Wellness

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An intimate private thermal circuit space: a person reclined in a steaming copper soaking tub (head tilted back, shoulders visible, clothing-optional), water flowing from a black wall faucet on the left; beyond the tub a dark soaking basin and a glowing amber salt-tile sauna or heated room behind an open glass doorway; a lush living green wall of ferns fills the right side; slatted warm-wood panelling overhead and on the walls; overcast sky visible through a skylight panel above.

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Circle Wellness thermal spa opens in Fremont

Circle Wellness opened its first U.S. location at 1326 N Northlake Way in Fremont on September 1, 2026.

Coldwater Collective plungers standing chest-deep in the water off Alki on a winter morning, several in beanies with arms raised, the Alki waterfront and a bare tree behind. The file's camera data dates it Sunday, Jan. 7, 2024, 9:09 a.m., when the group billed a 9 a.m. Alki plunge (place and date inferred).

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A cold plunge, a themed potluck: Coldwater Collective's Alki Sundays

Nate Garberich, raised in northeast Seattle around Magnuson Park, went into Lake Washington alone for a couple of years.

A wide daytime shot of a Wild Haus sauna boat on Lake Union, six people lounging and standing on the rooftop deck, with Lake Union houseboats and the Seattle skyline in the background.

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Inside a Wild Haus sauna voyage on Lake Union

Wild Haus runs two wood-fired sauna boats from a dock at 10 E Allison Street in Eastlake, on Lake Union.

A Seattle Children's athletic trainer examining a boy's ankle on a portable treatment table at the edge of a turf field, an orange Seattle Children's Orthopedics and Sports Medicine banner beside them.

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Seattle Children's Puts Athletic Trainers in Two Dozen High Schools. Most Schools Have None.

Most schools have no athletic trainer to call on when a kid lands badly or takes a hit to the head.

Bright sunny day in the alley between sauna stations: a man mid-motion swings a towel toward another man standing barefoot beside the 'Rogue Sauna' cabin, a leashed dog crosses in the foreground, a yellow 'SAUNA CROSSING' sign stands on the pavement, the museum building visible behind.

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Seattle Sauna Festival Returns to Ballard's Nordic Museum

Walk onto the lawn at 2655 NW Market Street in Ballard this November and the National Nordic Museum gives way to a village of wood-fired saunas. The Seattle Sauna Festival returns to the museum grounds November 7 and 8, 2026, its second year after a first run on November 1 and 2, 2025. Ryan M. Davis, the Seattle event planner who started the festival after seeing a sauna village at Minneapolis's Great Northern winter festival, runs it with Ana Hernandez, owner of PNW Mobile Spa.