Saunas are good for your body, but they might be even better for your soul. That’s the guiding philosophy of three friends who are on a mission to spread the word about the traditional Finnish sauna ...

Near Helsinki, expat designer Jussi-Pekka Kajaala and Olympic medalist Adam Rippon build a tiny summerhouse dedicated to Finland’s favorite pastime. A view of the sauna building before the patio and ...

I’m in the eastern reaches of Finland, in the Lakeland region that includes scenic Lake Saimaa, which has 14,000 islands and more shoreline than all of France. As the sun sinks slowly into the ...

HELSINKI − Juuso Raukola uses the sauna in his home every single day. So do his wife and children. Raukola's parents do the same with their sauna, in their house, his friends and work colleagues in ...

John “JP” Pederson says his time as an exchange student in Finland warmed him up to “sauna,” a word he uses as a noun, verb, adjective and a way of life. In his quest to spread sauna to other ...

BASEL, Switzerland — There’s one word you hear more than any other in Basel during the Eurovision Song Contest: Sauna. The northern Swiss city isn't known as an epicenter of steamy wood-cabin ...

DULUTH – It was 8 degrees below zero and the windchill was even colder, but Brittney Merlot wore a tank top inside the igloo-like structure next to Lake Superior. "It's almost magical," Merlot said, ...

When you talk to Bill Calovis about sauna, make sure you say it correctly. The word for Finnish bath houses filled with steam sounds like sow-na, not saw-na. “There are no silent letters in Finnish,” ...

Though the general health benefits of sauna bathing have been known for a long time, the use of saunas for preventing brain diseases, like Alzheimer’s disease, is a more recent subject of research. In ...