Trend: Teen Wellness Week of May 21st, 2025 Everyone’s talking about … Teen wellness–Spa Business Born from a discussion at the GWS, this article asks if wellness destinations and spas should be doing more for teens and what type of programming works best. If adults-only policies have ruled in most spas, is it time to review the age limit? What are the legal and ethical considerations…
Trend: Teen Wellness Teens are suffering, and the wellness world is just starting to create more solutions for their emotional and social health. But critics fear the industry may just be exploiting a new, young, wellness-obsessed consumer. We’ve been bombarded for so long with stats on the teen mental wellness crisis that we’ve become numb, even as the younger generation faces rising levels of anxiety,…
Trend: Finally, Some Transparency Into What’s in That Supplement Week of April 16th, 2025 The wellness industry has a pill problem–Pop Sugar This new article explores why there seems to be a supplement for everything these days, with an abundance of products often lacking the right ingredients or being contaminated, and sold with no rigorous safety testing. Weight loss and body-building products in particular too…
Trend: Finally, Some Transparency Into What’s in That Supplement Supplements are a massive market, but one plagued by lax regulations and serious credibility issues. Most simply aren’t what they claim to be. Now, thankfully, more companies are giving a clear window into ingredients, and tracing the sourcing and production processes … from seed to final product Supplements are a booming $178 billion market that’s moved…
Trend: Social Saunas Week of March 19th, 2025 ‘In America’s Cities, Saunas Are Becoming the Hottest Social Spot’ — Vogue This article looks at how the growing community sauna movement is creating new spaces for people to meet by pairing saunas with food, music, yoga or fundraising efforts, and how today’s saunas offer a different kind of socializing—and a rare chance to meet a stranger.…
Trend: Social Saunas While saunas have been around for thousands of years, they’re currently enjoying an incredible renaissance. From new urban saunas in New York and Chicago, to rustic waterfront saunas in Oslo or Brighton, to saunas with immersive art installations in Tokyo, today’s saunas represent a reinvention of an age-old tradition—and an increasingly younger, hipper crowd is taking notice. These younger consumers, craving…
Trend: Not Just Digital Detox, But Analog Travel Week of February 19th, 2025 Can analogue living cure digital burnout in 2025?–Wallpaper This Wallpaper wellness report is devoted to the increasingly contradictory wellness market GWS outlined in its 2025 trends report. In travel, you have the boom in medical-longevity and biohacking clinic-resorts (all those concierge doctors and diagnostics), such as Chenot Palace Weggis in Switzerland. On…
Trend: Not Just Digital Detox, But Analog Travel More hotels and resorts are channeling the zeitgeist and offering retro, pre-digital (even pre-industrial!) tech, hobbies, arts and crafts that restore what our screen-based lives have stolen from us: the social, our radical attention, the tactile and real. Think vinyl record “deep listening” sauna sessions and sophisticated arts and crafts programming … more blacksmithing than biohacking. Our…
Emerging from the keynotes and discourse on this topic at the 2024 Global Wellness Summit (GWS), Watershed Wellness is Trend #5 inside the GWS’s The Future of Wellness: 2025 Trends report, the latest edition of the longest-running global wellness trends report providing a detailed (130-page) forecast of the 10 trends that will make waves in health and wellness in the year ahead. Inside the report,…
Analog Wellness is Trend #1 inside the Global Wellness Summit’s The Future of Wellness: 2025 Trends report, the latest edition of the longest-running global wellness trends report providing a detailed (130-page) forecast of the ten trends that will make waves in health and wellness in the year ahead. Inside the report, author Beth McGroarty details how the Analog Wellness trend will shake up tech, wellness,…
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