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The sauna is warm and mystical, it glows with old wisdom and guides you to relax. There is no rush anywhere, just floating in the timeless atmosphere.
The central part of a traditional sauna is löyly. Above all, it is a preventative, relaxing and cleansing experience.
It is always good idea to include vihdat in the experience, those lovely green friends from the forest.
The elements of traditional sauna are sounds and scents, spells and songs, as well as various herbal baths. – Perfectly relaxing sauna experience for small groups, but also for lonely wolves.
Have you ever been in sauna? Maybe twice, or more? Are you planning to get just simple sauna experience, or maybe little pinch of greenery, stories and guidance to the old tradition to use sauna for renewal?
Best way to get the sauna session of your dreams is to send an email and tell us what kind of group you are coming with, when, and what you want. It is more human than using a robotic online store.
siiri@vastassa.fi
Online store. You will find different sauna experience products – book your traditional sauna session from here. – Available some day. I recommend email.
Would you like to go sauna, but it would be your first time ever in sauna? What is happening there? What you need in the sauna? How you should behave there? Traditional Sauna healer is a host, with knowledge about sauna, saunaculture now and then. There is plenty of old traditional ways to use sauna.
An everyday sauna experience is accidentally meditating, maybe swimming between sauna sessions, little talking about everything between heaven and earth, just sprawling in the sauna. Traditionally, finns use to go in sauna totally naked. In public saunas there might be advice to use swimsuit, especially if there is option to dip in the lake. In private traditional sauna sessions, it is ok to be naked. Sauna is safe place, everyone are equal. And on the other hand, if you want to experience healing vihta treatment, the less you have fabrics between leaves and your skin, it feels always better.
Without löyly, sauna is just a warm storage. Löyly is not just steam, if it is translated like that, you get it completely wrong. It is experienced in many levels, and it can be feel in different ways. Sometimes it is mellow, sometimes it is strong and intensive. The next point is important: You can enjoy the löyly as long as you want. Just listen yourself, and when ever you feel so, you can sit on lower bench orgo outside and breath fresh air.
Vihdat or Vastat are just one lovely green aspect from the world of herbal medicines. There is plenty of variations, how different plants enrich the experience in the sauna. The birch vihta is an old classic, but sauna healer with just one birch vihta is rare thing. Vihdat can be made almost any type of trees. Vihta can be used by yourself, but it feels best when someone does the treatment for you. To get in touch with your relationship between nature, and most of all, relaxing time in sweet löyly, try healing vihta treatment! Vihta has always been there, in the Finnish style sauna. At least, very very long time. It multiplies the health benefits of the sauna.
Finnish women have pampered themselves in the sauna for generations. These treatments are especially lovely when shared with good friends. Many of the products used in the sauna are also easy to make at home.
The sauna is good for the skin. The combination of heat, steam, and sweating opens the pores. That’s why, in the warmth of the sauna, anything applied to the skin is absorbed quickly and effectively.
The sauna is a perfect place to use gifts from nature for skin and hair care. For example, clay, peat, honey, coffee, salt, sugar, herbs, and blooming plants can be used as creams, wraps, poultices, baths, or rinses.
Hair should be protected in the sauna with a sauna hat. A felted wool hat is the best choice, but a scarf or towel will also do the job.
Sauna can be a deeply indulgent beauty ritual — a full-body treatment that cares for your hair, face, and skin alike.
Then there are things that enable a deeper, more conscious sauna experience. Spirits of the sauna. Sauna has its own spirit, but then there can be other spirits, such as sauna gnomes, or other spirits of nature and forests. They have their own, old wisdom about how the sauna moment can help people to find their inner peace.
In the sauna, the senses and inner voice can be more easily sensitized, and it might be possible to sense things of other levels. Sauna songs and spells can help the mind to open for invisible things.
Sauna is suitable for almost everybody. Kids, adults and elderly are welcome. But if you have a fever or if you have an acute inflammation in the body, you should avoid the sauna. Sauna should also be avoided if you are recovering from a heart attack or other acute illness.
Vastassa is finnish word, with meny meanings. It means to facing someone. Also it means to be in the whisk, as you might be if you keep whisk next to your face.
Hi, my name is Siiri, I will meet you at the sauna. My thought and wish is that I could enrich the sauna experience, make people and trees get to know each other. If people’s connection to nature would be stronger, I think we could be healthier, happier and less harmful to the environment. And when we sit in sauna, we can see how much people have common. It’s good to make connections, instead of being suspicious.
I have always been very interested things like herbs, nature, old healing cultures and about strenghtening well-being in natural ways. The invisible — things on other levels — have always fascinated, inspired, and comforted me.
I trained as a practical nurse and spent years working with children and in mental health care. I’ve also practiced acupuncture as a private entrepreneur for over ten years, and I still do — whenever I’m not in the sauna.
I deeply believe that the sauna promotes well-being and helps maintain health. Good löyly is healing for both body and soul.
When I do vihta treatments, I stay close to traditional methods. Still, my heart beats strongly for the ways traditional Chinese medicine approaches health and balance. That inevitably shows at times in the way I use the vihta — in both style and touch.
