Founder Duke Klauck introduces the philosophy behind Ten Thousand Waves — Japanese Adobe architecture, the practice of omotenashi, and forty-five years spent building a bathing culture in the mountains above Santa Fe.

In Tampere, the Sauna Capital of the World, host Francis Mathews travels through the city’s sauna culture to understand what makes Tampere worthy of its title. From public saunas to local traditions, the film explores how sauna shapes daily life, identity, and community in Finland’s sauna capital.

Across Minnesota's North Shore and Iron Range, sauna carries the imprint of Finnish immigration that began more than a century ago. In Ely, the Ely Steam Sauna has run as a public, steam-operated bathhouse for over a hundred years, passed down through generations of the same community. Nearby, at...

Sauna Channel presents a cinematic exploration into the heart of Moroccan social life with "The Changing World of Moroccan Hammams." The film bridges the gap between the technical preservation of historic structures and the preservation of the Moroccan soul.
Architect Rachid Haloui, a heritage co...

Yuval Zohar, an architect living in Japan and author of the book Towards a Nude Architecture, has visited more than 120 onsen across the country over fifteen years, documenting each with photographs and sketches. His research led him to Dogo Onsen in Matsuyama, one of Japan's oldest, with a recor...

Near Borobudur, the ninth-century Buddhist temple in Central Java, hosts Nisa and Amelia take part in a ritual rooted in Kejawen, the island's ancient spiritual tradition in which water carries away what a person no longer needs. Guided through the ceremony known as mitoni urip, they enter a spri...

This episode moves between two bathing sites in Central Java. The first is a natural hot spring reached on foot through forest, its water near 40 degrees Celsius, where local visitors keep soaks to roughly ten to thirty minutes and return for the quiet rather than the more crowded pool nearby. Th...

An hour outside Bandung, hosts Nisa and Amelia hike through forest to what locals still call Cibuni, Sundanese for a hidden or special place, now more commonly known as Rengganis Crater after Dewi Rengganis. At Sumber, a pilgrimage site where visitors come to pray, the spring called Si Jalatuna r...

At Burning Man, a camp known for its steam room has grown over seven years into one of Black Rock City's rituals, built around a Japanese wood-fired water heater retrofitted with a propane insert to turn it into what one builder calls a self-contained desert steam room. Visitors, some carrying th...