on 22 June each year, communities across the world are invited to come together with water in observance of World Bathing Day.

World Bathing Day is a global event dedicated to the practice and culture of bathing. It is a day to honour the vitality of water and the diverse, cultural traditions linked to bathing and cleansing rituals.

Throughout the day on Saturday 22 June, we will be hosting a program of arts and culture events in celebration of World Bathing Day. The activations taking place are a combination of complimentary and paid events, each designed to enhance your bathing experience.

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World Bathing Day Sunrise Bathe & Breakfast

Join us for World Bathing Day and the start of the Winter Solstice on Saturday 22 June 2024.

We invite you to Metung Hot Springs at sunrise to bathe as people come together across the world to celebrate water.

This exclusive bathing session will occur from 7:00 am - 9:00 am at Metung Hot Springs throughout our bathing ridge and hilltop escarpment.

After soaking up the sunrise at Metung Hot Springs, enjoy a nourishing breakfast at Metung Country Club from 9:00 - 10:30 am.

Your delicious breakfast is a set menu and will include:

• House made granola with Gippsland dairy yoghurt
• Quinoa Salad, our signature creation featuring Salsa Verde-infused quinoa, crispy locally smoked bacon, creamy avocado, soft-boiled egg and blistered vine-ripened tomatoes.
• Freshly baked croissants with house made berry compote & Gippsland jersey butter
• Coffee & orange juice

Our buffet style breakfast will cater to dietary requirements (vegetarian, gluten free etc.)

Further details regarding the event will be emailed to you in the week prior.

This event is part of the 2024 East Gippsland Winter Festival. View the festival program of exciting events across our region, 21 June to 21 July 2024.

We have limited places available for this exclusive bathing session, book now via Humanitix

world bathing day

Initiated in 2018 by the Bathe the World Foundation and the Global Wellness Institute Hot Springs Initiative, World Bathing Day invites people to come together across various bathing facilities to collectively recognise the importance of water, and its profound ability to connect us to the natural world.

The simple act of immersing oneself in water has been integral to human culture for aeons - be it in wild swimming spots, urban waterways, rivers, oceans, or hot springs. World Bathing Day honours this ritual and allows us a chance to reflect on the role of water in cultivating community and reawaken our inherent love of nature.

Together with water

The theme of this year's World Bathing Day is ‘Together with Water’.

From sunrise on Saturday 22 June 2024, World Bathing Day will be celebrated globally. Bathing facilities will host vibrant events, each with a focus on water’s capacity to unite us and to stoke our deep connection to the natural world. Time together with water allows us to relax, to recharge and to reawaken our deep connection to the planet that so greatly sustains us.

Global Sound Bath

A key component of World Bathing Day is the Global Sound Bath, an initiative that invites us to reconnect through the therapeutic and meditative aspects of sound in unification with water. Sound Baths are mesmeric experiences connecting sound and sense to oneself through powerful waves produced by gongs, harmonic drums and singing bowls among other resonant tools.

Global Sound Bath is an activation that brings sound and bathing together, influencing a profound human experience that transcends time and location.

The Global Sound Bath to take place during this year’s World Bathing Day involves musical performances in local bathing spots. These performances will be shared across social media to allow people in various countries to virtually experience a diversity of musical offerings.

Get involved

All are encouraged to get involved in this year’s celebration of cultural bathing practices by sharing their favourite local water rituals — whether it’s weekly team sauna sessions, daily cold ocean swims with a community group or hot spring soaks with friends.

World Bathing Day taps into our collective need to reconnect with each other and with nature, and the global bathing community invites everyone to participate through a bathing experience that resonates with them.

Get involved in this year’s event by sharing images of your favourite local bathing experiences on social media with the hashtag #worldbathingday

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