Every body is different, and personal experiences vary. That said, for most common respiratory ailments, our guests often feel an improvement immediately after their very first session! In some more stubborn or deep-seated cases, back-to-back sessions can even help accelerate the process of breaking down blockages or breaking through to clearer breathing.

For skin ailments, while you can feel relief from itchiness immediately during and after treatment, it can often take several weeks of regular treatment to see lasting relief and/or visible improvements.

The answer to this question depends on your goals at the time.

• Symptom Relief – If salt therapy can help ease your symptoms, it will usually do so within the first one to three sessions. Daily treatments initially for particularly severe symptoms can be effective at purging and cleansing your system.
• Chronic Condition Management – For many of our guests who are addressing chronic conditions, weekly or biweekly salt therapy treatments provide a comfortable baseline.
• Overall Wellness & Prevention – Biweekly or monthly treatments can help maintain optimal respiratory health by regularly flushing out and neutralizing whatever toxins and irritants you’ve recently encountered.

As far as known risks of treatment, a modern halotherapy session is roughly equivalent to a windy day by the ocean. Salt therapy isn’t recommended if you have any open wounds, and you should step out of the session if you feel your symptoms are getting worse, or experience other symptoms such as light-headedness or dizziness. If you have any specific concerns you should consult your doctor before seeking treatment.

There have been no large scale studies on salt therapy by traditional western medicine. That said, it has been practiced for centuries in Europe. In fact, some European countries have classified dry salt therapy as a medical treatment, qualified it under health insurance and adopted it as a healthcare modality. (source)

We have had infants as young as 7 weeks use and benefit from our salt therapy. That said, you should discuss any concerns you have with a trusted medical professional, and certainly step out of the treatment at any point if you feel so inclined.

How you dress is completely up to you! We simply suggest ‘comfortable’. If you are looking to target specific areas of your skin, make sure those areas can be comfortably exposed to the salt. Other than that, just expect to get salty! But the salt easily brushes off of skin, clothes and hair, if you so choose.

If you’re doing our ‘Salt Suite’ treatment, you’re invited to take your shoes (and socks!) off before entering so that you can truly enjoy our salt ‘sand beach’ between your toes. If you’re not ino that,we also offer disposable booties if you want them – just ask!

As far as discomfort, you will likely have sniffling and drainage and potentially coughing as well. (Don’t worry there’s boxes of tissue everywhere!) This is to be expected, and within a few minutes your body will acclimate to the experience and you’ll find yourself breathing fully and deeply.

Nope, and nope! The human body’s natural systems are great at dealing with variations in your environment, and modern salt therapy (halotherapy) is akin to a windy day by the ocean!

For halotherapy (the modern form of salt therapy, where devices called halogenerators are used to measure and disperse the salt into the environment), the only salt that should ever be used is medical-grade salt (Sodium Chloride).

Our Sodium Chloride is certified to comply with United States Pharmacopeia, Food Chemicals Codex, and federal cGMP standards. It is annually certified as Kosher. It contains no additives.

You can find out more about the salt we use here.

Absolutely not!! Salt therapy is a complementary practice, meaning that it works best in partnership with traditional medicine. In fact, many of our clients come to us as referrals from their primary care physician! Salt therapy is perfect for jump-starting and accelerating recovery from certain conditions, and reducing or even eliminating certain kinds of symptoms.

There is an underlying philosophy to consider when it comes to fitting holistic therapies into your wellness routine. Traditional medicine is a modern miracle when it comes to acute care – extending and preserving your lifespan. And its primary tools in doing this are surgical procedures and pharmaceuticals.

What is NOT usually addressed by the tools of traditional medicine can be described as your healthspan – namely your overall quality of life and your physical, mental and emotional capabilities. At its best, traditional medicine relies on studies and evidence to guide its recommendations. But when it comes to holistic medicine and a consideration of healthspan benefits, such evidence is not available to us. So as individuals, when considering whether or not to try a holistic, complementary or even alternative therapy, we must get used to an honest assessment, and acceptance, of risk – including the risk of doing nothing. For more on this philosophy (and a much better and more detailed explanation!) we highly recommend the book Outlive: The Scence and Art of Longevity by Peter Attia, MD.