Wellness Trends for 2018
From crystal therapy to healing spices, the wellness trends once considered too alternative for the general public now look set to become the must-try treatments of 2018. That’s according to the Global Wellness Institute (GWI), an esteemed Miami-based body whose mission is to empower wellness worldwide by educating the public and private sectors about preventative health and wellbeing.
‘Much of that expansion is happening in what were once regarded as alternative therapies,’ says the GWI’s director of research and PR, Beth McGroarty. ‘The more kooky or whacky the treatment, the bigger it is.’
A torrent of holistic health specialties will take the limelight, according to Jess Barron, general manager of leading US diet, nutrition and fitness website Livestrong. ‘Infrared sauna, acupuncture, Reiki massage, meditation and cryotherapy are becoming hugely mainstream and thought of less so as woo-woo,’ she says.
Jess also predicts that energy healing will be big:
