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Do Shungite Rooms Exist?
Just imagine what it would be like to be in a whole room made of Shungite. Sounds crazy, doesn’t it?
Shungite rooms do actually exist and they can be found all over the world!
Shungite Stone is used to construct the floors, walls, and ceilings of these rooms, all of which are constructed or coated with the material.
History
There has been a long history of Shungite rooms in Russia for centuries, but the concept has only recently arrived in Australia. In 1798, the Military Medical Academy in St. Petersburg was one of the first places to establish one, dating back to 1798. As far as we know, there is one in the Kremlin – even though this is an unofficial report.
As one would expect, the appreciation of Shungite as a means to restore health would first have spread across Russia after it became well known. There is only one source of Shungite in the world, but it goes deeper than that. A great deal of the success of Shungite rooms can be attributed to the Soviet Union – and for that purpose we to do a bit of time travel and go back a few years to the USSR.
Sanatoriums (or sanitariums) combine medical care with spa treatments. In the 1920s, sanatoriums were everywhere in the USSR, from Sochi to Crimea to Uzbekistan. During their peak, millions of citizens visited sanatoriums every year, thanks to state-funded vouchers. They were a place to vacation – and the state paid for everything.
Kurortology
During the rise of sanatoriums, “kurortology” was born. Kurortology (“curative science”) is the study of the effects of nature and elements on humans. According to Soviet kurortologists, reconnecting with nature was key to healing illness and social isolation. Many kurortology institutes were set up to study all sorts of treatments, from salt soaks to mud baths.
Kurortology not only shaped the medical milieu, but also the architecture of sanatoriums. Soviet sanatoriums were some of the most innovative buildings of their time. In spite of their elaborate architecture, they were meant to counter the decadence of Western culture, to strengthen the health of their patrons so they could return to work.
You didn’t play golf, drink cocktails and eat fancy food; you did a very strict and medically supervised schedule of crude-oil baths, radon water douches, salt and paraffin wax treatments, magnetic sands, grape therapy, ultraviolet light, electrotherapy, and Shungite rooms in some sanatoriums!
In 1991, the Soviet Union fell and the sanatorium industry died. Most of them are boarded up, abandoned, or converted into more modern wellness centre’s, spas, and hotels. There are some that haven’t changed at all, so guests who lived through the Soviet era can take a nostalgic stroll.
For an interesting read go here. It is a Journal of a Holiday In Soviet Sanatoriums.
Shungite Rooms Offer Significant Benefits
Now that you’ve had your Soviet history lesson, let’s move on to the present. Despite sanatoriums mostly going the way of the dinosaur, Shungite rooms are gaining traction as people seek safe and natural remedies for 21st century problems. You can find Shungite rooms in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Sochi, Nizhny Novgorod and of course in Karelia. The famous Belyiekluchi Sanatorium in Petrozavodsk, Russia, built a Shungite room in 2001.
There is a similar one in the Moscow prison “Matrosskaya Tishina,” where guards enjoy chilling out after their shifts and decompressing during after-shift sessions.
A special ward with Shungite coating at the Military Medical Academy in St. Petersburg reported very positive results for its patients (mostly cardiac). They saw an increase in efficiency and quality of angina treatment for ischemic heart disease and hypertension. As a result, hospital stays were shorter and less expensive. Additionally, the Shungite ward had less bacterial contamination.
A small study
Conducted somewhere in Russia a couple of years ago. The study used Kirlian photography, and revealed that when people had spent just 30 minutes in a room with Shungite, their energy fields became stronger.
Most notably, after the Beslan Massacre of 2004, a shungite room was built in a Beslan school in 2006. Three hundred and thirty-four people were killed in a terrorist attack, including 186 kids. A Shungite room was set up for injured kids’ psychological rehabilitation. As a result of their experiences in the Shungite chamber, the surviving children, parents, and teachers now call Shungite the “stone comforter.”
The healing power of Shungite is spreading westward – and so are Shungite rooms. At least one room has opened in the US, and there are a few in Europe. One of the only Shungite rooms in the USA is at the Angel Cooperative in Ridgefield, Connecticut.
How to Build Your Own Shungite Room
There are a number of different ways in which a Shungite room can be constructed. A structure of this kind can be built by using solid Shungite stone in the form of bricks and tiles, polished or unpolished – which is, as you can imagine, not an easy task, and also very expensive. A complete room made of Shungite – including the floor and ceiling – can require several tons of the stone to construct. Over five tons of natural Shungite were used in the construction of this Shungite room in Moscow.
A less expensive alternative is a special mix of Shungite and magnesite that can be filled into any form. Use our Shungite Powder.
Interested in seeing a Shungite room being built? You can watch it here!
We are constantly surrounded by Shungite, we wear it, we have massive amounts of it in our Shungite Room (store room) and also scattered about the house.
