Driven by passion
We gather around heat because we always have.
Around fire, steam, and breath.
This is not about trends or performance.
It’s about ritual.
About stepping out of the noise and into something older, slower, and more honest.
The Vermont Sauna Festival is a temporary village…
built of wood and water, sweat and stillness, strangers and friends. A place where cold sharpens the senses, heat softens the edges, and community forms naturally in between.
Here, sauna is a practice of care.
For the body.
For the land.
For one another.
We believe wellness is not something you consume;
it’s something you share.
Come as you are.
Move at your own pace.
Listen to your body.
Let the heat do what it’s always done:
remind you that you belong.
Welcome to the village.
Welcome to the Vermont Sauna Festival.
Meet The Crew
At Northern Kin Sauna Co., we create welcoming spaces for busy humans to pause, exhale, and return to what matters. Through the ancient ritual of sauna, we remove barriers to meaningful connection.
Northern Kin
SAVU
With three Vermont locations, SAVU offers unique outdoor sauna experiences, featuring signature aromatherapy and mindful design; immersive moments that warm the body, calm the mind, and foster community through heat.
Stella Blue
One day, while sweating in a sauna, Stella Blue Sauna Co. was born. Meet Norris and Nicole. Local Vermonters who want to bring unique wellness experiences to other likeminded Vermonters and visitors.
FIKA
Fika Sauna offers intimate, Scandinavian-inspired outdoor sauna experiences in Huntington, Vermont. With beautiful pastoral and hillside views, a high degree of privacy, and situated beside a pond, FIKA provides an additional sense of tranquility and relaxation.
Sunnywood Sauna
Sunnywood Saunas brings Finnish-style saunas to Northern Vermont, offering mobile wood-burning experiences that promote wellness, relaxation, recovery, and stress relief, whether at home, work, or amidst Vermont’s natural adventures.
Brattleboro Sauna
Brattleboro Sauna, created by Allison and Marco, was born sweating in a sauna. It fosters community and connection, especially during Vermont winters, offering warmth, togetherness, and respite from seasonal isolation.
Dr. Rob Williams
Dr. Rob Williams is the Head of Education at Nordic Wellness, championing breath training and cold plunging for optimizing human health and wellness. To learn more about our Nordic University online course offerings, Nordic Wave Viking fleet of cold plunge vessels, and Nordic Flow breath training APP, visit www.nordicflow.io
Sarah Spoto
Sarah Spoto is a European trained and certified sauna master, Aufguss Master, and the founder of Badii, a Swiss-inspired thermal bathing community. Sarah also hosts a podcast called Badii Talk: Thermal Bathing & Sauna Culture where she dives deep into the global bathing world.
Grace Edmunds
Grace is a UK-trained Sauna Master and Finnish-trained Sauna Healer and owner of Kin Ritual and Northern Kin Sauna, one of Vermont’s first mobile saunas. Grace guides Aufguss rituals and nature-centered Saunotus healing ceremonies, grounded in over a decade of meditation and embodiment facilitation as a mindfulness teacher trainer and women’s retreat leader.