As a Finn sauna enthusiast i applaud this video for its correct information and respect on etiquette, history, use and tradition. The sauna in this video is lovely and very reminiscent of traditional finnish outdoor wooden sauna. Everything in this video is very lovely
I built a sauna in my back yard in West Seattle. It's stove is electric, so it heats very quickly. Some rocks on top of the stove came from my grand parent's sauna in Northern Minnesota, and one came from a beach in Finland. Every time I take sauna, I am transported to a time on my grand parent's farm and their wood fired sauna and all the Finnish language conversation that surrounded me. Kiitos for the video.
@@mourlyvold64 if you sauna alot rocks start to crackle and cant hold heat so much. you can test them by clapping together and if the sound is hollow its time to change.
@@svanari Thanks for the reply. I've been studying information on saunas for days now and learned a lot, including about stones. Most of all I now understand why many saunas feel like torture and some are so wholesome. Design is everything.
My grandma and great grandma both had authentic Finnish saunas they used, and so did I when I was a kid, staying with my grandma. I still remember to this day the scent of it and how relaxing it was. My great grandma and grandpa came over from Finland in the early 1900's. This was in Crystal Falls MI
My wife is Finn from the U.P. and we have a camp in Bruce Crossing. We have moved to the New England area and I have been, "tasked" to build us a Sauna :) Great information, eh!
A sauna is always visible to its builder. Respect is, and thanks to the previous generations! My father was born in a smoke sauna, AND he's still alive!
From 🇬🇧, I would love to visit that sauna & have a lovely sauna session in there !. I have a sauna in my back yard, I count my blessings everyday that I have one !.
Here across the lake from the UP we use white cedar boughs. I like to dip them in water, and, then smack them on the benches, this releases the aromatic oil in the cedar, smells a bit like eucylyptus to me.
I'm from the LP (I've since moved to Virginia), had no idea my home state had sauna culture! I never really got into sauna until I moved to Japan, where public baths are very important culturally and the baths often include saunas as well. I want to bring part of that culture home with me and I'm planning on building a sauna soon!
More people outside of the Finnish-American community are discovering the joys and benefits of traditional Finnish sauna, as well as simiilar bathing methods from around the world. Be sure to join our National Sauna Week celebration online February 18-24, 2024
I would say two hours is minimum, if it is a proper sauna house with a lake next to it, as is mostly the case in Finland. I am southern man so I discovered sauna in my 40ies only, by chance. Having 15-20 minutes in sauna, followed by a few minutes in an ice-cold lake, having a beer by the fire outside and then back in the sauna... it is a process, a ritual... that can last for many hours.
In these times of warnings on the hot coffee mug. CAution this is hot. I want to suggest driking just WATER suring the repeat visits...Enjoying a salty bite w beer afterwards.... First time visitors listening to their own bodied and leaving , if feeling uncomfortable
1950-60s when finnish peacekeepers were in middle east one of the first things they built was sauna. Even it was allmost +50 degrees centigrade outside 😆
Jos Sauna terva tai viina ei auta on tauti kuolemaksi: If Sauna, tar of booze wont help, the sickness is deadly! A fast translation of the original saying. Finnish and English are so different that a direct translation is often nigh on impossible!
I recently had the pleasure of experiencing sauna in Dortmund, Germany. Spent 6 glorious hours there. I now yearn for a sauna here in Ohio. Oh, I know they exist. But they are not like European sauna.
Before long, there were no plastic sponges. The soft birch leaf washes and rubs away the dirt at the same time! I don't understand how people clean themselves otherwise.
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As a Finn sauna enthusiast i applaud this video for its correct information and respect on etiquette, history, use and tradition. The sauna in this video is lovely and very reminiscent of traditional finnish outdoor wooden sauna. Everything in this video is very lovely
Thanks for your nice comments.
I built a sauna in my back yard in West Seattle. It's stove is electric, so it heats very quickly. Some rocks on top of the stove came from my grand parent's sauna in Northern Minnesota, and one came from a beach in Finland. Every time I take sauna, I am transported to a time on my grand parent's farm and their wood fired sauna and all the Finnish language conversation that surrounded me. Kiitos for the video.
Apparantly sauna rocks need to be changed after about 100 sessions.
@@jmeurman Why is that exactly?
@@mourlyvold64 if you sauna alot rocks start to crackle and cant hold heat so much. you can test them by clapping together and if the sound is hollow its time to change.
@@svanari Thanks for the reply.
I've been studying information on saunas for days now and learned a lot, including about stones.
Most of all I now understand why many saunas feel like torture and some are so wholesome. Design is everything.
@@mourlyvold64they loose their capability to storage heat and may start to crackle.
Great pronunciation of Finnish here. Kiitos!
Kiitos, Herra Kurtti!
My grandma and great grandma both had authentic Finnish saunas they used, and so did I when I was a kid, staying with my grandma. I still remember to this day the scent of it and how relaxing it was. My great grandma and grandpa came over from Finland in the early 1900's. This was in Crystal Falls MI
My wife is Finn from the U.P. and we have a camp in Bruce Crossing. We have moved to the New England area and I have been, "tasked" to build us a Sauna :) Great information, eh!
That is a slick use for historic door handle
A sauna is always visible to its builder. Respect is, and thanks to the previous generations!
My father was born in a smoke sauna, AND he's still alive!
The video mentions one thing that many Finns who build a sauna do not know. The heater should be lower than the feet! Not a big deal but still.
KYLLÄ........✌️✌️✌️✌️❤️
Good video
"Sow na" been useing one since I was a kid. Now im building my own!
a great sauna!
From 🇬🇧, I would love to visit that sauna & have a lovely sauna session in there !.
I have a sauna in my back yard, I count my blessings everyday that I have one !.
Just finished building my new traditional wood heated sauna here in Finland. Great to see the heritage live in kicking in the sauna belt!
Congratulations and enjoy!
That looks like a really great sauna, I wish that I could try the löyly there👍🏻 greetins from Finland
this is amazing
Long live Suomi
Here across the lake from the UP we use white cedar boughs. I like to dip them in water, and, then smack them on the benches, this releases the aromatic oil in the cedar, smells a bit like eucylyptus to me.
Would love to hear more about the luuko and traditional ventilation!
I'm from the LP (I've since moved to Virginia), had no idea my home state had sauna culture! I never really got into sauna until I moved to Japan, where public baths are very important culturally and the baths often include saunas as well. I want to bring part of that culture home with me and I'm planning on building a sauna soon!
More people outside of the Finnish-American community are discovering the joys and benefits of traditional Finnish sauna, as well as simiilar bathing methods from around the world. Be sure to join our National Sauna Week celebration online February 18-24, 2024
@@FinlandiaFoundationNational With any luck I'll have my own sauna up and running by then!
I would say two hours is minimum, if it is a proper sauna house with a lake next to it, as is mostly the case in Finland. I am southern man so I discovered sauna in my 40ies only, by chance.
Having 15-20 minutes in sauna, followed by a few minutes in an ice-cold lake, having a beer by the fire outside and then back in the sauna... it is a process, a ritual... that can last for many hours.
Sounds like you do it right!
In these times of warnings on the hot coffee mug. CAution this is hot. I want to suggest driking just WATER suring the repeat visits...Enjoying a salty bite w beer afterwards....
First time visitors listening to their own bodied and leaving , if feeling uncomfortable
Lake or snow like in Lahti in winter!
We sauna every single night
Me to.
1950-60s when finnish peacekeepers were in middle east one of the first things they built was sauna. Even it was allmost +50 degrees centigrade outside 😆
Jos Sauna terva tai viina ei auta on tauti kuolemaksi: If Sauna, tar of booze wont help, the sickness is deadly! A fast translation of the original saying. Finnish and English are so different that a direct translation is often nigh on impossible!
Those are river rocks, same as I use. Or maybe from a lake shore. Either way, they didn't have special "sauna rocks" shipped from Finland.
How adamant of an assumption...
Very similar to traditional Russian Banya. Even down to the Birch Veniki.
I recently had the pleasure of experiencing sauna in Dortmund, Germany. Spent 6 glorious hours there. I now yearn for a sauna here in Ohio. Oh, I know they exist. But they are not like European sauna.
Great video
What is the U.P.?
Whats the birch leaf 🌿?? What you use in australia instead?
Before long, there were no plastic sponges. The soft birch leaf washes and rubs away the dirt at the same time!
I don't understand how people clean themselves otherwise.
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This guy is 100% Finnish ethnicity. He even looks like so many Finns I know. Niko Kivelä example
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The ultimate purpose of a sauna? I don't understand how other people take care of their cleanliness, wash themselves?
only in america not in finland
110 degrees?? Whoa, that's... American 😡
You just showed a typical Russian banya. Every week we steam with birch veniks.