A Hot Place to Chill invites you to stay well while chilling out

As the guests who enter it will soon realize, A Hot Place to Chill lives up to its name: a place for everyone to chill out by indulging in the hottest technology in wellness.

For 23 years, Dr. Bryan Strother and his wife, Rose, have been in New Buffalo with their business, Corrective Chiropractic and Clinic at 1 West Madison Avenue; however, according to Rose, they’ve always wanted to expand their services.

“It’s always been kind of our dream to open a bigger wellness center - something with more natural health services than we have at the clinic aside from chiropractic and massage…We just wanted to do more natural health services that people could utilize to help in their journey on their way to finding better health,” she said.

Rose called the opening of A Hot Place to Chill “phase one.” Eventually, she and Bryan hope to bring their chiropractic clinic to the other side of the building.

“When A Hot Place to Chill is open, Corrective Chiropractic might be closed but there’re people who are going to be visiting here that can also benefit from seeing Dr. Bryan too, so it’s just really going to be cohesive for us to all be in one spot,” she said.

A Hot Place to Chill offers a variety of “core services.” There’s cryotherapy, which Rose said is cold therapy - like plunge pools, but it’s an electric chryo unit.

“It goes to negative 150 degrees so it’s much colder than a plunge pool with the same type of health benefits - really great for systemic and chronic inflammation, really great to help improve muscle pain and joint pain, it’s like a recovery tool for that, it helps improve collagen production,” Rose said.

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There’s also power plate vibration training, which involves holding a pose on a plate for 30 seconds. Rose said the training is really intense because one’s muscles are contracting 30 to 50 times per second but it’s only 30 seconds.

Based on research from Sunlighten, the full issues such as wound healing, skin repair, chronic inflammation and weight loss, can “go down into the mitochondria of the cell and start repairing it at a cellular level.” A Hot Place to Chill has a medical grade, professional level bed with three wavelengths of red light. spectrum infrared sauna has six protocols, such as cardiovascular, anti-aging or detox, from which to choose. Based on the research, the sauna will use the near, mid or far infrared ray and “cycle through those as their research would call for,” Rose said.

The high-pressure tanning uses light filter technology inside the bulbs, which filters out UVB rays.

“The whole premise in a high-pressure bed is you’re not sunburning and drying and flaking off so now your skin can maintain its natural exfoliation process, which is 28 to 30 days,” Rose said.

AHot Place to Chill also offers assisted stretching with a certified personal trainer as well as yoga five days a week.

Each service is $25; however, members can buy credits. Memberships start at $70, and that starts at four credits.

The robotic chairs and spinal stretch table are free for members.

Someone with poor blood circulation would benefit from the compression therapy, as Rose said it helps “pump the fluid up to their kidney, so their kidney can start detoxing and eliminating it.”

She said the red light therapy, which helps with

Rose said that the closest place to offer their kind of comprehensive services is an hour way.

“Everybody who has come in is signing up – they’re so excited we brought this to New Buffalo,” she said.

A Hot Place to Chill is located at 400 South Whittaker Street in New Buffalo. Hours of operation are Monday through Thursday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. For more information on memberships and services, visit www. ahotplacetochill.com.