Dorset Sauna Monthly October 2025
Brisk mornings, ember-glow evenings and the coastline steeling itself for the colder months
Editor’s Note
October arrives with salt-air clarity, a sharper horizon and the first brush of autumn’s cool across the heath and shore. This month we explore three settings: Sea, Forest, Studio. A sea dip by daylight, a forest sauna in amber leaf land, and a studio-based craft session where ritual meets design.
Turn towards heat and water with intention, lean into the season’s shift rather than resist it. Below you’ll find carefully selected moments to step out of the day and into another pace on the Dorset coast.
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Top Picks
Sauna Master Training – Tier 1 (The Sauna Corner)
📅 Tue 14 October–Thu 16 October 2025 09:00–16:00
📍 Sweet Hill Farm, Sweet Hill Rd, Portland DT5 2DS
A three-day intensive on guiding a sauna session: ritual, flow, heating, cooling. Hosted by The Sauna Corner. :contentReference[oaicite:1]{index=1}
Why it’s worth your time: A rare chance to go under the hood of sauna culture in Dorset and step into a deeper craft.
Sauna & Sea Session – Full Moon (Wild Ways & Lazy Days)
📅 Wed 8 October 2025 17:50–19:30
📍 Studland Sauna Hut, Knoll Beach, Ferry Road, Swanage BH19 3AQ
Wood-fired beach hut sauna, followed by optional sea dip beneath dusk light. :contentReference[oaicite:2]{index=2}
Why it’s worth your time: One of the last sea-dip aligned sauna sessions before winter’s tide-pull sets in.
Day Retreat – Cove Adventure (Bournemouth Wellbeing Experience)
📅 Sat 4 October 2025 (day)
📍 Lulworth Cove area, Dorset
A blend of movement, paddle or walk, sea dip and mindful pause by the cove. :contentReference[oaicite:3]{index=3}
Why it’s worth your time: A sea-side studio day that shifts the focus from heat alone to body in motion and water in reach.
Sound Healing & Sauna Evening (Mellulah)
📅 Wed 29 October 2025 19:00-21:00
📍 Dorset countryside venue
Evening gathering with sound bowls, warm wood-sauna and firelight. :contentReference[oaicite:4]{index=4}
Why it’s worth your time: A design-forward ritual to mark the month’s turn, in a studio-meets-wilderness setting.
The Thermalist Experience – Harbour Sauna (Swanage Bay Sauna)
📅 Sat 25 October 2025 11:00–13:30
📍 Shore Place, Shore Road, Swanage BH19 1LB
A guided session of heat, cooling sea air and harbour-side pause by :contentReference[oaicite:5]{index=5}. :contentReference[oaicite:6]{index=6}
Why it’s worth your time: A professional, curated contrast-therapy session in one of Dorset’s expressive coastal sauna spaces.
Men’s Monthly Meet-Up – Sauna & Cold Plunge (Natural Healing Dorset)
📅 Sat 11 October 2025 09:00–17:00
📍 Happy River Retreat, Dorset
Single-day men’s gathering for sauna, cold plunge and conversation. :contentReference[oaicite:7]{index=7}
Why it’s worth your time: A focused studio environment for gathering, heat, cold and communal pause.
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The Calendar
Day Retreat – Cove Adventure (Bournemouth Wellbeing Experience)
📅 Sat 4 October 2025
📍 Lulworth Cove area, Dorset
Move, paddle, swim and pause in a coastal day-studio format.
👉 Details
Sauna & Sea Session – Studland Sauna Hut
📅 Wed 8 October 2025 17:50–19:30
📍 Knoll Beach, Ferry Road, Swanage BH19 3AQ
Wood-fired hut, tide-edge dip optional.
👉 Details
Sauna Master Training – Tier 1
📅 Tue 14 October–Thu 16 October 2025
📍 Sweet Hill Farm, Portland DT5 2DS
Train to guide sauna sessions; a deep dive into ritual of heat. :contentReference[oaicite:8]{index=8}
👉 Details
Men’s Monthly Meet-Up – Sauna & Cold Plunge
📅 Sat 11 October 2025 09:00–17:00
📍 Happy River Retreat, Dorset
A studio-based men’s day-session with sauna, cold and group conversation.
👉 Details
The Thermalist Experience – Harbour Sauna
📅 Sat 25 October 2025 11:00–13:30
📍 Shore Place, Shore Road, Swanage BH19 1LB
Guided sauna-sea-air session in harbour-side setting. :contentReference[oaicite:9]{index=9}
👉 Details
Sound Healing & Sauna Evening (Mellulah)
📅 Wed 29 October 2025 19:00–21:00
📍 Dorset countryside
Evening build-down ritual in studio + sauna + sound. :contentReference[oaicite:10]{index=10}
👉 Details
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Venue Spotlight
Swanage Bay Sauna (Swanage)
Perched beside the harbour at Shore Road, this barrel-style sauna cabin faces the sea and invites exit to the cool air, the harbour’s reflective water, and evening light. The build uses warm timber lining and a clean minimalist layout: stove centre, glass door, view beyond.
Sessions are timed, guided and set within designed routines of heat-cool-rest; what Swanage Bay Sauna does better than most is the harbour-side access: you move from hot wood-fired steam straight outdoors to sea breeze (or plain air) with the sea visible through the door.
More: the thermalist experience
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Closing Note
October invites us to turn toward the turning light, to lean into coast and timber and ritual as the days shorten. Choose a session, step into another pace, lean into heat and water with the season now bending toward dark and rest.
Spaces narrow as the tide pulls back—book early and meet us by fire and sea.