Co Owner

Mary has been living in Maine for 30 years to took some time adjusting to the light depression of the long winters and the cold gray months. She started searching out alternative therapies for wellness and self-care, through bodywork and spa hopping around the globe. Mary has been investing time and energy through wellness practices for the last 25 years. She is a Reiki Master Teacher for 20 years and has been a guest teacher at USM Holistic Health for over 10 years. She has been an advocate in Maine working in hospitals, hospice and cancer facilities like the Dempsey Center for 10 years volunteering her services. Mary is a brown skin Latina but her hertitage has deep roots to Norway. Her grandfather Knute is from Oslo and she is over 40% Norwegian. She has been to Iceland to the hot pots and to Mexico to do sauna rituals through the healing Mayan Aztec traditions. She is so excited to bring sauna life opportunity to people all over the state to find wellness for peace and rebalancing their system. Sweat, breathing or allowing tears from decompressing the sauna is a sacred place to heal within being surrounded by elements of nature is a natural cure.

Finding a lack in the availability to sauna throughout the state, Denise and Mary  dreamed up of portable sauna offerings and pop up events where people could appreciate the great outdoors, a sauna to your special occasion or ceremonial purposes for healing.

Co Owner

Denise is a devoted wife and mother and she always makes time for her family and friends. She loves strongly and fiercely and keeps her focus on living a peaceful, joyful life. She has lived in Maine for nearly 20 years and is deeply rooted in the community and landscape here. She studied sociology at U.N.E as a means to find herself and her place in this world. She took her experience with farming and joined it with her passion for social justice and has been working in grassroots agriculture ever since. She has been working  for MOFGA Certification Services as an inspector for many years and loves the opportunity she gets to seek out all the nooks and crankies of Maines’ farmlands and to feel that connection to the land and the purity of real food. 

Denise has been an avid sauna practitioner for as long as she can remember. She has experienced many kinds of sauna over her years from professional private saunas, backyard casual saunas to spiritual ashram and traditional Temazcal ceremonies. The draw Denise has to the practice of sauna is the deep heat therapy that she can feel in her bones and the sweet release of all tension and aches with the extreme of cold water bathing. 

Denise met Mary roughly 15 years ago dancing to local music in Portland and their connection was kismet. They bring out the silly sides of each other and embody fun when they are together. They aspire to set this silly, relaxed, bff vibe into Too Haute Saunas so that everyone who experiences it gets that time cut loose, laugh and most importantly to heal.