Awaken the senses and soothe your soul.
SABI EXPERIENCES
Ice Plunge Therapy at SABI.
Take an arctic plunge in our outdoor Japanese-inspired bath at SABI perched on a deck overlooking the forest of Humbug Reserve. Immersed in your ice bath, breathe to the rhythm of the forest while you bathe in nature’s healing powers.
After your cold therapy, senses awakened, bask in the warmth of the outdoor fire-pit and rejuvenate in nature’s surrounds. Complete your experience and retreat inside to a hot Onsen shower or indoor hot-tub before you curl up and relax by the wood fire with a Japanese whisky in hand.
What is Cold Water Therapy?
A form of cryotherapy, cold water therapy is an age old practice that involves exposing your body to cold temperatures. One common method involves submerging your body in ice-chilled water best known as an ‘ice- bath’.
What are the benefits?
Ice baths have gained in popularity due to a numerous health benefits associated with exposure to the cold. Evidence suggests cold water therapy is linked to increases in metabolism, quickened recovery from physical exercise, reduced inflammation, swelling and sore muscles. Benefits have also been linked to improved sleep quality, gains in focus and energy levels and increases in immune responses.
Kimono-style robes and SABI slippers are provided to complete the experience.
Forest Bathing at SABI.
Shinrin-Yoku is the Japanese art of healing through nature by immersing yourself in the presence of tress, the forest, the bush. The practice involves immersing your senses in the ambience of the forest to focus on your connection with and relationship to nature.
Feel the breeze of the wind, hear the call of birds, the sounds of water be it trickling streams or the hum of the ocean and smell the tea-tree of the coastal bush surrounds to re-centre and ground yourself. At SABI we promote disconnecting to reconnect. Jump into winter by awakening your senses and book this offer for an experience to remember.
What are the benefits?
The body of research on the benefits of forest bathing has grown rapidly in the past decade. A number of health and wellbeing benefits have been found from relaxation, decreases in cardio-vascular illnesses such as hypertension and coronary heart disease and lowered levels of stress-related hormones, cortisol and adrenaline and stress-related enyzme amylase. Beyond the physical, research suggests that forest bathing has added mental health benefits from improving mood and increasing happiness to reducing symptoms of anxiety, depression, grief, burnout and insomnia.
The positive impact of forest bathing on wellbeing has seen it become an increasingly recommended form of preventative care and therapeutic intervention. The adoption of contemporary natural healing methods is seeing a resurgence in many countries from Japan, Norway, Korea, Germany and North America.
It is an immersive experience to reconnect with self and nature, offering health and wellbeing benefits for the mind, body and soul.
The direct translation ‘forest bathing’ does not mean take a bath in the forest but rather reflects the immersive experience where one bathe's in the healing powers of trees to reconnect your mind, body and soul with nature.
