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Stem Cells and Skin Care
Aestheticians today are faced with a plethora of new products claiming to improve the skin. How do we differentiate between the hype and what can really help?
0007 Creating a Signature Spa Ritual with Jean-Guy de Gabriac
Global Wellness Summit 2018 Day 3
Jessica Jesse, The Concept of Wellness in Fashion
Jessica Jesse invited us to rethink fashion in terms of production standards, design, delivery, sustainability, upkeep and recycling.
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.
Global Wellness Summit 2018 Day 1
The openingfrom Louie Schwartzberghighlighted the connection between us and nature, we are part of nature, not separate from it. Louie’s moving art videos set the scene for the next few days; appreciation, wonder and awe, love and wellness in the world around us.
0004 Bespoke Spa Experiences – How Customization can Improve Guest Satisfaction and Retention with Sonee Singh of Petal Life
Interview with Jean-Guy de Gabriac, CEO & Founder World Wellness Weekend
Describe your career path in the Spa and Wellness industry
After creating a massage academy in Paris in 2001, I sold my shares in 2004 to travel Europe, Asia, USA and Hawaii learning advanced massages techniques and gathering best practices. I founded Tip-Touch in 2004 to fuel creativity and hospitality expertise to elevate guest experience and re-engineer spa menus to increase profits. Some of the signature treatments I’ve designed have won international awards such as the Bamboo Massage for Academie Scientifique de Beauté and Well-Massage 4D with Gharieni.
0002 Shaping the Future of Wellness, with Susie Ellis of the Global Wellness Institute
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Clodagh, Pioneering Wellness Designer, Brings Unique Insight on Design to 2018 Global Wellness Summit
Multi-disciplinary designer, whose recent projects include the award-winning Six Senses Douro Valley and the reopened Six Senses Kaplankaya, will share her vision for truly integrated wellness design with conference delegates in Italy
Lapinha Wellness & Integrative Medicine
Founded by Margarida Bornschein Langer in the 1950s, Lapinha was born with the aim of combating disease through natural therapies. Margarida understood that, for the healing experience to be complete, it was necessary to take care, not only of the human being, but also of the planet and the local community with a holistic approach. In 1972, Lapinha was the first medical spa in Brazil located on a farm. With a focus on organic production, surrounded by a sub-tropical forest, this family-run property continues to be an agent community development.
Global Wellness Institute Releases Study on Removing Barriers Between Beauty and Wellness
A report led by Anjan Chatterjee, MD, FAAN, University of Pennsylvania, addresses “beauty is good–disfigured is bad” stereotypes. Research shows that using words that embody elements of both beauty and wellness may be able to bridge the perception gap.
American Spa Women in Wellness – Live Report by Sara Jones
Julie Keller opened the morning with a passionate speech about the inception of the Women in Wellness event and creating a forum for discussion about disparity in salaries and leadership positions across our industry. #AmericanSpaWIW
The theme of the day ‘Empowered Women, empower the world’ is displayed across the fitted t-shirt uniform of all the staff at the event, one of which will be given to each attendee in the gift bag. The bag supports women in India escaping the sex trade and features a handle of braided saris.
Julie talked about a fair future for her children to grow up in where #MeToo is a distant memory and equality is expected.
