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At the Knepp Estate Rewilding Project, West Sussex

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Nordic-style wood-fired sauna, at the famous re-wilded Knepp Estate in Sussex

Our Saunas

Our Sauna Sessions

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    Wild Weekday Sauna

    Seat on the bench with other members of the sauna community, total 8 seats.

    Come with a friend, or come alone and chat to others, or share silence. Included is option to wild swim at your own risk in the wild swimming pond just moments from the sauna.

    £16pp

    This is takes place in Gaia, our new 8 seater sauna

    Book 55 min Sauna Seat
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    Weekend Wild Sauna

    Choice of 2 options:

    Signature Weekend Sauna : Deeply relaxing and therapeutic 75min elongated session, includes a complementary ginger shot.

    £25pp

    Express Weekend Sauna: Seat on the bench for a simple 55min sauna

    Both take place in Gaia, our new 8 seater sauna.

    £18pp

    Book Weekend Sauna
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    Events

    Explore Our Events

    Discover a wide range of unique and transformative experiences in our Events section. All include a rejuvenating sauna alongside breathwork and sound baths, yoga and cacao rituals , and much more—there’s something for everyone.

    Explore our Events
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    Private Hire of Tara our original 5/6 seater sauna

    Private, exclusive hire of our smaller sauna, Tara, who can seat 5 comfortably.
    For private hire you may bring up to 6 people. Included in the price is a 75 min private sauna and access to the wild swimming pond/showers.

    Add a detoxifying face mask, ginger shots or rehydration drink for extra pampering at check out. Please note use of wild swimming pond is unsupervised and at your own risk.

    Book Private Hire

Nature

Sauna is nature. It is such a natural experience, including all 4 elements. Especially at our location at Knepp Wildland, where nature has been restored to it’s prime.

There are no chemicals in our sauna, just wood, fire, air and water, and your body loves heat.

Why have a sauna?

A wooden sauna interior with a metal bucket and two wooden ladles placed on a wooden bench near a small window.
A peaceful river scene with two ducks swimming near the shore, surrounded by green trees and tall grasses under a partly cloudy sky.

Connection

Book privately with friends, or try a community slot.

In a time where people feel isolated and lonely, the sauna is a great place to connect with friends and strangers. Sauna often creates an enthusiastic community of regulars.

Sauna is the new pub! A healthy and relaxing way to spend time with friends, try a sauna for a night out with a difference! Share a conversation, or enjoy some restorative silence.

A mobile sauna with a corrugated metal exterior, wooden accents, and a large window, situated in a grassy field with trees in the background and chairs nearby under a clear blue sky.
A row of four hanging felted wool hats on a wooden wall, two of which are cream-colored with red stitching, and two are dark gray with stitched patterns.

Wellness

Sauna is SO good for you!

It’s about relaxing of course, but it has also been scientifically proven to improve:

  • cardiovascular health and improved circulation. Sauna has effect on heart of moderate cardiovascular exercise

  • reduce inflammation for any types of inflammatory conditions in particular arthritis and joint pain

  • reduced pain

  • improve mood, sleep and help with stress management

  • enhance your immune system

  • known in Finland as ‘poor man’s pharmacy’, a cure all for any ailment

Two women enjoying a sauna. One is sitting on a bench with a towel around her waist, wearing a green top and a cream-colored head covering, drinking from a wooden cup. The other woman, in a black swimsuit, is sitting on a towel on the floor, smiling
Two people exchanging a wooden bowl with lemon slices on it.
A woman in a green bathing suit standing outdoors, smiling, holding a net below a large water bucket on a stand, with water spilling out.
Two people, a man and a woman, are standing behind a window, both wearing Christmas hats and smiling or laughing.