Heat Box !

Sauna, the wooden heat box, the Dante’s Inferno, the furnace, the pit, and a great stress reliever and detoxifier – 12 minutes of pain ! Sitting in this heat box with other sweat masters and detoxologist motivated me to push myself to the limit. Inhaling and exhaling, clinched fists, and closed eyes lids, heart pounding through my chest. Billions of tiny little beads of sweat bursting out of my pours and flooding the wooden deck with excessive salt and waste deposits from an overly excessive and toxic body.

The hardest part was breathing. In a sauna every breath counts. There’s just something about hearing our own breath as you exert energy just to breath. You have to pace yourself, you see. You need to learn how to breath in moderate rhythms so that you don’t over exert yourself. A good way to do this is the close your eyes and relax as much as you can. Don’t move too much either. Pretty soon you’ll be approaching your 1 minute mark then afterwards you can reward yourself with an ice cold dunk in a mizu buro(cold water bath) which will feel like heaven on ice after 12 grueling minutes in a hot sauna.

My routine is as follows: Shower down first, at a local sento, I like to scrub my body with a very coarse nylon towel which when rubbed on the skin will create a bit of agitation on the surface openning up your pores. After that, I use a plastic scalp brush to thoroughly brush my scalp. This stimulates the pores in you scalp wonderfully. I gargle, not swallow, water then enter the sauna.

Once in the sauna I stay for 12 minutes then get out and rinse the excessive sweat off my body then I slowly get into the mizu buro. I submerse myself off and on for a few seconds. Overall I stay in the mizu buro for 3 to 4 minutes then come out and recuperate my constitutions. I do this again for about 4 to 5 sets ! By the time you finish your sweat will taste like water and you will feel wonderful. Drink tons of water after you finish your last set, not during the sauna session because your intestines will store the excess water from your kidneys making you feel bloated. If you get too thirsty just gargle in between sets only. ( I’m not a doctor. This was recommended to me by a friend). Then jump into the mineral laden onsen water so that your body soaks up all the mineral content it lost during your sauna session. Bath for about a half and hour then drink a sports drink.

Go home and sleep like a baby.

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