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Location and Geography. Demography. Finland Linguistic Affiliation. Symbolism. History and Ethnic Relations. Finnish sauna culture and tradition in Finland - Pure Inside Out. The sauna experience | Finnish sauna | Sweating & steam bath | Inipi: the sweat lodge The Sweat Bath in Northern Europe: A Brief History Throughout history people of different races and cultures have been using sweat baths for hygienic and medicinal purposes.
Various cultures around the world have their versions of the sweat bath, but all with the same objective: To help avoid disease and maintain good health by eliminating toxins through sweating. Today, the most notorious sweat bath is undoubtedly the Finnish Sauna. The first modern wooden saunas, as we know them today, were built around the 5th century when northern European tribes abandoned their nomadic lifestyle and settled down. The sweat bath became so common in Scandinavia in the Middle Ages that foreign visitors wrote "these people are the only peasantry in Europe who take a bath every week". Soon after that however, sweat bathing started to decline in Norway and Sweden. Kultura, religia i zwyczaje. Etykieta i zwyczaje.
Na pierwszy rzut oka nie różnią się znacząco od tych w Polsce. Kilka rzeczy warto jednak wiedzieć, aby z góry nie uznać Finów za nieuprzejmych czy gruboskórnych. Generalnie, Finowie są małomówni, co znaczy, ze odzywają się dopiero gdy naprawdę maja coś do powiedzenia. Dlatego tez nie są wirtuozami tzw. „small talk”, ale chwile milczenia nie są czymś niekomfortowym. Jeśli już rozmawiają, lubią patrzeć sobie w oczy, co jest po prostu wyrazem szacunku. Amazon. Amazon. Amazon. Sauna Reviews & Ratings. Sauna. A modern sauna A sauna (/ˈsɔːnə/ [1] or /ˈsaʊnə/;[2][3] Finnish pronunciation: [ˈsɑunɑ]) is a small room or house designed as a place to experience dry or wet heat sessions, or an establishment with one or more of these and auxiliary facilities.
The steam and high heat make the bathers perspire. Saunas can be divided into two basic styles: conventional saunas that warm the air or infrared saunas that warm objects. Infrared saunas may use various materials in their heating area such as charcoal, active carbon fibers, and other materials. Etymology[edit] The word sauna is an ancient Finnish word referring to the traditional Finnish bath and to the bathhouse itself.
Kaye radio transmition. Setting the world aright at the "ladies' sauna" - thisisFINLAND: Life & society: Society. By Salla Korpela, July 2009 Photo: Sanna Liimatainen Ladies after sauna (from left): Sirkka Hämäläinen, Raija-Sinikka Rantala and Helena Hiilivirta.
For some prominent Finnish women, regular meetings of a sauna club are a source of strength. On a beautiful but cool spring evening, three women sit together, sharing experiences and discussing current affairs. They are all movers and shakers of Finnish society: Sirkka Hämäläinen, former Governor of the Bank of Finland and member of the European Central Bank's Executive Board, now a member of the boards of many corporations and organisations; Raija-Sinikka Rantala, with an impressive career as a theatre director, administrator and teacher as well as Helena Hiilivirta, director of the soon-to-be-completed Helsinki Music Centre.
Peer support and relaxation The story began in 1987, when Sirkka Hämäläinen held various top-level posts at Finland's central bank. “I needed support and people I could talk to,” she recalls. “I joined in 1994. Bare facts of the sauna - thisisFINLAND: Life & society: Society. By Mikko Norros, December 2001; last updated May 2009 A smoke sauna in winter attire.
How should a visitor to Finland react to the following proposition? You are invited to take off all your clothes and go to a little room heated to almost 100 Cº, where you will sit, naked, with others for a while and sweat. Then you will go outside and jump (still naked) through a small hole in the ice on a lake, the sea or whatever and refresh yourselves in the freezing water - or roll in the snow instead.
In short, "What about a sauna? " The answer should be simple. Saunas have existed in other cultures, but it is in Finland that they have become entwined in the national culture. It is estimated that there are two million saunas in Finland, for a population of 5.3 million. Traditional saunas are heated by wood, burned either in a stove with a chimney, or by a stove with no chimney. All saunas have a basket of rocks heated by the stove on which to throw water to increase the humidity. Suomen Saunaseura ry: Welcome.
The Finnish Sauna Society is a cultural association founded in 1937 to foster the heritage of the national bath.
The Society has around 4200 members. The function of the Finnish Sauna Society is to preserve the traditional native sauna culture, spread information about it, correct wrong impressions about the sauna, emphasize the meaning of sauna bathing for a healthy life and also to develop the sauna of the present day. Sweat. Seeking the real Finnish sauna - thisisFINLAND: Life & society: Society.
By Fran Weaver, September 2009; updated June 2013 Photo: P.
Saksala/myhelsinki.fi Sitting stoically in a piping-hot room has formed a central part of Finnish culture for thousands of years.