Health & Wellness In Melbourne

Get ready to get your steam on Torquay, About Time, the Surf Coast’s first full service day spa with hot pools is set to open Boxing Day. 

Upstate has just opened their twelfth Victorian studio in the heart of Richmond, offering a dynamic range of high energy classes such as boxing, hot pilates, yoga, and two reformer studios. 

The wellness trend right now is definitely holistic health. A little bit of mindfulness, a little bit of yoga, throw in some clinical Pilates and a nutritionist meal plan. Maybe some massage.

Day-to-day got you down and feeling old beyond your years? Us too. Lucky SuperYoung's preventative, longevity technology like cryotherapy, red light and contrast therapy might just be the little fountain of youth you're after.

New Balance lands in Melbourne Central with its huge new concept store in the old Kookaï digs.

When it comes to treating ourselves, we’re *all* about spending some quality time taking advantage of Melbourne’s best wellness treatments, and right at the top of our list is the Sunlighten Wellness Hub in South Melbourne.

Renowned jewellery brand and all around icons Sarah & Sebastian are opening a third Melbourne location in Armadale.

The Skin Bar has finally arrived in Melbourne with its new outpost in Armadale. Securing a shop front on the bustling High Street right next door to Green Cup, you’ll spot this luxury skin clinic by its simplistic, forest emerald green exteriors.

Located in Prahran between Greville and Chapel Streets, Sydney's famous EdwardsAndCo hair studio has expanded into Melbourne's south. 

There’s always a raft of new health trends but one that’s really getting some serious love is Infrared Saunas, (they’re quite literally so hot right now). Vastly different to their steam counterpart the Infrared Sauna emits heat directly onto your body via electromagnetic light as opposed to the stifling amount of steam from traditional saunas that engulf the entire room.

Sometimes, you just want a no-frills number one shave on your dome-piece. Other times, you want a detached quiff to skin-fade. With a strict “everyone welcome” policy, a trim with the barbers at Yours Truly should be considered.

Nestled within the heart of Camberwell, True Dermal Skin Clinic prides themselves on delivering to their clients the most advanced, cosmetic, medical-grade, non-invasive treatments. With nurses, clinicians and therapists to guide you on your skin journey, the team offer tailor-made treatment plans after in-depth consultations. 

Too many of us complain about getting home from work after sitting in the office at a desk all day, having done absolutely no exercise and feeling stiff like your grandma. That's why couple Danny Walker and Jess Hatzis have opened up a new personal training studio in the backstreets of Cremorne called Frame.

Located in the heart of the city on Collins Street is MetaScent perfume studio and retail store run by Janelle Donnelly and Huynh Hai Yen who met studying professional perfumery.

Picture this: you’re on a yoga mat in downward dog position with a skyline view of South Yarra and the city skyscrapers in the distance. The team at Studio Ezra led by Georgia Ezra have designed a minimal space with light, neutral tones and whitewashed timber floors, perfect for the cushioning of limbs in wacky pilates positions. Situated on the 11th floor, the large glass window offers an escape from the bustling streets of the shopfronts in South Yarra down below. 

A tall lady with pink lips and a red headscarf greets her customers at the door with her dog Zeus, dressed in a red and blue checkered coat (just one of the many from his wardrobe). Marlene Cupido has been running Cristal Hair for 7 years and has established a successful salon where she mixes business with friendship. 

iFLY, the American extreme sports company, has opened its slick-looking indoor skydiving centres across the world and just brought their revolutionary concept to Melbourne.

Gone are the days of trying to get through a workout without being asked what your Instagram is, or being able to enjoy the company of like-minded fit females without the testosterone musk or over-exaggerated mid-workout grunts. 

Escape from your hair nightmares with Carlton's newest, highly Instagrammable salon.

Stepping away from the traditional, clinical salon interiors, Bat Your Lash feels more like a home; warm and inviting with personal touches that make you feel relaxed the second you breeze through those doors. Pops of pink and fresh greenery make the space contemporary, and that attention to detail is consistent with the team’s beauty approach at Bat Your Lash.

Offering unique, fun and immersive ride classes designed to not only challenge you physically but also mentally, Bodhi & Ride is revolutionising the Australian boutique fitness industry, one disco cardio party at a time. 

With sophisticated designs created to the highest quality using fabric suppliers from Italy and Switzerland, as well as extensive pre-production R&D, it's easy to understand why so many trust Pedla to keep their bums from getting sore after a long ride along Beach Road.

Sitting in the hair chair can be draining. That’s where The Bearded Man steps in to make your experience a lot more enticing. Relax with live beats, beans and of course your cut of choice, with one of the professionals at their new Fitzroy store, located on Rose Street.

If you can’t find your zen here, you probably can’t find it anywhere.

Richmond has just acquired one of Melbourne’s most in-demand hair salons, and we’re not mad about it.

Introducing The Blow, Melbourne’s new premium blow dry boutique in Little Collins. The Blow is the brainchild of Phoebe Simmonds, who is one impressive woman. She's been in the beauty industry for over ten years, and there isn't much she doesn't know about applying heat to hair.

Beauty expert Emma Thwaite has been obsessed with skin for a long time. Decades, in fact.

We didn’t know what to expect from an infrared sauna. Is it a microwave sort of deal? Do you sit there under a heat lamp like a pub parma? And what exactly do you wear...?

My Mama Said is a bit like what would happen if someone went out and built a fitness studio immediately after watching Flashdance.

Feeling a bit stressed? Overwhelmed by the impending doom or just plain over life? We feel you, guys. And so do our friends at Beyond Rest in Hawthorn.

If you’ve never done reformer pilates, it probably looks a lot like a bunch of ridiculous active-wear people stretching their legs across a moving torture platform. Is it just one of those ridiculous fitness trends that don’t do actually do much?

You might have heard of K-Kore before. You know, the guys giving you the courage to ditch your personal trainer for faster results and strange exercise machines? Yep, that’s the one.

You might have spotted something weird on Gertrude St lately.

Never trust a barber with bad hair. Everyone knows that. Well you’ll be happy to know Dario Krejic looks super trustworthy: this guy has the sort of chiselled chocolate hair you see on shampoo commercials.

A beauty treatment on your lunch break? Yep, that’s a thing now in the CBD, thanks to new skincare clinic St. Skin, which just popped up on Flinders Lane.

Winter has come, guys. It’s bloody freezing out there. And with all this cold, comes all this eating. And with all this cold and eating comes zero exercise. I mean really, who the heck wants to go for a run outside in the pouring rain? And the dark? Not us. 

If there’s one studio in Melbourne that’ll help you get ripped abs, it’s this place. They’ve got ‘Core’ in the name FFS.

So you want the LA look? That toned and tanned greyhound bod that looks like a fusion between Elle MacPherson and Olivia Newton John circa Let’s Get Physical? We know a good place...

There’s a lot of misconceptions floating around about yoga. First, that it’s expensive. Something you do before hopping in your Jag and brunching in South Ra Ra. The other is that yoga has become a ‘scene’ thing: that people are more concerned with 'gramming and #blessing each other than actually tuning out and enjoying the moment.

We all know the benefits of wellbeing, but nowhere in Melbourne is combining self-care with tasty food quite like Armadale’s newest addition: Willow Urban Retreat.

Are your brow’s looking more like second cousins rather than sisters? Look no further than the talented Eyebrow Artists over at Ottoman3 Brow Bar (that is—if you can see under those unruly face caterpillars).  

It’s Richmond’s time to shine. Yep, Melbourne’s best extraction facial team have set up shop in a new two-storey space on Swan St.

You have a hairdresser, right? But who’s your go-to browdresser? The brow wizards at Melanie Marris Eyebrows are your new port of call for all things archery. Don’t neglect those caterpillars, guys. They deserve some TLC too.

This one goes out to your New Year’s fitness resolutions. You know the ones. They were mentally listed on the 1st of Jan and then you put them down somewhere aaand...here we are. But better late than never, right? Rebalance Pilates are here to tone you up (pre Amalfi-sun-bed season) and restore some much-needed equilibrium to your hectic agenda. In the fine words of Olivia Newton John, let's get PHYSICAL.

We’ve got three words for you guys: urban axe throwing.

We’re all about balance. A green smoothie here, a jug of beer there—that’s what it’s all about. Lucky for us, our friends at ROAR Living totally agree.

A contender for ‘Best Looking Yoga Studio In Melbourne’? Yeah, we’re calling it.

Lifting and dropping heavy things might not seem like the most efficient workout. But the newest gym in Richmond, Core Strength Fitness Centre, is keen to change that perception.

Looking for a new lunchtime workout sesh? We might have found just the ticket.

In the old days, an apothecary was the guy you saw when your leg was falling off, or you needed a mysterious potion to help with stuff like, you know, the plague. These days it’s a little less hard-core...

'F* It' pretty much sums up our enthusiasm for a 6am workout sesh. But this place could change our minds. It’s a high-intensity fitness club in Ascot Vale that looks and sounds—basically—like a nightclub.

North Walls in Brunswick is the primo spot for hanging off some walls, run by Sam Percy (a Brunswick local for over 15 years). Sam envisioned a climbing spot in the northern suburbs with a chilled out community vibe and a focus on catering to a variety of climbers. From your regular Joes to seasoned veteran climbers. North Walls is an environment where people can climb, hangout, listen to some sweet tunes, and have a good time.

While we all love to treat ourselves to a little facial here and some hair removal there, the struggle can definitely be real trying to find that perfect unicorn of a beauty therapist: one that's both high-tech AND affordable.

I strip off and climb into the giant, neon-lit pod, feeling only slightly self-conscious about the whole thing. This is float therapy—anti-gravity, sensory deprivation—a giant enclosed bath containing 500L of super-saturated Epsom salts. It’s about as close to the Dead Sea experience as you’re gonna get in Collingwood’s backstreet warehouse district.

Men of Melbourne, put down the clippers. Your barber has arrived.

If you prefer to stay away from the unisex hair salons that reek of mystical chemicals and overly fruity shampoo, Smith St has a barbershop that will both reaffirm your manhood and give you a damn good haircut.

Kim Stark and Hannah Dupree wanted to do something different. Both had already established successful start-ups (Kim created Wheatbags Love and Hannah is the genius responsible for tea company Storm In A Teacup).

We don’t know what laser tattoo parlours are meant to look like, but they shoudn’t look like this. They’re meant to be scary places, run by bikers called ‘Butch’, not classy AF industrial offices in Collingwood. They’re not meant to have apartment-porn leather chairs either, or artful hanging plants and modern art on the walls.

Want power brows that’d make Cara blush? Looking for a long-term solution to lip colour and lash length? Might be time to give cosmetic tattooing a try. It’s not as scary as it sounds. Feather-touch brows and lip blush tattoos are pretty common now, and there’s a place in Collingwood that specialises in quick, (relatively) pain-free treatments.

Tried F45? HIT classes making you want to cry? Just about ready to throw your drink bottle at your relentlessly-cheerful spin instructor? We feel your pain. And so does K-Kore, Melbourne’s latest fitness trend.

If you want to mix it on Swan St, fresh cuts are pretty much a given. The Richmond/Cremorne hair scene is strong these days, spurred on by boutique barbers like Dr Follicles and General Order. You can’t walk Punt Rd without seeing a well-sculpted beard or Dustin Martin buzz-cut.

Honey lovers (that’s all of you, obviously), listen up. Beechworth Honey, has been listening to our prayers because they’ve gone and opened a freakin’ store dedicated entirely to honey…right in the CBD. The family-owned business is the brainchild of a fourth-generation bee-keeper, too.  

Tucked away 'round a corner off Toorak Road, there's a new salon dedicated to dedicated to "anti-crap": Bob Hair Co.

Finding a spray tan you can actually trust is like The Holy Grail. Sometimes you hear whispers of a place that’s a ‘sure thing’, some underground urban legend where they DON’T turn you into an oompa loompa two days before your cousin’s wedding. But actually finding one is tricky. It’s always some friend of a friend’s sister’s mate’s neighbour who discovered tanning Narnia. Never you.

Melburnians, we’ve found the hottest wellness studio you need to rewind, relax and rejuvenate after a hard week (or 20-something years, if we’re being honest here). Armadale’s newest arrival—ODOS—is a specialised infrared sauna and oxygen therapy studio with treatments that sooth your body using the latest technology in wellness and health.

Now that we’re all grown up (for the most part), we’re all looking for ways to workout that aren’t necessarily traditional, aka boring or difficult. Cue Bounce Inc. It’s like the creators of Bounce were listening to our thoughts and answered our prayers, because if you’re looking for a way to get that heart rate up without having to buy a gym membership, continue reading.

Foodies who hate fitness: this is one workout you’re actually going to enjoy. S3 has recently opened a stunning basement studio in the heart of Melbourne, specialising in low-impact, high-energy barre classes.

Affectionately know as PA's, Prince Alfred Hotel is a Richmond local's dream.

Need to get inspired to get moving? Well Universal Practice are here to show you the ropes (literally). Just one year on from the launch of their first store yoga and pilates studio in Richmond, Universal Practice have officially opened a second space, this time in Fitzroy.

Richmond seems to be dotted with thousands of backstreet industrial gyms (must be all those warehouses lying around), but finding one that isn’t a sweaty, GloboGym muscle palace isn’t always easy. Enter The Richmond Gym: an accessible fitness space that’s all about good technique and old-fashioned fun.

All hail the humble squat – the exercise responsible for 90% of peach emoji’s posted on social media. What would we do without you?

If you take a peek into the future of health care, you’ll probably see something like Upwell Health Collective. This place is kind of insane: a tranquil Zen space in Camberwell that combines nearly every type of clinical and wellness treatment known to science (and some known to faith).

Finally—a gym that offers both indoor and outdoor training. Rain, hail or shine, the Brighton Baths Health Club offers a solid workout with a serious view. Can't beat that combo. There's regular Beach Fit classes right on the sand, a modern gym and changing rooms, plus the place is open 24/7, so you can work out in your own time.

Today's world definitely has better access to celebrity gossip, cheese and 24-hour online shopping, but it’s also a pretty stressful place. That’s kinda why mindfulness and meditation are having a moment. But meditating on your couch with, say, Season 3 of Geordie Shore in the background, probably isn’t the best way to do it. Enter A–Space, a chilled-out meditation studio, based in Collingwood.

Remember when you were a little kid and running around your backyard and having fun counted as exercise? Those were the days. The team at The FUNctional Project understand that not everybody is motivated by an end result—no matter how buff it might be. Instead they're striving to make your workout fun again by offering experience-based training that takes the “should” out of exercise.   

If you’re looking for some Hunger Games-style survival training, or just a great way to have fun and let off steam, you’ve got to check out arrow tag. It's paintball’s badass older brother.

One of our favourite brow bars is now open in Prahran! Say hello to lush lashes and perfectly curved brows all day everyday with the experts at Lash & Brow Boudoir. Boasting extravagant mirrors and lux chairs in a bright brow studio, getting your brows done just got a whole lot more fun ladies! Nestled just outside the Prahran market, the Lash & Brow Boudoir is the perfect pre or post-grocery pit-stop to give yourself a little lift.

Dukes Gym in Richmond is our latest favourite fitness find, and it ticks all of our ‘ideal gym’ boxes. It’s got a beautiful, high-ceilinged space (tick). It’s what we’d consider a ‘proper gym’, but not in the intimidating, body-builder-type way that swears you off carbs–and gyms–for life (tick). And there’s a female-only area, complete with funky tropical wallpaper (tick).

It doesn’t look like much from the street, but wander up the stairs to Belinda Hughes’ new South Yarra skin clinic and you suddenly find yourself in a timber-floored Zen palace. The white-washed walls, leafy outlook windows, and a soothing meditation soundtrack massages its way into your brain.

Skin is probably a really clever invention, but from a layperson’s perspective, there’s a lot of stuff that can go wrong. Ageing, pigmentation, acne, scarring, blocked pores, too oily, not oily enough–if skin was a new car, you wouldn’t buy it. The maintenance would put you off and you’d go buy a Prius instead. Enter James Vivian Dermal Therapies (JVDT for short), a boutique skin clinic in Prahran that’s getting a reputation for results (just check out their Facebook reviews).

Whatever else you think about New York City, those guys know how to gym. And now a slice of that Big Apple, boutique fitness scene is getting its sweat on in the backstreets of Cremorne, near Swan St. It’s called Progression Fitness, a joint project from owners Scott Pendlebury (of Collingwood fame) and trainer Ben Scolyer, built on professional coaching and high intensity training (HIT). If you haven’t tried a HIT session before, you probably don’t know what a ‘workout’ really is.

On first glance, The A Life might look like your regular boutique yoga studio, but step inside and you’ll soon realise there’s a lot more on offer than just child’s pose and deep breathing. Run by fully qualified Osteopaths, this Carlton North clinic takes a holistic approach to healing, focusing on wellness from the inside out.

There’s a new yoga studio making waves in Hawthorn East. Jessica Dewar Yoga runs on a pretty unique system (aka the Lentil As Anything approach). They practice a range of yoga styles in their classes, and the cost is totally up to you. Yup, you read that right.

Dry & Tea has finally hit Melbourne, with its first Aussie store based in Hampton. This award winning concept salon is a blow wave/styling bar and tea house, but with a team of senior stylists, they also offer a full-service cut/colour menu, makeup services and a nail bar.

Calling all health buffs and fans of all things weird and wonderful: Melbourne’s very first whole-body cryotherapy centre—Alchemy Cryo—have just opened their doors!

Whether you want to stroll idly down the cobbled streets of the suburbs or you're looking for something a bit more adventurous, Reid Cycles has got you covered. With a showcase of Australian designs, the guys at Reid are offering up road bikes, slick options for city commuters and even a classic vintage design complete with a fun mesh basket.

We’ve all heard of acupuncture as a means of pain relief, but what about as a cosmetic aid? Yes, that’s right! Sticking needles in your face is a thing, and it actually works!

Reimagine visiting a nutritionist because an appointment at Luxton Clinic is more like visiting a day spa! The team at this boutique clinic focus on revitalising and nourishing your body through naturopathy, whole-foods, and good ol’ fashion nutrition. Get ready to swap the Coke for green tea and the Nutella for superfood protein balls because Luxton Clinic will teach you all about living a healthy and balanced lifestyle. Once you’ve learnt not to eat cold pizza for breakfast, you can relax with a remedial massage and leave feeling like a whole new person! 

Bradley James Hair Dressing will have you strutting the streets of South Yarra with confidence. Bradley’s new salon not only has a contemporary edge, but boasts some of Melbourne’s leading cutting and color specialists. These Geniuses take a personal approach to helping you achieve your ultimate hair style. From unicorn hair to bayalages or a stylish cut, you’re in safe hands here!

Melanie Grant is all about beauty with results. As one of Australia’s most renowned skin professionals, Melanie Grant provides specially tailored treatments designed to enhance your skin and complexion to its maximum quality. With the use of state-of-the-art technology and therapeutic products and formulations, she will help you achieve your own beauty goals.

I think I can safely say that waxing doesn’t fall into anyone’s favourite beauty treatment category. And fair enough too. It now sits firmly in the ‘necessity’ column, not the ‘pamper’ column. But for all our loathing of dedicating time, money and energy to ripping out unwanted hair, we’re still completely chuffed when we find somewhere that’s beyond excellent at what they do, enter: Waxed.

Australia’s latest fitness-circuit sensation has just arrived to Fitzroy, and they’re taking things up a notch in the fitness scene.