I’m a sauna woman, but I’m also a psychologist and a therapist. Passing on the traditions of the Estonian smoke sauna in the sauna room, with a drum in one hand, salt and ash honey in the other, and spells and sauna words on my lips, I sometimes can’t think that my sauna work differs much from the way I support people as a psychologist and therapist.
The sauna is a profoundly sacred space, an ancient Estonian place of meditation, a meeting point of timelines, a cosmic vehicle of travel. And where does this sauna take you? A place to meet yourself, to relax to the cellular level and to reconnect with wholeness and body wisdom, joy and the power of creation. In the sauna you can put an end to the old, in the sauna you can powerfully initiate the new.
Having returned to my roots, I have received my sauna teachings from sauna mother Eda Veeroja. Today, I am proud to say that I am the bearer of the ancient tradition and cosmic power of the smoke sauna, and a reminder of this powerful common spiritual heritage to all who wish to know.
