At Bruflat Sauna, which has run continuously since 1952 without ever going private, an 83-year-old member recalls being there on opening day, seventy-six years ago. Originally built so local schoolchildren could wash before the weekend at a time when the area had no showers or running water, Bruf...

Tampere holds more public saunas than any other city in Finland, and this film moves through them the way locals do — from Rajaportin, where one bather recalls his first löyly as a boy, to Rauhaniemi, a lakeside sauna community members describe mourning in advance of its renovation. In Hämeenkyrö...

Sailing & Saunas follows a crew navigating the southwest coast of Finland's archipelago by boat, stopping at six islands accessible only by water. On Elisaari, they meet Samuel Aarnio (co-host of the Perfect Sweat series and producer behind several award winning Sauna Channel films including the ...

In February 1981, Duke Klauck opened Ten Thousand Waves after years spent living out of a van, seeking out hot springs across the U.S. and Mexico. What he built combines what he calls "Japanese Adobe" — an architecture drawn from both the American Southwest and Japan, shaped by a philosophy he fi...

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 c...