TREND: Extreme Wellness Your Brain Fully Optimized The “designer brain” has arrived. The technology and know-how that enables us to rewire our brains to perform better—whether it’s cognitive improvement or mental wellness or a greater sense of happiness—there’s now a brain hack you can try. Brain health is already big business. The market for brain supplements is forecast to reach $11.6 billion by 2024, up…
Summit Trend Exploration: The Wellness Kitchen How kitchens are (finally) getting the wellness makeover healthy eaters deserve—Well+Good From virtual sous chefs to appliances that know what food you have at home better than you do, wellness is front and center of this home model moment. The kitchen reimagined—Well Home Architect Veronica Schreibeis Smith has designed the kitchen of the future by prioritizing the health of…
TREND: The Wellness Kitchen Healthy Air, Healthy People If kitchens have been essentially stuck for 70 years, the healthy kitchen of the future completely re-imagines every way we consume food at home—including delivery, storage, prepping, cooking, enjoying and disposal. One key aspect of the wellness kitchen is to tackle the problem of air quality. This is a new focus for every room in the “well…
Trend Exploration: A New Era of Transformative Wellness Travel Myths of monsters and men – CLADglobal Surrealist folk tales and moss-covered lava fields have inspired an Icelandic spa retreat that promises to take guests on a journey to enlightenment. Kim Megson highlights the details for CLADglobal. How travel agencies avoided extinction and became a luxury service – Vox Millennials are using travel agencies to find…
TREND: A New Era of Transformative Wellness Travel You’re the Hero of a Wellness Saga More wellness/spa destinations will (and should) inject more theater and fantasy into wellness experiences to create epic-level sagas that can fire up emotion. The Red Mountain Resort (featured above, photo credit: Johannes Torpe Studios) under development north of Reykjavik, Iceland, is just one cool example. The proposed resort, with its…
TREND: Wellness Meets Happiness Unplugging is the New Cool A life that feels like a barrage of emails, texts and always-on work—the constant reminders that everyone else is succeeding and having a great time via social media—our faces glued to screens as we ignore the present world and the people we’re physically right next to…We don’t need all the new research to explain to us…
Summit Trend in the News: Wellness Meets Happiness Early Facebook and Google employees form coalition to fight what they built–The New York Times Alarmed over the ill effects of social networks and smartphones, a group of Silicon Valley technologists who were early employees at Facebook and Google are banding together to challenge the companies they helped build. Addicted to your smartphone? Now there’s an app…
Trend Exploration: A New Feminist Wellness Why healthy travelers are choosing fitness retreats over spa vacations—Well+Good In a survey of nearly 5,000 Well+Good readers, Well+Good found that 40 percent of respondents would rather go on a fitness retreat with a beloved instructor than head to a five-star resort. In an era of empowerment, more trips for women—New York Times As the #MeToo movement gains momentum,…
TREND: A New Feminist Wellness Wellness Travel Aimed at Empowering Women Most wellness travel is aimed at women, and there are a gazillion female-focused wellness retreats each year. In the past though, you could say that women’s wellness travel has been more about comfort than epic challenge—more pampering by the pool with your BFF—or where the psychology of empowerment offered up was rather “soft.” Now,…
Trend Exploration: Reframing the First 1,000 days Massage works because it changes your physiology—Global Wellness Summit Video interview with Tiffany Field, PhD. Her landmark study demonstrated that preterm newborns who received moderate pressure massage therapy had greater weight gain. The First 1000 Days of a Baby’s Life—What matters and why—Thrive Global The influence of a baby’s health and learning environment during the first 1,000 days…
