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 seven traditional saunas set to at least 175°F with 265 pounds of hot stones and various cold plunge tubs set to different temperatures. Monthly memberships and single-session visits are available. At their Wedgewood-Houston location, members can enjoy a cafe experience featuring a full espresso menu, custom-crafted functional Tealixers packed with health-boosting ingredients, and bespoke zero-proof cocktails. If you’re over on the eastside, be sure to check out their new location, Backyard by Framework.
- Best Known For: Sauna and cold plunging
- Neighborhood: Wedgewood-Houston | East Nashville
FORM Wellness
FORM Wellness is Nashville’s first ozone sauna studio. While traditional saunas rely on heat to promote sweating and relaxation, ozone saunas combine heat with ozone therapy, which can enhance detoxification, improve circulation, and support immune health. Looking for the ultimate reset? Book a sauna and cold plunge session together. Single sauna sessions are $50 and last 30 minutes, while cold plunge sessions are $20 and last 10 minutes. Session packs, monthly memberships, and unlimited memberships are also available. See the latest memberships and pricing.
- Best Known For: Ozone saunas and cold plunging
- Neighborhood: 12 South
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, and a 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, and cold plunge
- Neighborhood: The Nations | Green Hills | Wedgewood-Houston
STAT Wellness
STAT Wellness is a holistic health center that combines functional medicine with evidence-based fitness to tackle the root causes of health concerns and support long-term wellness. Their unique Medicine + Movement approach merges individualized medical care with results-driven training to create a path to better health. Service highlights include strength-focused fitness classes designed by physical therapists, personal training, physical therapy, healthy coaching, nutrition consults, injections, and IV drops.
- Best Known For: Strength-focused fitness, physical therapy, and health coaching
- Neighborhood: Berry Hill
Lolu
Enjoy a rejuvenating experience at Lolu, East Nashville’s go-to modern wellness studio. Expect a communal 40-person Finnish dry sauna, 20-person cold plunge, breathwork practices, a lounge area with tea and water, guided classes, and private group options. Lolu offers the ultimate mind-body connection.
- Best Known For: Communal sauna and cold plunge sessions
- Neighborhood: East Nashville
Float Nashville
Float Nashville provides float therapy for easing chronic pain, migraines, and anxiety. As the first float studio in the state, this Berry Hill oasis has been healing locals for many years now. 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 has an array of science-backed health benefits.
Pause Studio
Pause Studio is a state-of-the-art wellness destination offering modern, science-based recovery and restorative treatments. With one location in Green Hills and a second coming soon to West Nashville, Pause Studio has become well-frequented by Nashville’s wellness community. Some of the services offered include contrast therapy, infrared sauna, IV drips, vitamin shots, and compression massage.
- Best Known For: Contrast therapy, sauna, NAD+, and Aescape massage
- Neighborhood: Green Hills | West Nashville (coming soon)
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: Spa packages, facials, massage 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 to book is a salt therapy session followed by a reflexology session (30-, 45-, 60-, 90-minute options are available).
- Best Known For: Salt cave and reflexology
- Neighborhood: Edgehill
Basic Kneads
Basic Kneads is one of the few places in Nashville to offer cupping, which is a form of traditional Chinese medicine. Cupping has made headlines for many years now, thanks to celebrity endorsements from Gwyneth Paltrow and Michael Phelps, but it 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 their 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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