SUMMIT REVIEW: GSWS
“What we do really well, is provide healing that feels good – there’s no other healing institution that people look forward to going to more”
suggests that telomere length is negatively impacted by unhealthy behaviours and pos- itively impacted by healthy ones such as stress-reduction, exercise, good nutrition and meditation (see sb11/3 p90), so it’s pos- sible to reverse aging with a healthy lifestyle. Dr Epel, along with Nobel Laureate recipient Dr Elizabeth Blackburn, has set up Telome Health to offer telomere testing on a wider scale. She says: “Telomere science is just the tip of the iceberg” and that as the connection between healthy behaviour and the measurable forestalling of disease and cellular ageing grow stronger, the implica- tions for the spa/wellness industry are profound. Employing health and
wellness coaches could be one way for spas to encour- age people to make lifestyle changes, says Meg Jordan, professor and department chair at the California Insti- tute of Integral Studies. She spoke about how people lack the skills to make lifestyle changes themselves and edu- cated delegates about an emerging tier of health and wellness coaches along with official bodies such as the National Consor- tium for Credentialing Health & Wellness Coaches (NCCHWC). A panel of experts, led by spa, wellness
and hospitality consultant Mia Kyricos (see p24), hosted an enlightening presentation on corporate/employee wellness and how spas could position themselves to offer health-fo- cused packages – encompassing everything from massage, yoga, meditation, nutritional counselling and personal training – to gener- ate more productive and healthy workforces. Te key, however, will be for spas to deliver quantifiable measures of success with such packages. And in a separate talk, Jay Wil- liams, president of Health Technologies Consultant, suggests spas could white label mobile apps, biometric monitoring devices and online games (see sb12/2 p80) to create systems to track, record and prove measur- able results in this area.
Just turned 90, Szekely gave a moving speech on her years in wellness
and improve on that. But there are a lot of other healing institutions that are already doing this much better than us. What we do really well, is provide healing that feels good. There’s no other healing institution that people look forward to going to, that peo- ple enjoy when they’re there and that they remember fondly aſterwards the way they do with spa. As we’re focusing on wellness, we should stay close to that core strength we have – wellness that feels good.”
Susie Ellis and Spa Business’ editor Liz Terry (right) In a moving speech, Deborah Szekely –
fondly known as the godmother of the mind, body and fitness movement in the US and co-founder of destination spa Rancho La Peurta and the Golden Door – reflected on her 72 years in teaching wellness. Having just turned 90, her birthday wish is for people to join the Wellness Spring movement by signing up to
www.wellnesswarrior.org. Her reasons for setting up the movement, she says, is to get people to share their thoughts, ideas and practices around wellness, with a view to bringing modern society out of its downward trend and towards total health. Meanwhile, Jeremy McCarthy, director of
global spa operations for Starwood Hotels & Resorts (see sb10/3 p24), gave a thought-pro- voking presentation on happiness, having just published a book on the subject (see p18). He says pampering isn’t necessarily a bad thing: “I’ve heard a lot of talk about well- ness and health and about the need to be more scientific and to offer evidence-based programmes using technologies. I think this is great and that we need to continue
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INDIA FOR 2013 In his closing remarks, Bourguignon said:
“I invited a lot of people to talk here – pol- iticians, consultants, real estate developers – and they were all surprised to discover such a vibrant, new community. Tey had no idea beforehand what this industry was about. So, I think our mission for the next 12 months should not be to just market what we do, but to educate the wider business community.” In a closing presentation, delegates heard
that next year’s GSWS will take place in India and will be headed by co-chairs Andrew Gibson, group director of spas at Mandarin Oriental; and Emmanuel Burger, former CEO of the Victoria-Jungfrau Collec- tion and founder and managing director of Berger Hospitality Management. Te exact venue and dates have yet to be revealed. Ellis, who will be a co-chair once again,
concluded: “No other country encompasses ancient and modern spa and wellness like India. Its millennia-old wellness practices, like yoga and ayurveda, have made it one of the true spiritual homes of the global wellness movement. It also happens to be one of the most innovative countries on the planet, with a fast-growing, modern spa industry.” l
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