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The Ultimate Guide To Sydney's Top Bathhouses and Recovery Spots

Okay Sydneysiders get ready because we’ve brought you the ULTIMATE guide of Sydney wellness spaces to follow on from our OG guide to Sydney’s Best Bathhouses and Rejuvenation Spaces that we dropped just over a year ago.

With Sydney being home to so many incredible wellness spaces each offering unique experiences to rejuvenate your mind, body, and spirit we thought it was time for an update but this time we wanted to bring you an even more comprehensive guide. Just like our last guide covering this topic inclusions in this guide are not sponsored which means you can rest assured these spaces are legit when it comes to serving up the best in Sydney wellness. Whether you're seeking a tranquil bathhouse, a revitalizing contrast sanctuary, or a cutting-edge biohacking studio, this guide will help you find the perfect spot to prioritize your well-being solo or with friends on the regular.

The guide is broken into three parts – Bathhouses, Thermal and Contrast Sanctuaries, Multi-Modality Wellness Spaces & Biohacking Studios- and ends with an quick view summary of suburbs and wellness spaces.

Okay- let’s dive in shall we!

Bathhouses

Slow House – Bondi Beach
Get ready to be seriously wowed and step into a bathhouse unlike any you’ve seen before. Just moments from Bondi Beach, Slow House offers a holistic approach to wellness. Their facilities include traditional Finnish salt saunas, steam rooms, magnesium pools, cold plunges, and private infrared sauna suites. What we love? You can opt to book in for a social session or quiet session depending on whether you want total peace and quiet or are happy to get social on your visit. Did we mention that on a Tuesday and Friday between 9:30am-11am you can soak up dreamy sound bowl bliss with live sound healing? Their 'Remedi Room' also provides therapeutic spa treatments, including massages and facials, designed to help you recover and unwind.

Capybara Bathing – Surry Hills
Inspired by communal bathing traditions, Capybara Bathing in Surry Hills is all about slowing down. With magnesium-infused thermal baths, a hot stone sauna, a handcrafted cold plunge, hammam, and a lounge where you can unwind with a book from their curated selection, herbal tea in hand before re-invigorating yourself with an ice scrub Capybara is a sensory space for stillness and reflection. Guided breathwork sessions are on offer on select days to amplify the benefits of your bathhouse experience.

Nature’s Energy – Glebe, Balmain & Newtown
At Australia’s most awarded bathhouse (for good reason) and a personal favourite of our team here at Zoii, Nature’s Energy is where you’ll find an experience that blends the indoors and outdoors with Finnish saunas, steam rooms, warm spas, cold pools, and pale showers with options to add on organic facials, body treatments, and massage for a complete day of wellness. Nature’s Energy also often runs community events to support the over-all well-being of their community.

Soak Bathhouse – Opening in Alexandria this month (Bondi Junction coming soon)
With their origin’s in Queensland’s sunny Gold Coast and opening later this month, Soak Bathhouse will offer a 700-square-metre sanctuary designed for relaxation and community connection. The space will include magnesium-rich mineral pools, hot spas, cedarwood saunas, cold plunges, private infrared sauna rooms, red light therapy and massage services.

Thermal and Contrast Sanctuaries 

One Remedy- Potts Point
Created with a focus on all the ‘little things’ and community with a performance sauna, and multiple temperature ice baths expect immersive music and curated playlists to help you sink into relaxation, essential oil blends throughout the sauna house space to awaken the senses, and a drink bar to hydrate with a cold tea, tonic or electrolyte drink between sauna and ice bath rounds to relax and reset. Sauna hats are also on offer to help you extend the time you can sit in the sauna by keeping your head as cool as possible. Maximize your experience with 1Remedy’s expert lead recorded breathwork sessions available on demand in the reset lounge. 

Bath Haus – Cronulla
This coastal escape offers beautifully designed contrast therapy suites with steam saunas, ice baths, and private infrared sauna rooms. It’s the perfect mix of boutique luxury and recovery-focused wellness.

Helix House – Randwick
Set high above Coogee, Helix House is a favourite for contrast therapy with a view. Their wellness menu includes infrared and Finnish saunas, ice baths, Pilates, and an epic balcony set-up for post-session chill time.

CalmBar – Rozelle
Built around nervous system regulation, CalmBar combines ice baths and infrared saunas with guided breathwork and sound healing for a reset like no other. It’s a quiet space to find your calm and build mental resilience.

Sauna Amalfi – Avalon
Inspired by Italy's Amalfi Coast, Sauna Amalfi transports you to a Mediterranean oasis. With its soft curves, travertine finishes, and Italian accents, indulge in contrast therapy sessions that embody 'La Dolce Vita'. Fancy an aperitivo with your wellness sesh? On Friday’s and Saturday’s from 2pm you can enjoy a drink on Sauna Amalfi’s private terrace where they also host monthly community events curated with other local wellness businesses.

Nimbus Co – Bondi Beach, Manly, Neutral Bay, Queenscliff (coming soon)  
Nimbus pioneered private infrared sauna suites in Sydney, with bold coloured spaces, herbal teas, and a curated wellness shop. Ideal for solo sessions or sweaty catch-ups with a friend Nimbus’ OG location in Bondi also offers an outdoor courtyard experience so you can sauna and cold plunge whilst soaking up nature. Travelling interstate? Find Nimbus in Byron Bay, Fitzroy and Richmond. 
 

Multi-Modality Wellness Spaces & Biohacking Studios 

La Cure – Caringbah South
La Cure offers a range of natural, non-invasive treatments aimed at enhancing both mental and physical health. Services include whole-body cryotherapy, infrared sauna, float therapy, skin therapy, massage, and cosmetic treatments. It's a wellness haven where science meets relaxation.

RCVRI – Martin Place, Coogee, Cronulla and Manly
RCVRI is the ultimate urban recovery destination with hyperbaric oxygen therapy, Normatec compression, saunas, ice baths, and breathwork. Their spaces are sleek, modern and built for performance and mental clarity. We especially love that they’ve brought a recovery space to Sydney’s CBD making recovery time more accessible for time-poor CBD workers and corporates.

Mesa – Freshwater
Mesa is a sensory wellness space in Freshwater offering massage therapy, holistic facials, infrared sauna, and cold plunge sessions. Their treatments are designed to nourish both the inner and outer self, providing a pathway to healing and growth.

Akasha Integrative Health – Manly
A holistic sanctuary in Manly, Akasha Integrative Health combines traditional and modern therapies. Services include acupuncture, chiropractic care, massage, counselling, naturopathy, Chinese herbal medicine, kinesiology, high-intensity laser therapy, infrared saunas, ice baths, and hyperbaric oxygen chamber therapy.

Re|Hub Wellness – Bondi Junction
Offering the most comprehensive recovery menu in Sydney’s eastern suburbs here you’ll find everything from hyperbaric oxygen therapy, to cryotherapy to sauna’s and ice plunges. There’s no question about it- Re|Hub delivers next-level recovery. Designed for high-performers and anyone needing a recharge this space has everything you need to maintain your A-game.

Healing on Spring – Bondi Junction
Australia’s first dedicated red light therapy studio is the only place in Australia where you won’t just find group yoga, Pilates and sound healing classes in a red light therapy room, but also private full-body NovoTHOR sessions, DermaLux facials, and massage whilst soaking up the benefits of red light. The space also recently opened bookings for private events!

pHClinic – Balgowlah
pHClinic is known for holistic therapies including colonic hydrotherapy, red light, cryotherapy, and earthing. Their approach focuses on deep healing from the inside out.  Their red light sessions are unique with the incorporation of an earthing mat, bespoke frequency music playlists and restructured kangen water to fully maximise your deep physiological reset. 

Cryospa Clinics – Crows Nest 
Home to Australia’s largest pink himalyan salt room, the space offers Cryotherapy, Infrared Sauna's that come with the option of viewing your favourite Netflix series, Normatec Compression boots, and a full body red light therapy bed. Cryospa also offers a unique a full menu of lymphatic massages whether it’s just for the body, the body and face, or even for post surgery recovery.

Wildfire Wellness – Maroubra
A boutique-style space where locals love to sweat it out. This cosy infrared sauna studio space which comes with the added benefit of a curated retail space full of locally sourced chocolates, ceramics, candles and products to help you slow down and elevate your self-care. As the first dedicated infrared sauna and red light therapy studio in Australia, here you can experience full body red light therapy alongside the benefits of an infrared sauna session with red light therapy panels located within their sauna suites.

Tsavo Wellness – Mosman
Serene and thoughtfully designed, from the moment you step into Tsavo’s dreamy space whose layout was crafted in collaboration with a Feng Shui consultant, you know you’re going to be in for a treat and walk out feeling rejuvenated and elevated. With one serious focus on making the latest bio-hacking treatments accessible- not just for your body but also your face- you can access, red light therapy, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, alongside a range of other services including IV drips and lymphatic massage compression therapy.

WelloWorks – Rosebery
A co-working space that integrates red light therapy and recovery tools so you can work and recharge in one place? Ah yes please! WelloWorks has done what no other space in Sydney has done before- create work-life integration. Ideal for busy professionals and Rosebery locals, WelloWorks offers premium, state of the art wellness and recovery tech including infrared sauna with salt bricks, Red light therapy, Somadome for deep meditation, HydroMassage chair, Relax Meditation Pod and a CryoLounge.

Body WRL – Rosebery
This innovative studio offers Sydney’s only dry float bed along with red light therapy, breath and meditation therapy, and oxygen therapy. Get ready for a full body reset at this space that offers one of the broadest menus of wellness recovery treatments that we’ve seen.


Find a Wellness Space Near You 

Right to round up, here’s a super easy reference list so that no matter where you are in Sydney – or whereever you happen to visit on the weekends- you know where to go to get your recovery time on:

  • Alexandria: Soak Bathhouse (coming soon)
  • Avalon: Sauna Amalfi  
  • Balmain: Nature’s Energy  
  • Balgowlah: pHClinic  
  • Bondi Beach: Slow House, Nimbus Co  
  • Bondi Junction: Re|Hub Wellness, Healing on Spring, Soak Bathhouse (coming later this year)  
  • Caringbah South: La Cure  
  • Coogee: RCVRI  
  • Cronulla: Bath Haus, RCVRI  
  • Crows Nest: Cryospa Clinics  
  • Freshwater: Mesa  
  • Glebe: Nature’s Energy  
  • Manly: Nimbus Co, Akasha Integrative Health, RCVRI  
  • Martin Place: RCVRI  
  • Maroubra: Wildfire Wellness  
  • Mosman: Tsavo Wellness  
  • Neutral Bay: Nimbus Co  
  • Newtown: Nature’s Energy  
  • Potts Point: 1Remedy
  • Randwick: Helix House  
  • Rosebery: WelloWorks, Body WRL  
  • Rozelle: CalmBar  
  • Surry Hills: Capybara Bathing
  • Queenscliff: Nimbus Co (coming soon)

Whether you're looking to unwind in a luxe bathhouse setting, embrace thermal contrast therapy, or explore high-tech recovery, Sydney's wellness scene literally has something for everyone. Don’t forget to tag @zoii.sydney in when you visit these spaces so we can re-share to help more Sydneysiders find these spaces and of course sharing is caring so why not share this article with a Sydney wellness lover.
We’re pretty chuffed that Sydney has the most robust wellness and recovery offering of any city in Australia (we know because we’ve looked!).

 
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About the Author: Zoii Editorial Team

Our in-house Zoii editorial team is comprised of two very passionate wellness lovers who are healthy cookie aficionado's, enjoy long walks on the beach, getting their downward dog on, and working up a sweat in their running shoes. Most importantly, they're passionate about helping inspire you to enjoy every day as a lover of health and wellness.

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