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Sauna Rituals and Aufguss Training

Sauna heat is a commodity. Sauna experience isn't.

Curate the experiences that build community and belonging.

We train sauna and Aufguss practitioners and venue teams at your sauna. From a first foundations workshop, to a signature ritual built for your venue, and taught to your team until it's theirs.

About us

Sauna Training

For venues, and for individuals.

We keep the offer simple. Tell us what you need for a quote.

For venues

For venues

Foundations Workshop

A full-day introduction to the craft for your team: heat, scent, towel technique, the arc of a session. No experience required.

For venues

Team Training & Rituals Design

Team training and ritual design, on site. Staff upskilling and a signature ritual built for your venue, with a quarterly refresh option.

For individuals

For individuals

Foundations Workshop

A half-day introduction to the craft: heat, scent, towel technique, the arc of a session. No experience required.

For individuals

Sauna Master Training

A multi-session program built on global sauna master craft standards. From enthusiast to practitioner who can run a session end to end. Minimum towelling experience required.

For sauna & bath houses

Why train your team.

A sauna master is the reason sauna visitors stay, come back, and bring their friends. It's the role, shaped over centuries.

  1. 1

    Artisan Of Steam

    Heat, steam and löyly, done right, create a relaxing, and safe environment.

  2. 2

    Sauna Benefits Ambassador

    Promotes the health benefits of sauna, turning them into your venue's own signature ritual.

  3. 3

    Builds The Community

    A person the regulars trust with their health-building time, and want to come back to.

About

Our residency at The Ice Bath Club.

~1 yrRunning residency at Ice Bath Club
840+Aufguss guests in 1 year
1stAufguss practitioner in Singapore

Sauna Academy trains Aufguss practitioners, sauna and bathing-ritual teams for operators across Singapore and South East Asia. The approach is built on sauna craft standards: rituals design and choreography, heat and steam control, scent sequencing, sauna tools and the full arc of sauna sessions.

Our founder, Yana, grew up inside Finnish, Kazakhstani and Eastern European sauna culture, surrounded by the art of steam, löyly and the birch whisk. She brought the craft of sauna rituals to Singapore in 2025 — the first to run Aufguss here. She trained under Aufguss champions in Japan: Hiroyuki Okami, Riku Suzuki and Tetsuya Nagai — and built her residency at Ice Bath Club, shaping the first Aufguss movement in Southeast Asia.

The social sauna at Ice Bath Club, mid-session

We exist to preserve the sauna traditions, and to train the next generation of practitioners to carry them forward.

“What an experience! I have never been in a room so hot, and I certainly felt my toxins leaving my body with every sweat. I loved how Yana had explained the why, and origins and how it would help my body so clearly and with passion. Wow, this is certainly a session to remember.”— Nina D., TIBC founding member

FAQ

A few things worth explaining.

An Aufguss master creates aroma-infused steam, through various techniques, then uses a towel to sculpt and circulate the resulting heat wave through the room in a choreographed sequence, building intensity, then release. Done well, it is craft, ritual, performance and a multi-sensory experience at once.

Löyly is the Finnish word for the burst of steam released when water is poured onto hot sauna stones — and, more broadly, for the spirit and atmosphere of the sauna itself.

We provide training on Aufguss, löyly, whisking and parenie.

Start with our Foundations Workshop — a full-day introduction to the craft with no experience required, open to individuals and venue teams alike.

Yes, we train both. Team Training & Rituals Design is built specifically for venues, on site. Our individual programs are designed for those who aspire to become sauna masters, or simply want to learn more about sauna craft and traditions.

Aufguss is where we started, but the craft we teach spans the wider sauna and banya tradition — including whisking, parenie and löyly.

Get in touch

Tell us what you need.