Holistic bath. Lev1 in Vilnius.

Date: 2025-06-04, 16:00
Organizer : Lithuanian Bath Academy

The long-awaited intensive sauna training in Lithuania is open for registration!

The participants, who have already experienced the therapeutic power of a traditional Lithuanian pirtis, this time will delve into the practical intricacies of bathing:

• traditinal classical whisking
• gentle bodywork
• effective whisking techniques,

This training is appropriate for:

• Sauna beginners with no experience
• Wellness practitioners, bodyworkers, or therapists.
• Nature lovers and herbalists
• Sauna enthusiasts seeking deeper knowledge
• Anyone wishing to become a certified sauna (pirtis) master

What will you experience?

This is a hands-on, immersive, and beautifully sensory course that blends:

• The wisdom of Lithuanian pirtis tradition
• Plant-based sauna healing
• Practical whisking techniques (vanojimas)
• Steam bathing rituals and bodywork
• The culture of sauna as community, care, and connection

We focus on real doing — not just theory. You will sweat, learn, and grow.

Workshop Structure

Day 1. Steam Bath ABC & Evening Ritual

• What is pirtis? Introduction to Lithuanian steam bathing
• Understanding the healthy microclimate
• Gentle group steam ritual – experience it for yourself

Day 2. Sauna bodywork essentials and holistic whisking

• Working with the body in the heat: skin, underskin and relaxation
• Safety, working space, preparation of the sauna room
• Practical work: holiskic whisking, back treatments, non verbial communication

Day 3. Whisking practice and learnng techniques

• How to choose, tie, and soak a whisk (vanta)
• Guided training in whisking strokes and steaming techniques
• Learning to feel — not force — with each movement

Location and atmosphere

Set in a traditional countryside pirtis setting, surrounded by nature — this is more than a course. It’s a chance to breathe, rest, and reconnect.

Come home to yourself, through steam, plants, and human hands.

Themes covered

• Bodywork of the back

  In this practical theme, we learn the basic techniques of gentle body touch and massage. Soft, relaxing touch is included in all basic sauna techniques and treatments - light bathing, body scrubbing, and massage. The skills on this topic will benefit further training that are included in the Professional Sauna Therapist training program.

  Skills developed in the workshop

  • Preparation for bodywork, laying a person down
  • skin stroking
  • warming rubbing
  • oiling the skin
  • working on the deeper subcutaneous tissue
  • ergonomics and safety of movements
  • effective transverse work
• Healthy steam bath procedure

  The first practical theme(topic) of the Bath Masters course  is the Healthy Sauna Procedure. It is dedicated to learning about a healthy, bioresonant sauna. During the sauna, we go through a complete sauna procedure consisting of 4 stages:

  • introductory warm-up
  • sweating stimulation
  • Soaking in the steam and self-bathing

  This workshop is essential for those wishing to continue their studies and further their knowledge, but it is also available simply to try a healthy sauna treatment in a good sauna (often with a good gourmet sauna stove).

• Holistic whisking

  A practical theme to learn and test the work of a sauna master. The first steps towards a new profession take place in a safe environment, in a good sauna, with the help of an experienced trainer. This topic is usually taught in the form of a sauna evening (a practical session in the sauna), during which the teacher introduces and demonstrates the main points of practical work in the steam room and the students try it out in practice. In this way, they have the opportunity to test themselves as future sauna practitioners and get a better idea of the level at which they would like to learn the sauna trade.

  
  A student washes clients body in a steam room for the first time.

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• Self whisking

  Important theme and one of major aspects of sauna education that is very often neglected by even prominent bath mastership teachers. Yet it is even more complex then whisking other person.

  This theme covers

  • initial warming of the feet
  • enhancing blood circulation
  • self massage with whisks
  • self whisking of shoulders, sides, back
  • ergonomics of self whisking
  • different postures: sitting, laying
• Whisking techniques

  
  Dry training  - individualized teaching of effective movements

  We teach a student the basics of warming: to warm the client's body safely and evenly and gradually cool him so he can safely and calmly leave the hotroom without the supervision of a bath master. Such treatment can also be performed as a full bath procedure in cases when the client is tired and wants to rest and relax.

  Content of the training:

  1. Basic whisking movement clacification
  2. Contactless techniques
  3. Light superficial techniques
  4. Warming of the underskin and muscles

  We work with small group and provide individual training.

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Rimas and Birute - professional bath masters and international teachers

Registration in open.

290€ .

NB! Food, accomodaton, transportion are not included into the price. Training will take place near Vilnius city, easy to reach by car or taxy, so, you can choose the accomodation acording to your preferences. We will assist you with shared pickup.

The registration takes place when your payment is registered by our page and the receipt is sent to you. You may use 2 different payment systems. If your payment was not processed  - please send e-mail to us  - we will sort that out.