The Pirts is the Latvian sauna tradition — one of the oldest healing practices in Baltic culture. It is not simply a matter of heat. A Pirts ritual moves through carefully sequenced stages: warming the body gradually, a scrub, cold contrast, rest, whisking with bundles of birch, oak, or whatever the season offers, a honey massage that draws impurities from the skin and leaves the body deeply nourished, and a final cold plunge. Each stage has a purpose. The order breathes — Rihards reads what the body needs in each moment and adjusts accordingly. Together the stages work on the body and nervous system in a way that is difficult to describe and immediately felt.