I spent the better part of a week in Oslo immersed in sauna research, sauna culture, sauna people, and a whole lot of time on the bench with like minded thermal enthusiasts. First came the 1st International Heat Therapy Research

August 30, 2026, by Jen Veralle A mid-week getaway to Big Round Lake in Hayward, WI, at the peak of summer season in a haze of the Boundary Waters wildfires, brought nine women together to forge female camaraderie at its

By Dan Woods, SaunaTimes Correspondent After Dan Woods reviewed February’s Culture-of-Bathing Sauna Festival in Brooklyn, I asked him to cover Sauna Days held north of Duluth, Minnesota in early May – Glenn Auerbach, publisher of Sauna Times and organizer of

Sauna Days 2026 brought nearly 300 people together: an incredible evolution from the first gathering in 2019, when about 30 of us showed up for sauna in nature. And like all Sauna Days, we celebrate an environment where everybody is

By Miah Eisenschenk For those who haven’t attended, this piece from Dr. Miah Eisenschenk captures it very well. He’s been coming to Sauna Days for several years and he lays out what keeps pulling him back. He recently launched the

By Dan Woods, writer and tech expert  For the heat-seeking sauna-meister, the prospect of an outdoor sauna festival typically inspires a skepticism usually reserved for alcohol-free weddings or authentic chicken made from soy protein. One imagines the worst: the lukewarm

There’s something illuminating about a sauna village. A sauna village is essentially a cluster or community of saunas (often in a natural or retreat-like setting) where people gather to enjoy varied sauna experiences, connect with others, and immerse themselves in

The folks behind Banya Fest were busy this past weekend putting together a steamy private event at their Banya House location The windshield wipers were set to “intermittent” as we turned down the mostly private road twenty miles south of