Why Use Color Light in an Infrared Sauna?
Color therapy works by emitting specific wavelengths of light that correspond to different electromagnetic frequencies. When these frequencies interact with the body’s energy systems — through nerve endings, the skin, and acupuncture points — they can produce measurable physiological effects.
When you’re also surrounded by far infrared heat, the combination supercharges the benefits.
Color light therapy does more when combined with infrared:
It increases circulation, oxygenation, lymphatic flow, and detoxification while helping regulate hormones and emotional energy.
This is why chromotherapy is now being integrated into many high-end infrared saunas — it adds both a therapeutic layer and a sensory one. You feel it and see it, and the experience is richer for it.
What Is Chromotherapy?
Chromotherapy (from “chroma” meaning color) is the practice of using specific light wavelengths to stimulate healing. The concept is ancient — from stained glass in cathedrals to Ayurvedic chakra work — but today it’s grounded in real photobiological science.
Every color in the visible spectrum has a distinct frequency. These frequencies affect the body in specific ways by stimulating the skin, nerve endings, and even deep tissue. In modern chromotherapy, colored LEDs are used to target acupoints or to wash the body in whole-color fields.
Your body already understands light as information:
We are electromagnetic beings, constantly responding to energy — and color is simply visible energy in motion.
Think of color as nutrient light: Each one feeds a different organ, system, or state of mind.
How Each Color Affects the Body
Different colors produce different responses — physically, emotionally, and energetically. Here’s a breakdown of what each one does and how it can support your health inside an infrared sauna:
🔴 Red Light
Stimulates circulation
Energizes sluggish organs
Supports adrenal function
Increases vitality and passion
Red brings heat, energy, and life force:
It’s excellent for fatigue, cold extremities, and low mood. In sauna use, it helps drive heat deeper into joints and tissues.
🟠 Orange Light
Enhances creativity and enthusiasm
Uplifts mood
Supports reproductive health
Improves digestion
Orange awakens your inner spark:
It’s the color of joy, sexuality, and fluid emotional expression.
🟡 Yellow Light
Clears the mind
Strengthens the nervous system
Supports liver and pancreas
Reduces mental fog
Yellow is clarity and intellect:
It stimulates confidence, decisiveness, and clarity — perfect for sauna sessions focused on mental reset.
🟢 Green Light
Lowers blood pressure
Calms inflammation
Supports cardiovascular health
Balances emotion
Green is the color of equilibrium:
It connects you to the heart and is the most harmonizing color in the spectrum.
🔵 Blue Light
Reduces pain and inflammation
Supports throat health
Lowers blood pressure
Promotes sleep
Blue soothes and cools:
It’s especially helpful post-workout, during fevers, or when feeling emotionally overheated.
🟣 Purple Light
Supports spiritual awareness
Relieves headaches
Reduces anxiety
Enhances meditation
Purple expands perception:
Use purple in your sauna when your intention is introspective, restorative, or emotional in nature.
Chromotherapy and Acupoint Targeting
Advanced chromotherapy devices in infrared saunas can direct color light toward specific acupoints — energy centers connected to organ systems via Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) pathways.
Targeted color light enhances meridian balance:
When paired with far infrared therapy, acupoint-specific chromotherapy may improve results for chronic conditions like anxiety, fatigue, and hormonal imbalance.
This is where light meets energy medicine. And it’s all happening while you sit comfortably in 120–140°F of detoxifying warmth.
How Chromotherapy and Far Infrared Work Together
Far infrared light penetrates up to 1.5 inches into the body, delivering heat directly to muscles, connective tissues, and blood vessels. When this internal heating is combined with surface-level light frequencies, the result is a multi-layered therapy session for your entire system.
Far infrared prepares your body to receive light:
The increased blood flow, open pores, and heightened oxygenation from infrared heat make chromotherapy more effective.
You sweat. You release. You glow — from the inside out.
The Role of Homeostasis
Homeostasis is your body’s way of keeping everything in balance — temperature, hormones, mood, immunity. Infrared saunas already support homeostasis by regulating cortisol and autonomic nervous system activity.
Chromotherapy takes this one step further.
Color light is a subtle but powerful tool for resetting balance:
Whether you’re under physical, emotional, or psychological stress, light therapy can help bring you back to center.
This is especially true when color is applied consistently to support chronic issues like insomnia, inflammation, or mood dysregulation.
Why We Use Chromotherapy in Every Sauna We Build
At SaunaCloud, we believe that light is one of the most underutilized healing tools in the wellness space. That’s why every sauna we build comes standard with integrated chromotherapy lighting.
It’s not just an accessory — it’s a fundamental part of the healing experience.
We use advanced full-spectrum color LEDs that are built to last and engineered to complement the effects of our VantaWave™ far infrared heaters. This is whole-body light therapy — beautifully designed and incredibly effective.
Final Thoughts: Color, Heat, and the Future of Healing
The combination of infrared and chromotherapy is one of the most compelling wellness modalities available today — rooted in ancient understanding and modern science alike.
When you sit in a well-built infrared sauna, surrounded by therapeutic heat and radiant color, something changes. Your heart rate slows. Your mind clears. Your body releases what it no longer needs.
Color and heat can restore what the modern world depletes:
Circulation, calm, clarity, resilience — and a renewed connection to your body’s natural rhythm.
If you’re interested in learning more about how SaunaCloud integrates chromotherapy into our custom infrared saunas, we’d love to show you how it works.
