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Because self care should be as quick and easy as grabbing some groceries…
Vortex is a wellness studio that makesself care easy, fast and fun. It’s your destination to relax and recharge asquickly, easily, and often as a trip to the store.
about vortex
The future of feeling good is here. Welcome to Vortex Wellness Studio—Collingwood’s destination for high-tech, holistic, science-backed self-care.
we are
- locally-owned
- private wellness
- self-guided
- casually luxurious
- reasonably priced
we are not
- a corporate spa
- crowded spaces
- chatty clinicians
- pretentious
- stupid expensive
Experience a brand new way to relax, recharge and recover in Canada’s first self-guided self care studio.
We show you the ropes, then we leave you in peace to enjoy our next-level wellness experience. It’s ‘me time’, redefined.
come here to...
- de-stress on demand
- recharge quickly
- optimize your health
- recover like a pro
- relax in an amazing space
we help you
- feel lighter
- sleep better
- breathe easier
- perform stronger
- reconnect with yourself
Take a break. Take a breath.
Vortex will take care of you.
how it works
Saving on self-care is as easy as 1, 2, 3.
Shop at Gordon’s
Spend $25
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Hold onto it or snap a pic. This isn’t just your proof of purchase… it’s your ticket to savings in a wellness wonderland!
Save 15% at Vortex
Book and visit within 7 days. We don’t charge you until you check out, so just show up, show your receipt… that’s it! Do as many sessions in one visit as you like and you’ll save 15% when you check out. Every new receipt from Gordon’s is another Vortex visit where you save.
It’s that easy to save on self care!
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sessions
We’ve got 8 incredible, science-backed self-care sessions to help you feel good fast.
somadome
- relax
- recharge
- reconnect
- 20 min
- 30
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+15% off!
Enjoy an immersive journey inward in the world’s first technology-enabled meditation pod. Binaural beats, colour therapy and energy enhancing microcrystalline tiles come together in a 20 min journey inward that leaves you feeling cool, calm and collected.
Climb aboard, pick your intention, and settle in for a 20 minute guided or unguided meditation. Kick back and let the light and sound take your brain waves to a happy place as you dive into your selected state.
You can expect to experience benefits associated with meditation: greater calmness, increased focus, enhanced creativity, more balance, as well as less stress, anxiety and reduced negative emotions.
benefits
✨ mindful relaxation
✨ reduced anxiety
✨ improved focus
✨ improved mood
✨ increase creativity
✨ align your energy centers
✨ pregnancy safe
red light
- recharge
- recover
- rejuvenate
- 10 min
- 30
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+15% off!
This one’s short and sweet with a little bit of heat. Rock out while red and near infrared waves stimulate energy production on a cellular level to improve circulation, increase energy, accelerate recovery and much more. Feel recharged and rejuvenated fast.
Red Light uses specific wavelengths of red and near-infrared light to penetrate the skin and underlying tissues to energize your cellular machinery. This stimulates ATP production, and enhances cellular respiration.
The low-level lights allow your body to soak up a long list of great benefits. These sessions are great for skin issues, such as wrinkles, scars, and persistent wounds. Exposing your whole body to the red and near-infrared lightwaves allows your body to feel the energy production happening in real time. Your cells are triggered to produce energy and get your body working optimally.
benefits
✨ accelerate recovery
✨ increase energy
✨ decrease inflammation
✨ increase circulation
✨ improve skin
✨ improve mood
✨ boost performance
✨ optimize sleep
tune
- relax
- recalibrate
- recover
- 15 min
- 30
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+15% off!
This vibroacoustic performance technology produces powerful, medical-grade frequenicies to tune the body to its most optimal state in just 15 minutes, so you can not only survive but thrive in modern times. Feel the good vibes… literally.
Vibration is the language of the body, and TUNE speaks it fluently.
Select your session, lay down, throw on the headphone and get ready to shift your vibe. This incredible instrument uses powerful medical-grade frequencies to literally tune your nervous system in just 15 minutes.
Researchers at the National Institute of Health and Mayo Clinic have proven that specific medical-grade vibrations arranged in certain patterns speak directly to different parts of the body.
TUNE uses neuromusic specifically composed by medical musicians to calm racing minds and deepen your experience and its state-of-the-art design is modeled after a violin to focus vibrations so they’re 100% absorbed into the body.
benefits
✨ reduce stress
✨ reduce anxiety + depression
✨ improve mood
✨ improve sleep
✨ decrease pain
✨ maintain your edge
✨ pregnancy safe
nucalm
- rest
- reset
- recalibrate
- 20-50 min
- 35-60
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+15% off!
This science-backed power nap helps you de-stress on demand by slipping your brain into a restorative state, giving you the benefits of 2-4 hours of sleep in one session. Yes, it really works! We know what you’re thinking: shut up and take my money.
NuCalm is clinically proven to naturally relax the brain and body within minutes. This patented technology addresses the brain circuitry in the limbic system, the hypothalamus and the brainstem responsible for activating the stress response, and basically shuts your stress off!
NuCalm is the world’s only patented neuroscience technology clinically proven to naturally relax the brain and body and give you relief from stress and anxiety within minutes – yes, we said minutes – and provide you deep relaxation and recovery.
In fact, the results from a Harvard Medical School study found that a 40-minute NuCalm session can give you the equivalent of 2-4 hours of deep restorative sleep.
Now that’s a power nap!
benefits
✨ decrease stress
✨ decrease anxiety
✨ decrease depression
✨ improved sleep
✨ mental focus
✨ decrease muscles soreness
✨ neuromuscular release
✨ increased productivity
✨ all natural / no drugs
✨ pregnancy safe
halo
- relax
- rejuvenate
- respirate
- 30 / 50 min
- 55 / 85
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+15% off!
Enjoy a brief escape that leaves your mind and muscles relaxed. Think “salt cave”, but make it modern, private and turn up the heat a bit. Low-level infrared meets halotherapy for a relaxing experience that’s fantastic for your skin and lungs. It’s like a trip to the beach… without the sand all in your business.
The halo session is where salt particles and infrared waves join forces to give your body some real goodness.
This session adds low-intensity infrared heat to warm the body and help open your pores and give you the maximum benefit of the salt. The infrared heat is lower than our infrared session (around 102°F). The lower heat still gives you the benefits of infrared waves, but doesn’t get you so sweaty that the salt is just rolling off your body and negating any of its positive effects.
As you breathe, the salt particles act like a sponge and draw out moisture, mucus and impurities, kill microbes and help with inflammation in both the airways and on the skin.
So, basically this is like a private, heated salt cave. It feels like you’re hanging out on a warm summer day by the ocean.
benefits
✨ antimicrobial + antibacterial
✨ anti-inflammatory
✨ strengthens respiratory health
✨ strengthens immune resilience
✨ breaks up moisture & mucus
✨ enhances skin health
✨ relieves muscle tension
✨ aids in pain relief
✨ detoxification
infrared
- relax
- detox
- recover
- 60 min
- 85
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+15% off!
Get your sweat on in the only private infrared sauna suites in South Georgian Bay. Listen to music, meditations or watch Netflix on a big screen. Enjoy your own fridge with cold towels and of course a private shower to cool down. It’s ‘me time’ redefined… and it’s amazing.
Infrared saunas work by raising your core body temperature, producing a deep detoxifying sweat at the cellular level. While traditional saunas heat up the air, infrared saunas heat your body directly using wavelengths of light that are outside our visible range.
The full-spectrum infrared heaters produce near, mid and far-infrared waves that generate a gentle heat from within. The waves penetrate the skin, muscles, joints and tissues to help improve circulation, oxygen flow and stimulate a gentle detox by helping to remove impurities on a cellular level.
If you’re not into that “thick wall of heat” that comes with a traditional sauna, an infrared session is likely right up your alley.
Afterwards, rinse off in your private shower, hang out in the lounge, and then re-enter the world refreshed.
benefits
✨ aids in detoxification
✨ increases relaxation
✨ supports in weight-loss
✨ increases heart health
✨ aids in pain relief
✨ anti-aging & skin health
✨ supports cell health & immunity
seqex
- recalibrate
- recover
- relax
- 45 min
- 70
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+15% off!
You’ll lay back and relax while frequencies get pulsed into your electromagnetic field. This helps your cells to respirate while increasing microcirculation to de-stress your body. SEQEX effectively rejuvenates your cells and gets them into their optimal state. Basically your cells go from raisins to grapes!
Our bodies have an energy field that is very similar to the Earth’s. In order to maintain our optimal health, it’s important to incorporate this energy into our everyday lives – especially with the constant barrage of different waves and frequencies interacting with us from our computers, phones and other electronic devices.
SEQEX is a pulsed electromagnetic field device (PEMF) that utilizes the geomagnetic field of the earth mixed with other similar low magnitude frequencies. SEQEX technology uses these frequencies to help bring your cells back into electrical balance and harmony.
So what the heck does that mean? SEQEX is going to pulse some awesome frequencies into your body to help repair, regenerate, rebuild, and improve your wellness naturally by enhancing the functionality of your cells.
Charging your body right down to the cells can lead to some great benefits: the pulsed frequencies from the SEQEX promote cellular exercise which allows the cells to expel toxins and waste, and bring in fresh minerals, nutrients and water so your body can improve energy production and function at its best.
Afterwards, rinse off in your private shower, hang out in the lounge, and then re-enter the world refreshed.
benefits
✨ improve microcirculation
✨ relax muscles
✨ improve brain function + focus
✨ aid relaxation and sleep
✨ maximize bone and joint health
✨ support the nervous system
✨ relieve minor aches and pains
✨ increase energy
compression
- relax
- recover
- recirculate
- 30 / 45 min
- 40 / 55
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+15% off!
Give that hard-working body of yours a bear hug. We use the Normatec Pro recovery system to squeeze the $#!% out of your lower half. Choose between legs (boots) or hips (shorts) then lay back and relax in your private pod. You can thank us later.
Kick back in your personal wellness pod for an incredible recovery session that feels really damn good.
Compression is an effective method by which controlled pressure is applied to your legs in order to increase blood flow and the efficiency of the lymphatic and venous systems. This is an incredible dynamic compression technology that uses compressed air to mobilize fluid and improve circulation so you can recover faster, and feel fully revived.
Step into your power boots or strap on the hip attachment depending on what your body needs.
So whether you’re fresh off the slopes or bike trails and want to step into some recovery, or you just want a robot to massage your legs or hips for a while – the compression session truly is a game changer!
Afterwards, rinse off in your private shower, hang out in the lounge, and then re-enter the world refreshed.
benefits
✨ speed up recovery time
✨ reduce swelling
✨ enhanced lymphatic drainage
✨ remove lactic acid
✨ improved range of movement
✨ improved flexibility
✨ promotes healing + recovery
✨ super relaxing
You see that? No massages. No facials. No giant hot tubs full of strangers.
Vortex is a totally unique private wellness experience.
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Gordon’s and Vortex have teamed up as two local, family-run businesses working together to keep Collingwood feeling good inside and out — and we want to thank you for supporting local.
OWNERS LESLIE RABINOVICH & JEFF MEAKINGS
1 Hume St.
Collingwood, Ontario
OWNERS DANIEL JAMES & STEVE MCCREA
