sēk Sauna Studio

1201 Liberty Pike Suite 121, Franklin, TN

sēk Sauna Studio is a woman-owned, eight-room recovery studio in the Liberty Pike retail strip off Mack Hatcher Parkway in east Franklin, opened in July 2021 by Cat and John Bryson after Cat, a former fitness professional and working mom, got tired of shared saunas that were neither clean nor private. Everything here happens behind your own door: four Sunlighten infrared Solo Pods you lie down in, a full-size infrared cabin at 150°F that seats three, a Celluma red and blue light room, a pressotherapy compression suite, and a cold plunge room with a Plunge All-In tub held at 42°F. The lobby has a blue feature wall, a gold ring swing and a neon sign reading 'sēk your best self', and the Recovery Lounge out back has a geode mural and a kinetic sand table to stare at while you cool down. Rooms are reset between every guest, and the time for it is built into each booking. Pod sessions are 30 minutes and cabin sessions 40, each $60, with a robe, towel, cooling towel and face wipes included and a vitamin C shower afterward; the plunge is $30 for a 15-minute private slot in which most people manage 2-6 minutes in the water, and the recommended contrast visit, sauna then plunge, is $90 booked back to back. Ten-packs run $350 for sauna and $200 for the plunge, the new-client Intro Week is four sessions for $99 with full studio access, and memberships go from sēk 4 at $99 a month to sēk 8 at $169 and sēk Daily at $299 for 31 sessions a month, all with a designated +1, 30-day rollover and a two-month minimum. HSA/FSA cards are accepted. The staff coaching first-timers through the cold water is the thing reviewers mention most, and the studio has taken Williamson's Best awards for day spa and men's and women's health two years running.