Wellness

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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. 

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. 

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.

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

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...?

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.

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.

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

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.

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).

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.

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).

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.

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.

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!

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! 

On a side street just off Church Street, you'll find a warehouse. Once you step into this warehouse, you wouldn't have any idea people are lining up for hours at Top Paddock or Pillar of Salt just a few hundred meters down the road. This converted warehouse on Albert Street is home to Universal Practice, your new favourite all round fitness and mindfulness location. 

We love a Melbourne hot-spot that makes our lives easier, and when it comes to keeping fit, healthy and happy, Harmonia Health does exactly that. The South Melbourne hub is home to just about everything you need to keep your body and mind functioning in tip-top condition: Yoga, meditation, Qigong and Reiki healing (read on to find out what they actually do…), massage therapy, acupuncture, and healthy groceries and bodycare, all under one roof for the very first time.

Previously nestled at the back of the unassuming Kines cafe, The Break Room has now moved to the Collingwood Mastercraft warehouse. A move which may happen again—because this is basically just a pop up plastic box with a stool in the middle and a couple of pink baseball bats on hand.

Laneway Greens is nourishing the bellies of CBD workers and shoppers with their wholesome breakfast bowls, salads and smoothies. With so many healthy cafes cropping up in the ‘burbs, we are very excited to find this one right in the centre of the city. Pick up a blackberry and coconut chia pudding or macadamia and buckini granola bowl from these guys in your mad rush to the office. Or, if you feel like some liquid nutrition, their blended-on-the-spot smoothies are boasting out-of-this-world flavours including apple and cinnamon, and blueberry, banana and maple.

Rest House Float in Hampton East is the latest Melbourne float centre to send customers in to a dreamy, deeply relaxed state.

If you’re looking for a bit of pampering this week, A Little Company has the works without without the weird ingredients. With a focus on a sustainability, A Little Company takes on an integrated approach so you’ll leave feeling rested and happy inside and out.

New Port Melbourne fitness studio Bodhi & Ride specialises in keeping your mind and body fit. Taking a three-pronged approach to fitness and wellness, the stunning new studio combines unique Bodhi Flow yoga, spin classes and guided meditation in one two-level space.

We don’t mean to alarm you, but we think we’ve found Melbourne’s most relaxing fitness studio. Yoga XTC in South Yarra is a small, multi-service studio that offers complete health and fitness coaching.

There's always a bit of a focus on the ladies concerning skincare and treatment clinics, but Mankind is here to treat the lads. Offering face and body skin treatments, remedial, sports and relaxation massage, and packages specifically tailored for groomsmen and the groom-to-be or to perk you up after a big night out - Mankind sure know how to deliver. 

Situated in Moonee Ponds, Studio 3 has combined everything about fitness that we love to create the ultimate fitness-meets-zen mecca.

HÜD Skin + Body Lounge is a unique skincare offering using exclusive and globally renowned products to deliver on all your skincare needs - and best of all, they've managed to achieve the kind of calm and stylish setting that makes you feel like you're hanging out in owner Gry Tomte's Scandinavian designer home.

In need of some relaxation? Get to Beyond Rest, one of the best centres for floatation therapy in Melbourne. The Prahran wellness centre specialises in floating, which allows the mind and body to truly relax. Beyond Rest's facilities are modern, inviting and perfect for chilling out after a long week. 

Southsiders, rejoice! Equipped with six state-of-the-art floatation tanks, the Water Temple wellness centre is a fantastic place to unwind, giving both the body and mind an opportunity to relax and rejuvenate.

Helloooooo KFit, our new favourite fitness and lifestyle membership app! This little beauty gives you access to everything from yoga and boxing to saunas and indoor rock climbing… and most things that you can think of in between, in a single membership that makes the most of hundreds of Melbourne’s best studies, activities and fitness venues.

Norbu Urban Retreat is the ultras luxe Melbourne day spa and wellness centre located inside The Olsen Hotel in South Yarra. Offering an extensive suite of health, wellness and beauty treatments, Norbu really is the ultimate place to relax, unwind and treat yourself. With a team of highly trained specialists, Norbu’s cosmetic treatments and medical facials are some of Melbourne’s best. Norbu spa is open to guests of The Olsen, as well as external clientele.

There’s no excuse to skip your morning sesh with CBD located Yoga Corner. Conveniently on Collins Street, Yoga Corner is designed specifically for pre-work yoga or post-work classes with custom built showers and changing rooms onsite. One of Melbourne’s best studios is now located at your (work) doorstep! 

Move over, coffee, there's a new kid in town! Anyone who knows anything about the latest superfoods is talking matcha, the delicious organic green tea powder that's replacing coffee, cocoa and just about everything in lattes, smoothie bowls, healthy treats and more. Looking for the best matcha powder around? Matcha Maiden makes delicious organic green tea powder—aka. the latest superfood to hit Melbourne—sourced from the Uji region of Kyoto in Japan, and delivered direct to your doorstep, ready for use in tea, smoothies, raw treats, baked goods and more.

St. Jerome’s – The Hotel is an idea so incredible that we’re convinced it could only exist in Melbourne. Situated on top of the CBD’s three-storey shopping precinct, Melbourne Central, the thirty-tent pop-up hotel brings together luxury accommodation, a cocktail bar, a camp clubhouse (complete with high tea,  coffee, games and playing cards…) and an on-site art gallery in a once-in-a-lifetime camping experience on one of the city’s most central rooftops. You must be dreaming, right?!

The Pressed Juices Cafe has arrived in Elsternwick! As well as dishing up their famous cold pressed juices, Pressed Juices Cafe is home to delicious healthy meals and coffee. Yup, they've now got beans as well as greens! Grab a nutritious and delicious lunch in the gorgeous Elsternwick Cafe, or take away a ready-made dinner. 

If you like your snacks healthy, you're going to love Melbourne protein ball company Health Lab, who make delicious snacks that deliver on nutrition and flavour. All of Health Lab's products can be ordered online and delivered to your door in Sydney. We love the surprise snack pack—perfect for those indecisive days! 

If you’ve ever wanted to exercise in style and luxury, beautiful South Yarra fitness space, Studio PP is made for you. Among other contemporary programs, Studio PP offers Pilates, yoga, barre, boot camps, boxing and personal training. The brainchild of ex-winter Olympian and fitness dynamo Steph Prem, Studio PP also houses a nutritionist for meal planning consultation and massage therapy specialists. Yeah, there’s literally everything you could want in this amazing Melbourne fitness studio. 

Body Be Well is a Melbourne fitness and healthy lifestyle coaching service that helps your body to, um, be well! The personal training service combines exercise with education and healthy eating to lead to a sustainable, healthy lifestyle for its clients. Expect bespoke advice, top class coaching, enthusiastic and experienced trainers plus functional training that gets results. Better yet, you can pay as you go and classes fit around you, so why not give it a go?

Up there among Melbourne's best yoga studios, Grass Roots Yoga in Richmond is perfect whether you’re starting out as a beginner, intermediate or expert at hot yoga. Get your sweat on at this wellness studio that will cleanse your body inside and out. Make sure you book in for one of their yoga retreats too!

The contemporary Light Space Yoga studio in Mitcham, spearheaded by mother-daughter pair Susan and Claire, is a Melbourne yoga studio specifically designed to relax your senses and create a feeling of calmness through its design. Enjoy a modern yoga session on white bamboo and coloured pillows, overlooking a skyline view of Melbourne. A beautiful space to nurture yourself. 

Light Space Yoga in Balwyn emphasises the importance of the yoga space as much as the teachers. Designed to feel light and airy the moment you walk into the studios, this Melbourne Yoga studio is ideal for the stress-heads and overworked among us. Maybe we’ll need to visit sometime. 

Oh how we adore you, Pressed Juices! Delicious, healthy and nutritious, this is true guilty free drinking. The infamous Melbourne cold pressed juice brand now runs a Juice Van, which visits different suburbs of Melbourne every day. Follow Pressed Juices on Instagram to keep updated on locations. Fresh juices are coming to you soon, Listers! 

Say hello to Serotonin Eatery, Melbourne’s new healthy cafe, exercise and education hub. Featuring delicious and (you guessed it) healthy, plant-based food, Serotonin Eatery's menu will leave you feeling full and happy. The wellbeing centre boasts a fully equipped exercise hub right next door to the restaurant, so there’s no room for excuses here! Take the opportunity for an afternoon filled with healthy exercise, healthy food and a healthy lifestyle. 

A couple of years ago, Happy Melon opened in Armadale, promising something new in the healthcare and wellness game.

A healthy food delivery service with a difference, Youfoodz is going to shake up your eating habits! A completely fresh menu (Youfoodz is never, ever frozen―it's made fresh each week and delivered to your door by the Youfoodz delivery team), we're big fans of their tasty, trendy meals―think Jamaican jerk chicken, ribs, chicken parmys, and lasagne...yes, we swear it's good for you! Youfoodz meals are designed by nutritionists (even their epic peanut butter bliss balls!). 

If you’ve never heard of floatation therapy, we wouldn’t blame you! Gravity Floatation Centre in Northcote is one of Melbourne’s best-kept wellness secrets. The centre itself is an oasis of calm, combining floating—a natural therapy championed for its stress-relief, muscle relaxation and productivity benefits—with a hand-picked selection of herbal teas, supplements, skincare and at-home relaxation products.

Find a yogi sanctuary tucked away from the hustle and bustle, but still in the convenient location of Flinders Lane in the Melbourne CBD. MOVE Yoga is housed in a stunning warehouse space, transformed by Hecker Guthrie into a minimalist part Scandanavian, part Japanese tranquil masterpiece. This calming and beautiful space holds hot yoga and Vinyasa classes that cater for all skill levels, you’ve just got to be prepared to work up a sweat with the room temperatures set between 28 and 35 degrees!

Offering 100% sustainable practices in providing their delicious plant based food, Heal.Thy Self Co. in Yarraville is a tropical themed clean eating cafe dedicated to providing you with a totally healthy experience! Nutrition is king at this health haven, but flavour doesn’t take the back seat. Get pumped for their super smoothies and raw treats! Their zucchini spaghetti with cherry tomatoes is a definite winner, too.

When you are in need of some positively organic goodness, head to Pressed Juices for all of your nourishment needs. The power of cold pressed juices is available to take away, or take home, to ensure you always have the proper nutrition at hand. Try a cleanse to feel really amazing, or simply experience the benefits on a daily basis. 

Looking for a simple way to get healthy? Pressed Juices is your one stop shop for all of your nourishment needs. Pressed Juices uses the power of cold pressed juices to ensure you always have the proper nutrition at hand. In handy single serves, try a cleanse to detox, and feel amazing every day. 

Whether you want to improve your digestion, skin tone or general wellbeing, Pressed Juices have a combination to suit.  Using the power of cold pressed juices, the team combine ingredients to maximise the benefits of the ingredients. Available to take away, or take home, try a cleanse to feel really amazing, or simply experience the benefits on a daily basis. 

Need a dose of goodness? Try Pressed Juices, in South Yarra. A juice outlet with a philosophy that the power of cold pressed juice can assist in your health and wellbeing, the team produce flavoursome beverages with nutrition benefits. Also available in cleanse and detox, this is your first stop on the way to wellness.

Aurora Spa Retreat, located within The Prince Hotel on Acland Street, provides some of the best spa treatments in St Kilda. From massages to facials, Aurora offers treatments to suit everyone's relaxation needs - even including treatments for soon-to-be mums!

Head to Howey Place and you'll find Pressed Juices – a one-stop-shop for all of your nourishment needs. Harnessing the power of cold pressed juices, with Pressed you'll always have proper nutrients in the palm of your hands. Grab a Pressed Juice today and you'll be feeling great in no time at all.

Former paratrooper and Modern Yoga author, Duncan Peak, discovered yoga as a teenager and has subsequently transformed this early passion into a successful business in Power Living Yoga, with studios in Melbourne and Sydney. The South Melbourne outpost of Power Living Yoga is a great spot to get your zen on, with a range of classes including Power Vinyasa and Power Revive/Yin suited to all experience levels. There are also a range of retreats on offer that promise to give you a whole new outlook on tackling life head on. The 40-day challenge promises to deliver subtle but sustained shifts in your life and increase self-confidence, acceptance and love. What's not to love?

The latest addition to former paratrooper and yoga devotee Duncan Peak's Power Living Yoga empire sits just north of Carlton Gardens above the FILA store on Nicholson Street in Fitzroy. Power Living Yoga Fitzroy boasts two yoga and meditation rooms plus a large community room, community being a linchpin of the P.L.A.Y. approach to yoga teaching. P.L.A.Y. offers a range of classes to suit all experience levels, starting with Power Basic, and focuses on the spiritual as well as physical and mental benefits of yoga. Awash with natural light, the Fitzroy studio is the perfect place to find balance. 

Who knew getting healthy could be so delicious! Offering up flavour-packed fresh juices with the greatest nutritional punch around, you can't pass up a trip to the Collin's Street Pressed Juices store on your way to work or in your lunch break. You'll be feeling healthier with each and every sip of your cold-pressed juice! Ask instore about the cleanse programs, too.

Located in St Kilda, Grass Roots Yoga is the ultimate hot spot to lengthen your muscles, clear your head and sweat, sweat, sweat! The studio embraces its Moksha-inspired roots, and delivers one-hour hot yoga classes designed to open, strengthen and detoxify the body, all the while promoting mindful and sustainable living. For those who can't handle the heat (a toasty 37 degrees!), Grass Roots Yoga also offer other styles of yoga, including vinyasa flow, slow flow, and yin yoga classes. There's also an in-house remedial massage therapist, and nutritionist if you're looking for a more holistic experience.

Located on Toorak Road, Me Skin and Body is a boutique specialist skin clinic that’s all about a personalised, holistic approach to treatments. They’ve got skincare experts at your service, offering a stacked menu of treatments. Some lean more in the rejuvenation and pamper space, whilst others tackle anti-aging and acne management.

Tucked away on Little Collins Street, Green Press is a superfood goldmine that never fails to draw a crowd of hungry workers come lunchtime. Everything Green Press serve is nourishing and delicious, with cold pressed juices, superfood smoothies, nut milks, tasty salads and raw vegan fare ready to fuel you through your day. They also host workshops and events with notable nutrition bloggers, keeping us all informed (not to mention well fed)!