Spa & recovery in Perth

Merse Wellness Osborne Park is a bathhouse on Scarborough Beach Road with hot magnesium spas, cold plunge pools, hot rock and infrared saunas, a steam room and monsoon showers. Bathhouse sessions usually run 60 to 90 minutes. The steam room is open to members and casual visitors, with bookings through the Merse app. A Rejuvenate Lounge offers compression, LED light and sound sessions. Open weekdays 5.30am to 9pm, weekends 7am to 7pm.

A small studio within the Sanctuary Wellness Collective on Wood Street, Fremantle, founded by Amy and run as a collective of women practitioners. The published programme includes a fortnightly Monday meditation and sound bath from 6.30pm to 7.30pm, a weekly Thursday evening stretch class, and monthly sound bath and yoga events. Practitioners also offer one-on-one sessions in reiki, breathwork, yoga therapy, kinesiology and remedial massage, by appointment.

A yoga and Pilates studio on Scarborough Beach Road, upstairs from Jetts Gym with entry from the car park. It runs more than 60 classes a week across yoga, mat and reformer Pilates, breathwork, meditation and sound bath sessions, plus family-friendly yoga classes. A casual yoga class is $29 and a casual reformer class is $37, with class packs, weekly memberships and intro passes also available. Bookings are made through Mindbody.

A naturopathy practice on Ellen Stirling Parade run by Tracey Walker, a naturopath with a Bachelor of Health Science, with consultations in person or by phone. She works with herbal tinctures and eating plans — including a gluten- and dairy-free food plan of her own — and dispenses practitioner-only supplements where needed. Fees aren't published online, so ask when you book.

A low-tox hair salon on Main Street run by Gemma, who has 23 years in the trade, with organic colour, curly cutting and a head spa menu. Scalp treatments begin with a camera scalp analysis and run 70 to 120 minutes, from $189.99 to $399 for a head spa with an organic facial. New clients book a $34.99 consultation first, which includes a patch test. Open Tuesday to Saturday, late on Thursdays.

A day spa on Gilbertson Road in Kardinya with a long treatment list and its prices published in full. Aromatherapy massage runs 50 or 80 minutes, with couples rooms at both lengths, alongside Swedish, deep tissue, hot stone and Indian head massage, lymphatic drainage, facials and an infrared sauna. Open six days, from 9am on weekdays and 8.30am on Saturdays.

Twelve venues across Perth, most of them within sight of water — Scarborough Beach, City Beach, Cottesloe, Port Beach and Point Walter among them, alongside indoor rooms in West Leederville, East Perth, Burswood, Nedlands and Karrinyup shopping centre. Sessions run a flat sixty minutes on the hour and are communal rather than private, with venue capacities between seven and twenty. Cold water varies by site: ice pools, ice baths, ice showers, a magnesium pool, and at the beach venues the ocean itself. Booking is through the studio's own app.

A Forrest Street room in Subiaco running sauna and cold plunge in thirty or sixty minute blocks, with availability deliberately capped so the space stays quiet rather than filled. A thirty-minute session is $25 and an hour is $35, with early sessions at 5am, 6am and 7am for $7, $14 and $21. The timetable also carries yoga classes, and drinks afterwards are complimentary. Showers and change rooms are on site.

Four sites between the South Terrace studio and the beaches at South Beach, Leighton and Hillarys Boat Harbour, and the format changes with the location. The studio runs private infrared rooms at thirty minutes and a private magnesium bath and sauna at sixty; the beachside rooms are communal, including a silent session where nobody talks. A bath house experience and massage run alongside. Booking is online.

Two rooms on the coast — Railway Street in Cottesloe and a second inside the Swanbourne Surf Club — running more than thirty classes a week between them. The timetable is unusually wide for a studio this size: vinyasa and power vinyasa at one end, hatha flow and slow flow in the middle, and yin restorative, yin and yang, and myofascial release at the other. Sound healing runs as its own session and paired with yin.