{"id":135302,"date":"2026-02-16T17:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T17:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/135302\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T17:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T17:59:09","slug":"largest-sauna-festival-in-us-takes-over-nyc-what-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/135302\/","title":{"rendered":"Largest Sauna Festival In US Takes Over NYC: What To Know"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK CITY \u2014 The largest sauna festival made its way to New York City this weekend. <\/p>\n

Culture of Bathe-ing transforms Domino Park in Williamsburg into an immersive, open-air bathing environment, the first of its kind event and largest ever staged in the United States, event organizers told Patch. <\/p>\n

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The festival includes seventeen distinct saunas to experience and more than 1,000 guided sessions over led by internationally renowned Aufguss World Champions and bathing practitioners from New York favorites including Bathhouse, Othership, and the Russian and Turkish Baths.<\/p>\n

Pioneer Works, Brooklyn\u2019s leading center for experimental art and performance, curated the festival’s additional programming with live performances and immersive art to create a new kind of social and sensory environment titled, Hot Bodies. <\/p>\n

The program also includes free, public events alongside ticketed workshops during NYC\u2019s spring break week, led by organizations and artists including Aziwke Mohamed of Black Painters Academy, Samer Ghadry of Tone Center, and the Amateur Astronomers Association.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBathing is at the start of a cultural wave, think yoga in the \u201990s or coffee in the \u201980s,\u201d Robert Hammond, co-founder of the High Line and President of Therme Group US, told Patch. \u201cBathhouses are going to be in every neighborhood. We want to make sure the cultural part of bathing isn\u2019t washed away by the wellness trends.\u201d<\/p>\n

The village festival grounds are open to the public, with free public experiences and workshops scheduled throughout the run. The festival\u2019s sauna experiences are ticketed, with sessions priced from $60\u2013$125 based on time and day, organizers said. More than 1,000 complimentary tickets will be released to the public. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe are excited to partner with Therme\u2019s sauna festival at Domino Park to bring talks, rituals, workshops and performances into the bathhouse,\u201d Gabriel Florenz, Founding Artistic & Executive Director at Pioneer Works, told Patch. \u201cOur joint program, Hot Bodies, creates a space for embodied exploration, using heat as both a medium and metaphor to deepen how we feel, listen, and relate. In this unconventional space, we\u2019re exploring how gathering in close proximity can open up forms of presence and connection.\u201d<\/p>\n

Culture of Bathe-ing<\/a> will run through March 1. Tickets are now available at cultureofbathe-ing.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK CITY \u2014 The largest sauna festival made its way to New York City this weekend. Culture…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":{"0":"post-135302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-city-news","12":"tag-ny"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}