Eat, pray, love: 3 trendy wellness travels for you in summer 2018

   Throughout the past few years spa-wellness travels have become more and more trendy. After 2014 the market has been flourishing. The spa-wellness travels we are familiar with are usually related to many different trends such as physical fitness and sports, beauty treatments, yoga and mindfulness, and stress-relief meditation or even healthy diet plans. However, this summer the trends are completely shifting to another level, entering a whole new era.

   The latest trends in the spa-wellness tourism aim to create a whole journey of mindfulness and mental health with some adventurous notes. The whole idea is to engage in a whole new life journey to complete yet another chapter of your life. Every moment of that journey becomes a part of this new chapter in your transformational life story.

Do you want to stay up-to-date with the latest wellness travel trends?

   We are here to help you create your lifelong multi-chapter storyline with these trendy technique and destination suggestions. Here are 3 trendy techniques you need to try this summer.

   Let’s start with Meditation. It’s a really basic step to achieving a full mindfulness transformation. It’s an important technique that pushes you first to clear you mind and focus on your breathing.

   Next, start writing! Create your own Journal, but not like the one you used to keep under your mattress when you were a teenager so that no one can find it.. Focus on clarifying your emotional state. Try expressing all your problems and worries and look for a possible solution. Drawing a whole “map” of your already tangled and complex thoughts is the best way to understand yourself better.

   And finally.. Stay Present! That one is usually really difficult since we are spending most of our lives just wandering.. Stop for a minute, look around and listen to what’s going on around you. That’s the only way to gain appreciation for the world you call home.

   And of course, the digital era that we live in brings not only reasons for stress, but also numerous ways to keep our mindfulness on track. There is already a list of the top mindfulness and meditation mobile apps on the market- from apps like Stop, breathe and think, Aura and Smiling Mind to Insight Timer and Mindfulness Daily.

   However, if you are looking for a way to bring more interesting and exciting notes to your life story, you should definitely follow those 3 latest trends in the wellness travels:

1.  Emotional voyages

   Are you looking for a whole self-fulfilling, transformational experience where you can not only relax and run away from the stressful daily life, but also “find” yourself and create a stronger soul-mind-body connection? This summer you can stay fashionable with the recent trends while enjoying your full mind and body transformation. There are already numerous destinations around the world that can take you on this wellness adventure. With its story-based concepts Six Senses, the newest one in Bhutan – the happiest place on Earth - will provide you with the best environment to create your transformational chapter. Of course you will need to take care of some important details like planning your trip a couple of months in advance because of the tendency of plane tickets to be quickly sold out. Also, you should consider the strict visa policy of Kingdom of Bhutan, aiming to minimize the touristic impact on their unique society and environment.  Another great place to visit is The Red Mountain Resort in Iceland where they take you on a full emotional and sensory safari. This great location is one that gives you this dramatic, wild, kind of mystical and fantasy-like atmosphere that will make you fall in love with the place from the very first sight.

2.Wellness “festivals” (music and art)

    What about joining a wellness “festival”? We know, right?!

   As the wellness experience this year is all about bringing loads of creativity, in order to make your experience unforgettable and life-changing, a perfect blend of art and music is now a main ingredient of the “recipe” for a full mind and body transformation. From meditation in art galleries and museums (Metropolitan Museum of Arts, New York City) to relaxing in an amphitheatre-like hot springs (Peninsula Hot Springs, China), this fusion of art-mindfulness activities adds an interesting touch to the traditional wellness experience. For so long people have been talking about balancing between the peaceful, mind-healing and the busy and stressful lifestyle in the big city. Now it seems it’s actually possible to do this.

3.Empowering all-women travels

   In the era of strong feminism nowadays, this year more and more wellness destinations are focusing on women empowering inspirational adventures. This new women’s trend of “empowerment-meets-wellness” is bringing a whole new perspective to the wellness transformational journey that we know, giving opportunity for diverse female movements, such as the WellnessSoWhite, to emerge and grow. Focusing on women-only activities is an evolving new approach in the wellness travel experience, based on female bonding. With numerous projects and wellness programs, companies like AdventureWomen strive to provide the greatest mind and soul bonding in support of the growing women power. If you are up for some adventure travels for solo women, meditation, yoga, farm-to-table cooking, and other diverse bonding activities featuring empowering female speakers, the best way to experience this inspirational voyage is to visit the SuperShe Island in Finland. “Women need to spend time with other women.”- That’s what the private’s Founder Kristina Roth states. It’s a safe place where women can rejuvenate while recreating themselves and their desires.

   It looks like summer of 2018 will be all about women creating new, inspirational chapters in their lives.  If you are feeling a bit extra adventurous this summer and want to immerse in a fantasy-like life-changing transformational journey to escape the daily life problems, these three wellness trends are the best way to do so.

   Get ready to be the hero in your own life-changing fantasy-like story and dive into an adventurous storytelling voyage this summer!

    We hope that you enjoyed this article!

Love,

The Fashion Potluck Team