Somatic Fire & Ice
Activation and Coaching
What happens when your body learns it can feel intensity without shutting down?
You become unshakable.
All through the power of hot and cold.
What This Is:
A 4–8 week guided rite of passage for nervous system regulation, embodied power, and deep inner clarity.
The Somatic Fire & Ice Activation is a trauma‑informed, body‑based experience that uses heat, cold, breath, sound, and conscious presence to help you regulate your nervous system, access your inner resilience, and reconnect to your innate capacity to meet life with clarity and strength.
This is not a fitness challenge or a test of willpower.
It is a guided somatic initiation — one that invites you to listen to your body, expand your capacity to feel, and discover how much choice, agency, and wisdom already live within you.
Our sessions are in person and take place at Pure Sweat Sauna Studio in downtown Winston-Salem, NC.
Why Fire & Ice?
Across cultures, heat and cold have been used as ceremonial tools for healing, purification, and awakening. When approached intentionally and safely, contrast becomes a powerful teacher.
Fire (heat) softens the body, opens sensation, and reveals where we hold tension, resistance, or control.
Ice (cold) sharpens awareness, brings us into the present moment, and invites us to meet intensity without collapse or dissociation.
When combined with breath, sound, and skilled facilitation, Fire & Ice becomes a portal into:
Nervous system resilience (helping get you out of fight-or-flight more easily, cultivating equanimity or levelheadedness)
Emotional regulation
Somatic confidence
Trust in your body’s whispers, messages and signals
A felt sense of inner power and grounded presence
Benefits of Fire & Ice Activation
This experience is for you if you...
Feel drawn to deepen your relationship with your body and nervous system
Want to meet stress, fear, or intensity with more choice and steadiness
Are navigating a transition, threshold, or inner initiation
Have done therapy, coaching, or spiritual work and want to embody what you know
Are curious about heat or cold practices and want to explore them safely and intentionally
No prior experience with breathwork, cold exposure, or somatic work is required.
What to expect:
Each Fire & Ice Activation is thoughtfully paced and tailored to the individual or group.
A typical session includes:
Grounding and nervous system orientation
Guided heat exposure with breath, visualization, movement, and sound
Optional cold immersion or cold exposure with continuous support
Integration through reflection, journaling, and gentle coaching
You are always invited to move at your own pace. Choice, consent, and nervous system awareness are central throughout.
What You’ll Receive
1 × 30‑minute Intro Coaching & Intake Call
A focused conversation to clarify intentions, assess readiness, review health considerations, and attune the work specifically to you.
4 × Deep‑Dive Fire & Ice Sessions (2 hours each)
Each session includes:
Guided heat & cold contrast practices
Trauma‑informed breathwork
Somatic coaching and inquiry
Intention setting and integration
Customized breath and somatic meditation practices
All sessions are facilitated by a trauma‑informed certified coach, breathwork facilitator, and registered nurse, ensuring both depth and safety.
High‑Touch Support
Unlimited voice note and text support between sessions
Guidance on both steady days and difficult moments
A consistent relational container — you are not doing this alone
A True Full‑Body, Mind & Spiritual Reset
This container is designed to create measurable shifts in how you relate to stress, sensation, emotion, and inner authority.
Preferred Access to Continued Work
Discounts on private coaching packages following completion
If this feels aligned, schedule a free consultation call to learn more.
“I hesitated before reaching out to Lauren, now I only regret not doing it sooner. She’s incredibly intentional and thoughtful with every single session. I have only done two contrast therapy sessions, but I’m already looking forward to the next one. I can work my mind while actually feeling that progress in the heat of the sauna, and then I get to kind of lock it all in with the cold plunge.”
—Current Client
I’ve been blending sauna and cold plunge with meditation and breathwork in my own practice for 8 years, and it continues to astonish me how profoundly the experience deepens when intentional healing practices are woven in.
Whether I’m seeking to balance all seven chakras, or focusing on one energy center, or activating kundalini through pranayama, or activating and moving suppressed emotions out of my body—contrast therapy turns the work from something I “understand” into something I can feel.
The heat softens my ego and asks me to focus only on my breath. The cold awakens my clarity, heightens my conscious state and spiritual connection.
Contrast therapy has become one of the most reliable ways I’ve found to create real, embodied transformation—not just in my mind, but in my nervous system, my energy, and the way I show up in my life. My clients are getting incredible results, too.
This is why I’m so passionate about offering it now. When paired with somatic coaching and breathwork in a safe and responsible container, it becomes a truly life-changing tool for those ready for it.
—Lauren Leigh Henry, RN, HN-BC, CCRN, CCTP