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Welcome to Well, Then, taking a look at the biggest news and trends when wellness and travel intersect.
There’s one wellness ritual that has us all lathered up: contrast bathing.
What’s contrast bathing you might ask? Right this way. We’re talking hot-cold cycles in the chicest saunas, plunge pools and steam rooms—once a spa extra, now the whole reason to pack a bag.
The New York Times just wrote about the explosion of home saunas and cold plunges and San Francisco (Sausalito, to be exact) just hard launched the Bay Area’s first floating sauna, Fjord, meant to provide an immediate connection to nature and each other. Head to the complex, share one of two saunas on the float while you relax and socialize. Then, into the bay you go.
Contrast therapy is peaking and hotels around the world are taking the tradition of bathing culture and remixing it with design-forward, Instagram-worthy flair. So heat up, cool down and repeat. The payoff: a dopamine spike, a total reset and a seriously stunning backdrop for those travel snaps.
Here’s where to steam, plunge, reboot, repeat:
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