The Salt Room was featured on Fox News 35 in Orlando today! Tiffany Tift came to the Salt Room and did a one and a half minute piece in which she described how The Salt Room can make a real difference for allergy sufferers and individuals suffering for respiratory conditions:
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
ClickOnDetroit Writes About The Salt Room
ClickOnDetroit.com, the web site of Detroit TV station WDIV has published an article about the The Salt Room! The article, entitled “Patients Say Salt Eases Breathing Problems,” describes the Salt Room and how Florida residents are using it to help them breathe easier.
“The salt air stops you from having a really runny nose, and it just makes you feel much better,” said visitor Mackenzie Radcliffe.
The article quotes a few Salt Room clients as well as Salt Room director Marines Hoppes.
Read the full article at ClickOnDetroit.com
Sunday, February 21st, 2010
Salt Therapy Like a Breath of Fresh Air
Jenny Hazan of the Isreal21c Innovation News Service has written an article describing how salt therapy/halotherapy is successfully being used to treat children and adults suffering from a ranging of problems from allergy, to chronic ear or sinus infections, to asthma, bronchitis and even lung disease.
She tells the story of Jonathan Kestenbaum, a Jerusalem residents whose son suffered from chronic ear infections. After only one session he showed signs of improvement; after a full 14-session course he was cured of his chronic ear infactions and two years later he has had only three short-term infections (which all went away on their own without medication). Kestenbaum was so pleased with the success of the treatment that he went on to found a chain of Israeli salt rooms.
Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Yoga Classes Start Monday, February 22nd
The Salt Room in Orlando, Florida will be offering three evening classes beginning at 6:30PM and a Wednesday morning class at 10:30AM. Visit our website at www.SaltRoomOrlando.com to reserve your space online.
Kundalini Yoga
“The Yoga of Awareness” is a form of exercise and meditation that promotes mental, spiritual and physical wellbeing. Kundalini can be described as a science using exercises such as breathing, sound, postures and meditation. The intended result is the achievement of your highest form of consciousness.
Gentle and Restorative Yoga Flow
A deeply calming and restorative class that induces balance and release through a series of postures. Flow slowly through standing and seated postures, holding asanas for longer periods of time. Restorative postures will be sprinkled throughout the class. This is meditative and healing, highly recommended for beginners or seasoned yogis.
Our Yoga classes will be $15 per class but take advantage of our offer to come try out our fabulous yoga instructors and facility. Space is limited so book through our website now.
Friday, January 15th, 2010
Urban Salt Caves
Nicola at Edible Geography recently published a fairly long, fairly detailed blog posting about salt therapy, salt caves, and halotherapy. Like many similar articles, details the history of salt caves and mines, speleotherapy, and even points out that in some countries salt cave sessions are even available on prescription.
The article talks about the growing number of salt caves in the United States, the different kinds of salt that they are using, and offers a variety of pictures from around the world of different salt-related caves and mines.
Friday, January 1st, 2010
Salt Therapy for Snoring
A blog called “Sleep and Snoring Aids” recently published a short article describing how salt therapy can be an effective treatment all-natural treatment for snoring. It makes a lot of sense — if your nasal cavity and sinuses are filled with mucus, the obstruction in your air flow may be the cause of your snoring and salt therapy/halotherapy could certainly be an effective cure.
According to the Salt Cave Peterborough web site:
Salt Therapy can also reduce snoring and activate better sleep by clearing the airway passages in the oropharyngeal region. Edema of the nasal mucosa and the oropharynx and soft palate, causing nasal obstruction and snoring, can be diminished by inhaling the salt aerosol, leading to widening of the airway passage in the nose and the tubes of the sinuses. By this, halotherapy can help with improving the sinus drainage and reducing snoring.
Whether or not salt therapy can stop your snoring of course depends on several things: blockage caused by mucus and other sinus issues? Probably. But there are many other reasons for snoring that salt therapy probably can’t help with. According to Wikipedia, snoring has a variety of causes including throat weakness, mispositioned jaw, fat gathering around the throat, tissues at the top of the airways touching each other, alcohol or drugs, and even simply sleeping on one’s back.
While it is fairly certain that salt therapy treatment will do nothing to harm you and can’t make your snoring condition any worse, your best bet is to consult with your doctor in regards to the cause of your snoring before you take any action.
Saturday, December 19th, 2009
Tried and Tested: Salt Cave Therapy
Wahanda content editor Judy Johnson recently made her first visit to The Salt Cave in Wandsworth, London and reported about her experience at Wahanda’s Wellness Wonders blog. She entered the Salt Cave with a blocked nose (“courtesy of the winter cold and flu season) but after only a short time felt both clear, calmer, and appears to have had a good experience.
In her article, Ms. Johnson raises some interesting facts:
- 1 in 3 Londoners have an allergy
- 1 in 13 suffer from asthma
- Salt caves are incredibly common in Eastern Europe, where people with chronic conditions often spend two to three hours a day in “salt grottos”
- In Russia, salt caves were approved for medical use almost 15 years ago.
- After around 20 sessions, the benefits last up to 6 months
- It is particularly effective for children with respiratory issues.
In her article, Ms. Johnson describes the The Salt Cave (which is located within a 100 year old converted church) as having a hygienic, clinical interior, a friendly waiting room and “a room resembling a snow covered chamber” (filled with salt!).
Friday, December 18th, 2009
Maynooth Salt Cave Opens in Ireland
The Irish Times recently published a story about the Salt Cave Climatherapy Clinic, Ireland’s first salt treatment facility which opened about six months ago in a small shopping center in Maynooth, Co Kildare. What perhaps makes this Salt Cave stand out from many of the others that have opened recently is the fact that there is no visible salt: no salt on the walls, no salt on the floor — no salt anywhere to be seen.
Until you turn on a laser. Then it becomes readily apparent that the air is filled with tiny pharmaceutical grade salt particles floating in the air.
The new facility was opened by Dr. Tamas Bakonyi who moved to Ireland and started the Salt Cave after seeing how one of their children was able to recover from a persistent cough after spending time after spending time in a salt cave on a trip back to his home country of Hungary. He believes that his salt cave will help many people with respiratory conditions including sinusitis, bronchitis, and asthma and he offers them as an alternative to antibiotics, inhalers, and over-the-counter medications which he thinks are over prescribed.
The Salt Room in Orlando operates under many of the same principles as the Salt Cave in Ireland, except in addition to the airborne salt we go one step further by filling the environment with salt — which in addition to its clinical benefits also provides a relaxing, soothing peaceful environment.
Saturday, November 21st, 2009
I Have Never…Tried Salt Cave Therapy (Review)
Mihika V, a management consultant and user of indipepal.com from Mumbai, India, recently published a virgin diary entitled “I have Never…Tried Salt Cave Therapy” in which he describes his experience trying salt therapy for the first time. Before salt therapy, he had tried any number of cures to help him with his sinus issues, ranging from waking up every morning with a stuffed nose, a running nose during the day and a wheezy chest. He was also allergic to so many things that it only “would take a single whiff of a flower or someone’s strong perfume to send me into a tizzy state of sneezes.”
Desperate, Mihika flew all the way to London to give salt therapy a try. He was surprised by what he found:
As I entered the man-made salt cave, I immediately warmed up to it. It reminded me of a winter wonderland and the beaches of Miami at the same time. The walls and the floor were completely covered in a thick dense crust of white salt. The sun loungers, footstools with magazines, and the sound of waves filled the room. But only this was better, the saline smell that usually bothered me at the beaches wasn’t present here. As the lights were dimmed, I settled on my bench.
I spent the next one hour, flipping through magazines, meditating for a bit and even caught a wink in the last 15-minutes. The air in the room just felt exceptionally clean and clear. An hour later, when the lights went up, I felt invigorated and most importantly my nose felt less blocked.
Returning home, Mihika found that his sinuses remained clear for about a week following his time at the UK Salt Cave and his friends even commented that he sounded less nasal than before.
Friday, November 20th, 2009
No Such Thing As Too Much Salt
Lisa Sigell of KCAL (CBS) this week did piece on salt therapy and how it was helping a number of clients to deal with ailments ranging from respiratory to skin conditions. The short video includes several customers describing how they were using salt therapy to help them with their treatment. It also gives lots of pictures of the Encino facility, as well as details of the different types of salt they are using.
“My nose was all clogged before I came here, and now I can breathe again.”
“When I went to sleep at night my wife couldn’t sleep at all because of the snoring…now for the first time in three years, my wife tells me I don’t snore at night.”