Welcome to day one of the world’s largest sauna event! We have an exciting program full of the interesting presentations, fantastic speakers and plenty of sauna activities - find all the details here.
Friday
Friday program at a glance
08:30 - 17:00 Congress and Sauna program at SALT Art & Music
18:00 Floating Sauna Night on the Oslo waterfront
Global Sauna Culture
Arktiske
Sponsored by:
9:00 Welcome to Global Sauna Culture
9:10 Aromen Opening Presentation
9:30 PANEL - coming soon
10:00 BREAK ☕️
10:30 Julia Van der Velde
Heat, Sweat and Belonging: Inside Oslo’s Floating Sauna Culture
11:30 PANEL - coming soon
12:00 LUNCH BREAK
13:00 Kaarina Kailo
Sauna, Sweat lodge and Ancient Cosmovisions of Healing
13:30 Roseanna Cooney & Tim Jago
Sacred stories: healing in Sweat rituals & 3000 years of Sweatbathing in Ireland
14:00 PANEL - coming soon
14:30 BREAK ☕️
15:00 Laura Foon
Sauna Beyond Wellness - Reawakening the Cultural Foundations of Finnish Sauna Practices
15:30 Birute Masiliauskiene
The Rise of the Sauna Guide: Bringing Touch and Interaction Back to Public Saunas
16:00 PANEL - coming soon
Sauna & Health
Langhuset
Sponsored by:
9:20 Welcome to Sauna & Health
9:30 Therme Group Opening Presentation
10:00 Earric Lee
70 years of sauna research: Who, where, when, what, how, and why we need to know
10:30 BREAK ☕️
11:00 Karolina Wiell
Sweating for the Future: How Sauna Bathing Shaped Modern Sweden
11:30 Thomas O`Connell
Mapping the Science of Sauna: Trends from the Past and Directions for the Future
12:00 PANEL - coming soon
12:30 LUNCH BREAK
13:30 Naoki Yoshioka
An Integrated Model of Sauna and Enzyme Bath: A Pilot Intervention Study in Healthy Adults and Its Application to Preventive Medicine
14:00 Hannah Pallubinsky
The effect of sauna and cold baths on glucose homeostasis and cardiometabolic health in healthy overweight adults – a study setup and preliminary results
14:30 Veerle De Haan
Cardiometabolic effects of isolated and combined heat and cold therapy: findings of a hybrid narrative and systematic review
15:00 BREAK ☕️
15:30 Steven Lewis
Sauna and the Premier League Footballer
16:00 PANEL - coming soon
Architecture, Technology & Sustainability
Pyramiden
Sponsored by:
09:50 Welcome to Architecture, Technology and Sustainability
10:00 Narvi Opening Presentation
10:30 PANEL - coming soon
11:00 BREAK ☕️
11:30 Anssi Lassila
The Sauna Path – Sauna as a Ritual
12:00 Sami Rintala
Geographical Growth and Renaissance of Sauna
12:30 PANEL - coming soon
13:00 LUNCH BREAK
14:00 Raoul Grünstein
Nordic Well-being on the Waterfront
15:00 Christie Pearson
Necessary Excess: Rethinking Energy in Bathing Design
15:30 BREAK ☕️
16:00 PANEL - coming soon
Sauna LIVE @ Árdna
Co-sponsored by:
In partnership with:
Live podcast interviews, film screenings, discussions and culture:
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Naustet Sauna Library
Book talks and bookstore:
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Sauna program
Sauna rituals and experiences across 10 saunas:
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