Finnish Sauna and Wellbeing

There are roughly 3.3 million saunas in Finland and about 5.5 million Finns, which tells you most of what you need to know. The sauna is not a luxury here. It is where Finns are born, cleaned, warmed, healed and, on a good evening, quietly put back together.

This is the part of the blog about the sauna and the wider Finnish art of feeling well. The heat, the ice hole, the birch whisk and the science that keeps confirming what every Finn already assumed, which is that a hot room and a cold lake will fix more than most things in life.