July | Calm

  July | Calm With iced Beijing “Coke” in the fridge, who’s afraid of the hot, dog days? Health Preservation During Major Heat Suppose the following scenario: You turn on the air conditioner, take out a chilled watermelon from the refrigerator, and let out a deep and satisfied sigh about all the blessings that modern technology can bring amid a blazing summer day. Do you…

Buy One, Give One—The Wellness Moonshot Hanging Work of Art

BUY ONE, GIVE ONE The Wellness Moonshot Hanging Work of Art Now until after Labor Day, September 6th, when you pledge your support of The Wellness Moonshot by donating to the GWI, you’ll receive not one BUT TWO stunning works of art! As a wellness leader, you are often activating and sustaining major wellness change in families, organizations and communities. Don’t forget: Transformation is an…

GWI to Hold First Symposium on Wellness Real Estate & Communities

  Media Contact: Beth McGroarty [email protected] • +1.213.300.0107 Global Wellness Institute to Hold First Symposium on Wellness Real Estate & Communities All-day event on Tuesday, September 28, in NYC will gather the top business leaders in this sector to explore the new momentum, trends and research for “building well”—the next frontier in real estate Miami, FL – July 21, 2021 – The nonprofit Global Wellness Institute (GWI),…

‘Well’ Leaders Embrace Paradoxes: Be Strong, Be Vulnerable; Go Fast, Go Slow

” alt=”” width=”900″ height=”250″ /> New Report:  Effectively Leading Through Paradox Wisdom Works has released its first Be Well Lead Well® Research Insights report: Effectively Leading Through Paradox. Leaders now have to guide their organizations through an unprecedented degree of uncertainty, complexity and change. This means work environments full of contradictory demands and paradoxes: Go fast, go slow; be strong, be vulnerable; take control, let others…

Global Wellness Summit Pivots to Boston for 2021

The Global Wellness Summit, originally planned for Tel Aviv, will now take place in Boston, MA, from November 30 to December 3 at the Encore Boston Harbor. Boston, with its powerful investment landscape in health and wellness and world-leading academic institutions from Harvard to MIT, is a perfect location for a conference that will explore a new era where health and wellness will intersect in…

Kids Gain an Hour+ of Sleep After Yoga & Deep Breathing Training

A new Stanford University study of 1,000 at-risk elementary school kids found that mindfulness classes at school (combining yoga movement and breathwork) led to (on average) an extra 74 minutes of sleep per night and almost a half hour of REM sleep—a huge change. It was the first study to use polysomnography techniques, which measure brain activity, to assess how mindfulness training changes children’s sleep.…