Depending on what ails you—maybe it’s a hangover, maybe it’s chronic pain—sometimes a juice cleanse or regular old massage just isn’t enough. When you want to take your healing journey to the next level, give alternative therapy a try. Consult with your physician beforehand, of course, but here are the best places for detox and alternative therapy in Nashville.
The Best Places for Detox and Alternative Therapy in Nashville
Framework
Framework is one of Nashville’s most popular wellness destinations for sauna and cold plunge sessions. Expect an outdoor sauna set to at least 175°F with 265 pounds of hot stones and a variety of cold plunge tubs set to different temperatures. Monthly memberships and single-session visits are available.
- Best Known For: Sauna and cold plunging
- Neighborhood: Berry Hill
The Lotus Room
If you suffer from insomnia, anxiety, or an out-of-whack nervous system, consider Shirodhara. In this form of ayurvedic therapy, a steady stream of warm herbal oil is continuously poured over your forehead, which houses a high concentration of nerves. The soothing experience has been known to stimulate blood circulation and result in a bliss-like state. The Lotus Room owner Jenna Wolf also offers personalized ayurvedic lifestyle consultations to learn which holistic approaches are best for you.
- Best Known For: Ayurvedic therapy
- Neighborhood: Hillsboro Village
ARETE
Arete provides clients with rejuvenation services based on individual needs. Clients can expect wellness treatments such as infrared sauna sessions, whole-body cryotherapy, and a hyperbaric oxygen therapy chamber. Arete takes health and wellness to the next level by offering services like vitamin infusions and injections. A variety of monthly memberships are available, along with single sessions for some treatments.
- Best Known For: Infrared saunas, cryotherapy, hyperbaric oxygen therapy chamber
- Neighborhood: Green Hills
UrbanSweat
Practice more self-care and pay a visit to UrbanSweat. This luxury wellness studio strives to inspire healthier communities and empower longevity. Explore the variety of memberships and packages available here.
- Best Known For: Infrared saunas, red light therapy, cold plunge
- Neighborhood: The Nations | Green Hills | Wedgewood-Houston
Float Nashville
Float Nashville provides float therapy for easing chronic pain, migraines, anxiety, and depression. As the first float studio in the state, this Berry Hill oasis has been healing locals for over nine years. Athletes, musicians, and others needing stress relief regularly dip into Float Nashville’s three tanks, which include two traditional pods and an open float tank.
- Best Known For: Float therapy
- Neighborhood: Berry Hill
Pure Sweat Sauna Studio
Looking to have a good sweat? Pure Sweat Sauna Studio is a must-try. This relaxation destination features full-spectrum infrared sauna cabins that deliver a trio of infrared wavelengths that can produce results from weight loss to pain relief. The Gulch location offers cold plunging and contrast therapy which features an array of science-backed health benefits.
Urban Oasis Day Spa
Urban Oasis lives up to its name by offering a wide range of ways to heal, including the Japanese stress-relief practice of reiki. They also specialize in massage cupping, often in combination with a lifting facial for head-to-toe rejuvenation, and lymphatic drainage. If you have a group of 3 or more, book an Urban Oasis spa party.
- Best Known For: Cupping, facial rejuvenation therapy, and lymphatic drainage
- Neighborhood: West End
Salt and Soles
For a unique experience in Nashville, check out the Himalayan Salt Cave at Salt and Soles. The salt cave provides benefits to sleep, skin, and breath. While you’re there, you can also enjoy a reflexology session, which involves applying pressure to reflex points on the feet. A popular combination at Salt and Soles is a salt therapy session in the salt cave followed by a reflexology session (30-, 45-, 60-, 90-minute options are available).
- Best Known For: Salt cave and reflexology
- Neighborhood: Edgehill
CYL Sauna Studio
One of the most relaxing ways to detox is to sweat out the toxins that have accumulated in your body. At CYL Sauna Studio, you accomplish this by hanging out in an infrared sauna pod rather than an enclosed room. Your head sticks out of the pod, so you’re still breathing room-temperature air. According to the owner, sauna pods sweat out up to 30% of toxins compared to the 3% of a traditional infrared sauna.
- Best Known For: Infrared sauna pods
- Neighborhood: Green Hills
Basic Kneads
Basic Kneads is one of the only places in Nashville to offer cupping which is a form of traditional Chinese medicine. Cupping has made headlines over the years, thanks to celebrity endorsements from Gwyneth Paltrow and Michael Phelps, but has been around for about 3,000 years. Special cups are placed on the skin to create suction, which can ultimately ease pain, relax muscles—and leave in its wake large, red circular marks wherever they’re applied.
- Best Known For: Cupping
- Neighborhood: Sylvan Park
Nashville Center for Alternative Therapy
If you’re interested in acupuncture, a traditional Chinese medicine practice of inserting needles into the skin, Nashville Center for Alternative Therapy is a good place to start. Cofounder Yvonne Constancio helps her clients recover from localized injuries and chronic pain. Healing services like reiki, are also available.
- Best Known For: Acupuncture
- Neighborhood: East Nashville
Know of other great detox and alternative therapy places? Let us know in the comments!
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Also of note: Cryotherapy at Ona Skincare in Belle Meade. It’s off Hwy 100 and a 3-minute session has numerous health benefits!
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