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Rhody’s own mobile sauna is this season’s hottest craze By Karen Greco
“ What’s in your driveway ?” A wide-eyed emo ji followed my neighbor’s curious text. Busted! It’s impossible to fly under the radar with a giant sauna on wheels hanging out in my driveway. Was I a terrible neighbor for not inviting anyone to test drive the sauna with me ? This was serious research, not a block party. The practice of taking a sauna is well established in Europe, so it’s not surprising that Bring Me Sauna founder Monika Marketos is originally from Poland. Before the
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pandemic, she took her daily schvitz at Westerly’s YMCA. But when COVID closed down the g ym, she was desperate for her daily dose of dr y heat. She enlisted her handy husband to build a dr y sauna (one that uses burning wood for the heat) but had the inspired idea to make it mobile. A small business was born. The benefits of sauna are seemingly endless. It reduces stress, helps alleviate aches and pains, and lowers inflammator y markers. There are even studies that point to
cardiovascular benefits of reg ular sauna bathing. (Don’t give up your g ym membership just yet, and always consult your doctor first, particularly if you have high blood pressure.) For those reasons, I wanted to love saunas, but – full disclosure – I was not that person. My husband was more excited to give this a test drive. He swears by sauna. For our honeymoon in the Poconos (don’t judge), we got the deluxe room that included a two-story champagne glass tub, a heart-shaped swimming pool, and
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