Friday is a smaller, curated experience. The evening is built around Earth, Air, Fire and Water. Guests begin with grounding meditation and breathwork indoors, or guided sauna rituals and cold exposure outdoors. The evening then moves into live music and an immersive sensory performance including Aufguss, cymatic light projections and fire performers. The final hour consists of free-flow sauna experiences and guided rituals.

Saturday and Sunday are four-hour festival sessions. The core sauna, cold, movement and recovery experiences carry across the weekend, while scheduled classes, rituals and entertainment vary by session. Saturday afternoon features live music, Saturday evening brings DJs and a more social atmosphere, Sunday morning includes the Coffee Party Festival takeover with DJs, and Sunday afternoon closes with live acoustic music and wellness programming. During your ticket window, you can move through the experiences available in your session at your own pace.

Sauna programming includes traditional and aromatherapy Aufguss, Banya-inspired rituals, meditation, breathwork, sound, percussion, storytelling, stretching, self-massage and free-flow sauna sessions.

Programming includes Pilates, yoga, breathwork, sound baths, myofascial release, Face Pilates, nervous system workshops and other movement and recovery sessions.

Yes. Toronto Sauna Festival includes both guided and free-flow experiences, so you can choose the programming that interests you and move at your own pace. Facilitators will guide guests through scheduled sauna rituals and cold exposure experiences. No experience is required.

Movement, sound and breathwork sessions are first come, first served, so we recommend arriving 15 to 20 minutes before the scheduled start time. Sauna rituals are also first come, first served with rituals repeating throughout the festival to give everyone an opportunity to try them out. 

Your ticket includes access to the festival during your selected time window, including sauna experiences, cold plunges, scheduled movement and breathwork programming, live entertainment, recovery areas, the vendor village and other festival programming. Additional wellness experiences, food, beverages, treatments and merchandise may be complimentary or available for purchase depending on the offering.

Change rooms and paid baggage check are available on site. Bring a bathing suit, warm layers, sandals or flip-flops for the sauna and plunge areas, running shoes for movement sessions, a reusable water bottle, and a personal towel for drying off. Yoga mats will be available for movement, sound and breathwork sessions, and sauna towels will be provided for sitting inside the saunas. There are also outdoor showers available.

Evergreen Brick Works is located at 550 Bayview Avenue in Toronto. On-site parking is limited, so we recommend public transit, ride-share, cycling or the Evergreen shuttle. Check Evergreen Brick Works' current transportation information before your visit for the latest shuttle and transit details.

Toronto Sauna Festival is a rain or shine event. Re-entry during your ticket window is permitted, and guests are required to leave at the end of their four-hour session.