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Meditation & Mindfulness

Meditation & Mindfulness
Articles and features on meditation and mindfulness, with a millennial focus, including mental well-being, mental health, lifestyle and health.
Luuk Melisse, a former dancer and founder of mindful movement community Sanctum, leads the Sanctum Frequency festival in Amsterdam in 2024. A new chapter is opening for the wellness industry, one that owes a lot to the euphoric rave culture of the 80s and 90s. Photo: Sanctum
Wellness

Why wild health raves will be one of 2026’s biggest wellness trends

The Global Wellness Summit’s new trends report predicts wellness to pivot from hi-tech and performative to cathartic and connective.

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Mental health

Q&A | A mental health expert on how you can make your New Year’s resolutions stick

Wellness

8 hot wellness trends in 2026, from women’s longevity to ‘health raves’

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Want to feel happier? Watch Spirited Away or play Zelda, new study says

Studio Ghibli films and games such as The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild can boost calm, purpose and happiness, a new study suggests.

A still from Spirited Away. Research shows films like this, as well as certain video games, can enhance calm, purpose and happiness. Photo: Studio Ghibli
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For these Hongkongers, walking isn’t just exercise – it’s therapy

For cancer survivors, walking is one of the most accessible and sustainable forms of rehabilitation we learn on World Cancer Day.

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Explainer | What is ‘soft January’? New trend helps you start the year with less pressure

January means ambitious fitness and career goals for many of us. Wellness experts explain the ‘quiet reset’ alternative that’s catching on.

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How mobility exercises can help you stay active and healthy as you age

Mobility exercises strengthen your muscles, increase your range of motion, and help you stay healthy in body and mind as you get older.

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Mobility becomes more important as you age, keeping you healthy, and staving off illness and dementia. Photo: Shutterstock
Luxury Hotels

Welcome to Ananda, the luxury Indian retreat favoured by celebrities and royalty

India’s first luxury wellness retreat, Ananda offers Ayurvedic medical consultations in addition to yoga, meditation and singing bowl healing.

Wellness

Can you achieve happiness? That depends on your philosophy

From the Ancient Greeks and Buddhists to Christian thinkers and positive psychologists, happiness has taken many forms.

Jewellery

Luxury jewellery designers are embracing spirituality and mindfulness

Local brands fuse traditional Chinese motifs with a modern aesthetic, while Boucheron takes inspiration from Japanese art and philosophy.

Jeweller Choo Yilin’s pieces are about identity. Photo: Handout
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What is the horse pose in yoga? Only ‘3 out of 10 students’ can do it

Horse pose, also known as horse face pose or vatayanasana, is a challenging yoga pose that boosts hip mobility, strength and concentration.

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A yoga practitioner performs horse pose. Also known as horse face pose or vatayanasana, it is a very advanced posture in yoga that can boost hip mobility and strength. Photo: Shutterstock
Wellness

How this luxury Cambodian resort offers a yoga experience few others can match

Knai Bang Chatt, an eco-friendly seaside resort in Kep, left stressed-out Cathy Hilborn Feng feeling realigned from the inside out.

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Wellness

How does humming help you reduce stress? Expert tips on yogic breathing

Humming stimulates the vagus nerve and has other health benefits, and is the base of the yogic breathing technique ‘humming bee breath’.

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Wellness

Health benefits of mugwort and its role in TCM and Japanese herbal medicine

Mugwort is an antioxidant and anti-inflammatory herb with warming properties, used in East Asian traditional medicine and modern spas.

A compress with dried mugwort leaves is applied to the head, shoulders and neck during a soothing massage at the Ritz-Carlton in Okinawa, Japan. Photo: ritzcarlton.com
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How does 71-year-old yoga teacher look so much younger than her age?

From waking up with the sun to having lemon water to start her day, Argie Ligeros shares her secrets for ageing well.

Yoga teacher, author and fitness influencer Argie Ligeros, 71, looks decades younger than her age, and is the same size and weight as she was in her twenties. Photo: rglife.co
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Could magic mushrooms help us live longer? What Bryan Johnson’s test showed

Johnson’s conclusions after taking magic mushrooms are backed by findings that psychedelics could extend life by rewiring the brain and more.

Wellness

This 93-year-old yoga teacher’s classes are packed every day

At 93, yoga teacher Salomon Delgado has no intention of retiring. His secret? Being a pescatarian, meditation and hugging – every day.

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Why, for these cancer survivors in Hong Kong, ‘healing isn’t a solo journey’

Gallivanting group Travel with 4 Jai will share how they turn illness into strength at Eaton HK’s Consciousness Festival starting November 8.

Travel with 4 Jai is a group that uses travel and humour to bring hope amid their battles with cancer. They will share their story on the opening day of this year’s Consciousness Festival, which co-director Joseph Chen says is about exploring “true mindfulness and wellness together”. Photo: Instagram/travel.with.4jai
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Is there as much bliss to be found in a city walk as in one in nature?

Researchers are finding a lot of benefits to walking in urban areas – history and good architecture can provoke ‘a kind of soft fascination’.

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Yoga, ballet and kombucha: the festival helping Hongkongers slow down

Hong Kong Ballet dancers, scientists and local artists converge at Eaton HK’s Consciousness Festival to explore the art of self-care.

Wellness

Is this the future of medical spas? Behind Canyon Ranch’s US$500m Texas resort

Women’s wellness often focuses on weight loss and appearances – but there is a shift towards empowerment and ‘health as a lifestyle choice’.

Women meditating with sound bowls at Canyon Ranch in Tucson, Arizona. Photo: Handout
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A rare disease left him stumbling. Now yoga helps him stay balanced

Spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 affects 52-year-old David Lee’s coordination and speech, but Iyengar yoga has given him a new lease on life.

Hong Kong mutual fund executive David Lee uses props to do an Iyengar yoga pose. With regular practice aided by a teacher, yoga is helping slow down the progress of his neurodegenerative disease. Photo: IYCHK
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What does the future of wellness look like? Luxe communities you can live in

Wellness real estate – building communities with homes integrating all aspects of wellness, from green spaces to farms to spas – is booming.

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Diagnosed with ADHD at 35, she now fights for awareness in Hong Kong

Amanda Fok is the founder of Let’s Talk ADHD and ADHD Awareness Week, at which adults can get free ADHD assessments on October 25 and 26.

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Could a grandparent’s trauma affect your health? Ancestral healing explained

Experts say inherited trauma – passed down through generations – can be helped through ancestral healing practices to improve well-being now.

Could the traumas experienced by your great-great-grandparents be affecting your health today? Practices like ancestral healing at Sun Kyeong (pictured) aim to heal generational wounds. Photo: Instagram/sunkyeonglondon
Wellness

‘I did not worry’: breast cancer survivor shares her story of love and faith

Aarti Pathak was diagnosed with breast cancer weeks after losing her mum. She shares her survival story, which she wrote about in a memoir.

Pathak, with a new mane of curlier hair, exhales on her way to a writing retreat in Bangalore months after her treatment for breast cancer ended in 2023. Photo: Aarti Pathak
Wellness

8 Pink October events in Hong Kong for breast cancer awareness and funds

Events this year include the annual Pink Walk from The Peak, an art jam that comes with a breast exam, wellness workshops and Dress Pink Day.

Wellness

Feeling down? How ‘museum therapy’ can ease stress and depression

More doctors are prescribing free visits to museums and art galleries to counter a range of mental issues.

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