Those in Roane County looking for a good place to air out and relax may want to consider the Halo Salt Cave located at 901 E Race St. in Kingston. Founded by Teresa and John Davis, Halo Salt Cave boasts a wide variety of services including salt cave sessions, Infrared sauna, foot bath detox, MEL1 classes, red light therapy, with more services to come.
Teresa Davis, in addition to co-founding Halo Salt Cave, has also worked in Roane County as a property manager with Coldwell Banker for 16 years. This connection aided her and her husband John, when starting their spa business.
“Jim Henry was a big factor in us getting the building because he owned the building, and I was the property manager,” she said. “So, we were standing in here back when it was a thrift store, and I said ‘we need to make this building into something that it’s never been before. Something great.’ ”
Teresa said that initially a salt cave wasn’t even part of the thought process, with the first priorities simply being to fix and modernize the building with aims on hosting fitness classes. It was her husband John who suggested the salt cave approach after being inspired by a previous trip to a salt cave in Florida.
“It really was before Covid hit, I didn’t perceive that happening, so it was right on time,” Teresa Davis said. “Because the salt works, you breathe it in and it goes in like little scrub brushes, it cleans your lungs up, cleans your sinuses up, makes it more productive. In the first year we heard so many testimonies from people that it’s helped. You get that sinus headache, come in and get one treatment, sinus headache gone.”
This month marks the one-year anniversary of the salt cave being operational, and the two plan on expanding into the adjacent properties to make a large family salt room, oxygen bar, as well as a fitness studio.
“Halo is the Greek word for salt, and the type of therapy is called Halo therapy,” said co-founder John Davis. “The awareness of this therapy came about in the late 1700s, in Poland in the salt mines, when there was a respiratory issue coming through that region and the physicians noticed people in the salt mines weren’t afflicted like everyone else. So, they put some patients in the mines and was seeing them recovering. I’m sure it got more in depth over the years, but it wasn’t until the 1950s that someone created a device called a Halo generator that recreated the same atmosphere out of those mines.”
John Davis described the salt used in Halo Salt Cave as pharmaceutical grade, and said that 1 45-minute session in the cave is equivalent to a 3-day stay at an ocean Coast. Since opening, Halo Salt Cave has seen many positive scores and even more recurring customers.
“We managed to get five stars from Google,” he said. “We’ve had close to 1400 customers and only one bad review and it was a minor issue. We’ve drawn in people from Kentucky, and Georgia, some people are coming from the other side of Nashville, passing by three other salt caves to get here.”
John Davis also said that Halo Salt Cave hopes to add a couple of deprivation tanks to their roster of therapy services, though these likely won’t happen for over a year or more. The deprivation tanks would see customers floating in an optionally sealed tank in salt water made to about the same temperature as the human body with the goal of feeling like floating in nothing.
Teresa Davis wanted especially to give her thanks to God for the success of Halo Salt Cave.
Those wishing to use Halo Salt cave’s services can book an appointment over the phone at 865-224-6300, or email at info@halosaltcaveandspa. com
