She moved to the capital of the sauna to the United States. Can I bear the heat? | Well in reality
andIrst was the sauna, which I loved. A small building with a stove from the inside to make you look perfect in the middle of the winter, when the priority increased the warmth. I felt that the sinuses are clear from the sauna heat, and this alone is enough of the healthy benefit for me – I have a small child, so I have permanent congestion thanks to the daytime sponsorship in the winter.
Then the hard part came. After the heat of the sauna 180f (80c), walking abroad was a relief. But I had to deal with a step ladder to the ice, and I was completely sure that I would hate it.
The hot part of the sauna has a great meaning in this climate – it is cold and soil, and people need warmth. However, the sauna lovers say, the best experience with the most healthy benefits also includes a cold diving in a lake or swimming pool, rolling in snow or throwing cold water on yourself. This part was much more difficult to sell.
It was a cold day in January in the state of Minnesota, and the idea of entering intentionally to a frozen lake instead of ending up due to an unfortunate accident that challenged my upbringing in the cold northern Dakota. There, my typical winter mode was simply to survive.
Oh no, I thought when she decreased in the ice hole, wearing a swimming suit, a winter hat and wool socks. I love this. Will I have to change my personality?
I felt the stranger, although people next to me possessed and screaming through discomfort. I was not shaking. My mind was empty. I stayed in cold water for about two minutes, after the 30 seconds that our host suggested to decrease for the first time.
I went back to the upper Middle West in late 2023 after a decade in the southwestern heat of Phoenix in Arizona. I wanted to embrace the winter – and the growing culture of the growing sauna in the new state of Minnesota, which is often called “the capital of the sauna” for the United States.
Gilin Euerbach, founder of Saunat, and author of the book “A. book On how to build your sauna. “But yes, I would like to say that we lead this charge with several measures.”
Minnesota’s cultural heritage, climate and topography show themselves well with a sauna. The area becomes very cold and snow in the winter. January, the typical, is the most famous temperature in the mid -twenties of the twentieth century; Days where the temperature does not exceed 0f (-18C) is not unusual. The state is more than 10,000 lakes, and it is ideal for ice ending after the sauna warm -up. In the late nineteenth century, the state saw a wave of Scandinavian settlers who brought the tendency of their countries of origin to a sauna – especially the Finnish.
“Often, they were building a sauna first, before they built their house,” said Jessica Nelson Roll, Operations Director of 612 Sauna, and she is the director of the mobile sauna. “The sauna was a place where they went to shower and were with each other. Some people even born children in the sauna.”
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When my husband and I looked for homes in the Minynabolis area, I noticed that many sauna on the basement, and realized that she should be relatively common. Will I become a sauna?
“I always say, the good sauna resembles a candle that lights up another candle, and when you test it, you want it yourself,” said Auerbach.
I wanted to try some different types of sauna and roads. Mobile sauna, where you can rent a place on the bench, an easy starting point. Friends and family brought to sit on wooden benches throughout the metro area, abandoning our phones to decompress in severe heat. Minnesotans are often isolated, not especially with strangers. But in the sauna, I found that people are more gossip, the nearby proximity does not require them to deal with others. This is an ideal hobby for the person who loves Yap.
“Sauna is a great way to communicate with other people without having to go out or go to a bar or drink,” Nelson Roll said. “It is a really great way to take care of yourself and still in society and you have this social aspect.”
I left one sauna thinking about my vision was blurry. There is a danger, especially if you are new to the sauna, in exaggerating it and drying yourself. Auerbach said that the time limits can vary from five to 20 minutes in the round, but the key is to control and listen to your body’s heart. In my case, though, it was my glasses that were blurry. Extreme temperatures can melt anti -glow paint on the described lenses, which are called “madness”. When the ophthalmologist called alternatives, they said that this is often happening in a sauna and professional chef.
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By searching for other opportunities from the sauna, I found that the Great Northern Winter Festival surpasses the “sauna village”, where it tested dozens of items or so between the other beginners and “Sauna Bruce” competing to know who can stand at the most important temperature. It was a single and elegant sauna, while others resemble cabins or barrels. The most dedicated sauna pioneers wore a bell -shaped hats to protect their hair or prevent their heads or ears from high temperature.
This first cold diving occurred in the sauna camp, which is located at the summer camp site in Lexide. The hosts said that someone rented a special sauna next to our birthday party, and we later heard “Happy Birthday”. It was a sign of the cultural importance of Saungas here, “Like marriage in a golf course in Arizona,” my husband joked when I later told him.
I began to become a sauna, dug the atmosphere and understand the call very quickly. The physicist Craig Ringhvin was another easy transformation. Ringvven watches were cut through the epidemic, so he spent more time at home. He used a sauna in the northern Minnesota state and decided to build the backyard for it. The Bond Koy’s tank has become a cold down, and added a barrel sauna alongside its separate mirror. I presented the burning of burning inside the relaxing area.
After friends and acquaintances penetrated the use of this backyard oasis, the business, Nordic Nok. Ringhvin said he was eventually closed by Golden Valley, where he lives, because household companies need to be inside a house completely. But he hopes he can reopen it one day.
Let me check this. Special preparation, between sparkling lights, has been perfect for spending the night of history. My husband, Ariston, said for life, that the burning sauna heat reminded him of the house – but he spent only seven seconds in cold diving.
Ringhvin has warned me that cold indulgence could be addiction. “It is shocking and shocking, but you return directly to the sauna, and you feel severe and wake up. The more subsequent times you are doing, the easier and easier it’s.”
In that evening in the backyard of the Ringsven, the temperature was very cold, in the single numbers. The blessing was 27f (-3C). I wanted to skip the diving, but then I must admit that I had overlooked it, so I entered. I managed about a minute before moving. I stick to my wool socks on the cold ground and I go back to the sauna, icy but proud of myself.
Perhaps I will not add a sauna to my house anytime, although I love to be able to meet neighbors and abroad even when it freezes. But I must admit, perhaps the biggest factor in finally becoming a sauna is the idea of being “good” in something, even if this thing remains calm in freezing cold water.