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The Heart-Pine Hour
90 min$215
Cedar sauna, cold rinse, heart-pine bodywork, silent tea on the porch.
- 10 min · cedar sauna
- 2 min · cold rinse
- 60 min · heart-pine bodywork
- 15 min · silent tea on the porch
Solo. The one to book if you only book one.
Spa & Wellness · From $95 · By appointment
Heat.Quiet.Heart-pine.
Three rituals, two ways to bring people, one porch with the kettle on. Bodywork, sauna, slow.
Day visits welcome · 3 rooms · 2 LMTs · Friends Day & buyouts available
Three rituals · pick your depth
The whole spa, three doors in.
One short, one self-guided, one slow. Pick the depth that fits your day — they all end on the porch with tea.
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The Oak & Ember Circuit
2 hr$95
Self-guided: sauna, contrast cold, courtyard cool-down, hammock rest, hot tea.
- 20 min · sauna
- 1 min · contrast cold
- 20 min · courtyard cool-down under the oak
- Repeat the loop. Hammock and tea between.
Solo or couple. No therapist — bring a friend, bring a book.
III
The Quiet Day
4 hr$425
Arrival tea, bodywork, sauna, lunch on the porch, ritual close. One guest at a time.
- Arrival tea + breath
- 90 min bodywork
- Sauna + cold + porch lunch
- Closing ritual, eucalyptus shower, tea to go
One guest at a time. The whole wing is yours.
The full à-la-carte menu is below — bodywork, sauna, sub-30-minute rituals. The three above are the way most guests come in.
The spa is in the room
Three flagship rooms have their own multi-jet spa shower.
Marble or travertine to the ceiling. A stainless wall panel with a rainfall head, a handheld, and four wall-mounted body jets. Pebble-stone or curved tile floors. The same spec, in three different rooms — book the room, the spa is already in it.
What it's made of
We name the materials because, in a small spa, the materials are the experience.
Heart-pine
1903 panelling
Beeswax
Hand-poured tapers
Eucalyptus
Hung in the sauna
Cedar
Sauna walls + bench
Linen
Italian, washed soft
Spring water
Cold rinse only
Loose tea
Steeped on arrival
Spanish moss
From our oak
An hour, beat by beat
How the body lets go.
A loose framework for what most Heart-Pine Hour guests feel, minute to minute. Different bodies, different days — same arc.
- 0:00hr : min0:00hr : min
You walk in, you stop talking.
The door closes behind you and the noise of the day stays outside. Robe, slippers, a small ceramic cup of something warm. Nobody asks how your week's been — the room does.
- 0:10hr : min0:10hr : min
Cedar, low light, slow breath.
Ten minutes in the sauna with hanging eucalyptus and one amber lamp. No clock you have to look at. Your shoulders drop a quarter-inch, then another.
- 0:12hr : min0:12hr : min
Cold, sharp, on purpose.
Two minutes under the courtyard rinse — Florida-cold, not Nordic-cold. Loud breath, clear head. You'll laugh out loud the first time. Most people do.
- 0:25hr : min0:25hr : min
Slow, considered hands.
The therapist's pace is set to calm a nervous system, not entertain it. Heart-pine walls, beeswax burning, a Florida breeze through the shutters. Time loses shape.
- 1:30hr : min1:30hr : min
Tea on the porch. Don't rush.
A cup of something herbal, a hammock if you want one, the brick courtyard going honey-colored outside. We don't rush you out the door — the ritual ends when you say it does.
What we believe
A small spa, on purpose.
I designed this spa around a question I kept asking myself in other people's spas: why does this feel like a service and not a ritual? So we made fewer things. A short menu. Three signature rituals. One sauna. One porch. One person at a time in the quiet room.
We don't upsell. We don't run two treatments back to back in the same room. We pad time on either side of every booking so you never feel rushed in, rushed out, or rushed through. The tea is real, not a prop. The candles are beeswax. The room is built of heart-pine that's older than your grandparents.
If you tell me what you're carrying when you arrive, I'll point you to the ritual that fits. That's the whole pitch.
- Therapists
- 2
- Treatment rooms
- 3
- Pad between bookings
- 30 min
Both LMTs · 10+ yrs each.
Plus sauna, porch, courtyard.
Never rushed. Ever.
Coming with people
Coming with people
Two ways to bring your people.
One is shared, scheduled, and budget-friendly. The other is a private buyout — the whole spa wing, no other guests, your group on the porch with the kettle on. Both end with lunch.
Friends Day
4–8 guests · 3 hr$165/ guest
Shared sauna circuit, treatments in shifts, lunch on the porch. Treatments run in shifts so the porch is always full. We pour a sparkling thing on arrival and a real thing with lunch.
Sauna circuit30-min ritual eachPorch lunch
Private buyout
Spa Buyout
2–6 guests · 3 hr$1,450flat
All treatment rooms, sauna, courtyard, host. Yours alone. No other guests anywhere on the property during your block. Bring the playlist. We'll set the table on the porch and stack the towels how you like them.
All treatment roomsSauna + coldCourtyardLunch
For 8+ guests, ask about pairing a buyout with a courtyard evening — the spa wing closes at 4, the long table is laid by 6.
Why slots move quickly
Small by design. Genuinely small.
Three treatment rooms, two therapists, one sauna. The slow pace is the product — which means the calendar is honestly tight.
Weekend availability
—Heart-Pine slots
Remaining 90-min Heart-Pine Hour bookings this month. UF home weekends usually go first.
The ceiling
3 rooms · 2 LMTs.
That's the whole capacity. We don't add chairs, we don't double-book the sauna, and we don't take walk-ins on weekends.
Why slow
30-min pad, every time.
We leave half an hour between every booking so no one is ever rushed in or rushed out. It's also why the day fills.
Same-week openings happen — call and we'll find one.
See this week's openingsThe full menu
À la carte.
For when you know what you want. Each line below can also be stitched into a stay-and-spa bundle.
Bodywork
Slow, considered hands.
Therapeutic, deep-tissue, and restorative massage in a warm wood-paneled room. Pace set to calm a nervous system, not to entertain it.
- Heart-Pine Bodywork60 min$135
- Heart-Pine Bodywork90 min$185
- Couples Side-by-Side60 min$270
- Recovery Focus75 min$165
Book BodyworkLive calendar · 30-min pad between bookings
Gratuity not included. Stay-and-spa packages reduce per-treatment cost by 10–15%.
Recovery & Sauna
Heat. Quiet. Reset.
Cedar sauna sessions, eucalyptus, contrast cold. A simple sequence built for the day after travel, training, or a long week.
- Cedar Sauna Reset45 min$55
- Contrast Recovery60 min$85
- Post-Game Recovery Block90 min$145
Book Recovery & SaunaLive calendar · 30-min pad between bookings
Gratuity not included. Stay-and-spa packages reduce per-treatment cost by 10–15%.
Rituals
Small, intentional.
Short, structured rituals you can drop into a stay or a day visit. Linen, beeswax, eucalyptus, breath. Thirty quiet minutes.
- Quiet Restoration30 min$65
- Morning Grounding30 min$65
- Evening Wind-down30 min$65
Book RitualsLive calendar · 30-min pad between bookings
Gratuity not included. Stay-and-spa packages reduce per-treatment cost by 10–15%.
Seasonal & curated
Small things, in season.
Citrus & Cedar
Late winter — orange peel, cedar oil, slow strokes.
Magnolia Hour
Spring — a quiet ritual under the canopy.
Heat & Hush
Summer — extended sauna, contrast cold, dim room.
From the treatment room
“I came in for the sauna and stayed for the contrast cold. Floated home — literally and figuratively.”
Megan
Oak & Ember Circuit
Common questions
Booking the spa in Gainesville.
Quick answers for first-time visitors, locals, and groups.
Reserve
Pick your ritual.
Pick your time.
Live calendar, real availability, three treatment rooms. Your slot is held for 15 minutes while you finish — no deposit required for solo bookings.
Bringing friends, or want a buyout?
Friends Day from $165/guest · Spa Buyout $1,450 flat. Concierge can build the day around you.
