Fascinating science from cardiologist Dr. Jonathan Fisher, author of Just One Heart and GWI Breathe Initiative Member: This is an excerpt from his Newsletter: Depression changes how your heart beats. Not metaphorically—physiologically. When you’re depressed, your heart loses its natural rhythm variations. Instead of speeding up and slowing down flexibly throughout the day—responding to stress, relaxation, connection—it beats more rigidly, mechanically. This change, measured as…
Wellbeing Intelligence: The Leadership Competency Organizations Can No Longer Ignore
Wellbeing Intelligence: The Leadership Competency Organizations Can No Longer Ignore In today’s rapidly evolving workplace, organizations invest billions in artificial intelligence, digital transformation, and technological advancement. Leaders master finance, operations, and technology as core competencies. Despite these investments, employee engagement continues to decline globally, burnout rates climb to unprecedented levels, and productivity pressures intensify. The missing element in this equation isn’t more technology or traditional…
Just Keep On Moving
Just Keep On Moving By: Dave McCaughan Go to any conference, read any book, check out any blog like this that deals with ageing population and some one will talk about “movement”. It has been recognised for ever as a key to longevity and health ageing. Forever? Well, we seem to have always connected movement with enjoying life, coping with life, and extending life. Let’s…
Timeless Beauty: What Traditional Chinese Medicine Tells Us About Aging, Emotion and the Face
For centuries, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has seen beauty not just as something visual, but as a reflection of your overall health, emotional balance, and inner vitality. Where many modern treatments target aging as a skin-deep issue—through injections, lasers or topical products—TCM views aging as a gradual change in the body’s energy systems, its vital essence (called jing), and in the shen, the spirit or…
2025 Wellness Travel Consumer Survey
2025 Wellness Travel Consumer Survey This initiative regularly measures consumer and industry sentiment around wellness travel. Our research provides valuable insight for the sector into the latest consumer intention, behaviors and key motivations for wellness travel experiences and destination selection. We invite you to complete our 2025 Wellbeing Check In Survey – open until September 30, 2025. All responses are anonymized for analysis. WIN! All…
Wellness Tourism Case Studies 2025
Wellness Tourism Case Studies: A Deeper Dive into Best Practices and Future Success The Wellness Tourism Initiative is excited to share a series of in-depth case studies that explore how destinations around the world are successfully attracting and driving wellness tourism. These case studies serve as valuable research pieces, offering a comprehensive look at the strategies and tactics being employed by countries, towns, cities, and…
