Classical whisking and techniques

Date: 2025-10-04, 10:00
Organizer : Lithuanian Bath Academy

We are continuing our studies as a family bath attendant. This meeting is for those who have already taken the Introduction to Bathroom Work course and want to continue their studies and learn how to professionally bathe.  So we invite you to take the first step by attending a workshop on effective basic bathing techniques.

Effective bathing requires learning

During the sauna evening, sauna master and head of the Lithuanian Sauna Academy Rimas Kavaliauskas will present effective techniques for easy bathing, share his years of experience in ergonomic bathing, and teach you how to bathe easily, simply, and yet professionally.

Seminar content
Effective bathing techniques

At the workshop, you will learn how to:

• how to let off steam efficiently and warm up important parts of the body
• touch the body twice in one gesture
• Gentle bathing and rough bathing
• consciously manage the effects of bathing on the person
• turn bathing into a communication tool
• Learn the basic effective bathing movements

You will take another important step towards sauna mastery..

Classical whisking

We take the view that classical whisking is a minimum of a full body bath, with the baths warming the whole body evenly. Full body means the back and front of the body will be bathed. Minimal means that the most efficient and ergonomic bathing strategy is chosen.

Each bath can be performed using a variety of techniques, depending on the person doing the bath. We will build on the set of effective bathing techniques that you learnt in the "Bathing essent" workshop and add this one on top of that. 

We will also pay much more attention to the self-protection of the bathers and to the steam strategy for bathing. We will also learn how to bathe the front side of the body and individual parts of the body, and we will continue to develop our bathing technique.

Seminar content

1. Warm-up, answers to questions
2. Body heating strategies in classical bathing
3. Bathing demonstration
4. Individual training: butterfly bathing, foot bathing with support, thigh bathing, compresses, face bathing.
5. Individual student bathing and comments.

Themes covered

• Classical whisking

  A practical topic that is a natural extension of "Easy whisking". We apply the techniques we have already learnt more intensively and learn to apply them to different parts of the body.

  This time we are working with a richer steam, as is usual in many saunas. During the workshop, we learn how to fully steam these parts of the body:

  • feet (lying down and lifting them up),
  • legs - thighs (lying down, lifting them up, turning them over),
  • knees,
  • shins hands - hands,
  • biceps,
  • arms (holding them up, lifting them up)
  • abdomen (swiping them up, stroking them,
  • chest (swinging) chest (swiping, stroking),
  • neck
  • sacrum (lower back)
  • shoulders, shoulder blades

   

  Students are also taught general bathing strategy, ergonomics of bathing, principles of safe bathing.

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• 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 Kavaliauskas