Peter Seenan: Reflecting on sauna and sea swimming in winter
This weekend I visited my girlfriend’s family’s country cottage near Loviisa in Southern Finland, where to my surprise I had to smash through lake ice to have a refreshing swim after the sauna. In Helsinki I’m fortunate to live close […]
avantouinti, bastu, ice swimming, outdoor swimming, peter seenan, sauna, simning, winter swimming
A letter to the sea
I’m guilty of being a romantic; intrigued by and longing for the next bend in the road, the brow of a hill, the dunes beyond the headland and the lands at the end of the horizon. Of all that there […]
hälsa, Helsingfors, helsingfors centrum, outdoor swimming, peter seenan, simning
The beginning of the line for the mindfulness industry
You might have read the story last week about the enterprising Japanese commuter who sold his seat on one of Tokyo’s notoriously crowded trains. Every morning he begins his journey from the outer metropolitan area of the world’s largest city, […]
Ice swimming: fear and discomfort then elation
In one of my first jobs in Finland people laughed at me when I told them ice swimming was one of my hobbies. ”It’s for old people”, they chortled. Over the years Finns have looked at me shocked and exclaimed that […]
avantouinti, bastu, hälsa, ice swimming, outdoor swimming, peter seenan, sauna, simning, winter swimming
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