Thank you for
WCSS 2025
The West Coast Sauna Summit is Canada’s first annual gathering for sauna builders, wellness entrepreneurs, hospitality visionaries, and cultural pioneers. In an intimate lakeside setting, we come together to sweat, share ideas, and shape the future of sauna culture in North America.
2025 was our first year, the first sauna lovers and industry enthusiasts came together for great sweat and good business.
Together with our amazing partners we brought sauna lovers from all over the world together; from New York and San Francisco, to Quebec and Whitehorse - and all the way to Finland.
For a sunny January weekend we came together for great sweats and good business. And we hope we will see you again in 2026!
Who attended?
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Sauna business owners
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Builders and craftspeople
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Architects and designers
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Spa and hospitality leaders
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Cultural connectors and wellness facilitators
Headline Sponsors
With the support from
Canada's first industry event for Sauna Entrepreneurs, Builders, Practitioners, and Wellness Pioneers.
From Friday, January 17th to Sunday, January 20th, 2025, the West Coast Sauna Summit brought together Sauna Lovers, Entrepreneurs, Operators, Builders, Practitioners and Wellness Pioneers for a weekend filled with heat, relaxation, new connections - and business.
As Canada's first dedicated Sauna industry event, West Coast Sauna Summit creates a space for business, wellness and authentic Sauna culture to thrive.
West Coast Sauna Summit is hosted at the Loon Lake retreat centre nested in the UBC Malcolm Knapp Research Forest. Accommodation and food are included in the WCSS ticket price
Keynote Speakers and Panelists
Get to know our inspiring and pioneering keynote speakers and panelists at WCSS 2025!
Raj Bhattacharjee
Holistic Addiction Psychoterapist
Cold Plunge and Nutrition in Holistic Addiction Treatment
Glenn
Auerbach
Founder of Sauna Times, Author, Sauna Evangelist
10 Things You Need To Know about Building Your Own Sauna
Alan
jalasjaa
Sauna Expert & Sauna Culture Advocate
Authentic Sauna Culture Leading Growth Across Industries
Viki
Csanicz
Founder of Ærth Saunas
Designing a Sauna Businesses with a Legacy
Linda
Helistö
Marketing Entrepreneur and Sauna Lover
Sauna Marketing That Hits Different
Aleksei Koniukhov
Steam Artist and
Whisking Master
Creating a Unique Sauna Experience
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West coast sauna summit 2025:
AN ALL-INCLUDED Sauna Business event that moved people and culture forward
West Coast Sauna Summit 2025
Where
What
Loon Lake Lodge, and hour outside of Vancouver, British Columbia
January 15-18, 2025
Dates
Who is this event for
WCSS is a business summit for all things sauna and wellness. We want to give people a platform for education and to sweat, relax, have meaningful conversations and move sauna business and culture forward, together. Event size 120 people.
Accommodation
Meals
Enjoy the vibe either in your own private room with a queen size bed, in a shared room with single-sized beds, or in a dorm room.
All meals are included for WCSS. The chefs prepare heart-warming vegetarian food to sustain all attendants with adequate energy for sauna, cold plunging, sweat, and great conversations.
Keynotes, Workshops, Case Studies, Activities
...are all included in the price.
Why should I come
When was the last time you drove deep into the Pacific North West rainforest to stay at a lodge by the crystal clear mountain lake and gathered with fellow sauna enthusiasts, entrepreneurs and wellness pioneers to relax together and talk all things sauna, wellness and business?
Loon Lake Retreat Center is the perfect spot to unwind and dream big at Canada's first sauna summit. Immersed in the woods, with multiple saunas, WCSS is a weekend to connect with fellow entrepreneurs from all across the West Coast.
If you are a sauna or wellness entrepreneur who has fallen in love with the heat, come and connect - and let's move sauna culture forward, together!
And don't forget all the Sauna chats in our 4+ different lakeside Saunas. Nothing beats a good sauna chat and cold plunging.
