Delivering healing to a stressful society with meditation and sauna “Toshimaen Teien no Yu Sauna Meditation” March 27th (Thursday) – June 8th (Sunday), 2025

Delivering healing to a stressful society with meditation and sauna “Toshimaen Garden Hot Spring Sauna Meditation” March 27th (Thursday) – June 8th (Sunday), 2025 ​ Image
URL: Seibu Recreation Co., Ltd. Press release: March 13, 2025 Delivering healing to a stressful society with meditation and sauna “Toshimaen Teien no Yu Sauna Meditation” Thursday, March 27, 2025 – Sunday, June 8, 2025 Kyoto Kenninji Ryosokuin Deputy Chief Priest Toryo Ito produced a meditation experience that you can learn through the sauna and bring back to your daily life Toshimaen Niwa-no-Yu (Nerima Ward, Tokyo), a bade and natural hot spring operated by Seibu Recreation Co., Ltd.
(Headquarters: Tokorozawa City, Saitama Prefecture, President: Tatsuya Yoda), offers a new sauna experience “Toshimaen” where you can meditate in a 1,200 tsubo Japanese garden and a Finnish-style sauna to relieve your daily fatigue both physically and mentally. “Garden Hot Spring Sauna Meditation” will be held for a limited time from March 27th (Thursday) to June 8th (Sunday).
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/134339/27/134339-27-1e7cadea317bccadf225caf02eb9a6b0-1920×948.jpg Since our facility opened in 2003, it has been loved by many as an oasis in the city center, with its vast Japanese garden, natural hot springs, and health-promoting bade pool. In recent years, we have been working hard to enhance the sauna experience by renewing the men’s Finnish sauna and holding Aufguss events, which have received high praise from sauna enthusiasts. This program was created with the aim of having all people living in a stressful society learn how to balance their minds and take it home with them. According to a survey by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, 82% of employed people answered that they feel strong anxiety, worry, and stress regarding their work and professional life, and a stressful society itself is an issue for Japan as a whole. This time, Niwa no Yu will take full advantage of the facility’s characteristics as an oasis in the heart of the city, offering a new sauna experience that not only “heals the body”, but also “heals the mind” of people living in a stressful society through meditation. *Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare: From the overview of the 2020 “Occupational Safety and Health Survey (Survey on Current Status)” ■ Three features of “Toshimaen Garden Bath Sauna Meditation” 1. A meditation experience that you can learn through the sauna and take it back to your daily life 2. Audio program design by meditation and zazen professional Toryo Ito 3. A new eating and drinking experience that can be enjoyed with all five senses after sauna meditation ■Meditation experience that you can learn through the sauna and bring it back to your daily life This program is a sauna experience where even beginners of meditation can easily learn how to adjust their mind. In normal meditation, you focus on the movements and changes in your own five senses and mind, but in sauna meditation, you can learn how to direct your consciousness in an
easy-to-understand and systematic way because you do it in the sauna, where your body temperature and breathing change rapidly. In addition, we have designed the meditation methods learned here so that they can be applied not only to the sauna but also to daily life. Through this program, you will learn how to calm your mind through meditation, and you will be able to take the experience itself home with you. In particular, we hope that those who live in an information and stress society, such as housewives and businessmen, who are busy with their daily lives, should try this meditation experience, and we hope that this meditation experience will become a habit as part of their daily mental care.
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/134339/27/134339-27-efe7e3b030f234c2e7f3960dc08c0cb3-1458×1080.jpg ■Audio program design by meditation and zazen professional Toryo Ito In order to provide an experience that allows even first-time meditators to easily enter the world of meditation, we asked Toryo Ito, deputy chief priest of Kennin-ji Ryosoku-in, Kyoto, to create and design an audio program to guide the meditation experience. Mr. Toryo Ito is a professional meditation instructor who is active both domestically and internationally, holding Zen seminars at Meta Head Office (formerly Facebook) and teaching Zen overseas. This is a full-fledged meditation experience program that takes advantage of his knowledge and experience, who has extensive experience in teaching meditation online. About Toryo Ito Toryo Ito, Deputy Chief Priest of Ryosokuin of the Kenninji Temple of the Rinzai Sect After training at a Kenninji school specialty dojo, he taught zazen to over 200,000 people. Centering on art, he continues to attempt to transcend boundaries between disciplines and connect the modern and traditional. He also actively engages in international activities such as holding Zen seminars at the American Meta headquarters (formerly Facebook) and teaching Zen in the United States, as well as Asian and European countries. In 2023, he was selected as one of the “Next 100” by “Forbes JAPAN” and “100 Japanese People Respected by the World” by “Newsweek”. Recent book “Forgetful thinking: lifelong questioning techniques” (Nikkei BP) What I value when teaching meditation is to help students shed the armor of social roles and responsibilities they have acquired in their daily lives. To do this, we first focus on our body, including our breathing and muscles, to relieve tension and invite a release of mind and body. A sauna is an easy and refreshing way to enter that meditative state directly. I am a sauna enthusiast myself, and have considered installing a sauna at a temple, so now that I am able to practice sauna meditation, my long-held wish has come true. Feel a lightness you have never experienced before with a deep approach to both mind and body.
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/134339/27/134339-27-c7f6478c6e548380dc7d64f3be448ba7-1044×1568.jpg ■ A new eating and drinking experience that can be enjoyed with all five senses after sauna meditation We have prepared a special food and drink menu so that you can more deeply experience the physical and mental changes that sauna and meditation bring. Through a menu centered on simple Japanese dishes such as white rice cooked in an earthenware pot, miso soup, and seasonal vegetable tempura, you can enjoy the original taste with all five senses sharpened by the sauna and meditation. We will deliver a different food experience than usual, where savoring each bite slowly becomes a meditation in itself.
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/134339/27/134339-27-8a3f43a64d326ae5c4d12b538e3a75cb-3900×2600.jpg Sauna meditation special menu ・Niwa no Yu special smoothie ・Freshly cooked clay pot rice ・Miso soup with lots of Nerima miso ingredients ・Assorted seasonal tempura ・Silver cod pickled in Saikyo ・Pickles from Nerima ・Sweetness Location: Bade and natural hot spring “Toshimaen Niwa-no-Yu” Price: 5,000 yen (meal included, admission fee not included) Date: March 27th (Thursday) – June 8th (Sunday) Event hours: 11:00~, 13:00~, 15:00~, 17:00~, 19:00~ Capacity: Maximum of 6 people each time How to use: Online reservation (Asoview) or same-day application *Same-day application is only available if there is a vacant slot. Sales start: March 13th (Thursday) 15:00 Website: https://www.seibu-leisure.co.jp/niwanoyu/saunameisou/index.html ■Business overview 【Business hours】 10:00-23:00 (last reception 22:00) 【Closed days】 None (temporarily closed on maintenance days) [Admission fee] General Night spa (after 18:00) Weekdays 2,520 yen 1,750 yen Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays 2,970 yen 2,100 yen Specific day 3,070 yen 2,200 yen *Must be junior high school students or older. *Specific days include Golden Week, Obon, and New Year’s holidays. *All prices include tax. *All images are for illustrative purposes only. ■Customer inquiries Bade and Natural Hot Spring Toshimaen Niwa no Yu TEL. (03)5984-4126