Health & Wellbeing trends 2023

February 3, 2023

A wellness trend refers to a popular health or fitness practice that gains popularity among people and becomes more mainstream. Health and Wellbeing trends typically involve activities, products or services that aim to improve physical, mental and emotional health and wellbeing. These trends are often driven by changing cultural and societal values and preferences, advancements in technology and science and the increasing availability of health-related information. Wellness trends can range from specific diets or workout routines to mental health practices or self-care rituals. More and more people realize that taking good care of yourself is important and that is why they opt for a holiday in which health and wellbeing is central. In addition, we have seen a very clear change in the past year: well-being is increasingly focused on the inside and less on the outside. The following five trends also demonstrate this very well.

Getting deeper: from outer to inner

The focus shifts from the outside to the inside. Instead of fitness and sports holidays or beauty treatments, more and more people are opting for in-depth trips that revolve around mental well-being, personal growth, and self-knowledge. Travel with personal coaching in the program or one-on-one mental guidance. We work on inner balance, self-confidence, connecting with ourselves, letting go and finding our true selves and potential. Inspiration for a mental balance journey can be found here.

Life energy and a healthy brain

Continuing to surprise and develop yourself is a workout for your brain. Learning new things and getting enough exercise is the key combination to keeping both your brain and body fit. An additional advantage: it also makes you very happy, and you get a good dose of new life energy. That is why more and more people are opting for a wellness trip where they try a new activity such as yoga and surfing at Paradis Plage. Inspiration for a Sport & Fitness trip with surfing or other activities can be found here!

Work on mental resilience

When life smiles at you, it seems as if life is easy and happiness is a choice. Until it isn't. In recent years, Covid-19 has suddenly made it clear to everyone at the same time that we cannot control everything in life. Sometimes things happen that we cannot change but have major consequences for our lives, our health and our mental well-being. The more mental resilience we have, the better we can deal with adversity. Life may not be feasible, but having mental resilience to deal better with setbacks and change, is what guests want more and more. Read Karina Stewart's blog "Immunity and mental resilience are more important now than ever"

One size doesn't fit all - body positivity and well-being

To measure is not necessarily to know. We are massively letting go of the BMI and the scale and opting for a more organic form of being healthy and feeling good. We realize that there is no one way that works for everyone and that leads to results. We are increasingly listening to our own bodies and choosing what suits us, instead of listening to the opinions of thousands of fitness and diet gurus. And thanks to the body positivity movement, we embrace ourselves and each other, even with a size more.

Personal and tailor-made programs

Everybody is different. Different bodies respond differently to food, exercise, treatments and rest. What is comfortable for one person is unpleasant for another. We all need something different to feel good mentally and physically. More and more guests are therefore opting for a tailor-made program. A program that really suits them as individuals. And that also means a program that they can keep up with, that makes them happy, and that their body responds well to. Personal programs for personal well-being. Many of our top destinations create tailor-made programs. For example, take a look at our Ayurveda retreats.

Marleen

This blog is written by Marleen, the founder of PureandCure.com. She travels around the world in search of the best Health & Wellbeing Hotels, Spas and Retreats and shares her know-how, experiences and observations through her blogs.