The 80-degree question.
What happens to the body between 80 and 90 degrees, and why we hold the sauna exactly there.
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Sweat, soak, savour. Repeat.
Contrast therapy
Why cold comes after heat.
Twenty minutes at 85 degrees, then two in the plunge. The order isn't tradition for its own sake. It's the whole mechanism. What contrast does to the body, and why we never rush it.
This editionWater on the stones, held at 85. 
The room is the point. 
The timber locker wall, one last quiet breath before you begin.
Below the busy streets of Byron.
A well-kept local secret: how the first Navia took shape underneath the town that never slows down.
ReadYour first time at Navia.
A warm hand to hold for your first visit: what to expect, what to skip, and how to simply arrive, breathe, and be.
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