The warm pools on Hot Springs Creek in the hills above Montecito attract many visitors and also have spurred a contentious debate over their existence. Contributed photo Controversy has erupted over ...

I’ve spent most of my adult life in the northwoods, where forest bathing, as I understood it, just meant going outside. So I admit to a dose of skepticism about the phenomenon. Naming—branding!—the ...

Nov. 4—It's no longer a whodunit. Now it's been confirmed. The rock-and-mortar pools and soaking tubs at Miracle Hot Springs, a U.S. Forest Service-managed day-use area on the east shore of the Kern ...

Forest bathing emerged in Japan in the 1980s as a physiological and psychological exercise called shinrin-yoku, meaning “forest bathing” or “taking in the forest atmosphere.” Now this type of walking ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – The City of Springfield’s Summer Aquatics Program will give residents the opportunity to swim at the Forest Park Pool for free all summer long. The season runs through ...

The air is charged with a tangerine tang as a man twists and whirls a towel like a whip, unleashing blasts of hot air to the beat of jungle drums. This is Aufguss: a multi-sensory sauna ritual that’s ...

Fort Worth celebrated the reopening of its oldest public pool on Friday. It comes after a year-long $15 million renovation and an intense lobbying effort by residents to retain the pool’s 50-meter ...