Australia’s once limited sauna options have recently expanded, with openings around the country – though not everyone is ready to sweat fully nude
haun Boggan knows he isn’t the stereotypical wellness consumer. The 45-year-old tradie moved to Australia more than a decade ago from Scotland, a place where “people are more interested in going to the chip shop than they are taking care of themselves”. But after his father died, Boggan found himself drinking heavily. In search of a healthier habit, he started going to a new Finnish-style sauna that had opened near his home in the Blue Mountains in New South Wales.
Miltiadou says European culture “is epic” for social connectedness. But, in Australia, saunas “would be little additions to a gym, or they would be in an aquatic centre, and that’s about it. And with that came no real understanding of the sauna etiquette behind it.” “There’s always been a lot of people really interested in saunas – I think social media has just made it much more mainstream,” Reeves says.built on a pontoon in Tasmania, where guests dip into the 8C waters of Lake Derby to cool off. It opened in mid-2020 and “became an overnight Instagram sensation”.
“Australians are no different, as humans, to Europeans,” he says. “After the first 30 seconds, it’s completely natural to be sitting there sharing the experience with complete strangers … And Australians have not held back, really.” That assessment comes with caveats. Sitting in the sauna won’t improve your bone density, your muscle strength or help you burn any meaningful number of calories, Steward says – for all of that, you will actually need to exercise. But there is, he says, initial evidence from Scandinavia that suggests regular long-term sauna use can reduce substantially the risk of cardiovascular disease.
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