08/12/2025
Wood fired sauna 🔥🔥
In 2025 saunas seem to be everywhere in Scotland and for good reason. The highlands seemed a perfect setting to relax after a day exploring and experience an outdoor rainfall shower with a view 🚿🌄
The outdoor shower seemed nostalgic of camp showers we’d hang on trees my siblings and I were kids. This tree was old and dying anyway and my dad found a perfect excuse to create a rainfall shower from it.
Construction started of this in Spring 2023 and only took 3 days with some hard work from Clare, Gregor, Lorna and Doug.
🇫🇮In traditional Finnish culture, a sauna experience is typically broken into cycles (10-30 mins) of heating up (sauna) and cooling down (cold shower and rest to bring down your core temperature). 🇫🇮
Key benefits of this include:
💚Stress reduction
💚Improvement on your cardiovascular health
💚 Accelerated muscle and joint relief (especially good after a day on the hills 🏞️)
This sauna can get up to 100°C, with the option to add as much water as preferred onto the stones if you prefer a more humid heat. The kiln dried wood is super easy to light and keeps heat for a long time.
But my favourite feature by far is the immersive sound of the wood crackling and the aroma of burning wood, as you ease into the heat 🧘🏻♀️
