Tickets have just gone on sale for the 3rd UK Aufguss Championships which sees the country’s top sauna masters compete in a showcase of skill, performance, and heat. Taking place at Arc Canary Wharf on 18-19 May 2024, champions from the single and team categories will go on to represent the UK at the Aufguss WM Finals in Italy this September.

On Monday 20th May, the British Sauna Society hosted its first Sauna Summit, attracting some 250 delegates from all over the UK and Ireland, the US, Norway and Finland.

Nearly 30 saunas across the UK are offering NHS staff and link workers free sauna sessions in March and April 2024.

British Sauna Society believes this innovative remnant of modular post-war timber construction, donated by the Finnish Olympic team, is the oldest surviving purpose-built sauna in the UK and the earliest surviving Olympic sauna in the world.

Galgorm in Belfast, Northern Ireland, has been announced as the next venue for the UK Aufguss Championships, taking place Monday 22nd - Wednesday 24th April 2024.

Today is World Mental Health Day and here at the BSS we want to shine a light on the remarkable mental health benefits of sauna, and cold plunge. Here’s a few highlights on how sauna has been found to be beneficial to mental health in scientific literature.

Emma O’Kelly, author of Sauna the Power of Deep Heat has shared the same Estonian smoke sauna as film director Anna Hints (though not at the same time). Here Emma interviews Anna about her new film, Smoke Sauna Sisterhood which premiered at Sundance Film Festival in January 2023 and won Anna a Directing Award. Anna grew up in Võru County, a region famed for its smoke sauna tradition and the film is on tour across the UK.

Fiona Golfar covers the UK’s vibrant sauna movement in the weekend edition’s HTSI supplement (formerly How To Spend It).

The British Sauna Society is pleased to share that Finnmark, the UK’s specialist for authentic Finnish sauna, will be the lead sponsor for the UK Aufguss team at the 2023 Aufguss WM.

In its Summer 2023 issue, the UK-based European Spa Magazine runs a two-page spread about the fast growing sauna movement under the title ‘Sauna for good life’.

Emma O’Kelly, writer at Wallpaper magazine and global explorer of sauna culture, shares her experience at the UK’s first Aufguss competition.