Myofascial release, sauna and cold plunge: what actually reaches fascia
Sauna and myofascial release solve different parts of the same problem. Understanding how each works can help you recover faste...
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An independent guide · Europe
Heat, light, cold, movement, and a way to stop.
The things the body evolved with, and where to find them now. City guides across Barcelona, Paris, London and Madrid, conversations about recovery and consciousness, and the physiology underneath both. Not a shop. A reference point.
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The European Light Deficit Index
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How many days a year the sun is high enough to make vitamin D
We calculated the sun's maximum height for every day of the year in 38 European cities. Not one of them escapes a vitamin D winter, including Málaga at the southern edge of the continent.
229
usable days a year in Málaga
152
in London
72
in Reykjavík
The Maison Journal
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cold plunge
Cardiovascular Health
Infrared sauna vs traditional sauna: what the difference actually is
Infrared sauna or traditional sauna? Discover the key differences in heat, comfort, recovery impact, and safety so you can choo...
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Barcelona
I live in the sun. Why is my vitamin D low?
A blood panel that reads deficient, in a country with three hundred days of sun a year. Roughly three in four people in Catalon...
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Where we went, and what was worth it.
New city guides, studio openings, founder conversations, and the thinking behind the project. Written for people who take recovery seriously.
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The guide I wish existed when I started looking for recovery spaces in Europe.
Conversations
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Aurora Biomodulation
Barcelona · Red light therapy & EMS
Naim never set out to open a wellness studio. He just wanted somewhere in Barcelona to continue his red light therapy sessions. That place did not exist. So he built it.
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Sweat Lounge
London · Infrared & cold plunge
Doctors warned Allison she might never regain full use of her leg. Sweat Lounge was born from what she found while looking for a way through it.
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Hector Marcel
London · Consciousness
Decades inside a Buddhist monastery's curriculum, and twenty five years advising executives on organisational change. A conversation about endings.
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What this is
Comfort is not the same as health.
Artificial light. Stable temperatures. Constant comfort. The modern environment is extraordinarily convenient, and quietly at odds with how the body works. We evolved with variation: heat and cold, darkness and dawn, exertion and stillness. The absence of those signals is not neutral.
The body evolved with light, heat, cold, movement, and an ending.
Infrared sauna, red light therapy, cold exposure and contrast therapy are not new ideas dressed in wellness language. They are deliberate reintroductions of stimulus the body already knows. This site maps where that is happening well, from city recovery studios to curated stays and the spaces we are helping to build.
The goal is simple: to understand how we recover better, and where that happens.
The physiology
Common questions
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Infrared sauna
Deep heat. Cellular repair. Cardiovascular response without high air temperature.
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Red light therapy
630 to 850 nm. Tissue repair, skin quality, circadian support. Photobiomodulation.
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Cold plunge
Vasoconstriction, norepinephrine release, inflammation reset. Stress resilience built over time.
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Contrast therapy
Heat to cold. Circulatory pump, metabolic waste clearance, physiological resilience.
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City recovery guides
Barcelona, Paris, London, Madrid. Curated maps of the spaces worth visiting in each city.
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Curated stays
Hand-picked properties where recovery is built into the experience. The first stay is in Mallorca.
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Maison Infrared spaces
We work with hotels, private members clubs and wellness spaces to design and integrate infrared, cold plunge and contrast environments. Get in touch if you are building something.