For Sharon Fidgeon, a regular visitor to Ireland's increasingly popular beach saunas, her weekend sessions 'have become a healthy addiction'.
For Sharon Fidgeon, a regular visitor to Ireland's increasingly popular beach saunas, her weekend sessions"have become a healthy addiction".
"And having the sauna here lets me stay in the sea that bit longer," she said, putting on a dry robe and sandals before briskly stepping into the barrel-shaped structure on wheels above the beach.Mobile saunas became a post-Covid"add-on", according to Deirdre Flavin, who operates several along the Waterford coast, towing them to beaches by car.
"People can more comfortably sea-swim all-year-round now as they can warm their body cores up after the dip," she said while packing wooden logs into the sauna's stove.Further along the southern coast in Co Cork, customers at another sauna lauded the activity for stress relief as well as aiding recovery after strenuous sports.
"I was struggling a lot with pain, and the sauna and the cold water just eased it, a plunge in the sea after building up a sweat just seems to wash away all the worries," she told AFP. "It's really becoming a social thing, where friends or even strangers can meet. Irish people are shifting to less alcohol-driven things and more wellness-driven things," Connolly said.
Yoga instructor Carol Ní Stasaigh and her husband Dara Kissane, an exercise physiologist, called their sea sauna on the Co Wexford coast"Sweathouse" in a nod to the old ways.
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