It’s 3pm on a Saturday afternoon at Capybara Bathing in Surry Hills and four women in their mid-30s are dressed in varying styles of black Matteau maillots with white towels wrapped around their waists. They’re huddled inside the bathing house mapping out what to tackle first. Steam room? Shower and a magnesium scrub? The mineral pool set at 38 degrees? Ice bath? Or hot-stone sauna?

Over the next 90 minutes, the group moves from one facility to the next, all while workshopping their lives. It’s a therapy session – of sorts. Something that once might have taken place in a local wine bar over a glass of pinot.