Loyly Nordic Spa

Four slides, and the last one will annoy some people.
Here is the honest state of the research.

Almost every long-term finding on sauna is sauna only. The 20-year Finnish cohort work on mortality, dementia and stroke. The randomized trial where eight weeks of heat nearly doubled flow-mediated dilation. The depression trial. The headache trial. Not one of them involved a cold plunge. If you only ever sauna, you are doing the thing that was actually studied.

Cold has its own evidence, and it is mostly fast. Five minutes at 68°F raised positive affect and alertness, with matching shifts in prefrontal connectivity (Yankouskaya, Biology, 2023). In 3,018 adults, 30 to 90 seconds of daily cold cut sickness absence 29%, and the 90-second group did no better than the 30-second group (Buijze, PLOS ONE, 2016). Longer is not the point.

Doing both beats doing nothing. Thirteen pooled trials found alternating hot and cold improved soreness and strength loss through 96 hours versus passive rest. The same analysis found no clear advantage over cold alone, warm water alone, compression or active recovery (Bieuzen, PLOS ONE, 2013).

Now the part everyone argues about.

No trial has compared heat first against cold first, head to head. Heat first is tradition, and it makes the cold bearable. Both are good reasons. Neither is a research finding.

The rule about always ending on cold gets attributed to a 2021 winter-swimmer study. That study compared swimmers to non-swimmers. It had no ending-hot arm to compare against.

The one place order is established has nothing to do with which room you walk into. Cold straight after lifting lowered muscle protein synthesis about 20% over the next five hours and blunted size and strength gains across 12 weeks (Fuchs, J Physiol, 2020. Roberts, J Physiol, 2015). Sauna after lifting. Plunge later.

So tell us. Do you start cold or end cold. How long, how cold, how many rounds. What changed your mind. If you finish hot because you sleep better, say that. That counts too.

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Labor Day reset with us. 😌

löyly littles opens this week. The only place parents can actually come to recover.

On-site childcare for our littlest guests, ages 0 to 12, so you can get your sauna and cold plunge in without lining up a sitter first.

🕗 Monday & Friday, 8 AM to 12 PM
🌙 Wednesday, 3 PM to 7 PM

Wednesdays are open on purpose. Parents deserve a date night that doesn’t break the bank and still gets everyone home before bedtime.

Reserve a 30, 60, or 90 minute slot in advance. Rates in the post.

Full details at the link in bio.

End of summer. Save up to $250 on the year ahead.

Lock in an annual pass before August 31 and we will take $50 off your annual membership fee. Same unlimited access. No appointments, no time limits, no clocks.
On a Lö Pass that is $590 for twelve months instead of $840 month to month. Four visits a week works out to $2.84 a visit. A day pass is $30.

A 20-year Finnish study published in JAMA Internal Medicine found that people who sauna four to seven times per week had a 63% lower risk of sudden cardiac death. Frequency is the whole point—annual pricing is what makes it affordable.

Use code SUMMER250 at checkout. Link in bio, or stop by the front desk.

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Offer valid through August 31, 2026. $50 off the annual membership fee on a new or converted annual membership. Lö and Vettä Pass save $250 at Downtown Salt Lake City and Fort Union, $270 at Orem. Fjord Pass saves $130. Limit one code per membership.

People often ask us why members keep coming back.

The answer isn’t just the sauna.

It’s the conversations before and after a session. The familiar faces you start recognizing each week. The feeling of walking out calmer, clearer, and more refreshed than when you walked in.

Over time, it stops feeling like something you do. It starts feeling like part of your routine.

That’s the real value of a Löyly Nordic Spa membership.

It’s more than unlimited sauna access. It’s a place to unwind, a community to belong to, and a ritual that leaves you feeling better every single time.

What keeps you coming back? We’d love to hear your story. 👇

Tomorrow night the doors are open to all! We’re throwing a party at the new Fort Union location, and everyone’s invited. Free spa access from 6 to 9 PM. Come sweat with us, plunge with us, and see what this whole Nordic thing is about.

Here’s how the night runs:

6:00 — Doors open. Free access to the facility. Mobile sauna fired up and ready.
6:30 — Ribbon cutting with the Mayor and City Council.
7:00 — Yoga with beehiveyoga .
8:00 — Giveaways. Free chiropractic, Momentum Climbing Utah climbing passes, food, and more. You have to be there to win.

No pressure, no rush, no experience required. Just heat, cold, and good people.

Tag the friend who’s been saying “we should try that” for the last six months. Tomorrow is the night.

The Shops at Fort Union, Midvale. 6 to 9 PM. All are welcome.

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GRAND OPENING PARTY! 🎉 Thursday, 6–9 PM. Doors open to everyone—free.

Sauna. Cold plunge. The full Nordic ritual, on us.

The Mayor and City Council are cutting the ribbon. Our mobile sauna will be fired up out front. Food vendors, giveaways, and a room full of people who came to feel better than they did when they walked in.

No membership. No pressure. Just heat, cold, and good company.

Mark your calendars. Tag a friend who needs to be here—then actually bring them.

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