What is a sauna?
A sauna is a room that is heated by a wood-burning or electric stove. There is a stone nest on top of the stove, on top of which water, or steam called “löyly”, is thrown when the stove has warmed up to the desired degree. When you are in the sauna, you will feel sweat running down your body just by sitting and enjoying yourself. Your cheeks are already red from the heat, and you like the feeling, as it relaxes your whole body and muscles. You throw more steam called löyly into the stove so that the temperature in the sauna becomes even hotter and your body starts to sweat even more. When you are at a point where the sauna feels good but too hot, it’s time to get up from the benches, and go out of the sauna to cool off until you go to the sauna again, and you repeat the above things, or you decide to take a shower and stop going to the sauna for the day.
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