The purpose of a sauna is to heat the body in order to produce perspiration for therapeutic reasons and/or for cleansing. The Finnish sauna uses dry heat with a temperature of around 80-100 degrees. The relative humidity doesn’t exceed 15%. This causes the body to perspire profusely as a way to cool down.

Benefits include: Relaxes the nervous system - Oxygenation - Stimulates circulation - Improves muscular elasticity.

The Turkish bath, or Hammam, uses heat to create benefits for the body. In this case, the heat is damp and is provided through steam. Temperatures are below that of a dry-heat sauna, at between 25-50 degrees depending on height, and it has a relative humidity of 99%.

Benefits: Eliminates toxins - Opens pores and helps to clear skin impurities - Improves breathing - Helps to cleanse the respiratory tract - Prepares the body for therapeutic and aesthetic treatments - Helps muscles and the body to recover after exercise.

The pediluvium is a foot bath where medicinal treatments are combined with natural water. It takes place over a set period of time. Pediluviums are said to act as stimulants and are particularly beneficial for counteracting cerebral congestion, laryngitis, bronchitis and headaches.

Benefits: Stimulates circulation - Eliminates excess build - up of water in the body - Improves varicose and spider veins.

These loungers are designed to maintain a constant temperature of between 38 and 39ºC, giving the user a sensation of well-being due to the effects it has on the nervous and cardiovascular systems and the muscles.

Benefits: Relaxation - Stimulates circulation.

A shower is the best type of hydrotherapy because the water in contact with your body is constantly replaced and it creates constant mechanical and thermal stimulation. A sequential shower is one in which jets of hot and cold water are quickly passed over the body.

Benefits: -Tones the nervous system -Stimulates the circulatory system -Relieves pain and speeds up healing of lesions -Relaxes muscles