Скачать или смотреть Spirit of Sauna podcast - #20: The Finnish Temple

This episode is recorded in Finnish and, for the first time, available with English subtitles!

We’re experimenting with new ways to make locally rooted conversations more accessible to international listeners.

Thi episode brings together Laura Foon, Miska Käppi, Otto Kronqvist, Roope Särkikoski and Tinja de la Chapelle for a wide-ranging discussion about the sauna as a Finnish temple. The conversation was recorded at the Sipoonjoki Heritage Sauna.

We explore why sauna has, for thousands of years, been seen as a space for healing and spiritual practice in Finnish culture, and how it connects to the human life cycle from birth to death. Tinja also shares her experience with wedding and bridal sauna rituals.

The discussion expands to the history of global sweat cultures, the role of löyly as the soul of the sauna, and the ways sauna can still serve as a form of spiritual practice today.