Then hop in the pool after and you’ll feel great.’ The sauna is a sacred place for women in Finland, and has been for thousands of years – the practice of going into the steamy rooms is also ...

Breaking news – Finnish sauna culture is alive and well! Whodathunkit when there are three million saunas in Finland, for a population of 5.5 million. You know the ...

Now there is one in the UK. But what's the appeal? The BBC's James Landale joined the new sauna society inside Finland's embassy in London to find out how it works. Diplomacy can come in many ...

Well, now we do, thanks to Wyld sauna which has pitched up permanently at Prince’s Dock in Liverpool. This Finnish-style floating sauna seats 30, has access into the sea, two ice baths, cold barrels ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Journalist Mwangi Maina at a public sauna in Finland. [Mwangi Maina, Standard] Feeling ...

Here in the UK, sauna time tends to be something of a treat – part of a spa day or a form of post-workout relaxation. But in Finland, a trip to the sauna is about so much more than a little TLC ...

The thousands-year-old sauna tradition has deeply integrated into the fabric of Finnish identity. It extends beyond mere relaxation, embodying a sense of communal bonding, spiritual cleansing ...