This Sauna Talk episode was recorded in New York City at the Recent Culture of Bathing Gathering, mid January 2025.
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Sauna Talk
Sauna Talk is a show about the authentic sauna experience. Recorded (often) on the sauna bench, we talk with interesting guests about sauna including such aspects as building sauna, enjoying sauna, and health and wellness benefits to sauna. The rising sauna tide is lifting many boats and we look forward to some left turns that we hope to keep listeners on and off the more enjoyable and less trampled authentic sauna trail.
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October 22, 2025 • 58 mins
I've had the pleasure of sitting on the sauna bench with well over a hundred guests for Sauna Talk. Whether you're listening in your car, out for a walk, or sweating it out on your own bench, my goal as host is to help keep the conversation flowing. Like good löyly, Sauna Talk rises, rolls, and wraps around us—natural, unforced, and alive.
That same spirit was there last night with Chris Heck.
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September 30, 2025 • 57 mins
Welcome to this episode of Sauna Talk, where we head back to Farris Bad, resort spa and wellness retreat South of Oslo, Norway. We get to sit with Jerome, who is a long standing steam master at the resort. Here he leads aufguss ceremony and assists two time Sauna Talk guest Lasse Eriksen.
10,000 hours
One thing I wish I had asked Jerome in this interview is to venture a guess at how many guests he'...
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August 25, 2025 • 74 mins
Today on Sauna Talk, we welcome a very special guest. Dr. Hans Hägglund.
Who is Dr. Hans Hägglund?
Hans Hägglund MD, PhD, is a medical doctor and professor at Uppsala University, in Northern Sweden. Professor Hägglund has a strong research back ground in clinical research within medicine. He graduated from Karolinska institute, Sweden and did his post doc at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center i...
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July 17, 2025 • 49 mins
Today on the sauna bench, we head to Oslo, Norway, and visit with the folks at Oslo Badstuforening, (Oslo Sauna Association).
This is my second trip to Norway in as many years. They say that you never step into the same river twice, and I'll contend that we never sit on the same sauna bench twice. For last year, I took many saunas in the Oslo Harbour, as well as published a Sauna Talk with the Oslo Sauna Association team – and you ...
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July 3, 2025 • 85 mins
This is a joint Sauna Talk podcast with Linda and Otto who also run the Sprit of Sauna podcast from Finland as well as Sipoonjoki Heritage Sauna, just outside Helsinki, Finland.
Linda and Otto are business partners who share a common interest in preserving the cultural roots and history of smoke sauna, promoting the rituals and power behind, and help create a place and platform for education and retreats at their sauna facility in ...
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June 10, 2025 • 32 mins
It was the morning after the recent British Sauna Summit in London. Stig Arild Pettersen Secretary General of the Norwegian Sauna Association and I meet up at London's Hackney Baths, which is a perfect backdrop for us to discuss the "Badstu Boom" taking place in Norway and the US. As part of his Secretary General role, Stig heads up the Norweigen version of Sauna Talk – Badstuprat, a title gently borrowed from yours truly and this ...
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June 9, 2025 • 51 mins
A Sauna Talk from the British Sauna Summit, Tuesday, 20 May 2025 Hilton London Canary Wharf.
Last year, Sauna Summit 2024 and 1.0, about 120 of us gathered rooftop at in Hackney. The spirit was both well organized like a conference, and yet intimate like a family gathering. This year, as attendance swelled to well north of 300, the Hilton Hotel ballroom provided a backdrop and familiarity of a "proper" (to use the British word) org...
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April 4, 2025 • 86 mins
Welcome to this special episode of Sauna Talk. We welcome Adam from Thermé USA, who led the panel discussion with three public sauna operators from North America. This episode is a "two-fer" in that as introduction, we get to hear from the group as they talk about the gathering and their panel discussion. Then, we move over to the panel discussion as it happened live, amongst almost 100 people in attendance at the Culture of Bathin...
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March 13, 2025 • 60 mins
Today on Sauna Talk, we welcome Mika Meskanen and Wendy Liu.
Mika is Finnish, and partner Wendy is Chinese. They live in London, and we met for this Sauna Talk on the bench in my backyard sauna in Minneapolis.
This is our second podcast episode together, the first being episode #54. And, as you know, I much prefer Sauna Talk on the sauna bench, where so much magic in conversation and connection usually happens.
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March 4, 2025 • 34 mins
Today on Sauna Talk we re-welcome Jon Sabes. Jon is a returning Sauna Talk guest, first being episode #061, and we rejoin together again, on the same bench for this second episode. Jon spends most of his time with his wife and family in Los Angeles and also in Baja Mexico. He was back to Minneapolis for a winter weekend, and we met for a cross country ski at his Lake Minnetonka house as the sauna was idling its way up to serving te...
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February 13, 2025 • 39 mins
Greetings! We recorded this episode as part of the sauna building seminar at the West Coast Sauna Summit, January, 2025, Loon Lake Resort outside Vancouver, BC Canada. Let's Sauna Talk: building saunas!
Sauna Talk podcast all about building saunas
I moderate a panel discussion with, on my left, Andrew from Saunabuilder and on my right, Josh from Theraluxe. These two are Western Canadian sauna build...
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February 8, 2025 • 34 mins
It was impromptu, and it was fun. It was completely unrehearsed, and it rambled in places (when I was unable to hold the microphone). This episode holds some wonderful gems of free thinking. This is Sauna Talk, and this is what I love about Sauna Talk. Like good sauna, Sauna Talk has few rules. This was the spirit at this fireside chat at the West Coast Sauna Summit.
While some sauna'ed and others slept, most of the attendees, 25-3...
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January 23, 2025 • 69 mins
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December 18, 2024 • 70 mins
"What a great event" proclaimed Gayle Myers who, with her partner Gary, partook in the recent backyard sauna tour through 10 saunas built by homeowners in backyards in Minneapolis for the Parade of Saunas event.
Parade of Saunas 2024 raised $1,500 for charity.
"I had a constant stream through my space of curious folk, ranging from seasoned sauna pros to those just starting to daydream about their own backyard sauna retreat."
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October 11, 2024 • 73 mins
Today on the Sauna Talk podcast we welcome Ashley Mason.
Ashley Mason, earned her PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Arizona. She is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry in the Weill Institute for Neurosciences and the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Health. Ashley is a clinical psychologist and directs behavioral treatment for insomnia at the UCSF Osher Center Clinic. She is Director of the UCSF Sleep, Affect, and...
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September 8, 2024 • 36 mins
Today on the Sauna Talk podcast, i'm pleased to present Earric Lee, who is a leading researcher surrounding the health benefits of sauna.
As you listen along, you'll hear the background noise of the busy-ness and hustle and bustle of London streets. As, instead of on the sauna bench, we capture this episode outside a London hotel.
Earric and I converged for the recent British Sauna Society Sauna Summit. And it was here, in London, ...
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August 16, 2024 • 46 mins
This is episode #100 of Sauna Talk.
Do you want to know the Sauna Talk origin story? Well, when I started this podcast in 2016, 8 years ago, the idea was to help capture a bit of what felt like on the sauna bench. That's a place where deep, collaborative conversations can happen. It's often a place of untangling the wires in our heads, where our minds can open up to creative thinking, and problem solving.
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July 26, 2024 • 38 mins
Today on Sauna Talk, we welcome Ragna Marie Fjeld, General Secretary, Oslo Badstuforening.
What does Badstuforening translate to in English? Sauna Association. So, let me tell you a bit about the Oslo Sauna Association. Founded in 2016, the same year as the 612 Sauna Society in Minneapolis, Minnesota. But the difference start here. Where 612 has one sauna, and granted it is the original sauna with the same work horse original sauna...
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June 26, 2024 • 57 mins
Today on Sauna Talk, we welcome Alan Jalasjja who shares with us "The Spirit of Sauna."
Alan is an evangelist who is with us to help promote the experience. Growing up with sauna his whole life, as a Finnish Canadian, we get the perspective of what sauna spirit means to him.
World Sauna Forum 2024
The growth of the event compared to 2022
Globe and Mail article
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June 15, 2024 • 70 mins
A lot has happened with Lasse Eriksen, 2.0, from our first Sauna Talk just a little over two years ago.
This meeting took place on the beach in front of Farris Bad resort, south of Oslo, Norway.
FarrisBad
Here Lasse is the Development Manager for this top notch resort set along the shore of Norweigen's majestic coastline. Development Manager means that Lasse is given a lot of reign to help steward ...
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