An Authentic Finnish Sauna

[@davidkannas8932]

I built a sauna in my back yard in West Seattle. It's stove is electric, so it heats very quickly. Some rocks on top of the stove came from my grand parent's sauna in Northern Minnesota, and one came from a beach in Finland. Every time I take sauna, I am transported to a time on my grand parent's farm and their wood fired sauna and all the Finnish language conversation that surrounded me. Kiitos for the video.

[@jmeurman]

Apparantly sauna rocks need to be changed after about 100 sessions.

[@mourlyvold64]

@@jmeurman Why is that exactly?

[@svanari]

@@mourlyvold64 if you sauna alot rocks start to crackle and cant hold heat so much. you can test them by clapping together and if the sound is hollow its time to change.

[@mourlyvold64]

@@svanari Thanks for the reply. I've been studying information on saunas for days now and learned a lot, including about stones. Most of all I now understand why many saunas feel like torture and some are so wholesome. Design is everything.

[@tahtitaivas2290]

​@@mourlyvold64they loose their capability to storage heat and may start to crackle.

[@Tulizukka]

As a Finn sauna enthusiast i applaud this video for its correct information and respect on etiquette, history, use and tradition. The sauna in this video is lovely and very reminiscent of traditional finnish outdoor wooden sauna. Everything in this video is very lovely

[@FinlandiaFoundationNational]

Thanks for your nice comments.

[@quarterhorsetj]

My grandma and great grandma both had authentic Finnish saunas they used, and so did I when I was a kid, staying with my grandma. I still remember to this day the scent of it and how relaxing it was. My great grandma and grandpa came over from Finland in the early 1900's. This was in Crystal Falls MI

[@BILLGIROUS]

Kiitos, Herra Kurtti!

[@samil5601]

Great pronunciation of Finnish here. Kiitos!

[@raunovittaniemi4905]

KYLLÄ........✌️✌️✌️✌️❤️

[@themightykabool]

That is a slick use for historic door handle

[@pvahanen-dh5rt]

A sauna is always visible to its builder. Respect is, and thanks to the previous generations! My father was born in a smoke sauna, AND he's still alive!

[@pvahanen-dh5rt]

The video mentions one thing that many Finns who build a sauna do not know. The heater should be lower than the feet! Not a big deal but still.

[@Mideone]

Just finished building my new traditional wood heated sauna here in Finland. Great to see the heritage live in kicking in the sauna belt!

[@FinlandiaFoundationNational]

Congratulations and enjoy!

[@pigetstuck]

a great sauna!

[@martint.1538]

From 🇬🇧, I would love to visit that sauna & have a lovely sauna session in there !. I have a sauna in my back yard, I count my blessings everyday that I have one !.

[@singetdem]

Good video

[@TheOminousVoidWispers]

"Sow na" been useing one since I was a kid. Now im building my own!

[@tj612]

My wife is Finn from the U.P. and we have a camp in Bruce Crossing. We have moved to the New England area and I have been, "tasked" to build us a Sauna :) Great information, eh!

[@stoner84x]

That looks like a really great sauna, I wish that I could try the löyly there👍🏻 greetins from Finland

[@keithkuckler2551]

Here across the lake from the UP we use white cedar boughs. I like to dip them in water, and, then smack them on the benches, this releases the aromatic oil in the cedar, smells a bit like eucylyptus to me.

[@AyahuascaSage]

I'm from the LP (I've since moved to Virginia), had no idea my home state had sauna culture! I never really got into sauna until I moved to Japan, where public baths are very important culturally and the baths often include saunas as well. I want to bring part of that culture home with me and I'm planning on building a sauna soon!

[@FinlandiaFoundationNational]

More people outside of the Finnish-American community are discovering the joys and benefits of traditional Finnish sauna, as well as simiilar bathing methods from around the world. Be sure to join our National Sauna Week celebration online February 18-24, 2024

[@AyahuascaSage]

@@FinlandiaFoundationNational With any luck I'll have my own sauna up and running by then!

[@SuperChaz_]

Would love to hear more about the luuko and traditional ventilation!

[@viktorrusanov2531]

I would say two hours is minimum, if it is a proper sauna house with a lake next to it, as is mostly the case in Finland. I am southern man so I discovered sauna in my 40ies only, by chance. Having 15-20 minutes in sauna, followed by a few minutes in an ice-cold lake, having a beer by the fire outside and then back in the sauna... it is a process, a ritual... that can last for many hours.

[@FinlandiaFoundationNational]

Sounds like you do it right!

[@lilatravelpartners]

In these times of warnings on the hot coffee mug. CAution this is hot. I want to suggest driking just WATER suring the repeat visits...Enjoying a salty bite w beer afterwards.... First time visitors listening to their own bodied and leaving , if feeling uncomfortable

[@smolboyi]

this is amazing Long live Suomi

[@banditkfk1463]

1950-60s when finnish peacekeepers were in middle east one of the first things they built was sauna. Even it was allmost +50 degrees centigrade outside 😆

[@2mnxffrddfghjbbvcdfh6644bcddcv]

Great video What is the U.P.?

[@PetsNPatients]

Lake or snow like in Lahti in winter!

[@ValleysOfNeptune2150]

Whats the birch leaf 🌿?? What you use in australia instead?

[@pvahanen]

Before long, there were no plastic sponges. The soft birch leaf washes and rubs away the dirt at the same time! I don't understand how people clean themselves otherwise.

[@betsysingh-anand3228]

I recently had the pleasure of experiencing sauna in Dortmund, Germany. Spent 6 glorious hours there. I now yearn for a sauna here in Ohio. Oh, I know they exist. But they are not like European sauna.

[@davidpichkar8239]

Very similar to traditional Russian Banya. Even down to the Birch Veniki.

[@riesa85]

Jos Sauna terva tai viina ei auta on tauti kuolemaksi: If Sauna, tar of booze wont help, the sickness is deadly! A fast translation of the original saying. Finnish and English are so different that a direct translation is often nigh on impossible!

[@nataliemukka1863]

We sauna every single night

[@dianastvarnik697]

Me to.

[@jmj7543]

This guy is 100% Finnish ethnicity. He even looks like so many Finns I know. Niko Kivelä example

[@johnskalos8025]

Those are river rocks, same as I use. Or maybe from a lake shore. Either way, they didn't have special "sauna rocks" shipped from Finland.

[@TheOminousVoidWispers]

How adamant of an assumption...

[@theduelist5706]

👍

[@ubilo]

SISU

[@수용-t3s]

짱

[@pvahanen]

The ultimate purpose of a sauna? I don't understand how other people take care of their cleanliness, wash themselves?

[@nemesis1970]

only in america not in finland

[@ohajohaha]

110 degrees?? Whoa, that's... American 😡

[@Ermak.Timopheev]

You just showed a typical Russian banya. Every week we steam with birch veniks.

[@jarnettifritjof2246]

LÖYLY ( *tervehdys;))* greetings!! here in *finnish* JÄRVISUOMI ('lake districk' in finland. *middle of ThousandLakes;)* - Nice video :) About ol'finnish-american *refugee* (mine-/woodworkers history) as what goes in SAUNA's back there. I just wonder.. (in video heard that) there *are* Many ol'Saunas Left/ 'survive all this time'.. Thats good :) But. HOW *Much* those SAUNA's there *are* those *SAVU* (smoke-) Sauna's? Thats the MOST use *finnish* SAUNA(-type..) - at least before the ( *electric-* ) sauna's concuer finland.. *early* 1970's that started. Just making here (JÄRVISUOMI, near Lake PUULAVESI ;) one of my ThreeSAUNA's I have here in my place: PUU(wood)SAUNA, electric-SAUNA and 'semi'-(SMOKE)SAUNA as we called it here 'AITO57KIUAS' ;) - kzbin.info/www/bejne/povSeHiMht6GmaMsi=fN7KHGhCfakx0IDV .. *Aake &"Pappa"..* (35v AITOKIUAS;) AITO *finnish* SAUNA tradition (perinne;) LIVES & BREATH's❤here well..yo'know? YES.. I Think. ( I'll will cope here in Christmas(JOULUSAUNA;) tradition and.. ..GO *finnish* SAUNA - The hole christmastime.. *Every day.* HappySauna christmas to ALL you, too! Jari Björkka "kärräinniemiCity"/Puulawess'..😂