The Healing Heat
Why the heated room is the way to go!
RESEARCH IN GERMANY back in the 1960s showed that when the core temperature of muscle tissue is raised by only 1-2 degrees C, there is an increase of flexibility and joint mobility of between 15-20 %. We heat the studio to 30°C to warm up your entire body, so you can work deeper in a shorter amount of time, without risking injury to joints and ligaments. You’ll see results faster. The heat makes stretching a wonderful liberating experience. Niggling aches and pains will melt away and old injuries start to heal.
Why the experience of practicing in our heated room is unsurpassed
A little about Our Radiant Heating.
Most heating systems blow out hot air. The effect on your body is harsh and drying. It can irritate the mucous membranes in the nasal and throat cavities and dry your skin. They also spread dust and any air born pathogens (diseases like flus, etc). If you work in an office building, then you know all too well what we’re talking about.
So What’s the Deal with Radiant Heating?
Our heating system mimics the natural, radiant warmth of the sun, only without the visible light or burning UV spectrums. Rather than just heating the air around you, radiant heat penetrates deeply below the skin into the muscles, right down to the bones, warming the body from the inside.
- Radiant heat promotes rebuilding of injured tissue and is excellent for healing burns, scar tissue and skin problems. Radiant heat-rays have a positive effect on the connective tissue cells necessary for the repair of injury (fibroblasts). Radiant heat also increases cell growth, DNA syntheses, and protein synthesis. All these elements are vital during tissue repair and regeneration.
- Radiant heat also boosts your immunity and speeds healing. The production of white blood cells (leukocytes) in the bone marrow, as well as killer T-cells in the thymus are stimulated. Along with your bodies barrier (the skin), these are your bodies primary defense mechanism. These are the very cells that are responsible for killing off pathogenic (disease causing) bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites in your body.
- Your skin tone and texture is improved by stimulating collagen production. On top of this, sweating a lot during your workout is also great for maintaining optimum skin moisture level. Your skin will glow!
- Radiant heat also enhances your metabolism, increasing circulation dramatically. Your tissues are nourished, oxygenated and detoxified at an accelerated rate. The capillaries are expanded, stimulating increased blood flow, regeneration, circulation and oxygenation.
- Radiant heat also acts to break down cellulite and promotes the elimination of fat, trapped water, toxins and waste.
- You will notice decreased muscle and joint pain and stiffness.
- Radiant heat also assists in recovery from stress and fatigue, promoting relaxation and improved sleep. Nervous tension is relieved and auto-neuro muscles relax. This helps your body make the most of its intended healing abilities. Radiant Heating reduces soreness on nerve endings and reduces muscle spasms.
- Powerful Detox.
(Don’t kid yourself! Living in modern times means that we all inevitably accumulate foreign and toxic substances in our bodies. Substances absorbed from un-natural foods, toxic or manufactured household and body products and atmospheric pollutants. If you are very healthy and also drink lots of water, many of these will be processed by the liver or kidneys and eliminated through body wastes. Some, however, are stored in fatty tissues or warehoused in different parts of the body – Disease in waiting!)
Radiant heat rays activate and ionize water molecules. The human body consists of around 60% water. Water molecules are unique due to the fact that one side of the molecule is positive charged and the opposite side is negative charged, therefore water molecules have a tendency to cluster like grapes on a vine. If the size of cluster is smaller, it means better performance on infiltrating into and detoxifying out of cells. Penetrating radiant heat minimises cluster size of water molecules to flush out toxins.
- This accelerates the body’s ability to heal from soft tissue injuries, tears pulls and sprains.
- Many ancient cultures around the globe venerated the sun as the source of vitality and well-being and used heat therapy to heal pain and illness. Science has now shown that they were really on to something!