How infrared differs from a traditional sauna
A traditional sauna heats the air, and the hot air heats you. An infrared cabin uses emitters that warm your body more directly, which means the air temperature can be considerably lower while you still feel very warm.
Practically, that makes it a gentler experience. You can hold a conversation. You can stay in longer. It does not feel like being inside a kettle.
What a session is like
- Length: usually twenty to thirty minutes.
- Temperature: warm rather than fierce — noticeably cooler air than a traditional sauna.
- You will sweat, and it builds gradually rather than hitting you at the door.
- Take water in, and shower afterwards. Both obvious, both regularly forgotten.
What we will not claim
Infrared is a warm, quiet twenty minutes. That is what we are offering, and it is enough.
You will find infrared marketed with a long list of medical-sounding outcomes — detoxification, weight loss, immune effects, skin transformation. We are not repeating any of them, because we cannot substantiate them.
What we will say: it is a good reason to stay in the building after a session instead of rushing off, and being warm and quiet for twenty minutes is not a small thing in a busy week.
Who should be careful
Heat is not right for everybody. Speak to your GP first if you are pregnant, have a heart condition or circulatory problems, low or high blood pressure, take medication affected by heat, or have any condition affecting how you sense temperature. If you feel light-headed, come out. Do not use it after drinking alcohol.
How it fits the rest of the visit
Infrared sits at the back of the building alongside the changing rooms and showers, so the natural shape of a visit is: reformer session, infrared, shower, coffee at the front, home. Or reformer, infrared, and straight back to work.
Where and when
57 Wyle Cop, Shrewsbury, SY1 1XJ, from December 2026. Prices and the opening timetable go to reef Club members before they are published anywhere else. Join the club free. There is also red light therapy, which is a different thing entirely.
