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White Glove Installation
From simple placement to full setup, we’ve got you covered.
For the ultimate hands-off experience, our White Glove Delivery includes full professional assembly, so your sauna is ready to use right away. Handled by our trained 2-person teams with a scheduled 4-hour appointment window and customer signature at delivery.
Our Room of Choice Delivery ensures your Solara is safely carried into your home (including stairs and apartments), placed exactly where you want it and unpacked —assembly not included.
Do I need Room of Choice Delivery if I live in an apartment or have stairs?
Yes. If your building has stairs or requires carrying the sauna beyond ground-level entry, Room of Choice Delivery is required to ensure safe handling.
What’s the difference between Room of Choice and White Glove Delivery?
Room of Choice includes delivery to the room of your choice, unpacking and placement. White Glove includes all of that plus full assembly, so your Solara is ready to use the same day.
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How long does the delivery service take?
Both services include up to 30 minutes of delivery time. White Glove assembly is completed within that window, so you can enjoy your sauna right away.
•In a 2018 study, 10.7% of regular practitioners developed new pain from yoga within a year.
•Hand, shoulder and head stands were linked to the most acute yoga complaints in a 2019 survey.
•A sauna should not be used straight after a hot yoga class.
•Heat after an unheated practice supports recovery and supports sleep. It does not increase flexibility.
01
Nobody rolls out a mat expecting to get hurt.
A sauna for yoga starts with an honest look at the practice. Yoga is how most people unwind. It is also practice, four or five times a week, in the same poses.
In a study that followed 354 people from two yoga studios for a year, 10.7% developed new pain caused by yoga, and more than a third of those cases cost them practice time or lasted longer than three months. In a survey of 1,702 practitioners, hand, shoulder and head stands were linked to the most acute complaints, followed by forward and back bends.
New pain in a year
10.7%
Lasted 3+ months
a third
Hand and head stands
29.4%
Forward and back bends
23.8%
None of it is dramatic. It is the same shoulder in the same chaturanga, or the same hamstring in the same forward fold, showing up again on Thursday because it never got a break.
It does not happen in one pose. It happens in the same pose, four times a week.
Sources: One-year study of 354 studio practitioners, Campo et al., Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies, 2018, PMID 29861244. Survey of 1,702 practitioners, Cramer et al., BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 2019, PMID 31357980.
It is rarely one pose. It is the same wrist, in the same pose, four times a week.
02
It's not an injury yet. That's the problem.
It is the wrist that aches in the third downward dog. The hamstring that pulls right under the sit bone every forward fold. The shoulder that complains in chaturanga, so you drop your knees and keep going.
It gets harder with age. In US emergency room data, the yoga injury rate for practitioners 65 and over was 57.9 per 100,000 in 2014, against 11.9 for ages 18 to 44. The answer is not another class.
Downward dogwrists ache
Forward folda pull under the sit bone
Chaturangaknees down, keep going
Logged as injurynone of it
None of that goes in your journal. It is all the same thing, arriving slowly. By the time it has a name, it has been there for a month.
03
Roll up the mat. Straight back to your phone.
You roll up the mat before the teacher has finished the closing words. You check your messages in the car. You stretch the tight hip again that night on the living room floor.
You sleep badly and practise again in the morning. That is not a criticism. It is what almost everyone does.
That is not a criticism. It is what almost everyone does.
Your practice has a time in your week. Winding down gets whatever is left over.
Everything you own for this already lives in a corner of the room.
04
The evidence says it goes after.
47
People
8
Weeks
15
Minutes after
In a 2023 trial, athletes sat in an infrared sauna for twenty minutes straight after a hard resistance training session. Compared with resting, they reported less muscle soreness and felt more recovered.
It was sixteen people, and they were basketball players, not yoga practitioners. In a separate randomised trial, 47 inactive adults added fifteen minutes of sauna straight after exercise for eight weeks, and came out ahead of the exercise-only group on cardiorespiratory fitness and systolic blood pressure. Not every study agrees. The ones that helped put the heat in the same place: after.
This is not instead of your practice. It is the fifteen minutes after.
Source: Ahokas et al., Biology of Sport, 2023, PMID 37398966, 16 basketball players. Lee et al., Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol, 2022, PMID 35785965. Heat supports recovery. It does not prevent injury or make you more flexible.
05
Heat after the practice, not during it.
A hot yoga room heats the air while you work. Full spectrum infrared warms your body directly while you do nothing at all: the hips, the hamstrings and the lower back you just asked a lot of.
Your heart rate climbs. Your blood vessels open. You sweat. That is the mechanism, and it supports recovery without anybody promising you a deeper pose.
Heart rate rises
Warms you directly
83.5%
of 482 sauna users said they slept better afterwards.
That is a survey, not a trial. It is also where recovery actually happens.
Global Sauna Survey, 2019
Not in the sauna. In the eight hours after it.
Source: Global Sauna Survey, Complementary Therapies in Medicine, 2019, PMID 31126560. Self-reported, 482 respondents. Heat supports sleep, it does not treat a sleep disorder.
06
The bonus
The hardest part of red light therapy is standing in front of it.
You're already sitting down.
A panel costs three hundred to two thousand dollars on its own, and the protocol is standing still in front of it several times a week. Nobody does that after a practice. You will sit down after one.
It is in the back wall. Not an upsell, not an attachment, not a subscription.
Source: Red light is a built-in feature. Most red light research places the light directly on the muscle at a measured dose, which is not the same as a panel inside a sauna, so we make no recovery claim for it. It does not treat an injury.
07
Every practice gets fifteen minutes.
It takes about fifteen minutes to warm up. Turn it on as you roll up your mat, and it is ready when you are. Drink water first, then sit.
Mon
Vinyasa
then sauna
Tue
Rest
Wed
Yin
then sauna
Thu
Vinyasa
then sauna
Fri
Rest
Sat
Hot yoga
no sauna
Sun
Slow flow
then sauna
Most owners land on four or five sessions a week.
For a yoga practitioner that is just every practice that isn't already hot.
Mat rolled up, fifteen minutes, then the rest of the evening.
08
A corner, or a closet.
About thirty minutes to put together. One person. No tools, nothing drilled, a regular household outlet. The Solara fits adults up to 6 foot 8 seated, and at 63 inches tall outside it clears a standard doorway. The Solara if you have a corner or a spare room next to where you roll out the mat. The Pulse PRO if you do not: it folds into a carry bag and lives in a closet. Practise with a partner? The Solara 2-Person fits you both.
SaunaBox Solara
End of Summer Sale is live
If you have a corner or a spare room next to where you roll out the mat.
Turn it on as I roll up the mat, sit in it fifteen minutes later. That is the whole trick. I have done more recovery in two months than in five years of owning a foam roller.
Practitioner, verified buyer
★★★★☆
Sleep after day two is the difference
Evenings after an evening class used to be restless. They are not now. Four stars because I wish it warmed up in less than fifteen minutes.
Practitioner, verified buyer
★★★★★
Good, but measure your doorway
No complaints about the sauna itself and my hips feel better the day after a hard class. Three stars because getting the boxes round the turn at the top of my stairs was a job.
Practitioner, verified buyer
End of Summer Sale is live
End of Summer Sale is live.
Across the whole lineup, our biggest sale of the year. Free shipping, HSA and FSA eligible through TrueMed.
Up to 158°F, so you can go as hot as you want, or sit cooler on an easy day. It ships set to 149°F; holding TIME + and TIME − together for about six seconds unlocks the full range.
About fifteen minutes. Turn it on as you roll up your mat and it is ready when you are.
No. A regular 110V household outlet at 1600W with an 8 foot cord. Give it its own outlet rather than a shared strip, and skip extension leads.
35 by 37 inches of floor and 63 inches tall, so it clears a standard doorway and sits in a corner. Measure the tightest turn on the way in, not the room. It arrives as two flat boxes, the larger 65 by 37 by 13 inches.
Yes, through TrueMed, subject to their eligibility questions at checkout.
2-Year warranty, with support by phone and text.
Skip it unless your doctor has cleared it, especially in the first trimester. Obstetric guidance is to avoid high heat during pregnancy.
No. A hot yoga class is already a heat session, and plenty of people feel dizzy after one. Rehydrate and cool down, and save the sauna for the days your practice was not heated.
After a practice that was not heated, yes: drink water first and start with shorter sessions. It supports recovery and supports sleep. After hot yoga, skip it that day.
Less common than in most sports, but not zero. In a 2018 study of 354 studio practitioners, 10.7% developed new pain from yoga within a year.
Not in this one. The Solara is built for sitting, not for a practice. Practise first, then sit.
After. Warm up with your practice, then sit.
No. In hot yoga you are working in a heated room. In a sauna you are sitting still while the heat does its thing. They are different sessions, and you do not need both on the same day.
Heat therapy supports recovery and supports sleep. It does not prevent or treat injuries, does not increase flexibility, and nothing here is medical advice. Do not use a sauna straight after a hot yoga class. Rehydrate first, avoid alcohol before a session, stand up slowly afterwards, and speak to your physician before starting sauna use, especially if you are or could be pregnant, have a heart condition, or take blood pressure medication.
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•In a 2018 study, 10.7% of regular practitioners developed new pain from yoga within a year.
•Hand, shoulder and head stands were linked to the most acute yoga complaints in a 2019 survey.
•A sauna should not be used straight after a hot yoga class.
•Heat after an unheated practice supports recovery and supports sleep. It does not increase flexibility.
01
Nobody rolls out a mat expecting to get hurt.
A sauna for yoga starts with an honest look at the practice. Yoga is how most people unwind. It is also practice, four or five times a week, in the same poses.
In a study that followed 354 people from two yoga studios for a year, 10.7% developed new pain caused by yoga, and more than a third of those cases cost them practice time or lasted longer than three months. In a survey of 1,702 practitioners, hand, shoulder and head stands were linked to the most acute complaints, followed by forward and back bends.
New pain in a year
10.7%
Lasted 3+ months
a third
Hand and head stands
29.4%
Forward and back bends
23.8%
None of it is dramatic. It is the same shoulder in the same chaturanga, showing up again on Thursday because it never got a break.
It does not happen in one pose. It happens in the same pose, four times a week.
Sources: Campo et al., J Bodyw Mov Ther, 2018, PMID 29861244. Cramer et al., BMC Complement Altern Med, 2019, PMID 31357980.
02
It's not an injury yet. That's the problem.
It is the wrist that aches in the third downward dog. The hamstring that pulls right under the sit bone every forward fold. The shoulder that complains in chaturanga, so you drop your knees and keep going.
It gets harder with age. In US emergency room data, the yoga injury rate for practitioners 65 and over was 57.9 per 100,000 in 2014, against 11.9 for ages 18 to 44. The answer is not another class.
Downward dogwrists ache
Forward folda pull under the sit bone
Chaturangaknees down, keep going
Logged as injurynone of it
None of that goes in your training log. By the time it has a name, it has been there for a month.
03
Roll up the mat. Straight back to your phone.
You roll up the mat before the teacher has finished the closing words. You check your messages in the car. You stretch the tight hip again that night on the living room floor.
You sleep badly and practise again in the morning. That is not a criticism. It is what almost everyone does.
Your practice has a time in your week. Winding down gets whatever is left over.
04
The evidence says it goes after.
47
People
8
Weeks
15
Min after
In a 2023 trial, athletes sat in an infrared sauna for twenty minutes straight after a hard resistance training session. Compared with resting, they reported less muscle soreness and felt more recovered.
The group that added the sauna came out ahead on cardiorespiratory fitness and systolic blood pressure.
This is not instead of your practice. It is the fifteen minutes after.
Source: Ahokas et al., Biology of Sport, 2023, PMID 37398966, 16 basketball players. Lee et al., PMID 35785965. Heat supports recovery. It does not prevent injury or make you more flexible.
05
Heat after the practice, not during it.
A gym sauna heats the air around you. Full spectrum infrared warms your body directly: the hips, the hamstrings and the lower back you just asked a lot of.
Your heart rate climbs. Your blood vessels open. You sweat. That is the mechanism.
Heart rate rises
Warms you directly
83.5%
of 482 sauna users said they slept better afterwards.
That is a survey, not a trial. It is also where recovery actually happens.
Global Sauna Survey, 2019
Not in the sauna. In the eight hours after it.
Source: Complementary Therapies in Medicine, 2019, PMID 31126560. Self-reported. Heat supports sleep, it does not treat a sleep disorder.
06
The bonus
The hardest part of red light therapy is standing in front of it.
You're already sitting down.
A panel costs three hundred to two thousand dollars on its own, and the protocol is standing still in front of it several times a week. Nobody does that after a practice. You will sit down after one.
It is in the back wall. Not an upsell, not an attachment, not a subscription.
Source: Red light is a built-in feature. Most red light research places the light directly on the muscle at a measured dose, which is not the same as a panel inside a sauna, so we make no recovery claim for it. It does not treat an injury.
07
Every practice gets fifteen minutes.
It takes about fifteen minutes to warm up. Turn it on as you roll up your mat, and it is ready when you are. Drink water first, then sit.
Mon
Vinyasa
then sauna
Tue
Rest
Wed
Yin
then sauna
Thu
Vinyasa
then sauna
Fri
Rest
Sat
Hot yoga
no sauna
Sun
Slow flow
then sauna
For a yoga practitioner that is just every practice that isn't already hot.
08
A corner, or a closet.
About thirty minutes to put together. One person. No tools, nothing drilled, a regular household outlet.
SaunaBox Solara
End of Summer Sale is live
If you have a corner or a spare room next to where you roll out the mat.
Turn it on before I head out, sit in it when I get back. I have done more recovery in two months than in five years of owning a foam roller.
Practitioner, verified buyer
★★★★☆
Sleep after day two is the difference
Evenings after an evening class used to be restless. They are not now. Four stars because I wish it warmed up in less than fifteen minutes.
Practitioner, verified buyer
★★★★★
Good, but measure your doorway
My hips feel better the day after a hard class. Measure your doorway before it arrives, getting the boxes round the turn at the top of my stairs was a job.
Practitioner, verified buyer
End of Summer Sale is live
End of Summer Sale is live.
Across the whole lineup, our biggest sale of the year. Free shipping, HSA and FSA eligible through TrueMed.
Up to 158°F, so you can go as hot as you want, or sit cooler on an easy day. It ships set to 149°F; holding TIME + and TIME − together for about six seconds unlocks the full range.
About fifteen minutes. Turn it on as you roll up your mat and it is ready when you are.
No. A regular 110V household outlet at 1600W with an 8 foot cord. Give it its own outlet and skip extension leads.
35 by 37 inches of floor and 63 inches tall. Measure the tightest turn on the way in, not the room. It arrives as two flat boxes, the larger 65 by 37 by 13 inches.
Yes, through TrueMed, subject to their eligibility questions at checkout.
2-Year warranty, with support by phone and text.
Skip it unless your doctor has cleared it, especially in the first trimester. Obstetric guidance is to avoid high heat during pregnancy.
No. A hot yoga class is already a heat session, and plenty of people feel dizzy after one. Rehydrate and cool down, and save the sauna for the days your practice was not heated.
After a practice that was not heated, yes: drink water first and start with shorter sessions. It supports recovery and supports sleep. After hot yoga, skip it that day.
Less common than in most sports, but not zero. In a 2018 study of 354 studio practitioners, 10.7% developed new pain from yoga within a year.
Not in this one. The Solara is built for sitting, not for a practice. Practise first, then sit.
After. Warm up with your practice, then sit.
No. In hot yoga you are working in a heated room. In a sauna you are sitting still while the heat does its thing. They are different sessions, and you do not need both on the same day.
Heat therapy supports recovery and supports sleep. It does not prevent or treat injuries, does not increase flexibility, and nothing here is medical advice. Do not use a sauna straight after a hot yoga class. Speak to your physician first, especially if you are or could be pregnant.
