Best Saunas in Nashville, United States
Backyard by Framework
Backyard is Framework's East Nashville outpost, a smaller contrast therapy studio with one social sauna held at about 190 F that seats up to twelve people and four cold tubs between 40 and 60 F. Sessions are cheaper than at the Wedgewood-Houston flagship at $25 on weekdays and $35 at weekends, and the studio opens at 7 AM on weekdays and 8 AM at weekends.
beem Light Sauna Nashville-Green Hills
beem Light Sauna's Green Hills studio on Hillsboro Pike books guests into private infrared light sauna suites, with a drop-in solo session priced at $59. It opens from 7 AM on weekdays, 8 AM on Friday and Saturday and 10 AM on Sunday, and is part of the national beem franchise of infrared sauna studios.
Contrast Club
Contrast Club is a private cold plunge and sauna studio on Bandywood Drive in Green Hills, where each booking gives one group its own room with a traditional sauna and a cold plunge for a 60-minute hot-cold cycle. A single session costs $35 and session packs and unlimited memberships are also sold. The studio is small and appointment-based rather than a drop-in bathhouse.
FORM Wellness Ozone Sauna Studio
FORM Wellness on 12th Avenue South in Nashville is built around a medical-grade ozone steam sauna, used as a single private session for $50, with a cold plunge available separately for $20. Session packs and memberships from $89 a month bring the price down, and the studio sits in the 12 South neighbourhood.
Holiday Salon & Bathhouse
Holiday is a salon and private bathhouse in a hundred-year-old East Nashville factory building. The bathhouse holds a Himalayan salt sauna, a steam room, a 104-degree salt water soaking pool and a cold plunge shower, and is booked privately for groups of one to ten guests aged 18 and over. A weekday hour costs $100 for up to two guests. A separate room pairs a far infrared sauna with a 71-inch whirlpool tub from $65 an hour.
Lolu
Lolu is a social contrast therapy space on Main Street in East Nashville built around a 40-person traditional dry sauna and a 20-person salt water cold pool, with a lounge, coffee and an outdoor area. Guests either book a self-paced session or a guided class in which certified guides lead breathwork and meditation inside the sauna and plunge rooms. A private sauna and plunge suite for up to four people is also available.
Pure Sweat + Float Studio Belle Meade
Pure Sweat + Float Studio in Belle Meade combines private full-spectrum Sunlighten infrared sauna cabins with float therapy in private suites and a cold plunge for contrast sessions. Float sessions run 40 or 60 minutes in about 1,000 pounds of Epsom salt water, and the studio stands on Highway 100 in west Nashville.
Pure Sweat Sauna Studio 12 South
The 12 South branch of Pure Sweat Studios sits on Dallas Avenue and offers private cabin suites with full-spectrum Sunlighten infrared saunas, a cold plunge and float therapy in magnesium-rich Epsom salt water. Sessions are booked individually or as contrast therapy suites that combine heat and cold in one private room.
Pure Sweat Sauna Studio The Gulch
Pure Sweat Sauna Studio in The Gulch books guests into private cabin suites with full-spectrum Sunlighten infrared saunas delivering far, mid and near-infrared wavelengths, paired with a BlueCube cold plunge for contrast therapy. Each suite is used solo or shared with a guest, and the studio sits on Division Street a short walk from downtown Nashville.
Urban Sweat The Nations
Urban Sweat's original studio in The Nations offers infrared sauna pods and larger infrared cabins, red light therapy and cold plunge therapy, booked as private sessions. First-time rates are $40 for a sauna pod, $50 for a sauna cabin, $25 for red light therapy and $15 for a plunge. The Nashville-founded brand also runs studios in WeHo and Green Hills.
Urban Sweat WeHo
Urban Sweat's WeHo studio sits on Merritt Avenue in Wedgewood-Houston and offers the same private infrared sauna pods and cabins, red light therapy and cold plunge as the brand's other Nashville locations. Introductory rates are $40 for a sauna pod, $50 for a sauna cabin and $15 for a cold plunge, and the studio accepts HSA and FSA payment.
Framework Wedgewood-Houston
Framework's Wedgewood-Houston flagship is a contrast therapy studio built around seven traditional saunas heated to roughly 175 F and 13 commercial-grade cold tubs running 35-60 F, in indoor, outdoor, solo and group setups. Private rooms each pair a sauna with a cold plunge and rinse shower. Walk-ins are welcome and a single session is $35 on weekdays, $55 at weekends.
House of Hudson Day Spa
House of Hudson is a day spa in a historic building on 4th Avenue North in Germantown, the Nashville branch of a small group that also has spas in Laguna Beach and Palm Desert. Alongside massage and facials it offers a sauna and cold plunge. The spa is closed Monday and Tuesday and opens 10 AM to 6 PM from Wednesday to Sunday.
Pause Studio Green Hills
Pause Studio Green Hills on Bedford Avenue is a recovery and wellness studio whose private suites hold full-spectrum infrared saunas and contrast therapy rooms combining an infrared sauna, a cold plunge and an en-suite shower. Sessions run 30 or 60 minutes, and the studio also offers flotation therapy, cryotherapy, LED light therapy, compression therapy and IV drips.
Pause Studio West Nashville
Pause Studio's West Nashville location opened at oneC1TY in November 2025 with eight fully private spa-like suites offering contrast therapy that pairs a full-spectrum infrared sauna with a cold plunge and an en-suite shower, plus flotation therapy, cryotherapy, red light therapy, compression therapy and IV drips. It opens at 7 AM on weekdays and 8 AM at weekends.
Ritual Community Sauna & Wellness Space
Ritual is an East Nashville sauna house on Porter Road with a custom-built traditional Finnish sauna of solid aspen that comfortably fits 10 to 12 people, two lounge studios with infrared heaters for up to four guests and two solo studios combining infrared and traditional heaters. Sessions run 45 minutes and cost $25 per person in the community sauna, $40 solo and $55 for two in a lounge studio. An outdoor pop-up cold plunge and private hire are available.
Rhapsody Spa at The Westin Nashville
Rhapsody Spa occupies the third floor of The Westin Nashville on Clark Place downtown. Its locker rooms hold private steam showers and a co-ed traditional dry cedar sauna, which guests use around massages, facials and body treatments. The spa is open daily from 9 AM to 6 PM and a 20 percent service fee applies to all treatments.
Spa by JW at JW Marriott Nashville
Spa by JW is the spa at the JW Marriott Nashville on 8th Avenue South, described as an urban oasis away from the bustle of downtown. Guests have a sauna, steam room and relaxation lounge alongside treatments, and the hotel's outdoor rooftop pool is open 10 AM to 6:30 PM. Day passes covering the rooftop pool start at $50 through ResortPass, with spa treatments booked separately.
QNTM Fit Life
QNTM Fit Life is a staffed 24-hour gym on George L Davis Boulevard near downtown Nashville with a medical-grade full-cedar infrared sauna included in every membership and day pass at no extra charge or booking fee. Day passes start at $30 for a single day and run to $150 for 30 days, and monthly membership starts at $84.99.
Backyard by Framework
Backyard is Framework's East Nashville outpost, a smaller contrast therapy studio with one social sauna held at about 190 F that seats up to twelve people and four cold tubs between 40 and 60 F. Sessions are cheaper than at the Wedgewood-Houston flagship at $25 on weekdays and $35 at weekends, and the studio opens at 7 AM on weekdays and 8 AM at weekends.
beem Light Sauna Nashville-Green Hills
beem Light Sauna's Green Hills studio on Hillsboro Pike books guests into private infrared light sauna suites, with a drop-in solo session priced at $59. It opens from 7 AM on weekdays, 8 AM on Friday and Saturday and 10 AM on Sunday, and is part of the national beem franchise of infrared sauna studios.
Contrast Club
Contrast Club is a private cold plunge and sauna studio on Bandywood Drive in Green Hills, where each booking gives one group its own room with a traditional sauna and a cold plunge for a 60-minute hot-cold cycle. A single session costs $35 and session packs and unlimited memberships are also sold. The studio is small and appointment-based rather than a drop-in bathhouse.
FORM Wellness Ozone Sauna Studio
FORM Wellness on 12th Avenue South in Nashville is built around a medical-grade ozone steam sauna, used as a single private session for $50, with a cold plunge available separately for $20. Session packs and memberships from $89 a month bring the price down, and the studio sits in the 12 South neighbourhood.
Holiday Salon & Bathhouse
Holiday is a salon and private bathhouse in a hundred-year-old East Nashville factory building. The bathhouse holds a Himalayan salt sauna, a steam room, a 104-degree salt water soaking pool and a cold plunge shower, and is booked privately for groups of one to ten guests aged 18 and over. A weekday hour costs $100 for up to two guests. A separate room pairs a far infrared sauna with a 71-inch whirlpool tub from $65 an hour.
Lolu
Lolu is a social contrast therapy space on Main Street in East Nashville built around a 40-person traditional dry sauna and a 20-person salt water cold pool, with a lounge, coffee and an outdoor area. Guests either book a self-paced session or a guided class in which certified guides lead breathwork and meditation inside the sauna and plunge rooms. A private sauna and plunge suite for up to four people is also available.
Pure Sweat + Float Studio Belle Meade
Pure Sweat + Float Studio in Belle Meade combines private full-spectrum Sunlighten infrared sauna cabins with float therapy in private suites and a cold plunge for contrast sessions. Float sessions run 40 or 60 minutes in about 1,000 pounds of Epsom salt water, and the studio stands on Highway 100 in west Nashville.
Pure Sweat Sauna Studio 12 South
The 12 South branch of Pure Sweat Studios sits on Dallas Avenue and offers private cabin suites with full-spectrum Sunlighten infrared saunas, a cold plunge and float therapy in magnesium-rich Epsom salt water. Sessions are booked individually or as contrast therapy suites that combine heat and cold in one private room.
Pure Sweat Sauna Studio The Gulch
Pure Sweat Sauna Studio in The Gulch books guests into private cabin suites with full-spectrum Sunlighten infrared saunas delivering far, mid and near-infrared wavelengths, paired with a BlueCube cold plunge for contrast therapy. Each suite is used solo or shared with a guest, and the studio sits on Division Street a short walk from downtown Nashville.
Urban Sweat The Nations
Urban Sweat's original studio in The Nations offers infrared sauna pods and larger infrared cabins, red light therapy and cold plunge therapy, booked as private sessions. First-time rates are $40 for a sauna pod, $50 for a sauna cabin, $25 for red light therapy and $15 for a plunge. The Nashville-founded brand also runs studios in WeHo and Green Hills.
Urban Sweat WeHo
Urban Sweat's WeHo studio sits on Merritt Avenue in Wedgewood-Houston and offers the same private infrared sauna pods and cabins, red light therapy and cold plunge as the brand's other Nashville locations. Introductory rates are $40 for a sauna pod, $50 for a sauna cabin and $15 for a cold plunge, and the studio accepts HSA and FSA payment.
Framework Wedgewood-Houston
Framework's Wedgewood-Houston flagship is a contrast therapy studio built around seven traditional saunas heated to roughly 175 F and 13 commercial-grade cold tubs running 35-60 F, in indoor, outdoor, solo and group setups. Private rooms each pair a sauna with a cold plunge and rinse shower. Walk-ins are welcome and a single session is $35 on weekdays, $55 at weekends.
House of Hudson Day Spa
House of Hudson is a day spa in a historic building on 4th Avenue North in Germantown, the Nashville branch of a small group that also has spas in Laguna Beach and Palm Desert. Alongside massage and facials it offers a sauna and cold plunge. The spa is closed Monday and Tuesday and opens 10 AM to 6 PM from Wednesday to Sunday.
Pause Studio Green Hills
Pause Studio Green Hills on Bedford Avenue is a recovery and wellness studio whose private suites hold full-spectrum infrared saunas and contrast therapy rooms combining an infrared sauna, a cold plunge and an en-suite shower. Sessions run 30 or 60 minutes, and the studio also offers flotation therapy, cryotherapy, LED light therapy, compression therapy and IV drips.
Pause Studio West Nashville
Pause Studio's West Nashville location opened at oneC1TY in November 2025 with eight fully private spa-like suites offering contrast therapy that pairs a full-spectrum infrared sauna with a cold plunge and an en-suite shower, plus flotation therapy, cryotherapy, red light therapy, compression therapy and IV drips. It opens at 7 AM on weekdays and 8 AM at weekends.
Ritual Community Sauna & Wellness Space
Ritual is an East Nashville sauna house on Porter Road with a custom-built traditional Finnish sauna of solid aspen that comfortably fits 10 to 12 people, two lounge studios with infrared heaters for up to four guests and two solo studios combining infrared and traditional heaters. Sessions run 45 minutes and cost $25 per person in the community sauna, $40 solo and $55 for two in a lounge studio. An outdoor pop-up cold plunge and private hire are available.
Rhapsody Spa at The Westin Nashville
Rhapsody Spa occupies the third floor of The Westin Nashville on Clark Place downtown. Its locker rooms hold private steam showers and a co-ed traditional dry cedar sauna, which guests use around massages, facials and body treatments. The spa is open daily from 9 AM to 6 PM and a 20 percent service fee applies to all treatments.
Spa by JW at JW Marriott Nashville
Spa by JW is the spa at the JW Marriott Nashville on 8th Avenue South, described as an urban oasis away from the bustle of downtown. Guests have a sauna, steam room and relaxation lounge alongside treatments, and the hotel's outdoor rooftop pool is open 10 AM to 6:30 PM. Day passes covering the rooftop pool start at $50 through ResortPass, with spa treatments booked separately.
QNTM Fit Life
QNTM Fit Life is a staffed 24-hour gym on George L Davis Boulevard near downtown Nashville with a medical-grade full-cedar infrared sauna included in every membership and day pass at no extra charge or booking fee. Day passes start at $30 for a single day and run to $150 for 30 days, and monthly membership starts at $84.99.