The space
The bathhouse and the bush
Your ritual is only half of it. The rest is the water, the steam and the long quiet afterwards, under the Waitakere canopy.
The thermal pool
Spring-warm water under a bush-side window, kept between 37 and 39 degrees.
The steam room
Manuka-scented steam, cedar benches, and a cold rinse a few steps away.
The rest lounge
Wool blankets, herbal tea and no clocks. Stay as long as your ritual runs.
The hands you are in
A small team, here for the long run. You can request the same therapist every visit.
Ngaire Waite
Founder and lead therapist
Trained in rongoā and remedial massage. Twenty years of hands, most of them here.
Sione Fifita
Bodywork and bathhouse
Deep tissue specialist with the calmest voice in the building.
Bex Cormack
Facials and skin
Obsessive about native botanicals and what they actually do for skin.
Come and feel it for yourself
Tell us the ritual you are after and a day that suits. We reply within the hour to lock it in.
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