An age-old wellness ritual still holds relevance today, but now it comes with pop beats, some lighting effect and is gaining ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." “Drowning, in the sea of love,” Stevie Nicks crooned in the background as I, and 16 other naked adults, ...

This harsh winter, some New Yorkers found refuge at Sauna Fest in Domino Park in Brooklyn, with curated sweat sessions led by ...

Whenever I’m sitting in a sauna, my mind becomes inherently focused on the suffering I’m going through as my body’s temperature increases to rotisserie-chicken-cooking heights. This wasn’t the case at ...

If you’ve visited a typical European spa, you may well be familiar with Aufguss. Meaning ‘infusion’ in German, it’s a 15-minute ritual hosted by an Aufgussmeister in a large, shared sauna. Ice balls ...

A sauna master performs to a full audience during an Aufguss ritual at Thermea Spa Village Whitby — home to Logga, North America’s largest event sauna. From June 17–19, 2025, Whitby will host ...

"OK, guys. Time to wake up!" said Alex Troitzsch as he twirled a towel over his head, sending blasts of searing hot air through the sauna. "I think of this round like a stretching of boundaries," ...

Aufguss, a traditional German sauna ritual involving aromatic steam and guided heat cycles, is emerging as a possible global ...