Crieff’s Wild Sauna Experience
We’re putting true ‘immersion’ into our language holidays in Scotland in 2025.
Last year, a new wellness business came to Perthshire, and we’re so excited to share it with clients on our language immersion holidays who are seeking healthy, real-world English experiences exploring Scotland.
Woodland saunas (or wild saunas) are a great way to find peace in the landscape and relax into English.
This blog is about our local woodland sauna and how we share to grow confident, care-free English.
It shares why you’ll want to try a sauna on your language immersion holiday in Scotland.
About Nowhere Sauna
Nowhere Sauna is run by two local women, Lauren & Susanna, who are friends, mums, and advocates of the health benefits of hot/cold therapy.
They used to drive miles to use the sauna/spa on Loch Tay, then decided to build one much closer to home, turning it into an independent business by the beautiful Mill Pond on Comrie Croft – a glorious woodland camping/cycling/wedding venue that helps people enjoy nature in harmonious ways.
Comrie Croft is a farm, ‘reimagined for the 21st Century’ on 231 acres of wild woods, flower meadows, a market garden and repurposed farm buildings is now home to a family of twelve nature-based enterprises.
It’s won national sustainable tourism awards.
At Nowhere Sauna, founded by Lauren and Susanna, we aim to bring the warmth and health benefits of sauna to our community. Saunas are proven to reduce stress, improve sleep, support heart and immune health, ease pain, and boost mental wellbeing.
More than just science, we believe saunas feed the soul. Sharing this experience in nature—whether it’s the heat, a cold plunge, or gathering under the stars—helps us all feel more present, connected, and alive!
Nowhere Sauna Website
A New Way to Visit Scotland
I was in the sauna a couple of days ago (research, y’know) – like tasting all that amazing artisanal chocolate in last week’s blog – and someone asked me if I shouldn’t just design a week-long holiday visiting all the outdoor saunas in Scotland… There’s a beauty at Ellie Beach where you run out and into the sea… one in the Cairngorms National Park…
In fact, Scotland has these micro gems popping up in all sorts of gorgeous locations, and they all merit a visit (Link to a map in the resources below).
Tempting, But…
I was briefly lured into that business vision that had me constantly sprawed in a sauna, but realised, if we did that, there are so many other fabulous activities, sites, and landscapes locally that you wouldn’t get to: Doune Castle, the Red Kite Feed at Argaty, the view from the top of Dumyat, standing on a bridge watching the beavers swim under you, returning to their nests at dusk… Each is exhilarating in its own way.
Saunas are exhilarating and relaxing, but for the purpose of building up confident Englsih skills, they need to be just one component in your language holiday.
A full week designed to make you amazed and feel amazing through various remarkable experiences that bring you into natural Scotland and connect you with the people caring for it – or building eco/healthy businesses that harness its power in non-invasive ways.
There’s so much more to be said for exploring one region well rather than dashing about from location to location.
Let’s Talk!
I’d love to answer your questions about our language immersion holidays in Scotland.
You’ll get to see our hub – and tell me (Ruth) 3 things you’d like to see/do in Scotland.
How Deep Travel Can Help You Belong in English
This is known s Slow Travel, or Deep Travel.
Connection with place is part of the transformation I bring to your English – the sense of belonging to the language is linked to feeling a deep connection with this one glorious part of Scotland.
As it is, my holidays share different experiences of one region.
When people return to me (which they do!), I want to share how the season has changed the woodland they walked through, or reunite them with locals to continue conversations started a whole year before.
They say to me, even during the first week, returning to Crieff feels like coming home.
Quick tips for your sauna in Scotland…
We Wear Swimsuits!
All public saunas are clothed! Men wear shorts or swimming trunks and women wear swimsuits or 2 piece bikinis.
We Talk
A Scottish sauna is a friendly, community event. We use this space to relax with strangers and share stories on neutral subjects: travel, food, other saunas.
Don’t expect to sit for an hour of silence and inner contemplation. We love a sauna chat.
So How Many Saunas?
Next week, I’m testing Double Sauna.
It will be two punctuation marks at the beginning and end of the language holiday.
And which second sauna, you may ask yourself?
Both will be at Nowhere Sauna.
We don’t need to be chasing new when familiar is so great.
This woodland sauna always has new people to meet – or different weather to step out into (I love it when it’s raining!).
We’ll be supporting these women who have built a sustainable retreat for our local community – and I know bring such great health and happiness to many.
In case you are wondering, all activities are included in the price of your Real World English Coaching Holiday.
It’s easy to get here – and easy to book your language immersion holiday in Scotland.
The Different Types of Activities on Your English Coaching Holiday
They are all optional – just let us know what kind of things you enjoy!
Healthy English | About Blue Noun
At Blue Noun, we believe that feeling good helps you speak well. That’s why our English holidays include health and wellbeing activities like walking in nature, mindful breathing, and enjoying local, nourishing food.
These moments help you relax, clear your mind, and connect with the language in a calm, confident way.
When your body feels good, your brain works better—and that’s exactly when your English flows.
Whether it’s hiking through peaceful landscapes or sharing laughter over a fresh meal, you’ll build real English skills in a space where wellbeing comes first.
THis is our space!
A Vote of Excellence
In January, 2025, Nowhere Sauna won the prestigious Scottish Edge Business Grant to expand.
This is Suzanna & Lauren on pitch day!
Lucky me – and lucky you – as I now share this beautiful experience on our real-world English holidays.
I’m so excited that you can share the enchanting woodland sauna experience and its health benefits.
It’s going to be hard to feel stressed about English now!
Your checklist for a positive language holiday
Checklist
Nowhere Sauna
How does this immersion language holiday activity help your English/positively impact our community?
✅ Great for mental/physical health
✅ benefits our local community.
✅ preserves craft skills, historic machinery, monuments etc (yes – it is build and maintained by local carpenters).
🟠 supports Scottish industry/agriculture. Your visit supports one business.
✅ Gets you talking with a rich and diverse selection of people, or about diverse subjects. (Yes! There are few conversations with strangers as interesting as a sauna chat).
🟠 Supports arts & artists. (Indireclty, many of the sauna staff are artists)
✅ Explores Scottish wildlife in non-invasive ways. Yes! Watch birds through the window
🟠 A good introduction to Scottish culture – sauna is an imported culture, which is a rapidly growing trend across the UK.
✅ Financially contributes to preserving culture or nature. Yes, the rent paid by Nowhere Sauna contributes to the whole eco site at Comrie Croft.
✅ It is for fun & feeling good in English.
Celebrating Spontaneous Action Takers
And, just in case you haven’t yet heard, we’re including a fabulous hamper of local goodies for every May holiday.
Book now to ensure your place in the sauna!
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British Council
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Friendly community
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What more perfect combination could you need for an English conversation holiday?
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