As temperatures drop into the teens, Minnesotans have embraced sauna culture for warmth and community. Devotees say the state’s sauna mania is about more than sweat and snow.
Minnesota ns are finding health and community in the traditional Finnish ritual as the winter freeze sets in. Sauna enthusiasts Jeff Tait, Emily Scribner-O’Pray, Darcy Sudderth, Miki Mosman and Igor Rudenko share a 75-minute session in a Saunable mobile sauna at Lebanon Hills Regional Park in Eagan, Minn., Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024. Jeff Tait, of Hastings, Minn. ,cools off after a session in a Saunable mobile sauna at Lebanon Hills Regional Park in Eagan, Minn., Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024.
A typical temperature to achieve the holy trinity of the sauna experience — heat, steam and ventilation — is about 180 to 200 degrees Fahrenheit , a temperature that starkly contrasts with Minnesota’s frigid winter weather.While sauna truisms such as this provide some degree of uniformity, there is also leeway for personal preference.
People in Finland say there are more saunas than cars, Juntunen said. When immigrants like his grandfather came to Minnesota to work in the mines, mills or docks, they would often save up to build a farmhouse. But they would build a sauna first, living in the space while the main house was under construction. Later on, saunas would serve as informal town centers.
“It just makes you feel good,” Ed Kranz said. “After a round of sauna, you sleep like a baby that night.” In this way, technology has been a paradox for sauna culture, he added. Digital media helped sauna culture grow at the same time as saunas were billed as reprieves from the pervasive reach of technology over every facet of daily life.Almost all of sauna culture’s adherents say its rise is inextricably linked to a desire for community.
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