My first ancient bath experience, on a day when I really needed to decompress, reminded me how healing it can be to simply ...

You know you’ve hit the sweet spot in your bathhouse session when the dim lights illuminating the dank, sweaty environs start to blur and a foggy halo appears around them. This optical illusion ...

That’s because, when I wasn’t looking, urban bathing – communal wellness, really – became a thing. Soon afterwards, I decide ...

Sinking into Sky Lagoon’s vast infinity pool, I’m wrapped in geothermal warmth and endless ocean views. The North Atlantic ...

With four kids under the age of 7, Australian influencer Bronte Towns deserves an uninterrupted bubble bath. But as it turns out, she actually prefers family tub time. In a viral Instagram post titled ...

How Turkey's centuries-old hammam culture helped one writer find community and a renewed sense of body confidence.

This used to be the time of year when the creepy basement of an old factory building in Minneapolis was the place to go if you wanted to make your hair stand on end. But now the industrial space ...

LONDON — When I received an invitation to a birthday party at a social sauna, my first thought was: "Do I have to be naked?!" The answer (thankfully) was no, although some sauna traditionalists would ...

For many centuries we have bathed in communal waters. Sometimes for cleanliness but more often for pleasure. Indeed, in ancient Greece, baths were taken in freshwater, or sometimes the sea — which was ...

Meanwhile, at Sage + Sound, on the Upper East Side, the focus is on meditation and sound baths; there are also workshops on ...