Last chance. Sunday August 30 closes out this summer series, which has run every Sunday since June 14. Doors open at 8:15am and the experience starts at 9:00am: a collaborative opening class at 9:15 led by a rotating community teacher, then Soul Expansion at 9:40, a guided breathwork and live music journey with Freddy Gervasi and The Band of Souls that moves through meditation, a toning and grounding sequence, 30 minutes of breathwork, and a closing soundscape. Departure and terrace social from 11am. Enter through the East Gate in the East Parking Lot. No late entry after 9:40am, and tickets don't include admission to tour the castle interior.

A free guided sauna session downtown is not something that comes up often. Sweat and Tonic is running two of them with fragrance brand LOoPHA: Recharge with Justin B. on Wednesday September 2 at 2pm, and Sound & Release with Valentine on Sunday September 9 at 6:45pm. Attendees also take home a LOoPHA Hand and Body Powder Wash scented with oud, amber, bergamot and tonka bean. Booking runs through the S&T app, so download it and reserve early because these are small rooms. Worth checking in the app whether your spot needs a class credit before you plan around it. More LOoPHA activations are promised across the rest of September.

10XTO's annual Fitness Festival takes over the ground floor tennis courts at Hotel X, which is a better setting than most Toronto gyms can offer. New this year is an optional 3K run at 8:30am before doors open at 9. The main block is a 45-minute Boxing and Athletic Conditioning class built on shadow-boxing combinations and conditioning circuits, then a 30-minute Athletic Mobility Stretch to bring you back down. After that it's brand activations and challenge stations: rowing, wall balls, box jumps, a reaction test, squats. Swag bags go to the first 100 participants, including anyone who joins the run. Bring your own towel, mat and water bottle. Space is limited, and 10XTO members attend free by signing up through the club app.

The most interesting thing we found this week. BeWell TO has bundled 15+ studios into four themed "Flight Passes", and each pass gets you one class at each of its four studios. Named participants so far include PAKT Fitness, STRONG Pilates, Well Bynd, The Practice, STOTT Pilates, Rumble Boxing, Coco Pilates and Ultra Pilates. At $65 for four classes that works out to about $16 a class, well under the usual $30 to $40 drop-in. Booking codes are emailed September 1, then you reserve directly with each studio. Every class has to be booked and completed within September. A $95 VIP tier adds a recovery session with RCVRI and a snack-size bowl or smoothie at Super Bowls on Roncesvalles. Note: we could not find an official booking page, so start from the writeup below.

Worth flagging because people assume it costs something. There is no entry fee and no minimum donation, and you can walk, run, ride or roll whatever distance suits you. Toronto has more sites than almost any city in the country: High Park, the Beaches, Ward's Island, Forest Hill, Liberty Village, Canoe Landing and Scarborough among them. Use the site finder to pick the one nearest you, since start times are set locally by each organizer rather than centrally. A genuinely good first group event if you have been meaning to start running with other people.

The inaugural urban chapter of BUMI Festival, taking over Mel Lastman Square for three days with free admission. Programming runs on the Harmony Stage: an opening sound bath and gentle flow yoga on Friday, community meditation and movement sessions Saturday, a breathwork reset and closing ceremony Sunday. Plus a 100+ vendor market spanning green market, food, artisans, a Kidzness family zone, and a quieter Stillness Market. Confirmed set times so far are all on Saturday: a mindfulness workshop with Bibi Rosa at 5pm, Toronto Zen Music at 7pm, and Japanese taiko group Nagata Shachu at 8pm. The rest of the yoga and workshop schedule still hasn't been posted, so check the lineup page closer to the date. Friday runs 12 to 10pm, Saturday 10am to 10pm, Sunday 10am to 8pm.

Last year's edition was a single October Saturday. This year Unbounded has it running October 2 to 4 in the heritage pavilions at Evergreen Brick Works, which is the right kind of building for this. Ten sauna experiences run through the day, each one transformed at scheduled times into a guided ritual led by a sauna facilitator. Around them: guided cold plunges with trained staff (optional, and framed as learning to meet discomfort calmly rather than toughing it out), breathwork sessions, yoga, sound baths, a recovery zone, DJs and live music, and vendor booths. Indoor and outdoor spaces both, so dress for October. Tiers and per-day details are on the official Tickit page, and last year's sold out, so it's worth booking rather than deciding in September.

The cheapest wellness in the city, and the one most people forget about. City of Toronto fall programs include yoga, Pilates, tai chi and qigong, strength, functional fit and walk-fit, and at designated free centres they cost nothing at all. Most fall programs run September 26 to November 29. The catch is that good classes fill in minutes, so the date you register matters more than anything: free centres open Wednesday September 9 at 7am for eligible residents, older adult programs (60+) Monday September 14 at 10am, Toronto, East York and Etobicoke Tuesday September 15 at 7am, and North York and Scarborough Wednesday September 16 at 7am. Build your wish list beforehand. If you'd rather practise first, the City is running free virtual registration prep sessions, including one on September 10 from 7 to 8:30pm.