While a dry sauna helps us sweat, the key benefit of steam is how it allows us to soften tense muscles and ease aching joints. Here’s how the hammam’s benefits on the skin and body can help hold and carry us through winter.

A creative response to the Bathhouse by Resident Prune Noah daCosta on the theme of rest and belonging.

At Sense Of Self, we deeply value cultivating conversations between creativity, culture and community. Noah daCosta is a cross-disciplinary artist who champions these in his everyday: a cultural communicator, podcaster, video-maker, poet and professional ‘yapper’.

Your ritual for unwinding is subjective, and entirely your own, but we can provide some information on the benefits of both dry and wet heat to help inform your decision making.

Nestled along the icy shores of the Baltic Sea, Helsinki’s sauna culture is a time-honoured tradition that continues to thrive in the heart of Finland’s capital. As home to the most saunas per capita anywhere in the world, here, the use of saunas is embedded into the fabric of the city itself.

The last five years have seen a growing movement toward community—people from all walks of life coming together in search of belonging, connection, and happiness.

We are back with edition three of our Creative Conversation series, a space to learn more about our community, dive into the rituals, creative lives and bathing habits of artists, writers and creatives we admire. This time, we sat down with James Whiting, photographer and artist.

While the idea of ‘wellbeing’ is supposed to help us move away from destructive behaviours and move toward a healthier, happier version of ourselves – the commercialisation of what makes us well could be doing the opposite.

The bathhouse invites you to come as you are and take what you need. Building a little slowness and gentle immersion into our routine can create a feeling of spaciousness, but how do you hang on to this feeling?

We are back with edition three of our Creative Conversation series, a space to learn more about our community, dive into the rituals, creative lives and bathing habits of artists, writers and creatives we admire. This time, we sat down with Allee Richards, author, theatre producer and avid swimmer.

In Italy, bathing's ancient past is always present

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Existing outside of where we live and where we work, ‘third spaces’ allow us to be a version of ourselves untethered to responsibilities and ideals.

Reasons to relax and unwind in Melbourne’s biggest bathhouse.

Gifting experiences instead of things. In the age of feeling ‘time poor’, to give someone time together might be one of the greatest gifts of all. 

This little guide to cold plunging has been written to add to the knowledge you can draw from your own body.

Looking beyond the introvert-extrovert binary offers a refreshing perspective – that we can draw from each at any given moment.

We are back with edition two of our Creative Conversation series, a space to learn more about our community, dive into the rituals, creative lives and bathing habits of artists, writers and creatives we admire. This time, we sat down with María Angelico is an award-winning actor, writer and artist

On technology, burnout and what the concept of 'yutori' can teach us about embracing a few hours away from screens.

Introducing our Creative Conversation Series. We love learning more about our community, and we started this series to dive into the rituals, creative lives and bathing habits of artists, writers and creatives we admire.