A bather ladles water onto the glowing stove at Blue Mountains Sauna as steam rises. A bather ladles water onto the glowing stove at Blue Mountains Sauna as steam rises.

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COVERAGE & ENQUIRIES

Where we've been featured, and how to reach us.

MEDIA ENQUIRIES

Writing about us?

Interview requests, on-location filming, fact-checking, happy to help. We can usually respond within 24 hours.

For the founding story, the path of public sauna culture in Australia, or anything to do with Aufguss, Savu, or the Australian Sauna Association, get in touch directly.

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Photo library & media kit

Hi-res images by Helen Flint (2026) and Declan Blackall (2024), plus our logo pack. Free for editorial use with credit. Browse the selects, or download the full library.

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SELECTED COVERAGE

In their words

Blue Mountains Sauna, Australia's first dedicated public Finnish sauna, has been covered by 18 publications and shows including The Guardian, Qantas Travel Insider, Broadsheet, Time Out Sydney, Concrete Playground, Harvia, Sauna from Finland, Spa & Clinic, What's New In Fitness, The Fold, Weekend Notes, Well Traveller, Wellness Retreats Magazine, Australian Traveller and Destination NSW, plus interviews on ABC Nightlife, The Upper Bench, and Sauna Twins · Finnmark. Founded in August 2022 in Leura, NSW by Inga Sommerfeld and Nikita Miltiadou.

PHOTO LIBRARY

The selects

Tap any image to enlarge. Download the Key Selects or the full library above. Please credit Helen Flint (2026) or Declan Blackall (2024) as shown.

  • Guests relaxing around the outdoor fire pit
  • Pouring water onto the smoke sauna stones
  • Two bathers by the outdoor fire pit
  • Saunameister shaking water from a whisk
  • The Aufguss sauna interior and stone heater
  • Guests relaxing outdoors with live music
  • Bather stepping onto the Savusauna benches
  • Sauna interior with a sunset window view
  • Adding essential oils to an ice bowl
  • Saunameister holding a wooden bowl of ice
  • Aufguss steam rising from the stones
  • Steam rising from the sauna chimney
  • Sauna etiquette sign by the washroom basins
  • Guests together on the sauna benches
  • Bather reclining on the deck at dusk
  • Two guests in the sauna
  • Saunameister smashing an ice ball over the heater
  • Stacking firewood beside the wood-fired stove
  • Feeding logs into the glowing stove
  • Family relaxing in robes on benches
  • Laying wool fibres at the workshop
  • Guests at the felt hat workshop
  • Guest smiling in a handmade felt hat
  • Bather in a robe with tea
  • Guests relaxing in towels at golden hour
  • Blue Mountains Sauna signage on timber
  • Placing an ice ball on the heater
  • Bathers relaxing by the mural at dusk