In Finland, sauna bathing has been a way of life for 10,000 years. There are an estimated 3.3 million saunas throughout the country and 5.6 million residents-saunas are found at home, at work, in gyms ...

I donned my robe and blue banya hat, a traditional sauna cap, and joined dozens of New Yorkers eager to sweat and socialize against the backdrop of the Williamsburg Bridge. On the short walk from the ...

Sauna culture is heating up, and not in the quiet, niche way it once did. What began as a regional tradition closely associated with Nordic life has moved into the global mainstream, propelled largely ...