Salt and Sweat – Bikram Yoga Dublin

Salt Cave

Salt therapy improves airway function, clearing mucus from your airways. When the respiratory system is compromised inflammation can occur as a result of increased oxidative stress and damage to lung tissue.
Anti-bacterial helping to prevent infection.
Salt can trigger a chemical reaction that boosts serotonin levels which produces relaxing, uplifting effects.Think about how you feel after sea swimming or simply breathing the air at the beach; that’s salt at work, too. Chilling in the salt cellar may also improve your complexion and overall skin.
Anti allergic
Energizing -Negative ions are oxygen atoms charged with an extra electron. They are odorless, tasteless, and invisible molecules that we inhale in abundance in certain environments such as near waterfalls, at the beach and in the salt cellar.
Immune boosting
Salt therapy reduces cytokine production and can help reduce chronic inflammation.

Infra-red therapy enhances and improves circulation -brings oxygen and nutrients to injured tissue, promoting healing
It helps to ease pain, relieves inflammation and protects against oxidative stress
Improves detoxification, improves the cardiovascular system
Improved skin tone infra red waves dilate the blood vessels, effectively increasing circulation throughout the body. The increased circulation not only helps remove waste products but also helps deliver more oxygen and nutrients to the skin. Since our skin depends on these nutrients to form collagen (which helps firm the skin) infra red therapy can be a great way to improve skin tone and reduce wrinkles.
Flushes out toxins our immune systems are up against a barrage of toxicity that our ancestors never had to deal with, the air that we breath, the food that we eat, even the water we drink! Combined with a lifelong poor diet is a recipe for accumulated toxins and a potentially weakened immune system. At the requisite temperature (40 to 55) the detoxification gets going, giving your body the extra push to eliminate. Specifically this is achieved through sweating.
Weight loss.
Improved cardiovascular health.