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  • deep underground in Poland's UNESCO World Heritage, Valeska, salt mine aerobics music and the likes of Y M.

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  • Is pulsing mhm as the class swings, kettlebells and squats.

  • This is not your usual scene in the popular tourist site, known for its ornate underground chapels carved from salt.

  • But during the pandemic, it's been turned into a therapeutic center, helping people recover from Covid, 19, the pensioner Christie Nagorny, back from Krakow.

  • She says the exercises are helping her as she is still suffering from post covid 19 symptoms.

  • The typical briefing exercises, like blowing the feather using a straw to sector cotton ball, help us breathe in a different way, but also stretching the chest or exercises that help increase the lungs capacity doctors say the micro climate in the mind, which stretches as far as 327 m underground, also helps people with pulmonary problems.

  • Magdalena Crossed Son, a doctor working at the mine, explains that the air reaches the underground rooms through a series of salt corridors, and thanks to this, it's cleaned of pollutants that are on the surface.

  • Additionally, air ionization and favorable thermal and humid conditions foster the recovery of the respiratory system, assault mind with a healing tradition that reaches back to the 19th century and now used again in the present.

deep underground in Poland's UNESCO World Heritage, Valeska, salt mine aerobics music and the likes of Y M.

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