"The Nordics are redefining wellness in ways that feel both ancient and thrillingly modern,” says Off the Map Travel. View on ...

There are many ways to care for our bodies these days, some more luxurious than others. Let’s be honest — there’s nothing particularly glamorous about taking your daily vitamins, chugging water, or ...

Restore your mind and body with luxury saunas and icy plunges, from the world's first ice hotel to an Arctic bath indulgence ...

A new trend is heating up Boston this winter: pop-up saunas. It's a modern approach to an age-old Nordic bathing tradition as a means of relaxation and wellness. “When you're not near your phone or ...

There have been upbeat coming-out films (But I’m a Cheerleader) and tragic, infuriating ones (Boys Don’t Cry, Brokeback Mountain). Andrew Ahn’s Spa Night is executed on a significantly smaller scale, ...

I showed up to Wi Spa, the 24-hour Korean spa on Wilshire, at 4 p.m. on a Wednesday even though my treatment wasn’t until after 10. I also showed up with a bathing suit in my bag, on the off chance ...

Struggling with not only his sexuality but also his identity as a young Korean-American, the closeted son of immigrant parents turns to Los Angeles’ cruisy Korean sauna scene in hopes of answering ...

The Greek physician Hippocrates may well have been the first sauna aficionado. One can imagine him, circa 400 BC, sitting in a tiny windowless room heated by hot rocks, sweat dripping down his brow, ...

At just 45, Jules King says the painful, stiff muscles she experienced with her Parkinson's disease made her feel as if she were 'trapped in an 85-year-old's body'. But she has now found some relief ...

As a little girl in the 1940s I lived in Fitchburg with my grandmother “Mummu” and my mother in a cold-water flat on the corner of Kimball and Beech streets. My father was on World War II duty. The ...