Turning Up the Heat: Perspire Sauna Studio Opens in The Orchards
Ready to do something nice for yourself? Looking for an ideal gift for a friend in need of pampering? Looking to spend quality time in Shadelands while waiting for the kids to finish up dance, swimming, or taekwondo? Perspire Sauna Studio’s doors are open and the Welcome mat is out.
Welcoming visitors and clients on Perspire Sauna Studio’s opening day, August 28, were Sophie Limtiaco (l) and Mona Tawakali (r).
Perspire Sauna Studio, newly launched in The Orchards at 2355 Oak Grove Road, Walnut Creek, specializes in private infrared sauna and red light therapy experiences. The Perspire brand was founded in 2010, and the studio in Walnut Creek is now one of 105 Perspire studios operating throughout the country.
Perspire’s private infrared and red light sauna suites offer plenty of room for one person, and easily seat two people, as demonstrated by team member Mona Tawakali.
“What’s distinctive about Perspire is our propriety sauna unit designed and developed just for Perspire by Clearlight Saunas,” said Dori Jones, studio manaer. “Incorporated into all seven of our private infrared sauna suites is a medical grade red light therapy bar that clients can turn on, or keep off. Their choice – all in one location.” Suites are reserved for 40-minute sessions.
Perspire also offers additional amenities centered around the infrared sauna experience. Perspire’s proprietary SNØ Shower, a clean and hygienic chilling rinse alternative to a cold plunge or cryotherapy room, is a private, en-suite 45°F cold rainfall system designed to pair with the infrared sauna session for contrast therapy.
Perspire’s proprietary SNØ Shower is a 45°F cold rainfall system available in three of the seven private suites.
“We recommend that clients go from hot to cold to maximize the experience and health benefits of contrast therapy,” said Dori. “Enjoy the infrared sauna for 30 to 35 minutes. Heat expands blood vessels, gets the heart pumping, and gets oxygen flowing through the blood system. Then stand under the SNØ Shower for 45 seconds. Blood vessels will contract, sending super oxygenated blood to all vital organs, helping with lymphatic flow and muscle recovery, and giving you a jolt of energy.”
Perspire offers an ADA-compliant suite, and all suites come with cold eucalyptus towels for toweling off after the sauna experience.
Each of Perspires seven private infrared sauna suites easily seats two people – for couples and friends who want to join in the experience. One suite is ADA compliant, and three of the seven include the SNØ Shower. Cold eucalyptus towels are provided for toweling off after the sauna (perspire, after all, is in the brand name), and a regular shower and towels are provided in the SNØ Shower suites.
Perspire also offers optional halo therapy, a salt-based mist that sprays into the sauna during the session. The salt mist helps with respiratory issues – seasonal allergies, congestion, and asthma, for instance – and is a natural therapeutic means for clearing airways.
“The health benefits are what drive Perspire and our brand, but we also want to make every 40-minute session a relaxing, welcoming, calming experience – a retreat of sorts that you really look forward to,” said Dori.
Provided in every suite is a large screen TV and Bluetooth, offering Hulu, Netflix, YouTube Premium, and music.
While traditional dry and steam saunas heat the air outside the body, slowly warming the core body temperature to produce sweat, infrared saunas use near-, mid-, and far-red wave lengths to penetrate the skin and soft tissues at the cellular level and warm the body directly and more quickly.
Perspire’s proprietary panels emit infrared light waves that penetrate the skin and warm body at the core, from the inside out.
Infrared raises the core body temperature by two to three degrees. The process mimics a fever, inducing a deep, heavy sweat producing an effective and natural way to release stored toxins. Infrared heat causes blood vessels to expand and the heart rate to rise, producing the cardiovascular effects of light exercise, such as a gentle jog. The fever response also stimulates white blood cells, which enhance cellular repair, and boosts blood flow, delivering fresh oxygen and nutrients to tired muscles.
Red light therapy stimulates cellular function on more surface levels, igniting collagen production to smooth fine lines and aging skin, stimulating hair follicles and enhancing hair growth, and reducing inflammation and stiffness after trauma or surgery, among other health benefits.
“So, you’re not just sitting in a hot box,” said Dori. “There’s a lot happening when you’re experiencing our saunas. And the effects are cumulative. The more you make this a regular part of your health and wellness routine, the more you see and feel the effects. The combination of infrared sauna and red light therapy is a transformative, life-enriching experience. People who get it, and make this a ritual, genuinely feel better, live better, and look healthier, throughout the day and throughout the night.”
Offering the ultimate warm welcome at Perspire Sauna Studio are team members Sophie Limtiaco (l), Mona Tawakali (c), and Hayden Hanson (r).
Memberships and appointments are available in person, online at Perspire, or by calling 925.270.0341.
“We have 105 locations across the country, including close to 30 studios in California, and your membership is good at all of our Perspire studios,” said Dori. “That means wherever you might be where there is a Perspire franchise, you can use your membership during your travels and continue your wellness ritual – you’ll have that part of home with you wherever you go.”
