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Venerable Midtown department store Saks Fifth Avenue is clearing the clothing racks and turning its second floor into a pop-up health-and-wellness mecca called the Saks Wellery.

The 16,000-square-foot space, which opens Monday, is like a healthy-living food court, with over 20 different vendors hawking everything from boutique fitness classes, athleisure gear for men and women, beauty products, exercise equipment, manicures, meditation and even salt rooms.

We started looking into [how] our customers were living their lives and what they were looking for when they had free time, says Roopal Patel, Saks fashion director. Its not just about what you put on the outside of your body thats important, but how you treat the inside of your body. In other words, after sweating away those extra pounds in a Tracy Anderson class on Saks second floor, you can fit into the Rag & Bone jeans it sells three floors up.

Before they started construction on the new space which had housed contemporary, ready-to-wear and designer collections the folks at Saks created a comprehensive list of their favorite wellness-related brands, including Care/of (customized vitamins); Breathe Salt Rooms (for dry salt therapy); Blink Brow Bar; Sundays Nail Studio (vegan and non-toxic manicures and massages), Skinney Medspa (laser hair removal); and Peloton bikes.

Fitness options include Bendable Body (stretching); ModelFit (exercise), a Victorias Secret Angel favorite; Bari Studio (dance and conditioning); and Drive 495 (personalized training).

The Wellery even includes Conbody, a prison-style boot camp taught by rehabilitated convicts. Founder Coss Marte was speaking at a wellness event in February when a Saks executive approached him about joining their new concept.

I literally said, Fk yeah, and we got the process moving, says Marte who has a popular studio on the Lower East Side.

People will be able to book classes through the MindBody app, and there will also be a fitness concierge on hand to help schedule appointments.

There are no showers, but the changing rooms will be stocked with shower wipes.

The pop-up remains open through Oct. 31, when the space will turn into a floor for beauty products.

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