Awaken For Wellness - The Salt Room

The Salt Room Woodbury offers 45-minute sessions in a relaxing, comfortable, cozy salt-covered room. During a session salt acts like an expectorant, accelerating mucus clearance and improving lung function while killing harmful bacteria and soothing the respiratory system. Salt therapy is the therapeutic use of natural salt in a simulated microclimate, where pharmaceutical-grade pulverized salt is blown into the room for occupants to passively breathe in. Salt is also anti-inflammatory and antibacterial, which reduces tissue irritation and swelling and can kill the bacteria in the respiratory tracts. In the 1840’s a Polish physician recognized that workers in salt mines had much lower rates of lung disease and attributed the cause of their good health to the salt cave air that was saturated with salt particles. Soon thereafter, the therapeutic use of salt caves, became a common drug-free treatment for many chronic lung and skin conditions. The Salt Room Woodbury, simulating the effects of salt mines, brings a once inaccessible, natural, healing element from the earth to the doorsteps of our urban community. Established in 2013.