2022 Recipients for The Susie Ellis Scholarship for Equity in Wellness Resonating with the global movement for equality and inclusion, the inaugural year of the Global Wellness Institute’s (GWI’s) Susie Ellis Scholarship for Equity in Wellness was met with “a powerful and poignant response,” receiving an impressive 97 applications from 36 countries according to the fund’s creator, Executive Director and Chief Creative Officer Nancy Davis.After…
The metaverse is becoming the multi-trillion-dollar frontier for a more engaged virtual world. Health and wellness will be one of the metaverse’s bright spots, with emerging technologies such as virtual, augmented and merged reality, haptics, blockchain, gamification, and crypto (together with many still unrealized technologies and behaviors) that will better engage more and more people in health and wellness experiences. Every sector in the global wellness economy–whether it’s fitness,…
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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 ™
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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 ™
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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 ™
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…
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…
