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The Best Massages in Melbourne & Surrounds to Relax & Recharge
Hit the pause button and work out those kinks with the best massages in Melbourne.
Melbourne has never been short on nervous energy. It’s in the tram bells, the laptop shoulders, the calendar Tetris, the late coffee, the bad sleep, the 14 unread voice notes and the tiny ache between your shoulder blades that seems to have signed a lease. No wonder massage has moved beyond the occasional indulgence and become something closer to maintenance: a reset for bodies carrying too much modern-day stress.
From remedial rooms that know exactly what desk posture has done to you, to bathhouse spas, sculptural face massage, hot stones, pregnancy treatments and in-home therapists who come to your door, these are the best massages in Melbourne for when your body is asking, rather firmly, to be listened to.
Soften Melbourne
Soften Melbourne feels very of-the-moment: bodywork for the overbooked, over-caffeinated and slightly puffy among us. The Prahran studio works across lymphatic massage, deep tissue, reiki and nervous-system-minded treatments, but the By Katia ritual is the one to book. This 90-minute treatment brings together lymphatic pumping, dry brushing, cupping, facial drainage, head massage, hot towels and By Katia cleansing oil in a session that feels less like a beauty shortcut and more like being eased back into your body. It can be intense in parts, but never harsh. For bloating, heaviness, cycle tenderness or the full-body fog that comes from doing too much, this is one to know.
239 High Street, Prahran
Bodyworks
Bodyworks is not the place for a quick rubdown between errands. This Fitzroy North studio moves in slower, more intimate territory, with women+ bodywork shaped around massage, breath, movement, pelvic care, pregnancy and postpartum support. Sessions are long, detailed and deeply attuned, working with the body rather than simply on it. General bodywork spans 90 to 120 minutes, while floor-based treatments draw on Shiatsu and Thai massage traditions. For anyone carrying tension through stress, cycles, birth, grief or the strange heaviness of being human, Bodyworks brings rare tenderness and real skill to the art of feeling at home in your own body.
359 St Georges Road, Fitzroy North
Alba Thermal Springs
Alba Thermal Springs is the Mornington Peninsula spa day with real scale: 15 hectares of landscaped native gardens, geothermal bathing, cold plunges, botanical pools, sauna, steam and a treatment menu built for making a day of it. Start with the pools, then drift to the spa lounge for Alba Artisan, with heated volcanic stones, botanical oils, sweeping strokes and assisted stretching, or Elemental Balance for long, flowing bodywork and scalp massage.
For something more transporting and unique, their award-winning Hammam Float moves through aromatic steam, a Kessa glove scrub, a hair masque, and a bay leaf soap massage, leaving skin gleaming and the body newly persuaded into softness. Grand, expensive and deeply transportive, Alba is what happens when a one-hour rubdown will not cut it.
282 Browns Road, Fingal
In The Brick Spa and Hotel
In The Brick Spa & Hotel has a little Japanese guesthouse mood in its bones: red brick outside, hinoki scent inside, bamboo in the garden and treatment rooms built for a slower kind of city escape. The massage menu moves through Relaxation, Aromatherapy, Deep Tissue, Hot Stone, Pregnancy, and Couples treatments, with 45-, 60-, and 90-minute options depending on how far your shoulders have staged their rebellion. Add a bath or overnight stay, and Wellington Street starts to feel oddly far from the day you arrived.
22 Wellington Street, St Kilda
Lux Spa & Wellness
Lux Spa & Wellness is the Great Ocean Road reset to book when your shoulders have followed you on holiday. Set inside Anglesea’s Great Ocean Road Resort, the spa takes a tailored approach to bodywork, with aromatherapy massage and facials, hot stones, Reiki and the Shirodhara warm oil ritual all on the menu. It is best treated as part of a coastal day out: beach walk, treatment, maybe a long lunch after, and no heroic plans to drive back in a hurry.
Great Ocean Road Resort, 105 Great Ocean Road, Anglesea
The Little Company
The Little Company is where massage meets skin intelligence. This Collingwood favourite has built its name on considered facials and sensory rituals, but its bodywork deserves equal billing, especially if your tension lives above the collarbone. The signature Structural Face Sculpting Massage is the one to book: a sculptural, hands-on treatment that uses breath work, lymphatic drainage, myofascial release and buccal massage to work through jaw tightness, facial tension and the clenched-up aftermath of too much screen time.
For the rest of the body, tailored massage, HINU scalp work and the Pure Mama Pregnancy Massage keep things deeply personal, never one-size-fits-all.
Ma Saj
Ma Saj is the massage studio Melbourne needed once everyone’s shoulders moved permanently north. In Carlton North, founders Kate Cawley and Sonya Galenson have built a meditative remedial space that feels closer to a seventies lounge than a white-walled clinic, with low light, rounded edges, warm tones, scent, sound and buttery bedding doing their part before the therapist even begins. Treatments range from Euphoria and Deep Remedy to Lymph, TMJ Relief and shared sessions, pairing qualified remedial skill with a mood that is wonderfully un-clinical. Book for screen neck, clenched jaws, stress headaches and the strange full-body static of an overbooked week.
635 Nicholson Street, Carlton North
Relinque
Rediscover your inner bliss with the nimble hands at Relinque Urban Retreat and Spa. Their massages take you on a sensory journey that melts away all your worldly cares. Step into beautifully appointed treatment suites and indulge in their signature massage, which combines firm, flowing strokes with acupressure points. Feeling like something a bit more intense? Go for deep tissue, relaxation, or hot stone massages—whatever suits your vibe.
But wait, there’s more! You can even jazz up your experience with facial, scalp, foot, and hand therapies, or try a steam and ice session to give you that refreshing boost.
19 Upper Heidelberg Road, Ivanhoe
Marlo Spa
Marlo Spa is the Sorrento reset to book when the sea air alone will not fix you. Set within Hotel Sorrento, the spa has that polished Peninsula ease: calm rooms, considered treatments and the sense that your shoulders might finally drop before lunch. The Relaxation Massage is the gentle way in, while the Sacred Stone Massage brings warmth and weight to tired muscles with a slower, more grounding pace. Lock it in alongside a seaside day with lunch, a bay walk and no heroic plans to race back up the freeway.
5/15 Hotham Road, Sorrento
Peninsula Hot Springs
Peninsula Hot Springs is the Mornington Peninsula classic that still earns its place. Less than 90 minutes from Melbourne, the Fingal favourite spreads across more than 70 bathing experiences, from geothermal pools and cold plunges to saunas, hammams and that hilltop pool with the view everyone still wants. The smart move is to bathe first, then head into the Spa Dreaming Centre for a massage. Choose Relaxation for full-body ease, Dreamtime Stone for heat and stillness, or Yinga Deep Tissue for pressure-point work and stretching, created in collaboration with a local Bunurong/Boon Wurrung Elder.
Popular for a reason, and still one of the easiest ways to turn a sore body into a Peninsula day out.
140 Springs Lane, Fingal
Aurora Spa & Bathhouse
Aurora Spa & Bathhouse feels made for Sorrento’s grander mood: all limestone, calm, and the sense of stepping beneath the day. Set below the InterContinental, the bathhouse moves through pools, steam, heat and stillness before the spa takes the body somewhere slower. The Soothing Bliss Massage is all flowing bodywork and essential oils, while Himalayan Sound & Stone brings heated stones and percussion sound into something deeper and more elemental. Book after bathing, then return from the Peninsula feeling remade.
23 Constitution Hill Road, Sorrento
Comma
Comma knows how to make a massage feel specific. The Cremorne studio has a dark, considered beauty, but the real draw is how clearly the menu maps to what your body is asking for. Equilibrium works into the shoulders, then finishes with a neck and scalp massage. Vessel focuses on full-body lymphatic flow, Deeper Fibres goes after tight muscles and stored stress, while The Long Exhale brings botanical oils and a slower, softer pace. For warmth and weight, Sticks and Stones uses basalt stone therapy to take the edge off a body running too hot.
10-11 Hill Street, Cremorne
Sense of Self
Sense of Self is Collingwood’s bathhouse for bodies running on too much screen time, too little sleep and the vague suspicion that everything hurts. Set inside a converted warehouse on Easey Street, the massage studio sits above the bathhouse, making it easy to pair remedial, relaxation or pregnancy massage with a long soak downstairs. The treatments are tailored rather than one-note, with therapists working into the places that need attention while the whole space keeps things warm, grounded and beautifully low on fuss. By the end, even your shoulders seem to have forgotten what they were bracing for.
30-32 Easey Street, Collingwood
Crown Spa
Crown Spa is Melbourne hotel-spa glamour at full volume. Inside Crown Towers, it is all marble calm, immaculate towels and therapists who know exactly how to turn a frayed week into silk. The Blissful Marma Massage works through the body with long, firm strokes, marma therapy, aromatic oils and Ayurvedic-inspired chakra balancing, with facial marma added in the 90-minute treatment. Southbank suddenly feels very far from real life.
8 Whiteman Street, Southbank
Body Freedom Day Spa
Body Freedom Day Spa has the sort of South Melbourne bones that make a massage feel more of an occasion than an errand. Set inside a restored 1850s hosiery mill on Clarendon Street, the spa spans four serene levels, with heritage character, generous treatment rooms, and a menu shaped around what your body needs that day. Deep tissue, remedial, pregnancy massage, hot stones and spa packages all sit in the mix.
392 Clarendon Street, South Melbourne
Sensu Spa
Sensu Spa slows the CBD right down. This Japanese-inspired wellness space moves through aromatherapy, Reiki, remedial massage, shiatsu and float therapy with a steady, healing touch rather than spa-day excess. The Float Away Package is the deep exhale: a 60-minute float, tea break and massage, with upgrades for shiatsu, hot stone, deep tissue, Seitai or pregnancy care. After two and a half hours, the body feels rinsed of noise.
570 Bourke Street, Melbourne
Lancemore Mansion Hotel and Spa
Lancemore Mansion Hotel and Spa turns a massage into a small country-house escape, all Werribee Park grandeur, robe-clad ease and the pleasing sense of having slipped out of Melbourne without making a production of it. L.M. Spa pairs Payot Paris rituals with massage, body wraps, steam, pool time and a little old-world ceremony. The deep tissue treatment is for bodies gone stubborn, working through muscles, tendons, and ligaments with firm, focused pressure. Thirty minutes from the city, and suddenly recovery has chandeliers.
Escarpment Road, Werribee South
Milk & Honey Remedial Massage
Milk & Honey Remedial Massage understands the difference between a nice massage and one that actually changes the way you walk out. The West Melbourne studio is sunlit, calm and by appointment only, with treatments shaped around the body on the table rather than a one-size-fits-all spa script. It sits in that sweet spot between remedial work and genuine ease, for shoulders, backs and necks held together by deadlines, laptops and sheer willpower.
Level 1, 285 Victoria Street, West Melbourne
Blys
Blys is for the days when leaving the house feels like the least relaxing part of getting a massage. The mobile wellness platform sends vetted therapists to homes, hotels and offices across Melbourne, with same-day and advance appointments available from 6am to midnight, seven days a week. Choose from Swedish, remedial, pregnancy, hot stone, lymphatic drainage and traditional Chinese massage, depending on what your body is asking for. The Swedish relaxation treatment is the easy classic: long strokes, gentle kneading, and post-treatment softness, minus the drive or tram ride back into reality.
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