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Nice Ice swimming -A smoke sauna combined with
normal Finnish sauna experience in Hämeenkyrö, Finland.
Nice
Ice swimming in Hämeenkyrö near Kyröskoski.
Edge of lake Kyrösjärvi - The hole in the ice is large, so you can swim
as far as you want to. Nice ice swimming.
Mid January in Hämeenkyrö, Finland. It is beginning to snow. --Top
right are some snowflakes the camera captured.
It is 5.30 pm on a Friday. The three of us men. Kari, Jouni,
and I were at the
Hämeenkyön Talviuimarit Ry, where there are 2 great Finnish saunas. A
larger hot room seating 40 or more, and a separate 2009 award
winning smoke
sauna.
But what makes em great? Easy. There are two seperate buildings
with Two saunas! In one building is the normal
Finnish sauna, with a wooden burning stove. The other building is a
smoke sauna located a
few hundred feet from the other sauna main building.
Another great thing is...both saunas are being used simultaneously.
The main building has the hot-room, changing rooms, WC
bathrooms, hot room, lounge, electric grill where someone was grilling
hot-dogs.
 Main
building where the traditional Finnish sauna is located.
Understand
the sauna culture in Finland
There
is such a thing as nice ice swimming. One key influencer to obtaining a
feeling of wellbeing is the company you mingle
with. Who are they, and how they express the
mutual joys
of nice ice swimming with each other.
Around us we
hear human voices...full of expectation, conversation
and spirits are bright.
"Oh,
I see that it is beginning to snow." one ice-swimmer says to the
other, as they pass each other. One is coming out of the sauna hot room
and the other is returning from the water, just coming out of the lake
from under the ice.
"This is a fun past-time", Kari says. -Of course...it is
because you get a natural high. This is the healthiest most natural way
of doing
drugs.
This
unusual combination of Finnish sauna and smoke sauna made it also a
nice ice swimming experience. Around the smoke sauna there is room to
roll in the snow. We did that too!!
The award winning smoke sauna in Hämeenkyrö. Meets 'The International
Smoke Sauna Club Ry' standards.
The moment our surrounding sauna guest participants figured out that
"I" am not a Finn, they enjoyed watching my facial expressions and
comments. Hey, the even began speaking English to me.
Combination
normal Finnish sauna and smoke sauna routine
Our nice ice swimming routine went like this:
This whole routine took us 2.5 hours.
I got an immediate head-rush after my first go in the sauna.
The routine:
- Get changed. Make sure flip-flop's or water
proof sandals, and caps are with you.
- Go into the water, dip in quickly, and
enter the main buildings normal Finnish sauna. Get hot. Until you can't
take it anymore.
- Get into the water, stay in for as long as you
can.
- Back into the sauna, repeat 4 - 6 times.
- Get into the smoke sauna via a roll in the deep
snow. Yep, before you go into the smoke sauna.
- Stay in the smoke sauna a bit longer since the
temperatures are lower than a traditional Finnish sauna. Then go into
the freezing lake.
-
Go from the lake back to the main building into
the normal Finnish sauna, into the lake, repeat three times.
Tip:
If after leaving the lake you begin to feel lightheaded, begin heading
back into the hot-room to get warm. This is a sign that your blood
pressure has dropped a bit.
Some people continue to stay out in the
cold air at this point slightly to long and you could get chill. You
want to avoid that.
Another Tip:
If you begin to feel tired/sleepy after doing this routine. Stop
and eat something with a bit of salt in it.
We paid 5 euros/person to get in.
The smoke sauna is warm on Mondays and Fridays from 5 - 8pm, Wednesdays
5 - 9pm.
The sauna is warm during the winter season which is: November - April
Have your own
special event like a birthday party or wedding.
There is
room in the main building for 30 people. A kitchen, disposable
dish-ware, TV and karaoke player. You can have the sauna and main
building warmed up for 140 euros. If you want to order the smoke sauna
it is 250 euros/evening.
Send an email jepp007@gmail.com for reservations. These sauna(s) are
near the Finnforest Mill in Kyröskoski.
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