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
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9:00 Welcome to Global Sauna Culture
9:10 Aromen Opening Presentation
9:30 PANEL - When everything is a sauna, nothing is a sauna
10:00 BREAK ☕️
10:30 Julia Van der Velde
Heat, Sweat and Belonging: Inside Oslo’s Floating Sauna Culture
11.00 Bjørnar Haveland & Erlend Klette
The community is the asset: how grassroot saunas become social infrastructure worth investing in
11:30 PANEL - The blessings and limitations of non-profit saunas
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 - Nudity in new contexts
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 - The role of the sauna guide
Sauna & Health
Langhuset
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9:20 Welcome to Sauna & Health
9:30Therme 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 - Sauna lab vs. sauna life: Does sauna science reflect sweating in the real world?
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 - Just hot, or hot + cold: What does the science really say?
Architecture, Technology & Sustainability
Pyramiden
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09:50 Welcome to Architecture, Technology and Sustainability
10:00 Narvi Opening Presentation
10:30 PANEL - The Floating Sauna Revolution: Challenges and opportunities
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 - Saunas that last: Sustainable saunas in high maintenance environments
13:00 LUNCH BREAK
14:00 Raoul Grünstein
Nordic Well-being on the Waterfront
14:30 Øystein Rø & August Borge Harbo
Improving ocean ecosystems through floating saunas
15:00 Christie Pearson
Necessary Excess: Rethinking Energy in Bathing Design
15:30 BREAK ☕️
16:00 PANEL - The future of sauna architecture
Sauna LIVE @ Árdna
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In partnership with:
Welcome to Sauna Live at Árdna!
During ISC26, the massive 90-seater theater sauna at SALT designed by architect Sami Rintala, will be turned into a stage for live interviews with some of the most exciting congress speakers and guests, hosted by your favorite sauna podcasts.
On the big screen, ISC26 partners Sauna Channel will show some of its most epic sweat bathing productions from around the world, including the premiere of a brand new documentary about the Norwegian badstue boom.
Feel the sweat while seeing and hearing some of the sauna world’s most prominent personalities! It gives you a “behind the sweat” experience that only International Sauna Congress can provide.
Naustet Sauna Library
Book talks and bookstore:
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Sauna program
Sauna rituals and experiences across 10 saunas:
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