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• Listen to your body - step out to cool off if you become too warm

• Hydrate properly before and after

• Take (or bring) a towel to sit on

• Three ladles of water maximum for steam during a 30 minute session

• Connect with and respect those in the sauna with you

• Breathe deeply and soak in the relaxation, good vibes and health benefits!

• Please do not eat or bring food into the sauna (you can drink water or electrolyte beverage in the sauna, but do be careful as metal water bottles get VERY hot as will whatever you are drinking.)

• No lotions/oils

• No horseplay

• No touching the stove (it’s really toasty)

• No putting anything on the stove

Research indicates that drinking alcohol before or during the sauna is not recommended. Although the Finns, Swedes and Germans regularly drink beer, vodka and “Longkero” (gin and grapefruit) in the sauna, they’ve been doing this way longer than we have, so we recommend enjoying your alcoholic beverage after you sauna and that you make sure you’re hydrating properly.

1. Stay Hydrated
Hydration is essential for a comfortable sauna session. Drink plenty of water before, during, and after your time in the heat to help your body stay balanced and maximize the sauna’s benefits. An insulated water bottle is a great option, as it keeps water cool despite the rising temperatures.

2. Practice Mindful Breathing
Deep, slow breaths—both in the sauna and during breaks—can enhance relaxation and create a sense of calm and clarity. Focus on each inhale and exhale for a more immersive and restorative experience.

3. Enjoy Your Experience
Most importantly, have fun and savor the warmth and relaxation of the sauna. Don’t forget to sign the waiver before you begin your session!

Welcome

-Welcome to your personal Sauna Adventure! We’re so pumped for you as it has been an awesome experience for us both in the making and in the using! Please follow the guidelines below for how to optimize your experience! If you end up having an amazing sauna playlist, please share with us and share your adventure on social media as well. Let’s get you ready!

Safety

- Do not move the sauna once it has been set up by the Jack Pine Sauna Co. folks.  They will secure the trailer wheels to ensure it will not move once set. 

-Hot Surfaces- The stove is hot don’t touch. The wood burning in the stove is hot, don’t touch. The stove pipe is hot, don’t touch. If human curiosity makes you wonder…is this hot? It probably is so for your safety, don’t touch.

-Drink lots of water before entering the sauna.  Saunas make you sweat…Sweat is water(and toxins) but mostly water…if you have no water on board you will get dehydrated fast…Drink lots of water before your sauna session.

-Nobody knows your comfort zone better than you! Your optimal sauna temperature can depend on various factors, including your age, health status, and personal preference.

The key is always to listen to your body. If you start to feel dizzy, nauseous, or overly uncomfortable, it's a signal that the heat might be too high for your tolerance. In such situations, it's prudent to exit the sauna immediately.

-Drinking alcohol in the sauna…may seem like a good time…but not conducive to safety. Sober sauna is the way to go. Drinking causes dehydration, dehydration causes bad, drink water not booze.

Power to the Sauna- There is a small black box located on the wall beneath the changing room window and above the changing room bench.  There is a circular button. Push that button to turn on the power that will allow the sauna lights and Bluetooth speaker to operate.  The speaker and lights will not work unless that button is pushed, so push the button if you want those feature to work😊  At the end of your use please be sure to turn off the lights on the wall as well as this power switch.  The battery will drain if you do not and it will be sad:(

Bluetooth Speaker- The Bluetooth Speaker is HMS 6005. Open your Bluetooth Device option on your phone and select HMS 6005, the speaker will connect automatically.  Play Music and enjoy!

- Use the newspaper in the changing room, separate the sheets and tear them in half.  Crumple them into balls and set them in the stove.

-Use kindling from the wood box in the changing room. Lay them in a teepee or crisscross over the newspaper.

-Stack smaller pieces of dry firewood over the kindling. Note: Do not over fill the firebox with kindling and smaller pieces, start with 8ish pieces of kindling and 5ish pieces of the small dry firewood.

-Light the newspaper with the lighter provided in a couple of different locations making sure where the newspaper is burning there is kindling being exposed to that flame.

-Usually, within a few minutes, you have a good fire going.  Once the small dry firewood have been burning for a few minutes add the medium-large pieces on top. Note: Again, do not overfill the firebox, good airflow is necessary for the fire to do its thing. 

 -Once, you have a good fire going, close the door.  It takes about 45 minutes for the sauna to reach a desirable temperature of 100 degrees-130 degrees F. Note: Do not overfill the firebox while heating the sauna, it takes a while for the temperature of the stones to come down once heated so its better to slowly bring the temp up. You can always make it hotter but its tough to bring the temp down.

-Monitor the fire during the 45 minute heat up time. Add more wood when needed to keep the fire going.  Once you have reached your desired temperature (110-130 degrees F to start) add wood to keep the fire at a constant(not blazing) burn.

-The stove is hot during operation. Use the fire gloves and be careful of touching hot surfaces.

Nobody knows your comfort zone better than you! Your optimal sauna temperature can depend on various factors, including your age, health status, and personal preference.

The key is always to listen to your body. If you start to feel dizzy, nauseous, or overly uncomfortable, it's a signal that the heat might be too high for your tolerance. In such situations, it's prudent to exit the sauna immediately.

Every Sauna is different- In this Sauna my personal preference is 130-150 degrees F, with spikes in humidity when you add water.

Proper ventilation is essential to a good sauna experience.  Ventilation is all about our breathing and in a sauna this is critical, even more so than in our homes or offices. One or a bunch of people closed up in a tiny room like a sauna quickly results in very high levels of exhaled CO2 that is unhealthy, harms the sauna experience and must be removed. Removal of excess CO2 is the primary purpose of ventilation.

When you start the fire open the vent next to the stove pipe by rotating the circle counterclockwise. Do not unscrew all the way, 5 turn will do the trick.

There is also a circle vent above the top bench, that should be closed (rotate clockwise until snug…do not over tighten.

The third vent is underneath the top bench, that should be open as well (rotate counterclockwise)

The Finnish word ´löyly´ is the name for the evaporating hot steam that rises from stoves after water has been carefully thrown on top of them. It is this löyly that turns sauna space into hot and humid paradise, capable of slowly relaxing tense muscles and a worried mind. Often Finns discuss different saunas they have enjoyed, and the most frequent question asked is, "Was the löyly any good?" While various technical aspects of sauna affect the löyly (like the quality of stove, stone capacity of the stove, size and shape of the sauna room, quality/type of firewood, amount of water thrown etc.), it often seems that best löylys result from something that cannot quite be described. -Finnmarksauna.com

“Löyly is the Purity, Temperature and Moisture Content of the air contained inside the sauna as well as its thermal radiation.”– 1988 Finnish paper on sauna health benefits

“Steam added to bad stale air is just that, steam added to bad stale air, not löyly..”
– 2020 Trumpkin’s Sauna Notes

Nobody knows your comfort zone better than you! Like the sauna temperature the amount of time spent in the sauna can depend on various factors, including your age, health status, and personal preference.

The key is always to listen to your body. If you start to feel dizzy, nauseous, or overly uncomfortable, it's a signal that the heat might be too high for your tolerance. In such situations, it's prudent to exit the sauna immediately.

I enjoy 15 minute stretches with a 5 minute break.  When available taking a cold dip in the ocean, lake, cold plunge in between 15 minute sessions is a great way to soke up the experience. Swim at your own risk and as always, Pay attention to your body. There is not a one size fits all to this stuff so if Joe, Billy, or Sue are able to do 10 minutes and you don’t feel good after 10 seconds…get out, ease into everything.

When Your Done- Be sure the fire in the stove has died down and that there is only ash left. Do not add water to the fire to put it out.  If there is still wood burning when you are finished be sure to check the fire every 10 minutes until there is only ash left.  Do not leave a fire in the stove without someone monitoring it. 

Additionally, if you used power in the sauna to have lights or the speaker be sure to turn the light switch off AS WELL AS the power switch for the battery (the black box with the small button below the window and above the bench in the changing room). The battery will die if the power switch stays on.