We have two recent Sauna Talk podcast episodes for you:
Jesse Coomer, who wrote the books on cold exposure and breath work as one of the first Wim Hof Method certified instructors. We preach to the choir of contrast therapy.
Mikkel Aaland, author of Sweat and The Perfect Sweat documentary, offers us six decades of global insight into sweat bathing. We visit with Mikkel before sauna rounds, from his summer home in Norway.
Around the world, and in North America particularly, sauna is becoming exceedingly popular.
More than ever, we can benefit from a simple objective standard as to what is a good sauna. And we think we’ve found it. See if you can relate to this simple standard here.
We get geeky about negative ions, and provide some architectural left brain thinking with two Google Sketch-Up drawings.
Most sauna enthusiasts live in climates with distinct seasons. Summer saunas are often enjoyed by the lapping shores of a lake cabin or cottage. Twilight that goes on forever, dodging mosquitoes between rounds and that euphoric splash off the dock.
Yet fall saunas offer their own magic.
The leaves drop, the nights turn crisp, heavy low lying dark clouds, gusty Northwest winds pushing flocks of geese South. Cold wind ripping down the alley at dawn can sure be a lonely feeling. Yet we authentic Finnish sauna enthusiasts crack a smile. We step outside to into the cold air with a towel and a cold drink, heading to our outdoor saunas.
Greeting us is the warm crackle and glow of our saunas. Bring on the cold, we say.
We are not alone.
We welcome the return of our old friend.
A fall sauna is like the return of an old friend
My mother and father was born in a sauna in Finland. I was not that fortunate. l'm a retired system safety engineer living on the BC's wet coast, ready to build another sauna.
Your public sauna map should include the one in Arcata California http://cafemokkaarcata.com/
It's a delight place to visit to have an old fashion sauna.
Note: Your sauna map has the pin for the New Zealand public sauna misplaced in Alaska.
Please replace "delight" with " delightfull"