“Koti” means “home” in Finnish, which makes it a perfect name for the Finnish sauna that is literally in Kristina Erickson’s backyard. Erickson grew up in Oregon, but she spent almost every summer on ...

As the cab slows to a stop, I scrape some of Jack Frost’s handiwork from the window and peer into the depths of the polar night. We’re only 15 minutes from the center of Helsinki, yet dense forest ...

“How does that feel?” asks Siiri, as the spikes of the juniper branches relieve the itch on my back and the spicy scent surrounds my body. “Peaceful,” I respond, so relaxed that one-word answers are ...

Sauna-fanatics and newbies are spending time in the growing number of communal saunas in parks, near lakes and rivers, and in yards around Wisconsin.

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 ...