As a child, Kayla Sibilia had the important role of fire-tender in the sauna at her parents’ house. Not yet allowed to join the winter bathing, she would chop the wood and keep the flame alive. She distinctly remembers the first time she was invited inside with her mom and aunt when she was around 13 years old. “They were talking to me in this tone of voice that was so different from the tone they used outside of the sauna,” she recalls. “They were sharing stories that they normally would never share. They were swearing! They were complaining!”
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