wellness

When the âme Spa & Wellness Collective, and its unique 360-degree approach to wellness, debuted at Turnberry Isle, Miami, the spa experience was re-imagined.

Alleviate those unwanted common cold symptoms with these 3 simple yoga poses.

Since we spend one third of our lives in bed, it is sensible that a bedroom be a peaceful retreat and play only two roles in your life: serenity and sensuality. Anything else can prevent both a good night of sleep and a romantic encounter.

From stellar celebrity facials to LED Light therapy and soulful bathing, a spa in New York is always a good idea!

Set the tone for your day (and night) ahead with these easy-to-manage wellness rituals…

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.

Trying to remove the summer aftermath? Check out Five Ways to Fade Sun Spots & Freckles.

Learn the 8 things truly happy people have in common.

These top 10 winners of the “Best for Going Solo” category of the 2016 Wellness Travel Awards all offer exceptional programs and activities for the solo traveler that will help you be your best in the year ahead.

Creating a healthier work environment is far from a novel concept, its roots in Western corporate culture reaching back as far as Boeing’s pacesetting non-smoking-workplace policies of the 1980s, and the early-1970s craze for executive gyms and mandated annual physical fitness tests for upper management employees. This new mindset, pioneering in its time, was well […]

Cruise ship spas came on board in the early ’80s with operators like Cunard that brought the iconic Golden Door spa in Escondido, California, aboard its flagship, the QE2, to provide fitness, spa services, and programming, and the innovative company Steiner Leisure Limited heading up hair and beauty services. It was an experiment at first—evidenced […]

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver. Mahatma Gandhi Back in 2007 Spafinder named “spa real estate” a top trend, after tracking the rise of a new breed of residence that essentially let people live at a luxury spa. The concept was pioneered by high-profile destination spas, like Canyon Ranch Living, which launched […]

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 […]

“Let’s go surfin’ now, everybody’s learning how, come on a safari with me.” – The Beach Boys, 1962 It’s hardly breaking news that surf culture has been established as the apex of cool. The worship of surfing “style” took off in the ‘60s when the Beach Boys harmonized about a world where “everybody’d be surfin’ […]

When wellness travel’s evolution is discussed, it’s often represented as a series of consecutive “waves,“ with the first wave all about Zen-like spa pampering, stress reduction and yoga, and the ascendant wave about out-in-nature and high adventure experiences. But it’s not a case of the more extreme adventure trend replacing the Zen trend: more high-adrenaline […]

Parents are learning that to raise healthy children in the 21st century means more than just teaching them to eat their vegetables or look both ways before crossing the street. The poor diets, technological obsessions, and ubiquitous stressors that plague adult life offer no immunity to the young. Playtime is being threatened by busy schedules; […]

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 […]

Spafinder has been affiliated with the Spa Industry and Wellness for decades. The annual Global Spa and Wellness Trends Report is a valuable resource for both industry professionals and Spa and Wellness devotees. What follows is a section by section recap of the 2016 report. “Let’s go surfin’ now, everybody’s learning how, come on a […]

With a smartphone in every pocket and more apps than stars in the sky, the world isn’t just at your fingertips—it’s racing toward your front door. GrubHub wants to bring your dinner, Instacart your groceries, Drizly your booze, and Postmates is happy to fetch you everything in between. Long gone are the days when only […]

From Bonnaroo to Burning Man, Carnival to Coachella, the thriving festival circuit promises to fill any enthusiast’s calendar, with the only limiting factor being lack of funds or perhaps lack of sleep. Last year 32 million people attended a music festival in the U.S. alone – that’s more than the population of Texas1. But as […]