10 Wellness Clubs to Discover in Toronto

If self-care and personal growth are on your radar for 2025, Toronto’s the perfect city to start your journey.

Home to some of the country’s most innovative wellness spaces, Toronto offers the opportunity to sample the latest in holistic wellness that combines mental and physical activities. 

Ready? Dive into these growth opportunities.

Live your best nightclub workout life

What if FOMO were the motivation you needed to get to your workout sesh? All-in-one luxury fitness and wellness facilities are the draw at venues that offer group fitness with nightclub-worthy music and lights, indulgent spa facilities and chic cafés, all under one roof.

Try it here: Sample the trend at Sweat & Tonic’s 25,000-square-foot ode to wellness at The Well. With 77 bikes in their massive spin studio, participants get the fully immersive, lose-yourself-in-the-throbbing-music-and-light-show experience. 

It’s easy to spend the whole day in this land of the fit, which includes a seemingly endless roster of spin, yoga, Pilates and HIIT classes, plus a spa, café, lounge/co-working space. (Don’t miss the “secret” swimming pool, sauna and hot tub!)  

Hotel-worthy change rooms come with Dyson hair dryers and chilled aromatherapy towels, while high-tech spa add-ons like DEXA body scans—which provide body composition data—take wellness diagnostics to the next level. 

Chill out like a champ

A common thread in today’s wellness trends is the need to calm your mind, body and nervous system… which is a lot harder than taking a few deep breaths. Various modalities promise relaxation, mindfulness and/or stillness—what if you could try them all in one place?

Try it here: Trove focuses on down-regulating your nervous system, and they throw every tool in the wellness book at you to help you truly, fully relax. 

You can choose from cold plunges, hypnotherapy and sound baths to a Himalayan salt cave, infrared sauna, red light therapy bed, and a full menu of meditation, yoga classes and spa services.

While a concierge can help put together a bespoke program before you visit, there’s also an extensive menu of pre-fab retreats that will give you a little bit of everything available at this sultry 5,000-square-foot facility in the Entertainment District.

Dip your toe into hot/cold therapy

While hot and cold exposure therapy hasn’t been so much “therapy” as a way of life for centuries in places like Finland, cycling the body between hot saunas and icy plunges has become a huge trend in North America. 

Adherents believe it can stimulate mood-boosting neurotransmitters, improve skin tone, enhance circulation and decrease muscle soreness. 

Try it here: The founders of Alter, a relaxed, community-minded space near the hip Ossington strip, want to make this potentially intimidating practice super accessible. 

The 60-minute Unwind and Rebalance classes, where an instructor guides the room through sauna and cold-plunge circuits while leading breathwork exercises and performing “sound healing” with instruments like Tibetan singing bowls and Koshi chimes, is the perfect introduction.

Tap into IV therapy

While pumping vitamins and minerals straight into your veins has long been a recovery method of hard-living rock stars, these days, wellness aficionados swear by IV infusions to attain glowing skin or manage migraines. 

Try it here: While Lemon Water Wellness in the Distillery Historic District offers quick, one-shot injections of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants like B12, Vitamin D, glutathione and magnesium, its therapeutic IV program is its main draw.

Your session starts with an intake appointment with a naturopathic doctor. The doctor will take your full health history and possibly order blood work. Then, they’ll determine what compounds you require for your custom IV—everything from the abovementioned superheroes to Vitamin C, calcium, zinc and amino acids.

After that, you get hooked up to your personal vitamin cocktail and relax in an airy, bright IV lounge for anywhere from 20 minutes to two hours (depending on how much juice you need) while those sweet nutrients flow directly into your thirsty veins. 

Newly revitalized, you can wander about one of the city’s cutest historical districts afterwards.

Focus on how you feel, not how you look

We’ve all been in those demoralizing yoga classes where it feels like you’re not as good, not as flexible, not as fit—somehow not enough. 

That’s why a new wave of studios is embracing dimly lit, mirror-free spaces to encourage clients to focus on how exercise makes them feel instead of how it makes them look. 

Try it here: Jaybird Pilates studio is here to remove all that self-criticism. They’re focused on the sweet spot where mindfulness meets movement and do everything possible to remove the competitive aspects of group fitness. 

Their motto is Nothing to See, Everything to Feel and, accordingly, the studios are mirrorless and candlelit, and the music is loud and immersive, so you stay in your body.  

Jaybird’s underground studio in the posh Yorkville neighbourhood is like a sensual portal into another world. The whole space is dark maroon, and the signature classes—there are separate reformer and mat studios—all take place with pumping surround sound. Most are heated by health-boosting, toasty infrared light.

Immerse yourself in sound bathing

Sound bathing is an experience that uses sound to promote relaxation, increase awareness and encourage healing. As certified sound worker Kiko Pace explains, sound bathing is a deeply personal experience. 

“You hear with your ears, but listen with your whole body… It is a practice that allows us to listen to our own intuition more clearly.” - Kiko Pace

Try it here: At Kiko’s small space off Roncesvalles in the Westside, participants lie on floor mats in a darkened room, covered cozily with blankets. The session begins with a guided breathing exercise, followed by one hour of listening to Kiko play various crystal bowls and chimes.

She uses a wand to send melodic sounds reverberating through the space, creating unique sounds with metal, shells and seed pods that are deeply relaxing.

Embrace social wellness

Social wellness is about connecting to others and strengthening yourself physically, socially, spiritually and mentally.

Social wellness clubs in Toronto aren’t just for a strict in-and-out sweat session—they offer a more well-rounded experience, including mindful interaction with others.

Try it here: At the approximately 8,200 sq m (89,000 sq ft) Altea Active social wellness club in Toronto’s Liberty Village, people come to sweat and push themselves—then let things go, relax and enjoy being part of a community. 

The club offers 185+ weekly studio fitness classes—including boxing, AntiGravity Fitness, hot yoga, aqua Zumba, FloatFit, Pilates, barre and spinning (in Canada’s largest spin studio).

They also boast meditation pods, a sauna, two steam rooms, a Himalayan salt lounge, plus cocktails and dining. 

Their active kids’ club provides a supervised indoor space for your kids to jump around or make crafts with new friends while you work out.

Plunge into thermal therapy… outdoors

Outdoor thermal experiences attract people who don’t flinch in cold weather. In this watery modality, hot and cold therapies, breathwork and mindfulness combine (yes, ice dips are involved).

Try it here: Unbounded Well at STACKT market, just south of vibrant King Street West, brings together hot and cold therapies, breathwork and opportunities for human connection.

You can book an experience on your own or get the guided version. The guided version includes breathwork exercises in a geodesic dome to help prepare you for a dip into a 1.5—to 2.5-degree Celsius outdoor ice bath.

Staying in for at least two minutes will give you maximal health benefits, and as little as 30 seconds “on ice” would also have numerous benefits.

After the ice bath, warm yourself in one of their saunas or at this wellness club's outdoor fire pit in the evening. Unbounded Well also offers sunrise lake dips every morning at three locations across Toronto.

Soak in the social bathhouse vibes

A social bathhouse experience is a unique way to foster community without alcohol. Guided experiences allow participants to explore elements like breathwork, music, movement and aromatherapy in a positive group environment.

Try it here: At Othership in Old Town, the goal is greater emotional and mental wellness in a fun and social venue.

During 75-minute or 2-hour sessions, guests can choose from various guided experiences in a communal sauna, followed by a dip in an ice bath and time to chill over tea. They can also do a less structured but still supported “free flow” class.

A crucial part of the Othership experience is their large red cedar sauna, accommodating up to 50 people. Essential oil–spiked snowballs are placed on the sauna rocks to infuse the space with their calming scent.

Don’t miss their popular 2-hour socials on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights with music, performance and access to all the hot and cold experiences in the studio.

Float away your cares

Floating in body-temperature Epsom salt-rich water is said to induce intense relaxation, which may relieve stress, calm anxiety, and even help ease physical pain.

Try it here: Book a 75-minute single or tandem session at H2O Float Studio in the Distillery Historic District, and then float in your own private cabin with 10 inches of water and more than 1,000 pounds of magnesium sulphate (Epsom salt). It’s a deeply meditative experience.

Float advocates claim magnesium can help relax nerves and muscles, increase energy levels and help bring on a great night’s sleep. And many people start that sleep while they’re floating!

While floating is nothing new, H2O offers unique float options, including a Salts of the World float, which includes Dead Sea, Himalayan and Mediterranean mineral salts. Choose the sounds of the ocean, rainforest or wilderness as your soothing backdrop.