Interbad 2021: Numerous opportunities for the industry despite corona Boom in the wellness industry. Various business opportunities for exhibitors and private builders due to the trend towards "cocooning". The preparations for interbad 2021, which will be held in...
Rolf Pieper is retiring
The "Sauna Pilot" Rolf-A. Pieper goes off board and retires after 38 years work Rolf Andreas Pieper has been 38 years working for Deutscher Sauna-Bund and leaving now his job. But he is continuing e.G. With his dedicated work as board member in the International Sauna...
LONDON OLYMPIC SAUNA
by Mika Meskanen from the British Sauna Society A historic sauna discovery in the UK? That's right! Only few people knew, that over 70 years ago the Finnish team brought a massive sauna bath house to the 1948 London Olympics. Originally installed in Richmond Park, it...
SAUNALETTER-5 2020
Dear ISA Members and other Saunalovers The COVID19 is still on and in actual case becoming more serious a problem in many countries. Most of the events are cancelled and the only way to communicate is via net and net meetings. E.g. ISA has the next Board Meeting via...
Finnish Sauna Culture Added To The Unesco List
Finland’s sauna culture inscribed on UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List Finland’s sauna culture was inscribed on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity on 17. December 2020. The decision was made by an intergovernmental...
Without the Banya We Would Perish: A History of the Russian Bathhouse
by Ethan Pollock In the parilka, the wooden steam room at the heart of every Russian banya, a stove heats a pile of stones. When the stones are red-hot, water is thrown onto them, raising billows of light steam. Reclining or standing on wooden benches, bathers sweat...