Crafted with leading outdoor-sauna engineering and finished in your choice of refined tones, the Mira fuses considered wellness function with architectural form. Whether you are designing a minimalist spa space or a showstopping garden feature, these new colours offer a bold, beautiful way to personalise your sauna.

The six new Mira colourways

• Spruce Green: a rich, natural tone inspired by forest landscapes; perfect for tranquil retreats.
• Pure White: clean and contemporary; the essence of timeless simplicity.
• Anthracite Grey: deep and dramatic; adds strength and sophistication to any setting.
• Mid Grey: a warm, versatile neutral that pairs effortlessly with natural materials.
• Natural White: soft, subtle and serene; designed for calm modern spaces.
• Country Red: a fresh take on heritage tones, blending classic character with modern charm.

Why Mira is more than a sauna

Mira is a statement piece built in Estonia and engineered to withstand the elements. Every unit combines high-performance craftsmanship with considered wellness features, from underfloor heating and soft-glow LED lighting to premium sauna stoves, each designed for comfort, efficiency and elegance.

As we spend more time at home, creating meaningful spaces has never mattered more. Mira is designed to feel like an architectural extension of your home rather than a bolt-on box, sitting seamlessly within the garden and harmonising with its surroundings.

Every Mira sauna is fully customisable to suit your lifestyle and aesthetic: choose your size, internal bench layout, glass tint and lighting scheme, plus optional features like Wi-Fi control, Bluetooth speakers and integrated door locks. With high-performance insulation, each Mira is built to perform beautifully through a UK winter.

Mira isn’t just a sauna. It’s an architectural feature. A garden retreat. A space that’s entirely yours.
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Tailored wellness, delivered

Each Mira sauna is made to order and fully customisable, from internal layout and finishes to your chosen colourway, so your garden retreat is designed entirely around you.

Discover the full Mira Collection and bring your wellness space to life, in colour. Explore the Mira range or book a design consultation with the Ember and Ice team.

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That model has quietly broken down.

What we used to call wellness has expanded out of the gym, away from the personal trainer, beyond the supplement aisle, and into the home. Not as a workout space, but as something more ambitious: a place engineered for the everyday rhythms of recovery, sleep, focus and long-term wellbeing.

The standard has changed.

How wellness moved from the gym into the architecture of the home, and what that means for the way we live.
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From performance to longevity

For most of the last two decades, the conversation around wellness was driven by performance. How hard you trained. How much you lifted. How visible the results. The audience was athletes, gym-goers and the dedicated minority.

The conversation today is different. It’s about sleep architecture. Heart rate variability. Cold exposure. Inflammation. Nervous-system regulation. The questions being asked are quieter, more biological and, crucially, more universal, because everyone sleeps, everyone manages stress, and everyone is ageing.

What was once the domain of professional athletes has become the daily concern of architects, founders, parents and designers. The science hasn’t changed. The audience has.

Biohacking moved from the fringe to the mainstream

A few years ago, biohacking was a category for outliers: Silicon Valley engineers tracking macros with spreadsheets, podcasters fasting in red-tinted rooms. It looked, and sounded, fringe.

That label no longer applies. Continuous glucose monitors are sold over the counter. HRV is a feature on a wristwatch. Saunas, cold plunges and red light therapy are part of mainstream wellbeing conversations, not because they’re new, but because the evidence has caught up with the practice.

The mainstreaming of figures like Huberman, Attia and others has accelerated something that was already happening: thoughtful people deciding that understanding and managing their own biology is a reasonable, even necessary, part of modern life.

You no longer need to belong to a private clinic or train at an elite level to take this seriously. You just need to be paying attention.

Recovery is the new performance

The most significant shift inside wellness is also the most quiet. For years, training was the headline and recovery was the afterthought, what you did between sessions, if you remembered.

That has reversed.

Recovery isn’t what supports performance. Recovery is performance.

The current understanding, backed by the research and increasingly by lived experience, is that sleep quality, contrast bathing, sauna use, breathwork and nervous-system regulation aren’t side practices. They’re the practices.

For the home, this changes everything. A wellness space is no longer a treadmill in the spare room. It’s a sauna. A cold plunge. A red light bed. A space designed for parasympathetic regulation rather than sympathetic output. A space for slowing the body down, deliberately, day after day.

The home becomes the wellness space

There’s an architectural shift happening alongside the cultural one.

The wellness room is no longer carved out of leftover floor plan. It’s part of the brief from day one. We’re seeing it in residential design. We’re seeing it in hospitality. We’re seeing it on the drawings of architects who, five years ago, would have placed the sauna at the bottom of the priorities list.

The home gym has been quietly supplemented, sometimes replaced, by the recovery suite. Sauna, plunge, shower, decompression space. Designed not as a vanity addition but as a daily-use environment, integrated into the way the home actually lives.

This is what we mean when we say wellness, designed the way architecture is designed. Proportion, material, atmosphere. A space that integrates with the home rather than imposing on it.

The new standard

The new standard isn’t who has the best gym membership. It isn’t who trains hardest, who hits the most personal records, or who posts the most before-and-afters.

It’s who has built the conditions at home, every day, for long-term, low-key wellbeing.

It’s quieter than the old standard. Slower. Less performative. The metrics live on a watch rather than a leaderboard. The wins compound over years rather than weeks. The work is largely invisible.

But it’s also more honest about what wellness actually is. Not a class. Not a phase. A space. A rhythm. Something built into the architecture of how you live.

The standard has changed, and the home has become the place where the change is most visible.

Ember & Ice Wellness designs and builds architectural recovery spaces, outdoor saunas, indoor saunas, ice baths and red light therapy systems, for homes and hospitality projects across the UK. Speak with the team on 0330 633 0526.

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With extensive experience across the health, fitness and wellness industry, spanning local authorities, national gym groups, boutique studios and luxury residences, Chris brings a deep understanding of how people train, live and recover. As a qualified personal trainer, he recognised early on that recovery is often overlooked. His mission became clear: to help people recover the right way, using evidence-based tools and environments designed for longevity, balance and wellbeing.

Recovery is often the missing piece. Our mission is to help people recover the right way.
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Designing for world-class clients

Before founding Ember & Ice Wellness, Chris designed a custom infrared sauna for internationally renowned artist Dua Lipa, merging performance recovery with elegant design. He has also created wellness suites for private members’ clubs and retreats in Ibiza and Somerset, as well as contrast-therapy clubs in Manchester, London and the South Coast. Each project reflects the same values: precision, performance and enduring design.

A 360-degree approach to modern wellness

Ember & Ice operates as a 360-degree product and wellness consultancy, offering end-to-end design, supply and installation across:

• Luxury indoor and outdoor saunas
• Infrared and hybrid sauna systems
• Red light therapy beds
• Cryotherapy cabins
• Contrast and ice baths
• Hyperbaric oxygen therapy chambers
• EWOT (Exercise With Oxygen Therapy) systems

Each installation is designed to perform in residential, commercial and hospitality settings, combining scientific innovation with architectural precision.

Nordic craftsmanship meets modern innovation

The majority of Ember & Ice products are inspired by Nordic design and craftsmanship, blending natural materials, clean lines and technical excellence. Working closely with select European manufacturing partners, we ensure every project reflects the brand’s commitment to quality, functionality and timeless aesthetics. Through these collaborations, Ember & Ice delivers complete wellness environments that balance design, technology and human performance.

Wellness reimagined for modern living

From private homes and performance spaces to hospitality venues and wellness retreats, Ember & Ice Wellness is redefining what modern wellness looks and feels like. Each environment is built to support both physical recovery and emotional wellbeing, aligning design with science.

Discover Ember & Ice Wellness

Explore the full range of wellness products and design services at emberandice.co.uk. For collaborations, design enquiries or media requests, contact info@emberandice.co.uk or call 0330 633 0526.

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