Watch Perfect Sweat

2024
1 Season

Everyone sweats. It's one of the most elemental things a human body can do. And cultures throughout history have celebrated the sweat bath. Inspired by the book, Sweat, by Mikkel Aaland, Perfect Sweat, takes viewers on a voyage across the globe, revisiting countries and sweat bathing traditions Mikkel documented over 40 years ago.

Perfect Sweat is a series that ran for 1 seasons (7 episodes) between February 10, 2024 and on

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7. Burning Man

February 10, 2024

The series closes with an unforgettable journey to Burning Man, a massive art and community festival in the Nevada desert. With guides Teresa Yung and Zack Robertson, Mikkel meets people from far and wide who bring their innovative sweat bath designs to the Playa. From mobile banyas on wheels to steamy build-it-yourself yurts, it's a grand variety show of sweat bathing culture.

6. Norway

February 10, 2024

Thanks to his Norwegian roots, Mikkel's love for sweat bathing started with the badstue. Adventuring through Norway with guide Lasse Eriksen, he visits Oslo's hippest badstues, a fishing boat-turned-spa, and the remote resort of a legendary polar explorer.

5. Japan

February 10, 2024

Japan, an island nation, has a sweat bathing culture that dates back to the sixth century. With 3,000 hot springs on the islands, bathing and sweating are integral parts of the Japanese' mental and physical healing practices. Guides Miki Tokairin and Sho Ikushima take Mikkel on a tour of some of the oldest and newest sweat baths in Japan today.

4. Turkey

February 10, 2024

Where cosmopolitan life blends with vestiges of the Ottoman Empire, Elizabet Kurumlu guides Mikkel through the streets of Istanbul, Bursa, and beyond. He meets soldiers, artisans, and a bridal party on a journey to experience the historic and modern-day hamam.

3. Russia

February 10, 2024

Recalling his days in the Soviet Union, Mikkel discovers a new side to banya with guide Anna Artemieva, who shows him how bathing is done in modern-day Moscow and St. Petersburg and beyond. But the banya experience is not complete without visiting a remote forest retreat and taking an ice-cold plunge, post sweat, in the Russian countryside.

2. Aufguss

February 10, 2024

Guide Christine Rose shows us that a sauna is nothing without a show along the Italian-German border, where cultures, languages and fragrant steam-bathing traditions collide. Fierce competition for the World Aufguss championship is sweat entertainment at its finest.

1. Finland

February 10, 2024

In Finland, saunas are everywhere, and no steam is left unexplored with guide Samuel Aarnio. Mikkel and Saumel island hop by boat, visit old friends for a traditional smoke sauna, and test their limits in 60+ saunas at the Mobile Sauna Festival in Teuva.

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Perfect Sweat is available for streaming on the website, both individual episodes and full seasons. You can also watch Perfect Sweat on demand at Amazon and Apple TV.