There is something terribly exhilarating to stepping off of perfectly good ground into a burning furnace of uneven volcanic stones, made red-hot by tons of blazing timber underneath. As I stood at the ...

Let's talk about firewalking. The doctors at the Maricopa Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona, have reported that on a really hot day when the air temperature reaches 40°C, the sun-soaked asphalt of ...

Health: “Firewalking enhances an individual’s personal energy and instils immense self belief”, says Peggy. Often when we are diagnosed with an illness, we tend to become cynical. We stop enjoying the ...

Vilavilairevo, Fijian for "jumping into the oven," is the practice of firewalking. And it's not just the stroll across fire that's amazing; rather, it's the walking on fire without getting burned that ...

Last Thursday, close to two dozen participants at a motivational seminar hosted by Tony Robbins suffered burns on their feet, while attempting to tromp across lanes of red-hot coals. So what did these ...

Here we explain what it is, how to do it safely, and where it is still practised FIREWALKING involves walking barefoot across hot coals – but how does it work? Here we explain what it is, how to do it ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. I had promised myself, after attending a clowning course in 2004, that I would never do anything in the name of ...

Last time I talked about firewalking, and how amazing it appears. After all, walking with your bare feet on a hot road at 44°C for 35 seconds can give you second-degree burns. So how do people walk on ...

Twenty-one people were treated for burns after walking across a bed of hot coals at an inspirational event hosted by motivational speaker Tony Robbins in San Jose, Calif., last week. About 6,000 ...

The current craze for firewalking is fuelled by our natural fear of fire and the buzz attainable in overcoming that fear, writes… The current craze for firewalking is fuelled by our natural fear of ...

When I recently noticed someone new following me on Twitter—a rep from a United Kingdom firewalking company—I laughed out loud. Cliched scenes of firewalking from the movies raced through my mind but ...