Can happiness be learned through travel? We head to the Nordic country where sauna culture and the great outdoors offer a ...

What if I Told You About Finland’s Sauna Obsession? Welcome to Finland, a country utterly obsessed with saunas. The sauna is the most important social forum in Finland. There are more saunas than cars ...

From Helsinki’s Market Square, a quick 15-minute water taxi takes you over to Saunasaari, which literally translates to Sauna Island in Finnish.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Saunas have become popular social hubs in London, popping up on rooftops, in basements and in city parks. But while saunas have ...

Sustained heat stress is bad for our health and can be deadly. But we’re discovering that heat therapies like sauna, when ...

“How does that feel?” asks Siiri, as the spikes of the juniper branches relieve the itch on my back and the spicy scent surrounds my body. “Peaceful,” I respond, so relaxed that one-word answers are ...

Walking into a public sauna complex in Helsinki as a foreigner, you could be forgiven for feeling a little unsure about what to do. Men and women sit around taking in the wood-infused steam, often ...

Less than five minutes after my arrival on the reindeer farm, I inadvertently ask a personal, extremely inappropriate question. "How many reindeer do you have?" I inquire, innocently. Scandalized, the ...

It’d be sacrilegious to visit Finland without experiencing two of the country’s most beloved pastimes: karaoke and sauna. While belting Frank Sinatra songs in a crowded bar may come naturally to you, ...

Finland is well known for its saunas. In fact, such is the Finnish people’s obsession for sweating it out that they have a sauna in every one of their embassies across the globe. The sauna’s have even ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Koti” means “home” in Finnish, which makes it a perfect name for the Finnish sauna that is literally in Kristina Erickson’s ...