Wild wellness · Teesside, UK

Come for
the heat.
Stay for the
connection.

Wood-fired sauna, cold water and good people—gathered in the places that make us feel alive.

The experience

Less wellness theatre.
More feeling alive.

No marble spas. No hushed voices. Just real heat, open water and a welcoming space to switch off, open up and meet somebody new.

Sauna + sea

Wood-fired heat on the edge of the North Sea, with space to dip, breathe and come back to yourself.

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South Gare · Public sessions

Riverside reset

A slower rhythm beside the River Leven: sauna rounds, cold water and conversation that lingers.

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Yarm · Seasonal sessions

Bring the heat

A roaming sauna for retreats, festivals, run clubs and private gatherings—built around your people and place.

North East + beyond · Enquiries open

What’s on

Your next good story
starts here.

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Dress to Sweat

A night of connection on the beach: soundtrack-led yoga with Andy Ankers, dancing with Blake, then wood-fired sauna and sea dips as the sun goes down.

Where: Teesside coast
When: 5pm until late

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Dress to Sweat event artwork: one sauna, one sunset and one dancefloor at South Gare Beach — Movement, music, heat and sea air on the Teesside coast.

South Gare sessionsNew dates dropping soon

Riverside Reset · YarmSeasonal sessions

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Past gatherings

Where we’ve
melted.

FIELD NOTES · 2023—NOW

A living journal of the people, places and partnerships that brought each gathering to life.

A group practising yoga together on the beach at sunrise

Free yoga on the beach · With Kristina Sedgwick

Sunrise salutations

Movement before the heat, shared freely on the sand as the sun rises over the North Sea.

A yoga group practising beside The Melting Pot sauna on the beach

Coastal collaboration · Leanne Lent Yoga

Yoga, heat + sea

A windswept practice, wood-fired sauna rounds and the sea waiting just beyond the mats.

Running Late trail runners gathered together after a charity run

Community + charity · Running Late, The Headlight Project + The Teesside Charity

Miles for something bigger

Trail miles, shared finishes and community-led events supporting causes close to home.

A Base Fitness collaboration beside The Melting Pot sauna

Community collaboration · Base Fitness

Strong women, real recovery

An all-female training community swapping the gym floor for sea air, cold water and restorative heat.

Dom and a guest beside The Melting Pot sauna at a woodland retreat

Brinkburn · Unfurling Space + Christine Heslop

Retreat into the wild

Yoga retreats held among woodland and moving water, where the sauna becomes part of a slower rhythm.

The Signals community smiling together after a coastal sauna gathering in Saltburn

Community collaboration · Signals, Saltburn

Saltburn connections

Good people, fresh air and the kind of coastal gathering that turns a session into a community.

Over the Dunes festival poster for The Melting Pot wood-fired beach sauna

Over the Dunes · Conscious Clubbing

Recover between the music

A wood-fired beach sauna at a sober festival—somewhere to reset before stepping back onto the dancefloor.

A night-time sauna gathering around a fire on the beach

Night sauna · With Unfurling Space

After dark

Firelight, blankets and unhurried conversation after the last dip of the day with the Unfurling Space community.

Every gathering leaves something behind.

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The story

It began before sunrise, in very cold water.

The Melting Pot grew from a small Tuesday-morning dipping group and a simple realisation: the best kind of wellbeing brings people together.

What started at 5:30am on the Teesside coast became a roaming wood-fired sauna, then more than 40 gatherings across beaches, riversides, retreats, festivals and run clubs. Every format changes. The feeling never does.

“Not somewhere to escape life. Somewhere to feel fully in it.”

Now brewing

The sauna was only
the first spark.

The Melting Pot Project is becoming an ecosystem for good coffee, music, movement and the kind of community that makes a place matter.

The Pot.

Speciality coffee, without the cold attitude.

A mobile coffee bar bringing properly good coffee to coastlines, events and the moments after the sauna.

Arriving next

Gatherings

More ways to move, listen and reconnect.

Breathwork, sound, yoga, music and collaborations—curated as experiences, never added as extras.

In the works

A permanent home

One place for the whole idea.

Coffee, food, music, heat and community under one roof: a place you arrive at and never want to leave.

The big dream

Let’s make something memorable

Want to bring
the heat?

Retreats, festivals, private gatherings and collaborations across the North East and beyond. Tell us what you are planning and we’ll come back to you.

Prefer to write directly? melting.sauna@outlook.com