The Journal

At Sense Of Self, we deeply value cultivating conversations between creativity, culture and community. Aisha Kuryana has had a 30-year long love affair with movement as a choreographer, dancer and teacher (GROOV3) — and remains deeply curious about exploring the connection between the body and the self.

Built forms can offer protection from the elements, invite contemplation or even deepen our awareness of the wildness around us. A bench where steam meets sea breeze. A window framing the horizon. A jetty that dares you to plunge.

While a dry sauna helps us sweat, the key benefit of steam is how it allows us to soften tense muscles and ease aching joints. Here’s how the hammam’s benefits on the skin and body can help hold and carry us through winter.

A creative response to the Bathhouse by Resident Prune: Noah daCosta

Resident Prune is an invitation to soak, soften and create: an artistic bathing residency that’s rooted in connection and expression. Over a few months of the year we invite a creative to regularly soak in the rhythm of our bathhouse – using the experience as fertile ground for discovery.

Your ritual for unwinding is subjective, and entirely your own, but we can provide some information on the benefits of both dry and wet heat to help inform your decision making.

Ancient Roman bathhouses were opulent sanctuaries of relaxation and socialisation that featured elaborate architecture, numerous heated pools, intricate mosaics and grand social spaces.