SAUNAS
Saunas do more than enhance your home They can improve your well-being
By JILL BUCKLAND Photography by JOEL RINER
Heat from infrared saunas is said to penetrate more deeply than heat from traditional saunas but each offers benefits.
A lthough currently enjoying a surge in popularity, the practice of sitting in a heat- filled room is no new fad. The sauna emerged over 2,000 years ago in Finland and was originally built with logs. Rocks would be heated in a fire, placed in the sauna hut and doused with water to create sweltering steam and high heat.
Saunas are hot! Not only are they 180 degrees of relaxing warmth, but a sauna is also a wonderful way to enhance your health and home.
Today, wood-fired heaters are still common for outdoor use, but new technologies have made the home sauna easy and convenient. Electric and infrared are the most common types of in-home saunas, according to the folks at Pool World, which has seen a 46% uptick in sauna sales over the past year. The company’s Coeur d’Alene location has had a
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