reducing the load on the liver and kidneys.
Decongests Internal Organs: Heating the body powerfully shunts blood to the surface of the skin greatly stimulating circulation.
Strengthen the Immune system: Raising body temperature can help kill bacteria, fungi, parasites, and viruses. Many people have a low body temperature and for this reason are unable to clear chronic infections of the sinuses, ears, throat, lungs, bladder, intestine, joints, and other systems. Heat therapy can also assist in destroying other types of abnormal cells as tumors tolerate heat poorly.
Sauna therapy boosts metabolism, can reduce cellulite, increase energy and strengthen the cardiovascular system, aid in better sleep, temporarily relieve arthritis and muscle pain, and reduce stress.
Sauna Salt Therapy
HALO ONE Salt Therapy is an optional add on to your sauna session that can help stimulate the respiratory system, reduce inflammation, fight infection, clear blockages and reduce discomfort. The health benefits of salt therapy are believed to be anitbacterial and anti- infammatory, and can help with excessive mucous, pathogen agents, digestive issues, skin conditions, and immune system support.
Regular use of infrared sauna has many foundational health benefits and can aid you and your family in your healthy lifestyle path.
According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, regular use of a sauna imparts a similar boost on the cardiovascular system as running. As you relax in the gentle infrared heat, your body is hard at work producing sweat, pumping blood, and burning calories.
As your body increases sweat production to cool itself, your heart works harder to pump blood at a greater rate to boost circulation. This increase in your metabolism may burn calories.
Using the infrared sauna as intended, as part of a healthy lifestyle promotes the temporary increase in blood flow to muscles and may offer temporary relief of arthritic pain.
Muscles relax best when tissues are warm for greater flexibility and range of motion. Far Infrared heat may help relieve muscle tension by increasing the thermal energy in your muscles.
Throughout the years, infrared sauna sessions have proven beneficial for both physical and mental health. The process of infrared sauna detoxification specifically helps temporarily improve circulation, increase metabolism, and achieve overall wellness within the body.
Sauna Detoxification Tips
Get Moving!
Heat can also be created internally so people who can exercise should do so as this also encourages the body to sweat. Both sauna and exercise are beneficial for toxin elimination. Working out prior to your sauna session will help increase your body's ability to release toxins.
Mop Up the Mess: Binders/Supplements
Heat allows toxins to become reintroduced into the body’s circulation which increases the potential for oxidative stress. There are a variety of supplements that target various needs that we recommend to aid the body in eliminating toxins from sauna therapy. These supplements are needed to safely help transport the toxins out of the body, replenish minerals lost in sweating, and aid in decreasing oxidative damage from toxins recirculating in the body.
Gotta Go!
Before starting sauna therapy, make sure all your detox pathways are open. You should be having at minimum one bowel movement per day. Arise wellness also recommends a targeted whole body homeopathic detox at least 7 days prior to starting a sauna therapy detoxification regiment.
Detox NOT Digestion
Do not eat at least 1 hour prior to your sauna session as digestion requires work from the body and you want your body to be able to focus on detox not digestion. Do not utilize alcohol or recreational drugs prior to sauna.
Soak It Out
Most people do not have the time or energy to utilize the sauna every day so in between sauna sessions it is recommended you continue your detoxification process with Arise Wellness custom detox tea baths, specialty detox salts, detox herbal smoothies, and various binders/supplements. Detox tea baths with our custom herbal blends for targeted health goals/challenges are an easy, effective, and relaxing detox method that you can do several days/week in your own home.
Grab & Go
Create a Sauna Bag that you can grab and go! The bag should have your binders/supplements, large glass/stainless steel water bottle with filtered water, hair ties/clips/sweat bands, bamboo face towel, and non toxic baby/body wipes. Keep whatever you are comfortable wearing during your session in your bag. Some people prefer to wear only a towel and others prefer a swimsuit. Make sure that you have clothes to put on post sauna that you don’t mind getting dirty. Many people bring loose fitting T- shirts and shorts to put on over swimsuits following sauna sessions as you will still sweat for a short time following your session. Some people like to have a small healthy snack post sauna sessions. Small bags of pistachios, nuts, fiber or protein bars can all provide a boost if needed. You should be utilizing non toxic laundry care products otherwise you will continue to expose yourself to toxins in the sauna! Detoxification is a lifestyle change and educating yourself on the many toxins in your environment that you can easily swap out for healthier alternatives will be needed for your success.
Sauna Protocols & Precautions
Gentle Detoxification Technique When Used Appropriately
There are various sauna detoxification protocols in books and online. Many protocols are intense and require a lot of preparation, time, expense, structure, and consistency. The level of structure and intensity that these protocols require is generally not attainable to most people in their daily lives and with busy family schedules. Nevertheless, sauna detoxification is a valuable tool to aid the body in removing unwanted chemicals that cause toxic overload to many of the body’s critical organ systems. Certain supplements utilized in these protocols are also not easily tolerated for many individuals. For all of these reasons, Arise Wellness recommends a gradual increase in sauna use with binders to help move toxins out of the body. It is recommended that all your detox pathways be open prior to starting sauna detox program. The fundamental principle that governs detoxification is that heat liberates toxins from fats, which then gets flushed out by the sweat and carried off by the blood to the liver, kidney, and GI tract. The use of sauna for liberating toxins from adipose tissue has been fairly well established as being effective for the treatment of toxicity for many years. Infrared sauna technology creates the ability to cause a more vigorous sweat at lower temperatures which may create a more comfortable experience for the user due to less time needed at lower temperatures.
Certain individuals should NOT utilize sauna detoxification therapy. You should consult your primary health provider and/or pharmacist if you are uncertain if your medications or potential medical conditions are not best suited for sauna therapy.
- Pregnant/breastfeeding women should not use the sauna
- Clients with a pacemaker or defibrillator should not use the sauna
- Clients with a history of circulatory system or heart issues should consult a physician prior to using the sauna
- Clients utilizing medications such as diuretics, barbiturates, antihistamines, and beta blockers or any medication that could impact your heart rate or interrupt your body’s ability to sweat should consult a physician/pharmacist prior to utilizing the sauna
- Clients with artificial joints, pins, prosthetics, or surgical implants should consult your surgeon or the implant device manufacturer prior to using the sauna
- Clients with Multiple Sclerosis, central nervous system tumors, or any condition associated with impaired sweating should not utilize the sauna
- Clients with chronically hot and swollen joints should not use the sauna
- Clients with enclosed infection (dental, joints, other tissues) should not use the sauna
- Clients with hemophilia or predisposed to hemorrhage should not use the sauna
- Clients with an active fever or any condition that causes heat insensitivity should not use the sauna
- Clients who have experienced a significant joint injury within the past 48 hours should not use the sauna
- Children under 16 should not use the sauna unless accompanied by a supervising parent
If you fall into a category that should not use infrared sauna therapy but are still wanting detoxification therapy benefits, Arise Wellness Center has other detoxification strategies that can be utilized and tailored to specific health conditions.