✦ Awaken: A Guided Thermal Experience

Price: $35 for Non-Members | 20% off for Members

Awaken: A Guided Thermal Experience is a 45-minute guided contrast therapy journey designed to awaken your senses, energize your body, and reconnect you to yourself. Set in the secluded Secret Garden at CASCADA, this fully guided contrast therapy session offers a transformative journey through intentional movement between heat and cold, guided breathwork, and moments of stillness, you’ll experience a powerful reset that leaves you feeling grounded, empowered, and fully present.

What is Contrast Therapy:
Contrast therapy is the intentional use of alternating heat and cold exposure—typically moving between a sauna and cold plunge. This practice helps regulate the nervous system, reduce inflammation, improve mood and circulation, and unlock emotional resilience. When combined with conscious breath and movement, contrast therapy becomes not just healing—but awakening.  

What to Expect:

We’ll move through two rounds of contrast using breath, cold, heat, movement, and sound:

• Cold Plunge – Reset your nervous system and open the space between stimulus and response.
• Restorative Heat – Sauna bursts that ignite deep cellular recovery.
• Breathwork – Use the breath as a circuit breaker to anchor into presence.
• Movement – Light somatic movement to circulate energy and integrate the shifts.
• Vocal Release – Loud and liberating expression to shake loose what no longer belongs.

This is designed to push your edges and reconnect you with the aliveness within. You’ll leave feeling more grounded, expansive, and deeply restored.

Our Ask of You:

• Arrive nourished and hydratedSupporting your body with water and proper nourishment ensures you can fully and safely receive the benefits of your session.
• Move with intentionSlow, mindful movement helps regulate your nervous system and preserves the tranquil atmosphere for all.
• Unplug and release personal itemsDisconnecting from technology allows you, and those around you, to remain fully present. The sauna’s heat warms metal quickly, so we kindly ask that all jewelry be removed before your experience.
• Listen to your bodyYour experience is personal. Adjust temperature, duration, and intensity according to what feels supportive and restorative.
• Prioritize rest when your body calls for itIf you are feeling unwell, please reschedule your session to protect both your wellbeing and that of our community.