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When you book a sauna, the expectation is a calm, serene space where you can escape the everyday cacophony that leaves you drained. You step in, hoping the quiet, the heat, and the sweat will wash ...

If you’ve visited a typical European spa, you may well be familiar with Aufguss. Meaning ‘infusion’ in German, it’s a 15-minute ritual hosted by an Aufgussmeister in a large, shared sauna. Ice balls ...

Whenever I’m sitting in a sauna, my mind becomes inherently focused on the suffering I’m going through as my body’s temperature increases to rotisserie-chicken-cooking heights. This wasn’t the case at ...

On the hottest day in New York City in a decade, nearly a hundred people crowded into a hundred-and-seventy-degree sauna in a converted brewery in Williamsburg for the first U.S. National Aufguss ...

The sauna-set entertainment known as Aufguss has long been popular in Europe. Will Americans warm to the art form? In the “event sauna” of the Awana Spa in Las Vegas, tourists in bathing suits were ...

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