From September 20-22, 2024, World Wellness Weekend returns for its eighth edition, with activities running in 155 countries.
During the three-day event, 9,000 venues will open their doors to inspire the public to try new fun group classes with friends, family, and colleagues.
This year’s event encourages participants to become a “#wellfluencer”, spreading the message of wellbeing to a wider audience.
Pure Fiji cosmetics will begin the celebration at sunrise on September 20, with a sunrise yoga session, energising aerobics, and body pump classes.
Maui’s Grand Wailea, A Waldorf Astoria Resort, will officially close the international event with activities at its Kilolani Spa.
World Wellness Weekend’s map and geolocator in 18 languages is designed to help consumers find free group sessions indoors, and recreational activities outdoors, offered by fitness clubs, yoga studios, spas, salons, hot springs, hotels, resorts and wellness centres.
Online wellness sessions will be available via "World Wellness WebTV", including training sessions, talks, webinars with holistic practitioners and workshops with massage therapists.
World Wellness Weekend is a not-for-profit event, launched in 2017 to make wellness activities accessible to a wider demographic.
The event promotes five pillars of wellness: sleep and creativity, nutrition and immunity, movement and vitality, mindfulness and serenity, and purpose and solidarity.
World Wellness Weekend founder Jean-Guy de Gabriac said, “Wellness is a renewable energy that can light up the world”.
Spas and hotel groups are participating in the event on a corporate level, including 130 hotels of the Marriott Group, through their brands: Courtyard, Four Points, JW Marriott, Le Meridien, MGM, Protea, Renaissance, Ritz Carlton, Sheraton, St Regis, The Luxury Collection, W Hotels, Westin.
There will also be 85 properties of the J Wellness Circle (TAJ group), 80 resorts from the Banyan Group.
In Marbella, 188 venues will participate this year, creating a “Wellness Park” including non-stop yoga and pilates, a marathon of massages, access bars and reiki, 15 dance classes, golf, functional training, a senior activities area, a kids’ corner with fun wellness activities, and an organic food market with tastings.
Spas and salons can find out more about the initiative and the activities planned via the wellness map on the World Wellness Weekend website.
