Both sickness and health, it turns out, are contagious (Just like viruses, fitness and wellness fads such as Peloton and Zumba spread rapidly and then fade) – The Wall Street Journal, September 10, 2022 The analogies between Covid-19 and Peloton aren’t glib. A growing body of research suggests that health behaviors—from obesity to exercise and weight loss, from smoking to quitting smoking—are fundamentally contagious…
A Fractured Wellness Market: Both Super-Expensive and Free, Simple Wellness Will Rise By Thierry Malleret, economist HIGH-END WELLNESS: WHERE WILL IT END? The most recent Trendium from the GWI’s sister organization, the Global Wellness Summit, is about the post-pandemic surge in “super-expensive wellness”: the seemingly never-ending expansion of very high-priced wellness products and services that benefit the upper decile in terms of income and wealth.…
2022 Recipients for The Susie Ellis Scholarship for Equity in Wellness Resonating with the global movement for equality and inclusion, the inaugural year of the Global Wellness Institute’s (GWI’s) Susie Ellis Scholarship for Equity in Wellness was met with “a powerful and poignant response,” receiving an impressive 97 applications from 36 countries according to the fund’s creator, Executive Director and Chief Creative Officer Nancy Davis.After…
GWI Dying Well Initiative Event: Pre-Planning Is Adulting Wednesday, September 21, 7:00-8:30PM ET Confronting our own mortality by planning and sharing our desired intentions and plans for life after we leave is important and a global trend, as noted in the 2022 Trends reported by the Global Wellness Institute (GWI) Dying Well Initiative. To make Pre-Planning more playful, the Dying Well Initiative has partnered with anthym and…
KEYNOTE VIDEO FROM THE INTERNATIONAL WELLNESS TOURISM CONFERENCE Global Wellness Tourism Trend, Market and Economy Amplifying its role as host to the G20 Presidency this year, Indonesia took the lead to gather global leaders at the International Wellness Tourism Conference & Festival last month, an official G20 side event, where GWI Chair and CEO Susie Ellis spoke on “Global Wellness Tourism Trend, Market, and Economy.” Tourism has been…
Breathe Initiative 2021 Trends TREND 1: BREATH: There’s an app for that! The modernization of an ancient practice is unfolding daily with an influx of apps and wearable tech that help ease people into experiencing the benefits of breath practice and gain insights on how breath can directly affect things like heart rate variability, sleep apnea and brain cognition. TREND 2: BREATH for High Performance…
