mindfulness

Discover new spa experiences on a girlfriend’s getaway in Greater Palm Springs, September 1–November 30.

This September 1st, discover wellness at the Greater Palm Springs. Mineral springs, lush backdrops, yoga classes and other wellness activities makes this a must see.

Mindfulness skills can help us train our brains to focus on small, incremental behavioral changes every day. Find out why improving your brain fitness is important and how mindfulness can help us make small changes that add up to a big difference.

Taking a break one day a week to spend time with family or friends or just relax is more than a tradition. It’s an important part of your wellbeing.

Why mindfulness meditation may have more benefits for women than men.

During the holiday, an energy boost is a necessity. Holiday parties, family functions, school assemblies and never mind the rush to the stores.

An insistent refrain at the 2016 Wellness Summit, running like the notes of Mozart’s “Requiem” was the need for more creativity in the form of art, music, literature and dance at wellness retreats and spas – both for guests to experience and to “do.” Historian David Clay Large revealed that the connection between the “spa […]

INSIDE THE 2017 REPORT When 500+ wellness experts from 46+ nations gather to debate the future of wellness, you have one uniquely authoritative and global view of the trends set to unfold. And that’s what happened at the recent tenth-anniversary Global Wellness Summit in Kitzbühel, Austria, which (with its specifically future-focused theme for 2016, “Back […]

A new focus on silence at wellness destinations and spas came through loud and clear in Wellness Summit presentations. Programming at hotels & retreats today can sometimes feel like nothing more than an “operational line-item” (some fitness classes or spas to “check off”), while future destinations will need to put a deeper, more comprehensive focus […]

Mental wellness will be the biggest future trend, period: from wellness destinations bringing in neuroscientists and psychotherapists – to meditation becoming seriously mainstream, while evolving into new breeds – to part-mind, part-body workout brands – to apps that track your mental state. Despite our era of historic economic abundance, depression, anxiety disorders, loneliness, addiction and […]

Change is the premier topic at the 2017 Art Basel. Can Art impact the world we live in? As Art hijacks our sunny city with splashes of color from Miami Beach to Miami’s Design District and Wynwood,

Sign up for the eMindful 1% Challenge and commit 14 minutes of your day toward building powerful skills of mindfulness that have potential to help you achieve lasting positive change.

Charlotte Watts discusses how spending time in mindful states has shown to actively change the ways our brains are wired and how we respond to challenges and the world around us.

Ours is a world where every kind of “wellness” imaginable is explored and promoted, whether physical, mental, spiritual, environmental or workplace. But meaningful conversations about, and approaches to improve, sexual wellbeing have been seriously left out of the equation. On the one hand we live in a sex-saturated world: bombarded with hyper-sexualized images and impossible […]

Many return home from luxury spa treatments describing themselves as revitalized or reinvigorated, but for those who experience the ancient Mexican practice of Temazcal another word often comes to mind: reborn. Dating back to Mayan and Aztec cultures, Temazcal roughly translates to “house of steam,” yet these simple adobe huts are far more than just […]

The term “forest bathing” has nothing to do with water, and is more than just a poetic way of describing a “walk in the woods,” something humans have, of course, been doing for five million years (if never less so than today). The Japanese government coined the term in 1982, a translation of “shinrin-yoku,” which literally means “taking in the forest […]

A core part of a spa’s DNA is personal connection and helping people cope with pain and stress. And a growing percentage of spas around the world offer services specifically created for people suffering from serious illnesses like cancer, and numerous spas and wellness businesses provide free services and raise money to support health-related causes. […]

The Spafinder Trends Report is an in-depth forecast of the most significant global trends that will impact the Spa industry and consumers in the year ahead. Developed by a team of research analysts, editors and industry experts, the forecast is based on ongoing surveys of the spa, wellness and beauty providers in the Spafinder Network, […]

With the London marathon just around the corner & the training plan easing off, it is important not to forget your personal well being.

Swedish, Thai, shiatsu, hot stone…make way for “the mindfulness massage” in 2013, a creative blend of two effective approaches—mindfulness techniques and bodywork—that when combined can have a uniquely positive, profound impact on people’s stress levels, emotions and brains. This new massage “mix” addresses the wellbeing of both body and mind, and because it helps people […]