Sitting in a sweat bath can be more vigorous than any physical activity - the heat produces an artificial fever and urges every organ of the body into action. While outwardly relaxed, inner organs are extremely active. The body is cleansed from the inside out through your body’s largest organ, the skin, and its excretion, sweat.
Benefits include: improved circulation, organ stimulation and cleansing, elimination of toxins, skin regeneration, increased metabolism, mental invigoration and endorphin release.
And one can enjoy this purification exercise while either meditating or catching up with a friend... check, check !
While sweat bathing doesn't replace ones fitness needs, it is the ultimate yin to the yang. Exert, rest, restore, exert, rest, restore..... repeat, repeat, repeat... balance, balance, balance.