By Amy C. Willis, Holistic Sober Coach April 2024 With the vast expansion of the sober curious movement, the explosive growth of the alcohol-free beverage space and the inception of mindful drinking, now is an incredible time to explore mindful drinking and how it could serve as the ultimate wellness hack in your life.  Mindful drinking is the invitation to bring awareness and mindfulness-based practices…
Culturally Appropriate Coaching: A Personal Testimonial By: Nina Raffaele Aponte, Certified Health and Wellness Coach “One of my personal goals is to serve and support the collective health of community-based groups that focus on activism and social change. In July 2022, I seized the opportunity to travel to a remote town in a southern highland region of Chiapas, Mexico, where I had a long-standing contact…
Dear friends and colleagues, May 14 might seem like a long way off, but not to our team! We have been planning in earnest for the third annual Wellness Real Estate & Communities Symposium, to be hosted by our partners at JPMorgan Chase headquarters, midtown Manhattan. This sector of the wellness economy—real estate—has been booming for years now, even during COVID; the result has had an…
AI Initiative 2024 Trends TREND 1: AI and Wellness Data in Personal Health Management The application of AI to wellness data has ushered in a new era of personal health management, where every heartbeat, step and breath can be analyzed to provide personalized, real-time health recommendations. The key themes driving this trend are; the infusion of wellness data into lifestyle, the integration of wellness data…
A Decade of Wellness Tourism: First-Ever Compilation of 10+ Years of Market Data   In 2013, the Global Wellness Institute (GWI) unveiled the Global Wellness Tourism Economy report—a landmark study that defined the parameters and characteristics of the emerging wellness tourism sector and provided, for the first time, market size estimates at the global, regional, and country levels. In that report, GWI first measured wellness tourism…
New GWI Wellness Policy Toolkit Proposes a Changing Paradigm for Wellness Tourism Tomorrow the GWI will release its latest report, Wellness Policy Toolkit: Wellness in Tourism. It is the latest in the GWI policy series, suggesting concrete actions for stakeholders to bring wellness to all in the context of tourism.  Importantly, the report introduces a new paradigm, broadening the focus from wellness tourism to wellness…
