Top Ten Global Spa & Wellness Trends 2016


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Temazcal at Viceroy Riviera Maya Surf’s Up! The New Wave


of Wellness “Let’s go surfin’ now, everybody’s learning how, come on a safari with me.” - The Beach Boys, 1962 It’s hardly breaking news that surf culture has been established as the apex of cool. The worship of surfing “style” took off in the ‘60s when the Beach Boys harmonized about a


world where “everybody’d be


surfin’ like Californ-i-a, and Bruce Brown’s documentary The Endless Summer brought images of boy- tribes on their globe-trotting quest for perfect waves to the world.


Sexual Wellbeing: Taboo is


No More Ours


a world mental, where


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wellbeing have been seriously left out of the equation. On the one hand we live in a sex-saturated world: bombarded with hyper-sexualized images and impossible ideals…and a strong message that you, too, should (and can) be having a lot of great sex (or something is wrong with you, so try this pill).


Temazcal [temas’kal] Many return home from luxury spa


treatments describing themselves as revitalized or reinvigorated, but for those who experience the ancient Mexican practice of


Temazcal every


kind of “wellness” imaginable is explored and promoted, whether physical,


spiritual,


environmental or workplace. But meaningful conversations about, and approaches to improve, sexual


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another word often comes to mind: reborn. Dating back to Mayan and Aztec cultures, Temazcal roughly translates to “house of steam,” yet these simple adobe huts are far more than just primitive saunas. Temazcal is as much a ritual as it is a treatment; with a trained healer (or “Temazcalera”) guiding guests through a process that seeks to cleanse


their bodies, minds and spirits.


Parenting Well: Serious practice


Spa & Wellness for Kids Students


program.


Foundation’s Parents


century Quiet are 21st Time


Transcendental


Meditation as part of the David Lynch


learning


that to raise healthy children in the


means more


than just teaching them to eat their vegetables or look both ways before crossing the street. The poor diets, technological obsessions, and ubiquitous


stressors that plague


adult life offer no immunity to the young.


The Adrenaline & Zen Cocktail: Resetting the


Mind & Body When wellness


travel’s evolution


is discussed, it’s often represented as a series of consecutive “waves,“ with the first wave all about Zen- like spa pampering, stress reduction and yoga, and the ascendant wave www.spawellnessmexico.com


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