Saunas come with risks like dehydration, so make sure you're well hydrated before your session. FatCamera/Getty Images The first saunas were built 10,000 years ago in Finland. In fact, the word sauna ...

In a small, enclosed room, people sit side by side on wooden benches. Water thrown on hot stones releases clouds of scalding steam and temperatures soar to a scolding 80C. This is sauna bathing, a ...

Contemporary sweat baths reflect the country’s architectural past — and propose a future in which simple, sustainable buildings can still be sublime. The lowest and coolest area in traditional 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 ...

FITCHBURG — Saunas are not only a part of our daily lives but play a role in some Finnish holiday festivities and the Finnish Center at Saima Park is excited to invite the community to celebrate them.