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Global Wellness News™ | September 13th, 2022

Grab Your Leg Warmers: Streaming Fitness Classes Channel 1980s Aerobics

The aerobics classes that dominated fitness during the 1980s are coming back, minus the VHS cassettes and jazz hands. The same kinds of low-impact, high-octane and sometimes campy dance-cardio workouts that Jane Fonda popularized during the Reagan era are now getting a boost from YouTube and TikTok.

Headspace Health acquires inclusive mental health and wellness app Shine

Headspace Health is acquiring Shine, a mental health and wellness app dedicated to providing an inclusive mental health experience for the BIPOC community, the company announced on Thursday. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Millennials want to live a ‘soft life,’ and it’s changing how they work

Then there are those who work only to live the life Instagram fabricates. They collect their paycheck and take it to Lisbon or Paris or Madrid where they flood social media with images of all the experiences their hard-earned cash bought them.

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