The power of hot and cold: from sauna to sea
In Finland, there’s a saying that a woman is considered to be at her most beautiful after a sauna. Helsinki author and outdoor swimmer Katja Pantzar would update the phrase to reflect the growing popularity of contrast therapy, which has a range of researched health benefits: ‘People positively glow after a cold dip followed by a hot sauna.’ For when you take care of your physical and mental wellbeing, you shine inside and out.
I discovered cold water swimming quite by accident.