Traditional Finnish sauna healing
Traditional Finnish sauna healing is a Finnish healing tradition that combines gentle steam baths, natural products, and traditional sauna wisdom. The Kalevala poetic tradition and ancient healing methods create a space where body and mind can rest.
Sauna healing experience does treat the body and mind with traditional plants, herbs and forest products. It does clean and refreshes the body and mind.
The traditional Finnish sauna healing experience also includes old Finnish sauna rituals, such as the ”kekri sauna”, where ancestors and the cycle of the year are remembered, and the bridal sauna, where people take a sauna and bless major transitions in life.
Every sauna session is a journey to the roots of Finnish sauna culture and living intangible cultural heritage.
Finnish sauna culture is included in UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Finnish researchers have been recording oral traditions of Finnish folk culture and folk medicine since the 19th century.
The work has helped to preserve the old nature-based folk medicine knowledge, traditional treatment methods, and beliefs and spells that have been passed down as an oral tradition, on which current traditional sauna use is based.
The Association of Traditional Sauna Healers, founded in 2020, will have approximately 50 members by the beginning of 2026. The members of the Association of Traditional Sauna Healers are trained professionals of intangible sauna culture and the healing sauna tradition, i.e. traditional sauna healers.
Siru virlander perinnesaunotusta
Siru virlander perinnesaunotusta
Jalkakylvyn tekemistä, Kuva: Kaisa Mokkinen
Ihminen vihtojen alla, Kuva: Erkki Wrangen
Siru Virlander is trained professional in sauna heling by the association of traditional sauna healers.
You can book a traditional sauna healing experience to your own sauna or into a rent sauna.
The experience is suitable also for larger groups.
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You can not pay sauna healing experience with a Epassi
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