Sauna + Cold Plunge Hydrotherapy: Detox Winter Self Care — Full Transcript

00: 00 foreign folks folks sauna time beautiful day gonna uh have a little sweat end of the year it's actually a really warm day for almost November putting the gardens to bed trying to cover up it's hard to see but there's some new beds here I'm gonna get these all covered with Leaf clippings and wood maybe wood chips but usually I do leaves and grass clippings Leaf clippings moan leaves and uh in a uh you know Hopper and grass clippings and uh well Zone one self-care here also some focus on sauna sauna and um why they're so important

01: 00 and um why they're so important in uh [Music] cold climate world see if this actually I don't know if this will actually work but uh so let's see how warm it is in here it's hard to hold anything metal okay so we're at 170. that's hot oh all right um so may discuss it a little bit I might just voice over this because I don't know it's not that cool to talk in the sauna that much or make a video in here it's pretty Sacred Space but this is a Helo stove I'll I'll share the info in uh the

02: 00 I'll I'll share the info in uh the description has a lot of um Stone in the top hard to see a little dark but uh let me put a little one piece of killing in for a little light once it gets about 150 in here it's pretty hard to touch the um the handle but before then you kind of can I know it sounds impossible that it's 150 degrees in here or it says 170 in here at like belly level but it's so dry you can be in a place that's that warm and uh and not die I mean you can't be here too long you will die but you'd be here 10 to 20 minutes between dips in the pond um um I've made a bunch of saunas and often I've just done it on the cheap I mean I made a song in college for 300 bucks with hay bale seats but it's nice to have a real sauna stove

03: 00 but it's nice to have a real sauna stove and actually invest in that because um you can make Steam you can't really make Steam uh janky regular old stuff you can make a lot of heat but it won't make Steam they're not designed that way this has the stone goes in like a foot is surrounded by the Firebox you want to use special stone too or they'll blow up very easily expand on you not cool to have rocks blowing up on you hot rocks 500 800 degree rocks when you're in Asana um um so I'll probably do a little voice over on this video and have to edit a little just so you uh can get the picture because I just don't want to sit in here talking to a camera while I'm starting to sweat hard but I'm gonna sweat probably just a few minutes because it's really hot in here and uh normally it takes an hour to heat up when it's 40 30 20 10 degrees out Fahrenheit it's like 60 degrees out right now it's

04: 00 it's like 60 degrees out right now it's a really warm day for late October um um so it's heated up really quick and it's also been going for like two hours see you in the pond that is a warm one okay [Applause] Pro tip drink a little water

05: 00 Pro tip drink a little water good for your bio I mean not if it's depending on the pond but in this Pond drinking some water good idea for me anyway wow it's so warm out beautiful I can just hang out outside normally you want to wear some flip-flops um um you know the feet get real cold but uh this is a little microclimate zone I'm a workout session workout space and uh gorgeous Breezy warm day extra bonus when you can get a bunch of

06: 00 extra bonus when you can get a bunch of sun I'm amazed folks how little son people seek except when they're on vacation but your average person seems to me to have completely forgotten how how much they need the freaking star like our local star our son kind of essential just a little bit I was buying steel the other week gorgeous day it hadn't been Sunny much in September it was middle Day lunch break these guys are in this Warehouse with no windows toxic air right when I get there they get a lunch break and I'm thinking well they'll pull their seat you know into the sun huge giant door opens to the South Sun streaming it they had the sun streaming in when a huge truck came to pick up Steel and I was like oh that's nice that's a

07: 00 and I was like oh that's nice that's a nice nice relief for these guys they closed the door and just sat inside during their lunch break break and you know they didn't look too good um um they don't get any sun five days a week basically and uh we're in a cold climate Northern climate it's as important as any food I mean you'll probably die sooner of not eating than lack of sun but you'll die of lack of sun pretty quickly too and live really bad ly until that happens yeah yeah so uh it's cool there's a honeybee wanting to uh checking out the rock a lot I wonder if there's like minerals that she's after ah so the sauna is a key way of of

08: 00 so the sauna is a key way of of surviving winter in this climate um um I got into it and well I think I was exposed to it in high school because I had a friend who was a an exchange student from Sweden his name literally his name is Ludwig Thor no joke from Sweden not even a cold part of Sweden and a lot of Sweden's not as cold as here actually actually very little of Sweden is um as cold as Northern New England um um even though it's so far north because the Gulf Stream and uh he couldn't believe no one had saunas and he's like okay it's getting cold you know it's just as cold here as at home and it's just as cloudy if not cloudier where's uh days are a little shorter in Sweden but he's like where's the Sano you know where are we going to go sweat and uh we're like Sana that's like the sketchy thing at the YMCA you know like we don't sauna bro and he's like dude you guys are just suffering and we're

09: 00 you guys are just suffering and we're like yeah I don't know no one's honesty and he's just like saunas are like you guys have swimming pools like if you don't have one you know someone has swimming pool in the suburbs I'm speaking about my Suburban existence growing up we didn't have a swimming pool but a one friend did so they're that common in Scandinavia in Finland even more common and uh it's um they know they they've been winter people for many thousands of years and they they know how to adapt to that and uh we're just new here at least European those of European descent those not of European descent had sweat lodges and still do where they're around and um so it's a key winter survival strategy and uh highly recommended if you don't have a sauna sauna and you live in a cold climate what are you doing is really the question um they're not that hard to build I mean you can go into college for 300 bucks

10: 00 you can go into college for 300 bucks scrap wood stove and a junk pile scrap boards hay bale seats you know this one I have here about two thousand dollars and half of that was the wood stove um you don't need us on a stove but it makes steam as I mentioned wood stove which I've put in the saunas don't make Steam um um and steam's nice not essential but and they also crank heat sauna stoves are very very high you need a lot of heat even though it's a small room a lot of people think you don't need a big stove well if you want to get it to 150 degrees so that's a huge delta T between that and outside so you do need a lot of heat uh even though it's a small space you do need a huge BTU output like 60 000 BTUs or more this is a big sauna because our permaculture course utilizes it it's an ugly sauna I have a nicer one on the other site that we manage but this we built in four days with pine boards I had and uh

11: 00 and uh you know I've dragged it out here on pure on a logs it's just nothing fancy and I don't like how it looks that much but whatever I don't really care it's super functional um um you can hang from here it's good to it's a healthcare facility so you want to be able to do some inversions hang upside down or at least hang and stretch your your back um um I'll prop this open and a couple few things like so this is super simple um one big seat one small seat this is designed to have a lot of people in at times although usually it's just my family and I uh there's that sauna stuff I mentioned um so I had the door slightly open and it's still a hundred and 160 degrees right here um and so my favorite thing is to be um um let me see if I can get this camera working in this light

12: 00 working in this light you want a stove in my mind that is wide enough to have your to your legs out you don't be sitting sitting sucks in general we all sit too much most of us and so you don't want to sit in a sauna you want to lie down you want to have your feet up your feet are down all right we're about to have our feet be hotter than our head not the other way around in the savannah the ground is way over 100 degrees a lot of times you don't want your head over 100 degrees and the stratification of Heat and the Sun is huge so what I like to do Asana unusually on my back um um legs up just like this and uh this is pretty much how I hang in here and this is my back therapy I once had my back go out when it's a spasm I couldn't get out of the bed um you know I couldn't get everybody to go to the bathroom like I was messed up I go to this guy who's a chiropractor of

13: 00 I go to this guy who's a chiropractor of sorts and he's amazing he totally fixed my back but and then I went to a yoga teacher that my wife knew who was very good with alignment and she said to just lie down 90 degree put your legs up on the wall I can't show you this whole situation because it's not cool to have clothes on in a sauna so I don't and uh this is Family Family Channel here so I don't need to uh share all that but um basically I'm just 90 degrees legs up back as 90 as possible 90 AF pretty much the goal and I'll hold my arms up I'm not doing the whole thing because I'm holding this embarrassing selfie stick but it does work um to share with you guys and I do this I'll sometimes you know do

14: 00 I do this I'll sometimes you know do some exercises like mini crunches but I'll do this I do this in the shower too every day um it helps when you have wood hot water because it's a little more of a guilt-free pleasure free hot water um um but that is crucial for my back like every day you have a spa opportunity not not everyone but if you take a hot shower you do if you could take a few moments to even breathe fully you do um I know that doesn't apply to everyone but really we have um the opportunity to just kind of check not just check not check out but check in to ourselves Zone zero zero and and I'm not saying I'm good at this by the way this is a note to self um um and keep our Vitality as high as possible or hopefully or regenerate it as needed um um sauna is a great is a key Healthcare

15: 00 sauna is a great is a key Healthcare facility for that one of my primary care providers for sure and it's really you're building a shed it's not hard it's a great carpentry project even with kids um um this is probably about an eight to nine by seven that's big for Asana you don't need it that big you don't want it very tall because the heat goes way up so I would not make it much higher and no higher than you can reach and probably less than that like six inches higher than your head just so it doesn't feel claustrophobic this could be lower this has a angled you know I have snow and I just wanted a simple roof so I angled it but it holds all the snow so just build it to hold the snow and have like almost a flat roof you don't want a true flat roof but low low angle the back could be lower than whoever's standing in here

16: 00 lower than whoever's standing in here because you're not going to walk all the way to the back oh one key thing is stainless steel you will end up replacing the stove pipe all the time so just just by stainless steel right off the bat it's like six times more expensive maybe at the beginning but you'll replace it six times and 15 years and it's just safer you gotta real careful about fire obviously in the back this has rammed sawdust in the back wall and it has roxl bats in the walls in the other walls and the roof you know mineral wool basically um rock wool insulation and that works great and they're four it's just four inch you know typical stud walls I don't insulate the floor is a bit ugly because it guess what happens it cracks right even if you put it in real dry it's it's glued together so that's a tricky piece of the carpentry I

17: 00 that's a tricky piece of the carpentry I can expand on that if people want but I think you basically want to create a floating floor that's glued together that's tongue and groove the ideal interior paddling is TNG tongue and groove White Cedar red cedar is a problematic product even though it's awesome if juji comes from really terrible logging operations um that are very unsustainable and often old what's little what's left of the old growth which isn't much um so I used clear White Pine we had it at a local lumber yard it works but it does have some sap when this sap drips on you I haven't really had it happen in this sauna but I can tell you it's not cool and you can't touch any sap you don't want to touch any sap here you can't also touch any metal so you have to hide all the screw heads sync them or screw like the the bench is secured From Below you can't touch metal here it'll burn you so the handle is wood hard to see but a buddy of mine

18: 00 wood hard to see but a buddy of mine made this turned it on a lathe and it's just really cool door and uh yeah yeah you can't have any metal exposed so um get back into my position here my back therapy I'm starting to sweat again even though the door is open so I'll probably close it and crank one more sweat and jump in the pond once more we're going all winter it's a pain to cut the hole in the ice trying to rig up a spring to it because I have water above here to keep it open it's a little tricky um if anyone knows how the swedes and the fin is especially the Russians keep their ice holes open without having to dig them every time they're like excuse me cut them with a saw Buck saw works good but it's a pain to do each time let me know I tried foam

19: 00 to do each time let me know I tried foam board insulation sitting in there bad idea Ice is like glue when it sticks to when it freezes up against something it's like strong glue so you end up with like a lot of broken foam board um um tried that a few different ways actually and uh didn't work out that's the long skinny of creating a sauna don't insulate the floor because it gets wet you'll rot it don't use foam don't use anything toxic taboo to talk about work it's probably taboo to do this taboo to talk politics or about anyone else according to Scandinavians I've talked to makes sense it's Sacred Space um um it's really taboo to talk about negative anything it's a it's like a Sabbath space that's nice to treat it that way um we don't sound a ton I mean I'll sign up once a week sometimes Max I had a friend here who's Finnish who was living on the farm for a while

20: 00 who was living on the farm for a while he wanted the sauna basically every day oh my dude it's a bit much even in the summer I I don't have an interest in saunting the summer I sweat my gnats off working so I don't need to sauna um and I'm swimming all the time so I don't need that like Health Care Facility like a lineman body work that Sana gives me sauna gives me but um this the fins are super hardcore um um we saw especially I call this sauna season like stick season November mud season April Winter too but it's a bit harsh when it's super cold but it's below 10 I don't tend to sauna and when it's above 50. like this is the warmest day I ever sauna on it just happens to be really warm but I kind of was wanting to because it was rainy this morning rainy cold 40 degree days like if you live in the British Isles like you should have sauna Scandinavia you know just basically cold

21: 00 Scandinavia you know just basically cold cloudy cool cloudy Pacific Northwest that's a sauna climate shibisanas everywhere there will be if people are there in a long time um um just so good to sweat in a season that you would not sweat I'm like I just feel beads of sweat running down my legs right now it's awesome it's such a route of elimination that we don't often think of so think about detox right you have sweating you have removing solids and liquids from your system spitting very minor route of elimination um communication might be considered a route of elimination but in natural and naturopathic medicine which is a really key way of viewing Health offers a lot to complement Western and other approaches routes of elimination are such a focus you know how do we get rid of

22: 00 of of things we don't that don't benefit us and sweating is massive from that perspective and does do a ton of detox especially when coupled with like clean eating and you know good good fiber most likely lots of water I need to drink more actually in general but today uh being what's on my mind so I'm gonna close the door and I have another round here but um access a sauna if you don't and build one if you can highly recommend it if you live in a cold climate it's like life before sauna life after oh oh man

23: 00 man man stretching groom that's another key thing about sauna be able to stretch really really deeply all right last round now the pond is honestly half of uh the value I think or more more than half um um if you can't make a pond make a cold plunge out of something buckets work but it's not quite as good

24: 00 [Music] the hydrotherapy part of this is honest if I could only do one I would just do the pawn part but they're both perfect in combo pretty hardcore to get in a pond when it's I mean the pond right now is um the water's probably like 42. 45. pretty much groundwater temp right now um um I wouldn't choose just to get in the pond right now without sweating so good luck guys hope you're doing well on this swing season beautiful time of year trying to get these carrots to over winter I probably gotta I definitely have to spread some mulch over them but they're still going hopefully I don't have a lot of wire worm in them if you're on my Instagram you see my wire worm challenges with my other carrots it's large season M efforts

25: 00 it's large season M efforts decorative large season

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