Some articles and videos that will start you down the sauna rabbit hole.
A Finnish man makes a video about his 30 days of sauna at a cabin by a lake in Finland. Spoiler alert: he reconnects with nature and himself.
Steam of Life – “The best sauna movie anyone’s ever likely to see”
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/steamoflife
GQ Magazine was ahead of the curve of sauna renaissnce in the US with this article from March 2019: In Search of the Perfect Sauna
A brief tour of saunas in Finland written in the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/24/travel/sauna-of-the-month-club.html
In December 2020, sauna was added to the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/18/saunas-to-sourdough-unesco-updates-culture-heritage-list
The Bare Facts about Sauna from the “This is Finland” website. Funny anecdotes about foreigners in the sauna in Finland.