The first best Finnish thing that comes direct to my mind.
Question: How could a small and overheated room be so wonderful?
First, it is really nice to be so warm and sweat, you relax. At the end, you feel very good, your skin is very soft but your muscles warmed-up, it combines at the same time the positive effects of a massage and an aerobic session.
Then, after the sauna you are so warm and comfortable that you can do many things you had never thought being possible. For instance running naked in the snow and rolling in or ice-bathing or simply staying outside by -5°C enjoying a fresh beer. That’s great!
Last but not least, in the sauna you feel the real Finnishness. Everybody is naked (not always, mixing girls and boys is not good to respect the nudity tradition), Everybody is equal. That sounds rather simplistic but that’s true. Maybe it’s better to experience it to believe it. Go in a sauna and chat randomly with some 30-years-older-than-you naked guy about his job and his wife, that’s easy. Then realize that this guy is one administration official, the kind of person you will usually see in a formal suit, a person whose authority should press you down, at least in France, but not in Finland. I believe in the general opinion which asserts that Finnish social consensus and strong equality of status is originated in these small over heated room called sauna.
Running naked in the snow is fine, staying out there and enjoying a beer, (assuming you’re still naked) sounds a bit cold to me!!