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. Read More from the Global Wellness News ™
Construction on $292 million, 28-acre Therme Manchester gets underway
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Headspace Health acquires inclusive mental health and wellness app Shine
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. Read More from the Global Wellness News ™
Home fitness platform Tonal seeks $100 million in financing
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Grab your leg warmers: fun 80s-style aerobic classes return in fitness fad flashback (They’re big at streaming channels such as Obé Fitness and TikTok)
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. Read More from the Global Wellness News ™
Meet the Blue Zones Discoverer
Dan Buettner, Founder, Blue Zones, LLC Joining delegates in Tel Aviv to present new research on the profound impact of diet on longevity Dan Buettner, who famously identified the Blue Zones–those five places around the world where people live significantly better, longer lives–will keynote at the 2022 Global Wellness Summit. Buettner will share surprising insights from his upcoming new book, Blue Zones American Kitchen, which…
The Trend in the News: Sept 7th, 2022
TREND: The Wealth Divide is Widening: Super-Expensive Wellness is on the Rise Week of September 7th, 2022 Ultra-rich fueling sales of luxury brands despite inflation and recession fears–CNBC A couple of weeks ago, companies that cater to the ultra-rich, such as LVMH (Dior, Louis Vuitton, etc.), Ferrari, Capri, etc. are all reporting super-strong first-half 2022 sales and hiking profit forecasts, while companies like the Gap…
Trend: The Wellth Divide Is Widening: Super-Expensive Wellness Is on the Rise
Trend: The Wellth Divide Is Widening: Super-Expensive Wellness Is on the Rise The pandemic brought new demands for a less elitist wellness market, but it also fueled growing wealth disparity–so we’re seeing more expensive, exclusive wellness than ever before: $4,000/night room rates at new wellness hotels, $75 million wellness condos, $200,000 cosmetic procedures, and a surge in private, expensive wellness social clubs (or the Soho-House-ification…
Are You a Victim of “Well-Washing?” with Rina Raphael
Are You a Victim of “Well-Washing?” with Rina Raphael Everyone wants to feel healthy, but none of us want to be duped—and many prefer not to be goop-ed, for that matter. How can we navigate the world of wellness as savvy consumers and avoid the “well-washing” so often used to sell us on the next expensive fad? We know just the expert to help us…
With schools increasingly focused on mental health, UK-based PsycApps raises $1.7 million for US expansion (Its gamified mental health app has been tested in clinical trials)
With schools increasingly focused on mental health, PsycApps raises seed round for US expansion • TechCrunch I’ve been tracking PsycApps, a startup that came up with a gamified mental health game called eQuoo, since 2016, and this company – and its founder – is nothing if not persistent in “pivoting into the wind”. The last we heard it had been approved by the U.K.’s National…