| While the idea of a steam room is something that | | | | enough for about five or six people to enjoy the |
| many of us in the modern world enjoy the idea of the | | | | benefits of the sweat lodge. In the center of the |
| steam room itself is not something new. In the olden | | | | sweat lodge floor a small stove or gas, electric burner |
| days the steam room was known as a sweat lodge. | | | | is placed on the floor. |
| These sweat lodges were designed primarily to allow | | | | On this stove you will place good quality Finnish sweat |
| various people to purify themselves before religious | | | | lodge rocks. These rocks will be medium sized and |
| ceremonies. | | | | resistant to the constant heating and cooling effects of |
| The sweat lodge was constructed of material like | | | | the sweat lodge. The stove heats the rocks up so |
| wood or animal hide that would hold the steam that | | | | they are hot right throughout the time that the sweat |
| was released from the hot rocks inside of the lodge | | | | lodge is being used. |
| as steam. This steam would build up sufficiently to | | | | The rocks are used to heat the sweat lodge up to a |
| cause the inhabitants of the sweat lodge to sweat. | | | | certain temperature. This heat helps the body to start |
| This was the primary reason of the sweat lodge. | | | | sweating. To aid this process even more but also to |
| When the people had built up a good amount of | | | | make sure that the rocks and the sweat lodge are not |
| sweat they would find that their limbs were completely | | | | overly heated water is ladled over the heat rocks in |
| relaxed. The sweat helped to purify the body and | | | | small amounts. |
| ready the body for a state of meditation. To enable | | | | When the water hits the highly heated rocks there will |
| this to occur the sweat lodge would be placed in a | | | | be a super heated steam mist that will begin to |
| location where there was ample room to build a large | | | | circulate through the sweat lodge. The combined heat |
| sized lodge. | | | | and water vapor all contributes towards the sweat |
| Today the sweat lodge idea is still used but it is made | | | | lodge giving the inhabitants of this lodge a relaxing |
| from modern materials. In many sweat lodges the | | | | feeling. |
| primary covering is treated wood. This wood is pre-cut | | | | Additionally there are certain other benefits that staying |
| according to various sizes that may be needed to | | | | in a sweat lodge can give. These include your skin |
| construct a sweat lodge. | | | | clearing up of various skin complaints, losing weight and |
| The sweat lodge is generally constructed in the | | | | feeling more energized than before you started using |
| basement or just outside of the house and it is large | | | | a sweat lodge. |