If you’re ready to invite emotional healing and personal transformation, this is for you.

It’s a powerful 3-part transcendent evening of sauna, breathwork and cold contrast therapy.

First, enjoy a warm tea and a mild sauna and to open special pathways for your spirit, your brain, and the body’s physical state to calm the nervous system and prepare for an altered state of consciousness.

Then tap in to the depths of your psyche with profound deep breathing techniques and world-class audio production. Wearing headphones, you’ll experience a soundscape portal that interweaves breath exercise guidance, and other audio that includes:

• Diverse, evocative world music

• Ambient bio-acoustic natural environment sound effects

• Solfeggio frequencies and targeted auditory tones

• Visualizations

• Spoken affirmations and inspiring ancient wisdom

You can reach peaks of expanded consciousness comparable to traditional plant medicine ceremonies — but completely substance-free.

Following this transformative 65 minutes, your journey deepens as the group moves to the sacred steam of the sauna, where reflection and introspection can harness post-journey thoughts, feelings and beliefs. We allow space and support for the insights and releases to integrate and take root.

If you choose, the evening may include a personally-guided cold water immersion, which can stimulate emotional and physical release even further: a full-spectrum ritual of transformation and mental clarity.

This complete journey is perfect for consciousness explorers who are ready to experience a holistic conduit to access non-ordinary states and profound therapeutic possibilities through the combined power of fire, air and ice.

Notes

• This experience can induce altered states of consciousness similar to a lucid dream.

• You will wear headphones that play an audio recording.

• You will be instructed to breathe-in and breathe-out more deeply and rapidly than usual, which hyper-oxygenates your blood cells and expells carbon dioxide, which can lower your blood pH levels. This can cause some to experience temporary tingling sensations, similar to when your foot ‘falls asleep’ and the nerves ‘wake-up’.

• You might be invited to hold your breath, retaining your inhale or exhale for a period of time, which can stimulate your vagus nerve and increase the flow of cerebral spinal fluid.

• Energy healing techniques offered by the facilitator involve light touch during the breathwork — you are invited to opt-out if this offering is not welcome.

• The setting may include unique aromatic elements to evoke memory and transport the subconscious.

• We encourage all participants to bring a fully-open mindset, suspend the persona, and detach from judgement. This is critical to calm the conscious mind and realize the power of the journey.

You deserve this profound release of tension and blockages. Experience first-hand the elevated levels of self-compassion, acceptance, and renewal, revealing the authentic self within.

What to expect

6:00-7:00 // ARRIVAL — Welcome to our community space at SaunaGlo. Have some complimentary tea, change into comfortable clothing, secure your personal items in complimentary lockers, enjoy a warm shower, or a steamy sauna or an invigorating cold plunge — or just relax and unwind while you focus your mind on the intention for the evening. Doors close at 7:00pm.

7:00-7:15 // FIRE — A mild sauna and basic breathing techniques.

7:15-8:30 // AIR — Get settled on a yoga mat, provided by SaunaGlo. Our expert guide Michael Burns introduced the breathwork practice.

8:30-8:45 // STEAM — Sauna time for reflection and introspection in the heat, or choose mediation or journaling without the sweat.

8:45-10:00 // ICE — Personally guided cold water plunge / thermal contrast therapy

Helpful preparations notes

• Wear comfortable clothes

• Avoid having a big meal beforehand

• We provide yoga mats — please wipe them clean afterwards or BYO

• For using the sauna: bring 2 towels, sandals and swimsuit (house rules)

• Optional items to bring:

>> Blanket

>> Pillow / bolster

>> Lip balm

>> Journal

>> Water bottle

>> An open heart 

>> A friend

Common Outcomes

• Break from Exhaustion: Encounter profound liberation as you unchain yourself from the weariness of the past, releasing the burdens that have been slowing you down.

• Discharge of Physical and Emotional Strains: Peel away both physical and emotional encumbrances, giving rise to a sense of buoyancy and solace.

• Nurture of Forgiveness, Self-Compassion, and Acceptance: Cultivate a kind and nurturing rapport with yourself and others, harnessing forgiveness and acceptance as catalysts of transformation

• Resilience and Emotional Equanimity: Foster inner fortitude and resilience, equipping you to sail through life's waves with increased ease and emotional balance.

• Peace and Reinstated Equilibrium: Delve into a profound sense of serenity and inner stability, reinstating harmony in your personal sphere and relationships.

• Energized Self-Rejuvenation: Embrace individual growth and empowerment as you release and rejuvenate, paving the way for new opportunities and a more gratifying life journey.

About your guide

Michael Burns of Breathwaves369 is a seasoned healing arts practitioner with a passion for guiding others on their journey to wellness. A native Portlander and father of two, Michael brings a sense of warmth and community to his work. With extensive experience in massage, sauna, cold plunge, and sound baths, he crafts transformative breathwork sessions that nurture body, mind, and spirit. When not facilitating healing sessions, you can find Michael sailing the waters of the Pacific Northwest, connecting with the natural world that inspires his work.