Elsewhere Sauna

Elsewhere Sauna Bespoke mobile sauna conjuring new local traditions drawing on ancient sweat bathing practices!

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

Thinking about the resilience, fortitude, strength, courage and leadership it takes to model change. I bow my head to th...
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
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captures of
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always was always will be

Thinking about things that make us human and other things that undo our humanity. “When we feel squeezed, there’s a tend...
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.

Thinking about things that make us human and other things that undo our humanity. Sitting next to a fire is one of those...
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.

🌬️🔥🌀 sauna session g1v3^way 🌀🔥🌬️A love note disguised as a gift.
Thanks to all of you wrapped in steam.
Elsewhere starte...
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

🖤

🌬️🔥🌀 sauna session g1v3^way 🌀🔥🌬️A love note disguised as a gift.
Thanks to all of you wrapped in steam.
Elsewhere starte...
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

🖤

A quiet place for wild minds. In a world that demands a lot of us, making time for quiet, digital free presence is imper...
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

🔥💔🪨 G!v3AwåY🪨💔🔥 wishing for some delicious sauna to share with your friends, familia, betrothed or bedraggled fav person...
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

14/10/2025

Yesterday’s sauna was more beautiful than a sublime painting. The brief and lasting pleasures of water into steam and fire side to ocean:
the graze of a passing stingray, perched on the calm side of a windy hill, like a secret you wouldn’t believe is really there, the warmth of combustion - carbon into heat - embodied sunlight, an echidna hiding in plain sight, ocean between my toes. Piercing aqua marine blue. Gulls riding the high currents. Everything damp and steamy. Everything held gently. Time. This configuration of life.

Let’s see what the tide has turned up this coming weekend. Drip beach sauna this Saturday & Sunday has ample space. Link in stories my friends.

Here for you.

Come meet the shoreline.

Thanks for tending to the land so carefully its always delightful.

💕 P. S. sauna pals if this is your charcoal linen towel forgotten last weekend, thanks for the cheeky lend! Lost and found. It’s laundered and in the sauna box and awaits you :)

If you would like to be in touch email elsewhere@protonmail.com - as I won't be checking the messages here :)
03/11/2023

If you would like to be in touch email elsewhere@protonmail.com - as I won't be checking the messages here :)

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7112

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