ROCHESTER, Minn. – Christopher and Julie Rice sat naked in the sauna, sweating in its 180-degree heat. In the crisp air outside, they then played a few hands of cribbage and noshed on pickles and ...

With a population of around five million, there are more than 2.5 million saunas. That means almost every household has its own sauna. And there are plenty of public saunas. "Sauna is basically in the ...

Reetta Purontakanen, Counsellor for Press and Culture at the Embassy of Finland demonstrates the "loyly" sauna method at the Finnish Embassy in Tokyo's Minato Ward on Dec. 16, 2022. (Mainichi/Richi ...

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,” ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. There’s nothing quite like the peaceful feeling that overcomes you as you slump in a sauna and let ...

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 ...

That Ely does not have a floating sauna tells you all you need to know about the difference between that northeast Minnesota town and the state’s other, and tonier, Boundary Waters Canoe Area ...

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 ...