Sauneo ergo sum – memoirs of a saunagoer (he/him/hän) 🔥💦🌿

What’s new?

Highlights

Saunas in the UK

Sauna in the news

Steam on Film

Sauna bucket list

Notes & Writings

Talks and presentations

About me


Events

Mika's Birthday Sauna Social x Sauna Aid x Perfect Sweat

Winter Wonderland Retreat, March 2023

Talks and presentations

🇪🇪 Tartu 2024 Programme Launch, Estonian Ambassador’s residence, 29th Nov 2023

🍿 Perfect Sweat fundraiser screening for Sauna Aid. With Mikkel Aaland and special guests. London, January 2023

📽 Steam on Film, film screening for the London Festival of Architecture, June 2022

🇫🇮 Beginners guide to authentic Finnish sauna experience, Diplomatic Sauna Society, Embassy of Finland in London & Sauna from Finland, January 2022

🇬🇧 Sauna movement in the UK today, Sauna from Finland network event, June 2021

🎙 Acceptance speech at the 2019 Saunamestari award ceremony, Ikaalinen, July 2019

😶‍🌫️ The Second Coming of Steam, XVII International Sauna Congress, Sweden, June 2018

💁‍♂️ Sauna etiquette, house rules in English for the Finnish Sauna Society, March 2018

Appearances

📰 It's getting hot in here — how saunas became the new pub, Evening Standard, 14 June 2024

🗞️ 'Time capsule' sauna donated by Finnish team to 1948 London Olympics wins Grade II listing, Evening Standard, 19th Jan 2024

🇫🇮 Suomalainen sauna lämmitti kaikkia, Annamari Sipilä, Helsingin Sanomat, 6th Dec 2023

🇪🇪 Kultuuriprogrammi võib tutvustada ka saunalinas: Eesti suursaadik tegi Londonis „saunadiplomaatiat“, Delfi.ee, 5th Dec 2023

📙 Sauna: The Power of Deep Heat by Emma O’Kelly, September 2023

📰 Näpit irti saunasta, Helsingin Sanomat, 24th April 2023

🗞️ How London became obsessed with saunas, Evening Standard, 28th February 2023

📖 Sauna ei kuole koskaan interview by Riitta Korhonen, Sauna 4/2022

📗 Social Sauna — Bathing & Wellbeing by Jane Withers & Ria Hawthorn for Therme Group, September 2022

🗞 Full Steam Ahead “From a hut by a Welsh river to a converted horsebox on the beach, saunas are appearing in unlikely spots all over the country”, by Stephen Emms & George Cory, The Guardian Saturday Magazine, 18th June 2022

📺 Vantos lapas, lrytas.tv, Lithuania, 20th November 2021

📺 Vantos lapas, lrytas.tv, Lithuania, 28th August 2021

📙 The Secrets of Finnish Sauna Design, testimonial for the book by Lassi A Liikkanen, March 2021

🗞 The Olympic past of club’s sauna revealed, Downs Mail, No. 289, February 2021

🫠 Sauna Reading Group #7, by Barry Sykes, January 2020

📖 Saunamestari-kilta – työtä ja aatetta saunakulttuurin hyväksi, by L-K Simola, Sauna 4/2019

🇪🇪 Athletes from around the world prepare for Estonia’s sauna marathon, Estonian Saunas, January 2019

📖 Souls of the Sauna – by Louise Older Steffensen, Scan Magazine, December 2018

📖 Vörumaan savusaunasta myös maistuva muisto, by L-K Simola, Sauna 3/2013

🇦🇺 Tempº Sauna, installation & artist talk, Newcastle, NSW, Australia, October 2009

Published articles

💚 Cha-cha-saunaan – Saunarekka villitsi viisuväkeä Liverpoolissa, Sauna 2/2023

✍️ Löylyn ajaton lumo hiljentää sekuntikellon, tulevaisuudessakin, Sauna 4/2022

🇩🇪 18. Kansainvälinen Saunakongressi järjestettiin hybriditapahtumana, Sauna 4/2022

🇳🇴 Badstufolk book review, Sauna 2/2022

🫧 The Way of the Schmeiss, HAMAM Magazine 4/2020

🥇 Lontoon olympiasauna 1948, Sauna 4/2020

🤝 Maailma lauteilla Jyväskylän World Sauna Forumissa, Sauna 4/2018

🧖🏾 Lontoon suurlähetystössä saunotaan taas, Sauna 2/2018

⚓️ Lontoon merimieskirkon sauna uusittiin yhteistyöllä ja vapaaehtoisvoimin, Sauna 4/2017

🌲 Väinämöisen kylyissä Karjalan laulumailla, Sauna 2/2017 (with Kimmo Raitio and Jussi Niemelä)

🌿 Paratiisin kosketus Saunaseuran vihdontakurssilla, Sauna 2/2015

👩‍🎤 Löylyttämisen MM-kisoissa tunnelma kuin Euroviisuissa, Sauna 1/2015

🇱🇹 Itä kohtasi lännen liettulaisten vihtojen tuoksuessa, Sauna 3/2014 (with Risto Elomaa)

Projects

🏅 Olympics, sauna and reviving communities – from 1948 to present, exhibition, curated by Wendy Liu, London Festival of Architecture, June 2022

🌱 Community Sauna Baths CIC, Hackney Wick, social enterprise, founding director (now retired), 2021

🇬🇧 British Sauna Society, non-profit organisation to promote and develop sauna culture in the United Kingdom, co-founder & chair, since 2014

Podcast visits

🍉 The Catch Up with Amanda and Christine, Episode 27, October 2021

📻 Sauna Talk with Glenn, with Wendy Liu, Episode 54, January 2021

♊️ Sauna Twins Podcast, Episode 2, July 2019


Socials

@saunneur

@saunawave

@britishsaunasociety

@sauna.aid


Saunneur [sonœɾ] is a made-up word for a “sauna person”. It’s like the European cousin of the Japanese “saunner” but more pompous.