You Glow Girl - Glow Bar Review
On a cold wet day in London a few months back a mama friend of mine had asked to catch up and discuss a potential new business idea. After our hour-long chat about the idea and how I could assist with the network I created through brand consulting, another friend of ours walked past, did a double-take, then came running in and was rather in awe of how we were sitting together having matcha and working away on our business endeavors. The Tuesday morning MOMTREPRENEUR meetings were born!
Now every Tuesday we meet up at a few locations (Coming to the blog soon: my favourite cafes to work at throughout London!), usually Beaufort House because they have a great breakfast menu and super accommodating, or Farm Girl…their buckwheat pancakes are amazing!! We discuss our own personal business ideas and progress. It can be rather lonely being a momtrepreneur, as much as I love to discuss things with Mouse, it’s so nice to talk with fellow mums on another level! We’re all working towards these incredible goals and supporting each other while we’re doing it. Women supporting other women!
One Tuesday morning I decided to ‘hot’ it up a bit (quite literally), as it was just me and one other mama that particular morning, I booked a double pod infrared sauna @glowbarldn. So we swapped our usual matchas for a 45-minute sweat session!
Glow Bar seeks to provide wellness essentials for the modern woman and aims to assist with stress management through natural remedies, elixir blends of adaptogens to purchase and/or try in one of their many adaptogenic spiced lattes, and through some peace and quiet in one of their infrared pods.
My fellow momtrepreneur and I were shown into the changing room, given a Glow Bar gown and taken through to our pod for the next 45 minutes. The first 5 minutes I was thinking how am I going to cope in this heat for the next 40 minutes, it felt really hot but I did finally get used it. After some breath work my fellow mama and I enjoyed chatting away (admittedly we did open the door once or twice to cool off) and time started to fly by while profusely sweating…we were definitely getting our GLOW ON.
BENEFITS of INFRARED SAUNA
The benefits can be broken down into categories: Body, Skin, Mood & Sleep
Body - Helps to increase circulation, detoxify the body and most importantly for the world we live in infrared is an: IMMUNE SYSTEM BOOSTER - through heating the core body temperature and penetration of infrared energy it helps to increase white blood cell count (white blood cells fight infections).
Skin - Helps to stimulate collagen production (Did you know starting in our late 20’s we lose 1-2% every year!?) and leaving you with your skin glowing the moment you leave.
Mood - Helps to release endorphins and lower cortisol levels, your tree hormone, so overall helping with your mood.
Sleep - Relaxes your mind and muscles to encourage a goods nights beauty sleep - in turn helping you skin.
A fellow GLOW getter, one of the Glow Bar London regulars, explained how she travels to Thailand every year to do an intensive Infrared course and swears by the results for overall wellness - now that’s a woman glow getting it that I aspire to!
I am hooked and cannot wait to try it again, will definitely be taking hubby with me next time so he can experience as well. Any treatments in London you’d like me to try? Leave me a note in the comments below or drop me a note at stephanie.abri@icloud.com!
xo Steph
