My Favourite Thing to Do in a Sauna
One of my favourite things to do in a sauna, is to attend what we call an 'opgieting' - Germans call it 'Aufguss', which literally means 'pouring on'. I've heard it compared to the Finnish 'löyly', but I understand that has a much wider definition, and I've never been to Finland, that's still on my wish list of destinations. Anyway, what's an 'opgieting'? People gather in a sauna with a good temperature, usually around 90 degrees Celsius. During a session of at least 15 minutes, a sauna master pours water scented with essential oils on the stones of the heater, and starts to distribute the resulting steam through the sauna. Different methods of doing this are employed - most often with a towel sometimes with a fan, or a banner. And most sauna masters try to reach every single person in the sauna with their towel movements, so that everyone feels the result. Image by Ulrike Leone (pixabay.com) What makes it such an interesting exp