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here’s going to be a new bathhouse in the city. Picture the communal bathhouses that date back centuries, but modern with an urban garden with saunas, mineral pools and even a geothermal well to heat the tubs. That’s the plan for the area around Osage Street and…
December 2, 2025
All 11 of the wellness sectors identified in a new Global Wellness Institute Report now exceed their pre-pandemic levels, with wellness real estate and mental health leading the way. The global wellness economy has…
November 19, 2025
The New York-founded “social wellness destination,” as they call it, brings saunas, pools and massages, all with a Dune aesthetic. Now, they’re expanding to Los Angeles, Chicago and Nashville.
November 13, 2025
Orion hopes to bring that type of camaraderie to Denver with the opening of Colorado Bathhouse, or CoBa. The network of pools, saunas and lounges across two buildings and a plant-packed courtyard is planned for 1339 Osage St. in Denver’s Lincoln Park neighborhood…
November 12, 2025
The team behind Coba is a long way from realizing its grand vision to put a pool-packed wellness mecca south of downtown Denver. So, for the moment, the company — named by combining the words “Colorado” and “bathhouse” — has settled for a sauna on wheels. A custom-built trailer, called the Cobacita, sits…
October 23, 2025
The Colorado Energy Office (CEO) announced $7.3 million in awards through the third cycle of the Colorado Geothermal Energy Tax Credit Offering (GETCO) Thursday. This competitively awarded, refundable tax credit will support four thermal energy network projects in the state, including a feasibility study and three installations. Awardees include local governments…
October 16, 2025
According to a recent study on the health and wellness of states, Colorado ranks as the second healthiest state in the country. Colorado ranked first in the lowest obesity rates and third in the most outdoor activity.
October 1, 2025
It’s a little after 9 p.m. on a Friday night and the mood is incandescent at one of New York City’s largest saunas, which is almost certainly its loudest. The place is packed, throbbing with ambient beats and the din of about 75 toned, poreless young cosmopolites, laughing and chattering and glistening in the
October 1, 2025
Dating is a nightmare. Loneliness is an epidemic. Phones have ruined both our attention spans and our posture. Inflation! Life just feels harder than it did even five or 10 years ago. If you ask Robbie Bent, the CEO and co-founder of a collection of sauna-and-ice-bath spaces called Othership, the cure is
September 12, 2025
“It’s completely changed our lives,” said Sabine Zetteler, a London communications agency director, who last year, with her partner, Alex Booker, an artist, built a kit sauna cabin by Polhus in their backyard in the London borough of Hackney. Looking out across serene plantings…
August 27, 2025
Nearly 20 people crammed into the scorching sauna of a Berlin spa on a cool evening in 2019, waiting for the Aufguss ceremony to begin. The word Aufguss translates to “infusion,” and spa-loving Germans speak about it as if it’s a spiritual experience. Sweaty missionaries—called Aufguss masters—have spread…
July 17, 2021