The Herbal Ritual

Ubud takes its name from the Balinese word ubad — medicine, the healing herbs. At BALI SAUNA Ubud, the sauna is an apothecary. From a shelf of more than fifteen Balinese herbs, you choose your own mix and pack it into a tea bag with your own hands. We brew that bag into a strong, concentrated herbal tea — and the tea becomes your löyly, poured over the stones of the 90°C dome. Most saunas scent their steam with synthetic aroma oils; here it is the opposite: real herbs, really extracted, chosen by you. A herbal steam you can only taste here, in the town named after herbs. Then the 17°C and 5°C plunges.

How it works

1. Browse the shelf — more than fifteen Balinese herbs; choose by scent, by mood, or ask us
2. Pack your chosen herbs into your own tea bag, with your own hands
3. We brew it strong — a concentrated herbal tea, not an aroma oil
4. The tea is poured over the stones: your löyly. Breathe in the dome, then plunge — 17°C first, 5°C when ready
5. Rest by the fire pit under the trees, then repeat

The herbs

For sauna people

If Aufguss is theatre and löyly is silence, the Balinese herbal ritual is a third thing: a prescription. It is closest to the old bathhouse traditions where the herbs were the point — and it only exists here because the herbs grow here.

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