🚀 OTHERSHIP
An Immersive Sauna & Ice Bath in Toronto.
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🚀 PLACE: OTHERSHIP
Experience other-worldly wellness at Othership in Toronto.
By Christina Chao
Toronto makes its mark in the social wellness scene with popular holistic spa called Othership. Located in the entertainment district, the 3,000-square-foot spa facility holds: private ice baths, a 50-person sauna, and a 300 SF tea room with a fireplace. Similar communities that align would be those in the Soho House or Burning Man crowds, however, this spa lounge attracts those looking to get more spiritual and dip their toes (figuratively and literally) into the sauna, cold plunges, breathwork, sound baths, aromatherapy, and community aspects of wellness. The founding team has a super inter-stellar background in their respective spaces. Founded by two sauna masters, a restaurateur, a breathwork expert, and a cold water evangelist, Othership was ready for take off as soon as it launched in 2022.
Othership sessions help you to focus and train your body to better regulate your emotions and increase your attention. Each of the ice baths have built-in cooling devices, and sessions in between the ice baths and the sauna serve to help train you to calm down in the fight-or-flight state of mind and connect more with yourself. After the sauna, you’re able to sleep better, relieve stress, promote circulation and reduce inflammation. After an ice bath experience, more norepinephrine is activated in your brain, the neurotransmitter responsible for mood, attention and vigilance and helps you increase your focus, metabolism, and recovery. A unique offering is Othership’s “Up” class which is a guided 75-minute experience inviting you to “explore your extra-sensory faculties.” In this class, a professional guide helps the group understand the mechanics of both the sauna and ice bath experience, and also guides the group with movement, ceremony, and performance. Then, of course, there is the social aspect of Othership, where guests congregate around the fireplace and the tearoom area until 1 a.m to boost endorphins and community.
Designed by Futurestudio, the aesthetic of Othership is all natural from the wood, leather, tiles, and the interiors. There are also a series of nooks to hang belongings with dim lighting, and minimal art so that guests can focus inward and not get too distracted when they arrive. With hundreds of dedicated followers, Othership has grown significantly in popularity since opening. Guests can attend year-round and can expect exclusive wellness experiences like an all access sauna, cold-water immersion with ice baths, movement, meditation, yin yoga, breathwork classes, and evening socials in the tea lounge. Othership wants to truly transform lives, and advertises its space and brand as “body positive, alcohol-free, open to everyone, and trauma-aware.”
The Othership spa experience is beyond just self-care, but also supporting a scientific and growing phenomenon of self-care that has real results. On top of the ice baths and sauna experiences, Othership guides lead powerful mindfulness and wellness practices to help guests align with their mind, body, and soul. Othership is taking the lead on helping guests self-care and transform through a social wellness community, in Toronto and beyond with plans to expand to New York City and LA. Othership’s guides and their techniques of visualization, vocalization, breathwork, immersive music, aromatherapy are special touches of the Othership brand and help create a unique social space for guests to attend and experience “a space for transformation.”
🚀 PERSON: ROBBIE BENT
Cold plunge evangelist, entrepreneur, and co-founder of Othership
Othership markets itself as “a holistic bathhouse”, but in actuality it is more than that — but a practice that can help save lives. The social and scientific practices of cold plunging and meditation have helped revive Robbie Bent on his path to sobriety. Back in 2019, Robbie was suffering from addition and wanted to become sober, so he created a unique social experience that wasn’t based around drugs, alcohol, clubbing, etc. He gathered some friends together (now some of his co-founders) and started doing ice bath events in his backyard. This holistic wellness movement grew from 300 to 2,000 from consistent wellness events that were featured in a simple Whatsapp group. At night, the group taught guests the power of the ice bath, the science behind it, breathwork and meditaiton techniques, and how this impact can help add years to your life and de-stress. Othership was then born — from a converted garage space to now a downtown space in Toronto, with plans to open in New York City and LA.
“Our goal is to help people find a more mindful, meaningful, happier state. And, by making it community-driven and fun, we’re making emotional wellness work accessible to everyone.” - Robbie Bent, co-founder of Othership
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