Elsewhere Sauna, Cygnet (2026)

13/01/2026

summer summer summer
I’m yours
I dropped my book in the creek
the pages are dog eared like my post swim hair
I wanna lie around
on sun warmed rocks
cast water on fire warmed rocks
sauna swim sauna swim sauna swim
read poems
that make my heart burst like a new bud
climb into the imagination of others
eat the colour blue (berries)
and wander about picking buzzies off my pants
haul backpacks
and dreams along forested paths
let the air shaped by the singing mouths of others
ripple my eardrums
milk tear drops from my dewy eyes
summer & sauna you are magico

meet you at the shoreline
sauna in the heat helps up build resilience for the hot days
here for you

Images from and moi x

$A new year arrives without asking for permission. It comes while the world feels loud, fractured, tender, unfinished and...$

06/01/2026

A new year arrives without asking for permission. It comes while the world feels loud, fractured, tender, unfinished and unjust. While the days are long and sunshine seeps into our hearts and lights up the spirit. And both.

We’re stepping into this threshold carrying a lot; grief, fatigue, hope, questions without edges alongside joy, raspberries heavy on the canes, luminous heavy moon over misty tree tops.

New cycles and news cycles. The ground shifts.

And still, the body keeps asking for care. For breath.
For a place to land.

Elsewhere exists for this pause.
 For the remembering that we are part of something older than urgency, slower than fear.

As we enter this year, we’re not chasing resolution. We’re choosing presence. Choosing to tend the nervous system. Choosing to gather, sweat, exhale, and return to ourselves and each other again and again.

May this year teach us how to stay soft without breaking.
 How to rest without turning away.
 How to begin, even here.

We welcome the year and as always are so grateful for this generous and generative community.

Here for you holding the heat.

Summer dates are on the calendar.
Taking some time out in February x

First and last image from Antoine Chretin

09/12/2025

A small new arrival in our shop this week: Australian wool, felted into simple, beautiful sauna hats—quiet companions to cradle your wild thoughts while you’re in the heat.

A sauna hat helps you stay longer, breathe steadier, and meet the warmth with more resilience. Your head is the highest point, the first to feel the rise of temperature—and your hair, without protection, can crisp and dry in the glow of the stones.

Plants have known this wisdom far longer than we have.
 Think of the eucalypt flower and its operculum: a tiny cap that shields the bloom from harsh sun, holds moisture close, and keeps insects guessing until it’s time to open.

Ingenious, right? Who wouldn’t want to learn from that kind of intelligence.

Hats are in stories and on the website (link in bio).
 Pick one up at your next session, or we’ll snail-mail it your way in time for the seasons gifting—with care, and a little extra warmth.

First pic of sauna friends from ._
The rest are in house

09/12/2025

We have some Australian wool felted sauna hats in the store so you can protect your precious head in the heat of sauna and temperature regulate with support. Sauna hats allow you to tolerate the heat with more resilience as your head is the highest point, while also protecting your hair from going crispy and drying out, a similar reason as to why eucalypt flowers have a cap - called a operculum. These caps protect the flowers from drying out and keep insects guessing until they are ready to bloom.

Plants are ingenious, who wouldn’t wanna mimic them?

Link is in the stories and on the website in le bio. You can collect them from us at your next session or we snail mail… with hugs.

29/11/2025

Saying goodbye to Taroona today after such an incredible season here on the sandy ocean big river banks of timtumili minanya… land of the Mouheneener people • Palawa country.

So grateful for the warm local welcome and generosity of everyone who visited for a steam and a swim and a yarn in between. The winter sunrise here is poetry, the way the cliffs bounce back all the colours of the sun as we rotate through space. The day the pod of seals play-fully stayed for hours, watching the gulls drop mussels on the rocks to snack. All these caterpillars and cup moths… and the wind. Oh the wildest wind.

This quote from Saul Williams ‘wind is the moons imagination… wandering’ has winnowed through my thoughts many a day, the tempestuous velocity, a friend shared how in Ayurveda the wind can at one end of the spectrum bring in fresh energy and creative ideas… and at the other be akin to dementia, a force that scatters making it hard to find focus. It’s been both and everything in between. Such a joy to get to live this time outside in all the weathers.

We will still be rolling out for sauna with the ever divine Drip Beach - come south and meet the shoreline.

Keep breathing while the days get busy and sun lingers long and it feels like time is quickening.

Hugs

01/11/2025

Thinking about the resilience, fortitude, strength, courage and leadership it takes to model change. I bow my head to the ongoing generosity in the face of adversity and the long vision and activism of First Nations People in so called Australia, I recognise how enlivening it is to have the news of a treaty in Victoria. This form of collective voice, advocacy and self determination will ripple out into the rest of this country.

Deep humility and hugs for everyone singing up, standing for and dreaming into other ways, tending to and drawing in possible alternative futures. Thank you for the ongoing cultural labour.

Here are some archival pics of elsewhere sauna gifting care for First Nations friends bodies and country.

Love and respect.

Pics from
Troy Melville of
And
captures of
and familia

always was always will be

26/10/2025

Thinking about things that make us human and other things that undo our humanity.

“When we feel squeezed, there’s a tendency for the mind to become small… We could be there feeling off guard, not knowing what to do, just hanging in there with the raw tender energy of the moment. This is the place where we begin to learn the meaning behind the concepts and the words”
Pema Chodron

We’re so used to running from discomfort, and we’re so predictable. When I feel overly civilised, domesticated and sheltered - disconnected from the world and myself, I find sitting with fire is one of those core actions that brings me back to my humanity. With sauna I often also feel discomfort. My edges & I experience a density to my body. Feel sensations. A warmth that permeates. And today a thrust in the ocean that can be at first intimidating and also invigorating. Thank you body, these limbs who carry me through this world, anchored with gravities kiss.

The heat of sauna promotes a relaxation response in the body, which in turn reduces stress levels, cascading towards rest-fullness and improved sleep. I think we can all agree, when we are deeply rested and less stressed we are more likely to have enough in the tank to pause and consider our response… how we might lean more in our humanity amidst the turbulence of modernity. That keeps coming. Like waves on the shore. Another day with the ocean as mentor.

26/10/2025

Thinking about things that make us human and other things that undo our humanity. Sitting next to a fire is one of those core actions that brings me back to my humanity. The heat of sauna promotes a relaxation response in the body, which in turn reduces stress levels, cascading to rest-fullness and improved sleep. I think we can all agree, when we are deeply rested and less stressed we are more likely to have enough in the tank to pause and consider how to respond… how we might be more in our humanity amidst the turbulence of modernity.

19/10/2025

🌬️🔥🌀 sauna session g1v3^way 🌀🔥🌬️
A love note disguised as a gift. Thanks to all of you wrapped in steam. 
Elsewhere started as a dream of hosting climate conversations, to sweat through ecological grief, a sanctuary to meet the ache of modern life, to be in reverent contact with earth and each other.

I’m an artist, the seed for this project was planted in 2013 as part of but after years of unfunded grant applications, in 2020 I found an old trailer that looked like a goat pen/crack den on gumtree & I sent the add to a friend with a caption that read ‘SAUNA?’

From there Elsewhere slowly came into being, on borrowed time and favours, in the gaps between study and parenting, grimy and glistening, heartbroken, and in prayer, there are spells and cusses in the walls. A whole lot of love was poured, with patience and persistence I made it through the labyrinth of red tape and sourced us permission to bring sauna to the meet the lutruwita sea shore.

Elsewhere was always meant to be a soft rebellion. An eco-feminist love poem. A feral business. An ode to country (I bow my head- always was always will be). A place to sweat the grief out of your bones. To be tenderly present. To talk complexity. To sit in silence. To talk banality. Vulnerability. To feel & embody presence, held by fire.

We never do anything alone… Along the way, I bought out my business partner, and naively I got hit with a whopper tax bill, some big lessons, and in all honesty, the kind of scarcity that rewires your nervous system. Money has never been my language… but community has. 
And now that I’ve caught my breath (and paid the tax man), I want to say:

Come for a sweat, this one’s on me. Thanks you for turning up ready to unfurl.

sauna session g1v3^way deets ↓ in the caption

Image credits:
1 x
2 & 3 Antoine Chretein
4, 5, 6, 7

🖤

18/10/2025

🌬️🔥🌀 sauna session g1v3^way 🌀🔥🌬️
A love note disguised as a gift. Thanks to all of you wrapped in steam. 
Elsewhere started as a dream of hosting climate conversations, to sweat through ecological grief, a sanctuary to meet the ache of modern life, to be in reverent contact with earth and each other.

I’m an artist, the seed for this project was planted in 2013 as part of but after years of unfunded grant applications, in 2020 I found an old trailer that looked like a goat pen/crack den on gumtree & I sent the add to a friend with a caption that read ‘SAUNA?’

From there Elsewhere slowly came into being, on borrowed time and favours, in the gaps between study and parenting, grimy and glistening, heartbroken, and praying, there are spells and cusses in the walls. A whole lot of love was poured, with patience and persistence I made it through the labyrinth of red tape and got us permission to bring sauna to the meet the lutruwita sea shore.

Elsewhere was always meant to be a soft rebellion. An eco-feminist love poem. A feral business. A prayer to country (I bow my head: always was always will be). A place to sweat the grief out of your bones. To be tenderly present. To be in silence. To talk complexity. To talk banality. Vulnerability. To feel feelings with embodied presence, held by fire.

We never do anything alone… Along the way, I bought out my business partner, and got hit with a whopper tax bill, some big lessons, and in all honesty, the kind of scarcity that rewires your nervous system. Money has never been my language… but community has. 
And now that I’ve caught my breath (and paid the tax man), I want to say:

Come for a sweat, this one’s on me. Thanks you for turning up ready to unfurl.

deets ↓ in the caption

Grateful for the creativity of friends.
Image credits:
1 x ._
2 & 3 Antoine Chretein
4, 5, 6, 7

🖤

17/10/2025

A quiet place for wild minds.

In a world that demands a lot of us, making time for quiet, digital free presence is imperative. Elsewhere sauna offers a sanctuary where you can slow down, reset and reconnect, touch land with your bare feet and let the salt water lick your toes. A planty steam bath for the senses.

We’re giving away a session with Elsewhere sauna because everyone deserves time to stretch beyond the rush and just be for a while.

To enter:
* Follow us
* Tag a friend who you wanna steam and dream with
* share any of our posts to your stories

🔥💔🪨 G!v3AwåY🪨💔🔥 will close Sunday 19th at 8pm

Thanks again for being such wonderful supportive brilliant curious folks. This mobile sauna has changed my life and I hope in some small way it might have touched yours.

Let’s keep circulating the joy.

Grateful for these images captured by Antoine Chretien

15/10/2025

🔥💔🪨 G!v3AwåY🪨💔🔥

wishing for some delicious sauna to share with your friends, familia, betrothed or bedraggled fav person?

Gifting a private hour of sweet sweet sweaty deliciousness
🔥 To enter follow + tag a friend, yr fav person or someone who needs a reset and let them know why sauna is the yummiest + share *any* of our posts in your stories & tag us so your 3ntRies are recorded •

🔥💔🪨 G!v3AwåY🪨💔🔥 will close Sunday 19th at 8pm

Image credits :
1. .coughlan
2. Antoine Chretien
3,4,5. S.dC

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