Steaming in a sauna is an essential part of Finnish culture, but the number of public saunas is said to be in decline. A new sauna in Helsinki has been built to help combat this. Designed to ...

You do not need to be Finnish to enjoy a sauna like one, but there are a few things you should know before you visit one. For starters, go in clean. Even though you’re going to be sweating out ...

Letting off steam: everything you need to know about Finnish sauna Saunas are part of daily life in Finland — almost every household has one. So why is the Nordic nation obsessed with sweating ...

To find out about saunas, I went to the Finnish Sauna Society, where I found my place in the sauna with the Finnish women. Founded in 1937 to foster the heritage of the “national bath,” the ...

Saunas, for the most part and for legions of adults, enjoy a warm reputation as being good for you. And a recent study of Finnish men and women seems to add more credence to sauna's health benefits, ...

Can a Finnish Sauna Improve Society? Contemporary sweat baths reflect the country’s architectural past — and propose a future in which simple, sustainable buildings can still be sublime.

“In Finland, no one is going to be told they can’t light [their home sauna],” says Emma O’Kelly, author of Sauna: The Power of Deep Heat, a book about traditions across the Nordics.

Where to sweat it out in Tampere, Finland — the sauna capital of the world - London might be in the grips of a social sauna boom, but if you want to visit their birthplace, Arielle Domb has your ...

Before public health facilities spread around the country, Finnish women gave birth in saunas. Saunas can be found on the shores of Finnish lakes; in corporate offices; in the Parliament of ...