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 attract ...

“Koti” means “home” in Finnish, which makes it a perfect name for the Finnish sauna that is literally in Kristina Erickson’s ...

From Finnish saunas to Korean ice tubs, these spas specialize in the practice of alternating between intense heat and intense cold. In Swedish Lapland, a guest at the Arctic Bath hotel and spa ...

There’s a word in Finnish which evades translation: löyly. It’s commonly used to describe the steam that rises when water is poured onto hot stones in a sauna. But it also signifies spirit or life ...

Finnish by blood, columnist says her relationship with heat began before she could walk and 'had my first sauna experience as ...