The Art of Sauna
Sauna Academy magazine

One issue for each season.

Tradition and research side by side, calmly and honestly. Each issue has its sources at the end.

Issues

The first year.

Gars · Steam — Sauna Academy
No. 01 · Autumn 2026

Gars · Steam

From the Livonians who walked from the sauna into the Daugava in 1198 to the dainas in which the sons of God heat the sauna for the daughters of the Sun.

LV · EN · ES · RU
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Balance — Sauna Academy
No. 02 · Winter 2026/27

Balance

What heat really does to the body, what twenty years of Finnish research show, and why a doctor calls the sauna an encounter.

LV · EN · ES · RU
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Threshold — Sauna Academy
No. 03 · Spring 2027

Threshold

What happens to the mind when heat, rhythm, darkness and cold close the door on everyday life for a while.

LV · EN · ES · RU
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How to read it

Tradition and science side by side.

For centuries the sauna lived in experience, and it is still true. The magazine holds both at once: what people feel and what has been measured. The sources are at the end of each issue, so nothing interrupts the reading.

Publisher and editor: Matīss Vilde. Scientific voice: Juris Batņa.

Course

Three magazines. One course.

Sign up with your email and read the first three issues of Sauna Academy on your phone, in your language: the full texts, dainas and practice for your sauna.

Gars · Steam — Sauna AcademyBalance — Sauna AcademyThreshold — Sauna Academy