From Finnish saunas to Korean ice tubs, these spas specialize in the practice of alternating between intense heat and intense cold. In Swedish Lapland, a guest at the Arctic Bath hotel and spa ...

Steam, sweat, soak, repeat – it can be be hard to truly improve the Finnish sauna experience. But designers have been experimenting with the idea of a floating sauna. Instead of paying big bucks to ...

Fancy stripping off before a flight and getting sweaty with fellow passengers? Finnair think you might like to and has backed the idea by adding a sauna to its new premium lounge in Helsinki Airport.

A row is brewing over the possible installation of a sauna next to Hampstead Heath’s mixed swimming pond. Mark Lamb, a regular to Hampstead’s famed swimming ponds and a local to nearby Dartmouth Park, ...

The needle on the thermometer in the sauna hovered over 200 degrees. It was like being in a pizza oven. The next step was plunging into a freezing pool. Going from boiling hot to stinging cold is part ...

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