SAUNA IN ITS
TRUEST FORM.

Nude & Clothing-Optional

THE TRADITION

In much of Europe, this is just sauna.

For most of the world that grew up around sauna, bathing without textiles isn't a statement, it's hygiene. Swimwear isn't built to breathe, and its synthetic fibres hold chemicals, sweat and bacteria. In real heat those plastics break down, and all of it ends up on the benches, in the cold plunge, and back on the skin of everyone bathing. Bare skin against towel and wood is simply cleaner, and the heat moves across the body the way it's meant to.

It's also the great leveller. Stripped of labels and logos, there's no telling the banker from the bricklayer, only people sharing the same heat. The self-consciousness most of us carry tends to dissolve somewhere in the first few minutes: when everyone is a little exposed, no one is. People leave a touch kinder to themselves, having quietly realised the room was never studying them at all.

We make room for it gently: single-sex nights to ease in, Men's Wellbeing Tuesdays 7–9pm and Women's Wellbeing Thursdays 7–9pm; a calm daytime session for mums and their little ones, Mums & Bubs fortnightly Tuesday 12–2pm; and a monthly mixed session with Get Naked Australia, Birthday Suit last Sunday 10am–3pm. Nudity is for the sauna and cold plunge; the rest areas stay clothed.

Bathers sharing a relaxed moment together in the sauna at Blue Mountains Sauna A bather relaxing in the sauna at dusk at Blue Mountains Sauna

THE SESSIONS

Find your bench.

A man relaxing in the sauna during a men's wellbeing session

TUESDAYS · 7–9PM

Men's Wellbeing

A single-sex evening for men, easy company and honest conversation. Drop the act, settle into the heat, and go at your own pace among others doing the same.

Women relaxing together in felt hats during a women's wellbeing session

THURSDAYS · 7–9PM

Women's Wellbeing

A single-sex evening for women, and the ease that comes with it. Bathe at your own pace, with nothing to prove and no one to perform for, just good heat and good company.

A mum and her toddler together in the sauna

FORTNIGHTLY · TUE 12–2PM

Mums & Bubs

A gentle, cooler daytime session for mums and bubs. This is a perfect way to introduce your little ones to sauna culture, in the easy company of other mothers.

Birthday Suit nude sauna session with Get Naked Australia

LAST SUNDAY OF THE MONTH · 10AM–3PM

Birthday Suit

Our monthly mixed, fully nude session in collaboration with Get Naked Australia. Body-positive, respectful and entirely non-sexual, and far more natural than it sounds.

BOOK A SESSION

Birthday Suit sessions are by registration-only, see how to join below.

NEED TO KNOW

A few simple rules.

  • Clothed in the rest areas.
  • No skin touches the wood, always sit on your towel.
  • Phones stay in the locker.
  • Eyes up, no one came here to be looked over.

We hold the room together. Look out for one another, and our team is never far if you need them.

FULL SAUNA ETIQUETTE

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH GET NAKED AUSTRALIA

Birthday Suit Sessions

Bathers raising towels in the sauna during a Birthday Suit session at Blue Mountains Sauna

Birthday Suit is our monthly mixed-gender, fully nude sauna session, run in partnership with Get Naked Australia, the country's largest body-positive community.

Get Naked Australia is a movement built on a simple idea: nudity in everyday, non-sexual settings is healthy, normal, and good for the way we see ourselves. They bring people together at beaches, bushwalks, pools and events around the country, challenging shame and celebrating every kind of body. Birthday Suit is the regular sauna chapter of that movement.

The atmosphere is relaxed, respectful and entirely non-sexual, and we keep it that way on purpose. Every place is confirmed through a booking request, so each room stays balanced and everyone in it is there for the right reasons. New to it? The easiest way in is alongside someone, a partner or a close friend, or once you've found your feet at one of our single-sex wellbeing nights. Nude in the sauna and cold plunge, clothed in the rest areas, the same as every other session.

JOINING A SESSION

How to join.

  1. 01

    Register once

    Birthday Suit sessions are by registration-only. Fill in the form once, your name, contact and a couple of expectations, and you're on the GNA list.

  2. 02

    Request a booking

    When a session opens we email the list to announce that booking requests are open. Send yours through via the booking request form.

  3. 03

    Wait for confirmation

    Our team confirms places to keep every session balanced across genders. Priority goes to previous Birthday Suit attendees, men's and women's wellbeing regulars, and couples or friends attending together.

  4. 04

    Purchase your passes

    Confirmed spots are pre-purchased to secure them. No-shows throw out the gender balance we work hard to hold, so a booking is a real commitment.

  5. 05

    Show up

    You're now part of changing the culture around nudity in Australia, one nude sweat at a time.