Let me tell you about hot-cold contrast therapy. First, you warm up in the hammam-like steam room, set to a balmy 45 degrees Celsius. Then you step over to the tile-clad circular plinth, scoop up two handfuls of crushed ice and give yourself an invigorating rubdown until your body temperature drops. Repeat this a few times, osteopath Dr Adam Wilson tells me, and it’ll constrict your vessels and help your lymphatic system do its thing.
In this moodily lit space at the centre of the Relinque Urban Retreat, it is a
