Getting to the Chicago Sweatlodge It’s 5 pm. I am being driven through the heart of Chicago on surface streets. Instead of the clogged highways, we are inching along miles and miles of four lane city roads flanked on either side by
I loved this beer even before I took the first sip. (I lived in West London 30 years ago). Summit Brewing and I are on the same page. Gets me all kinds of thinking: I’d like to go to go
There’s something beneficial about taking a deep breath and considering these two terms: scarcity abundance Conventional thinkers practice the attitude of scarcity. You are required to show up at a certain time and leave at a certain time and, if in
Beyond sauna’s health and wellness benefits, having a sauna at our cabin, cottage, lake home, and or backyard does something else. Kids love sauna. Really young kids enjoy dumping water on their heads in the hot room. Young kids’ sauna rounds are
Sauna Rule #1: Drink plenty of water. Sauna rules #2-#6, added up, are all less important than sauna rule #1. This is nothing new. Saunatimes rambled about this in 2009. Folks who have taken sauna regularly their whole lives understand
In a sauna, a good sauna, there’s a moment when the sauna bather, sitting on the hot room bench, all of a sudden may start itching all over. It’s ok. Sometimes the itching will start around the ankles. Sometimes the
Saturday June 4, National Sauna Day, started with an early summer drizzle and kept sputtering all day long. We awoke from a convivial night’s sauna session at my cabin on Pine Island, Lake Vermilion (Sauna Talk podcast from hot room coming
Thanks to some German ingenuity from Klafs, A sauna manufacturer and distributor with 16 showrooms throughout Germany, folks living in urban centers with tight spaces can expand their health and wellness thanks to this new offering: As Klafs boasts: Discover
People in Seattle understand it. People in Northern England, Scandinavia, Belgium, Netherlands and Germany understand it. People in Northern Minnesota and Minneapolis understand it too. After about three days of a persistent low pressure system – when the sidewalks never dry,
Blowing through bustling traffic in the windy city we find a calm oasis I had the pleasure to meet up with sauna enthusiast, Saunatimes reader, and Chicago area resident Officer Kevin O’Connell. Kevin graciously introduced me to the major sweatlodges in
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