Listening helps you identify hidden seeds of health, happiness, creativity, and growth

“In real ways, we are invited each day to slow down and listen. But why listen at all? Because listening stitches the world together. Because listening is the doorway to everything that matters.”— spiritual teacher Mark Nepo
Awakening Sanctuary: the new Mexican Hotel dedicated to the pursuit of happiness!

In a world where more and more people seek to increase their level of personal happiness, Awakening Sanctuary offers a transformational travel experience that combines high-end comfort and profound relaxation with exhilarating adventure and other experiences designed to sustainably increase its guests’ level of happiness.
Global Wellness Summit 2018 Day 2

Day 2 opened withAndrea Illy speaking with passion about coffee and happiness. Protective from many cancers, caffeine health warnings have actually been removed and anti-depressant properties have beenidentified. In Italy, as with many places around the world, drinking coffee is a social practice. “Italian Espresso made coffee great”, claims Andrea and led to the café lifestyle now enjoyed worldwide. Illy focuses on pleasure, health and sustainability. Quality leadsto premium prices enabling economic, environmentaland socially sustainable plantations.
2018 ISPA Conference & Expo – Day One

We started the day with a breakfast meeting hosted by Green Spa Network, learning about the commitment to planting 1 million trees by Earth Day of 2019, approximately 100,000 trees in, the initiative is off to a great start and will reforest parts of Brazil that have been most affected by deforestation.
Blue Zone Communities Discover, Dan Buettner, keynote speaker at 2018 Global Wellness Summit

Buettner, who identified the five places in the world where people live the longest, healthiest lives–and founded Blue Zone wellness communities that put those longevity secrets into action–will immerse delegates in the science of living longer
Happiness is a Choice: ISPA Announces 2018 Conference & Expo Opening Shawn Achor as Keynote Speaker

The International SPA Association (ISPA) is pleased to announce that New York Times bestselling author Shawn Achor will be the opening keynote speaker for the 2018 ISPA Conference & Expo at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona, from Sept. 24-26.
Global Wellness Summit Releases ‘Eight Wellness Trends for 2018’

When 600+ wellness experts from 40+ nations gather to debate the future of wellness, a uniquely insightful and global view of trends unfolds. That’s what transpired at the recent Global Wellness Summit (GWS), which brought together leaders from the travel, spa, beauty, fitness, nutrition, technology, medical and architecture worlds. Today, the organization released their top wellness trends for 2018 (and beyond).
“No other trends report is based on the perspectives of so many wellness experts,” said Susie Ellis, GWS chairman & CEO. “And every one of this year’s trends pushes the health and wellness envelope in unexpected ways.”