How London became obsessed with saunas

For best results, “try the hot room and steam, a cold plunge, relaxing outdoors, breathing in fresh air, then repeat”, advises Mika Meskanen, co-founder and chair of the British Sauna Society, a non-profit association set up to promote sauna culture in the UK. “After three circuits or so, you will feel sublime. The Japanese have a word for this: ‘totonotta’ — roughly translating as ‘everything being set right’. This way you’ll get both heat and cold exposure benefits, a cardio workout, ‘happy’ hormones and the most tangible benefit of all: feeling relaxed.”

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