AI Initiative Trends 2023 Trends The rise of technologies like Artificial Intelligence, web3 and Augmented Reality promises to revolutionize and enhance the wellness world in new, exciting ways: from tailor-made, comprehensive wellness plans, to communal, virtual wellness platforms, to incentive-based apps that gamify our wellness goals, to AI-powered coaches that offer personalized guidance. At the same time, AR will play a crucial role in creating…
Consulting Initiative Trends 2023
Exploring Consulting Best Practices Initiative Trends 2023 More and more, spas are becoming a unique, social gathering space—especially after the pandemic. The same is apparent in the hotel industry, which is adopting design changes to accommodate this new trend. This movement toward group wellness is also spurring an increase in traditional and indigenous ceremonies. Also, more organizations are leveraging the data we generate with fitness apps…
Yoga Therapy Initiative Trends 2023
Exploring Yoga Therapy Initiative Trends 2023 As yoga continues to grow as a wildly popular practice, the most prominent trend for 2023 sees an increasing differentiation between yoga and yoga therapy, a practice that shares yoga’s overall purpose while focusing on its clinical and therapeutic applications. This practice is being integrated in many different health and wellness settings, like the US Department of Veterans Affairs,…
Must-reads from the Wellness World (July 26th, 2023)
Floods, heat, smoke: The weather will never be normal again–The New York Times, July 12, 2023 The first sentence says it all: “Global warming is accelerating, with temperatures not just rising but rising faster than ever.” Progressively, once-in-a-thousand-years climate events are becoming the norm, but as human beings we are incredibly adaptable, and recent research suggests we may come to accept weather extremes as normal within…
Intermittent Fasting and Calorie Counting Equally Effective for Weight Loss–But Former Easier to Adhere To
A new, year-long study (University of Illinois) compared the impact on weight loss of a compressed eating day (between noon and 8 PM) vs. cutting calories by 25% each day (and having to constantly count them). The finding: It’s just as effective to watch the clock as it is to watch what you eat. Both groups lost about 5% of their body weight after a…
GDP For Wellbeing or Wellbeing For GDP?
GDP For Wellbeing or Wellbeing For GDP? By Thierry Malleret, economist The sustained recent US economic outperformance (measured in terms of GDP per capita) has prompted many commentators to extol the virtues of the US system, with new laments in Europe about the continent falling behind. This new atmosphere raises again the question of how to measure a country’s welfare, both from an economic and…
