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The Latvian sauna as a practice: slow, attentive and honest, with tradition and science side by side. Start with the course: the first three issues of Sauna Academy, in your language.
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Five steps.
The Latvian sauna ritual is not a list of procedures. It is a passage from everyday life into the body and back, step by step.
- WarmingHeat is not a feat of endurance. The body enters the room and settles.
- ScrubSalt, honey and hands. The skin becomes a border that separates and connects.
- RestSilence between rounds. The nervous system takes in what has happened.
- The great whisking and the flightThe rhythm of the whisk, scent, heat. Then the water, where the sauna master holds the person in their arms.
- Contrast and silenceA return in a different quality. Bench, linen, tea and sleep.
Honest to experience and to the facts.
Experience is real as experience.
If you feel lighter after the sauna, you feel lighter. We do not question what people feel.
The doctor and the sauna, side by side.
The sauna adds to medical care, and health questions stay with the doctor. In the magazine every fact has a source.
Depth is good only if you can return from it.
We measure a sauna by the return, not by how deep someone went.
Latest articles.
Gars: why Latvians throw the steam
The first sauna in Latvian written history, a word with three meanings, and folk songs in which the sons of God heat the sauna. What Sauna Academy No. 01, the autumn issue, is about.
Balance: what heat really does to the body
Thirty minutes at 73 °C, twenty years of Finnish research and a doctor who calls the sauna an encounter. What Sauna Academy No. 02, the winter issue, is about.
Threshold: what happens to the mind in the sauna
Altered states of consciousness, brain waves in the heat, time that stretches and disappears, and the flight. What Sauna Academy No. 03, the spring issue, is about.
Three belts, one infinity.
Like the belt of Lielvārde, three woven belts braid into infinity. Together they make the world we live in, and in the sauna they meet.
Earth, water, body. The zigzag in the belt.
The sky that holds everything. The triangle in the belt.
Fate that moves forward. The little twig in the belt.
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