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Mika's Birthday Sauna Social x Sauna Aid x Perfect Sweat
🍿 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
🗞️ 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
✍️ 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 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)
🏅 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
🍉 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
Saunneur is a made-up word for a “sauna person”. It’s like the European cousin of the Japanese “saunner” but more pompous.