We flagged the September 18 founding deadline last week, so here is the honest follow-up: all three Yorkville-only founding memberships are now marked sold out on S&T's own presale page. What is still live is arguably the better one. S&T Toronto Unlimited at $290 a month covers all three locations, Yorkville plus The Well plus Yonge/Shuter, with unlimited yoga, Pilates, strength, HIIT and Ride, unlimited HYROX at The Lab, open gym, Tonic Spa pool deck, Tonic House and a guest credit a month. Their page showed 35 of 350 left when we checked, and the rate is price-protected for as long as you keep it. If a membership is more than you want, the Yorkville credit packs are 20% off: $124 for five classes, $232 for ten, $316 for fifteen, each expiring three months after opening. One more thing worth knowing if you already belong to S&T: any Yonge/Shuter or The Well membership kept active through the opening gets complimentary Yorkville access, permanently. The new club is 18,000 square feet at 11 Yorkville Avenue, roughly 300 classes a week, with contrast therapy suites, sauna and cold plunge, free in both change rooms.

Forest Bathing Club is back at Evergreen Brick Works, and this is the closest thing Toronto has to a real shinrin-yoku practice rather than a walk with a nice view. Emily Pleasance guides it, and her credentials are the reason to take it seriously: a climate-aware psychotherapist and certified Nature and Forest Therapy guide, with training in climate psychology, expressive arts therapy and somatic work. Sessions are slow and sensory, closer to a guided meditation that happens to be outdoors. Newcomers want the Intro to Forest Bathing walk on Saturday October 18, 10am to 1pm. Anyone who has been before can join the Members Gathering the same afternoon, 2:30 to 5:30pm. A further date follows on November 15, which is a genuinely good time to be in the ravine. One correction worth having: Evergreen's own listing still shows the old October times of 12 to 3pm and 4 to 7pm, while Forest Bathing Club's site has moved them to 10am and 2:30pm, so trust the organizer. Ticket price is shown only at the Eventbrite checkout, so check there before you plan around it.

Still one of the better-value things running this month, but the clock is short now. 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 went out September 1, then you reserve directly with each studio. Every class has to be booked and completed by September 30, so if you buy now you are fitting four classes into two weeks. 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.

An update straight from the organizer this week: the festival has consolidated its time slots. It is no longer four-hour blocks, Saturday and Sunday are now single long sessions, so a ticket gets you a much wider window than it did when this first went on sale. It is also nearly gone. As of this week the organizer says the festival is about 90% sold out, with Saturday afternoon fully sold out already. More than 20 guided sauna rituals across the heritage pavilions at Evergreen Brick Works, run by Unbounded in partnership with Therme Group: scented, movement, sound, silence, breathwork, tea ceremony, venik and free-flow saunas, each on a repeating schedule so you're not choosing between them. Around that: guided and free-flow cold plunges, yoga and Pilates, breathwork and sound sessions, a Recovery and Longevity Zone with red light and compression therapy, food vendors, a hydration bar by day and a mocktail bar by night, live music and DJs. General admission for Saturday and Sunday is $89.99 plus tax and fees, opening night Friday is $109.99. If you have been on the fence, this is the week to book, not the week to wait for a better price. Indoor and outdoor both, dress for October.

The best-kept secret of marathon weekend is that the expo is open to anyone, costs nothing, and you never have to lace up. Two days at the Better Living Centre on the Exhibition grounds with roughly 70,000 visitors moving through: a speaker series, pre-race massages, live shirt customization, mindset coaching, a course map and Meet the Pacers zone, a shoe donation drop, and a floor of running and fitness brands handing out samples. If you have been curious about a shoe, a gel, a recovery tool or a local run club, this is the cheapest possible way to try all of them in one afternoon. Friday runs 10am to 8pm, Saturday 10am to 6pm. Go Friday evening if you want room to move, since Saturday is packed with runners picking up race kits. Heads up that the visitor page on the marathon site still carries last year's dates in places, so trust the October 16 and 17 dates confirmed on their exhibitor page.

A cold plunge with a point to it. Sinai Health Foundation runs The Cold Plunge Challenge on World Menopause Day, Sunday October 18, raising money for women's health research at Sinai, from menopause care through to long-term outcomes. There is no ticket price: you register, you fundraise, and you plunge. Cherry Beach is now confirmed as the in-person location, though the meet time still only appears after you register, so watch your confirmation email for it. The registration and fundraising window runs September 14 to October 14, which leaves about three weeks. You can also do it entirely your own way, in a lake, a tub, or a cold shower, and still count. Participants must be 18 or older. If you have been curious about cold exposure but wanted a reason beyond the internet telling you to, this is a decent one.

Not a novelty photo op, an actual sauna, floating. Löyly (the Kelowna company behind one of Western Canada's best-reviewed sauna operations) opened Toronto's first floating sauna and cold plunge on the waterfront at the end of last year, and it's still running into this fall. A 75-minute session cycles you through the sauna, a cold shower, and an outdoor rest area, community sessions run $45 a person for up to 10 guests, with a private option for larger groups. Add-ons include electrolytes and a couple of towel tiers if you forget yours. One thing to verify before you go: as of this writing the cold plunge pool itself wasn't yet operational, so you're booking the sauna and cold shower experience, not a dedicated plunge tub, confirm current status when you book. Dress for the dock, it's outdoors on the water.