2026 Global Wellness Summit Will Explore the Future of Asia’s Foundational and Fast-Evolving $2 Trillion Wellness Market The conference in Thailand this year will reveal why, if you want to understand the future of wellness, you need to understand the Asian market—from the region’s innovations in driving longer healthspans for its fast-aging populations, to taking a far more integrative approach to longevity, to putting social…
The Psychology of Sauna: Introspection, Transformation, and Human Connection
The Psychology of Sauna: Introspection, Transformation, and Human Connection (This article was originally published in Sauna Times by Stephen A. Colmant, Ph.D., MA, Prescribing Psychologist.) We hear about the physiological benefits of sauna almost daily and still very little attention is given to its psychological effects. Sauna may be psychologically powerful through its influence on mood and cognition, promotion of introspection, ritual structure, and effects…
The Men Who Forgot How to Feel Together
The Men Who Forgot How to Feel Together Grief, movement, and the lost art of relational masculinity There is a growing conversation taking place around men and masculinity. Much of it is polarized. Some narratives frame men primarily as a problem to be solved, while others attempt to restore masculine confidence through increasingly performative ideals of strength, dominance, optimization, and control. Between these poles, many…
Cryotherapy for Chronic Fatigue: Clinical Insights
Longevity Medicine · Clinical Wellness When Cold Becomes Medicine: Whole-Body Cryotherapy and the Chronic Fatigue Puzzle Far from a wellness trend, whole-body cryotherapy is emerging as a physiologically grounded intervention for one of medicine’s most elusive conditions — and what it reveals about biological aging may surprise you. Carolina Hernández Peratta Clinical Biochemist · Founder & Academic Director, Master’s in Longevity Medicine & Age Management,…
Let There Be Light: How Red-Light Therapy Is Transforming Athletic Recovery — and What It Means for Hospitality & Wellness
GLOBAL WELLNESS INSTITUTE | Sport & Hospitality Initiative Initiative Blog | June 2026 Let There Be Light: How Red Light Therapy Is Transforming Athletic Recovery — and What It Means for Hospitality & Wellness By Cheryl M. Hardy | Global Wellness Institute, Sport & Hospitality Initiative Task Force When golfer Justin Thomas isn’t competing on the PGA Tour — and he’s been on a recovery…
Beyond the Heat: Cooling as a Core Component of Thermal Wellness
Beyond the Heat: Cooling as a Core Component of Thermal Wellness June 17, 2026, 11AM-12PM ET | Webinar Hosted by GWI Hydrothermal Initiative | REGISTER TODAY A growing recalibration is taking place around cold therapy and contrast bathing. After years of emphasis on extreme cold plunges and ever-lower temperatures, the wellness industry is beginning to take a broader view of what effective, sustainable cooling can…
