Wellbeing & Spa Trends Predicted For 2022

SPA and Wellbeing treatments are one of the most significant steps you can take to get away from the ups and downs of daily life and focus on your body, to calm your mind and rest your soul.

With each passing year, SPA and Wellbeing industry continues to introduce us with another innovation that effectively expand our horizon. Then which SPA trends and Wellbeing practices are predicted to take the lead for our holistic health in 2022?

1) Treatments with Therapeutic Effect

Therapeutic, i.e., treatment-oriented care practices appear to continue to rise in 2022 as well. The pressures and rhythmic movements made on the body’s energy channels by human touch create a relaxing impact on both muscles and tissues. These magic touches, when performed in long-term and regularly, help ease not just the tension of the body, but also of the mind.

Scalp Massage, from among the therapeutic care types, is performed by applying light pressures with circular movements of the fingers on the scalp. These movements properly stimulate the nerve endings, muscles and blood vessels, leading to highly considerable results from stress relief to headache treatment and even decrease in migraine attacks. 

Cupping therapy stands out as an impressive practice that circulates the energy density in body. Gwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer Aniston, Victoria Beckham, Justin Bieber and many other celebrities benefit from this modality to support blood flow by stimulating the acupuncture points in their bodies.

Massages administered using crystals and natural stones are another effective therapy method applicable both at SPA centers and home during your Wellbeing moments. In addition to the stones utilized by being placed on the body in the form of cold-hot shock, stones such as amethyst, rose quartz and jade, which are often preferred in chakra practices, help not only with purification in the skin massage and but also with balancing your spiritual energy.

2) Preventive Health Programs Using Technology

As technology keeps developing by each day, Wellness programs are more and more gravitating towards getting the maximum benefit from said development transformations. Though we believe SPA and Wellbeing practices will become widespread in the fictional Metaverse in merely a few years, it seems that we will have to suffice with advanced body scanning devices during 2022, as well. Having said that, body scanning devices do bring high benefits as they can provide data on your physical health without any radiation risk. In the light of which results, experts in the field are becoming able to create special personalized wellbeing programs just for you.

3) Alternative Therapies

Between the most common practices of the year are also alternative therapy methods. There is a high demand across the world for these self-care modalities first practiced in Ancient China and Ancient India. Heading them are the extant therapy types from the Ayurveda system. From among such therapies, the Sound Bath gives cure to the clients with the vibrations it emits. In particular, people who struggle against medical conditions that require an intensive nursing process and elaborate care to avoid any recurrence such as cancer, find thee spiritual relief they need in suchlike energy therapies.

Reiki, meditation and breath exercises may identify in general terms as balancing pillars for all of us, since we all are, at some point in our lives, somehow forced to cope with stress. Light Therapy, on the other hand, is a type of therapy resorted to by many for its abilities in regulating hormones. In this respect, having signed under valuable works particularly on the subject of metabolism, Dr. Kelly Gibas provides us with her research results on the properties of red light therapy as accelerating metabolism and weight loss.

4) Gender Balance in Care: Therapies Specially Designed for Men in the Menus and SPA Journeys

The understanding that SPA days are no longer self-care moments just for women and are referred to be men as well be it alone or with a group of close friends is getting more common with each passing day. And thanks to their increasing demand, SPA centers now commit more place to men-oriented therapies in their menus. Between them, while stress-relieving massages are the most preferred ones; deep tissue massage, Swedish massage, foot reflexology and therapy methods specially designed for muscle and tissue relaxation after exercise bring men's care days to a new and effective point.

5) Innovative Skin Care

We all know that when it comes to skincare, the guide applied to becomes much thicker. However, in this age where minimalism and the “less is more” approach is trending, skin care treatments performed by using herbal, aromatherapy and organic products created with the meet-what-skin-needs concept, bring out an innovative perspective to the industry.

As for the innovative approaches used to relax the facial muscles and achieve a younger and more flexible skin appearance, we are welcomed by Gua Sha and Face Yoga practices. Whereas the facial massager Gua Sha shaped with natural stones stimulates the blood flow on the skin, Face Yoga works each of the facial muscles, allowing you to achieve much fuller and more vibrant facial features.

In the meanwhile, those who want to say goodbye to blemishes and spots are resorting to the Red-Light Therapy. Such that with red light therapies, the function of the mitochondria in our cells is increased and more energy-carrying molecules, in other words, ATP, is produced. This allows cells to regenerate and restore skin damages more efficiently. That way, skin problems like psoriasis lesions, scars, acne and sunspots get minimized.

The use of precious metals on skin and body care is another of the trends that will be popular in 2022. Gold, silver and bronze-based skincare supplements are utilized in the menu of SPA centers with their regenerative and restorative effects.

6) Immune Strengthening SPA Kitchen

Only taking oral supplements for holistic health is apparently not as sufficient as some think. You should also organize your diet according to your needs and lifestyle to truly get effective results. For this purpose, plant-based cuisine and healthy foods come to the fore as another trend of 2022. Especially such supplements as chia, matcha, agave syrup, quinoa, hemp powder, shortly named as “superfoods”, keep you full and strengthen your immunity, acting as fat burners in your meals.

Adaptogen plants, which have an important place in Ayurvedic nutrition, are known to support the body in gaining resistance against all kinds of stress factors. Ashwagandha, ginseng, licorice root and Indian asparagus can be listed as examples of, and as the most preferred, adaptogen plants.

Sea greens are also stepping forward from among the recently popular nutrition trends. Standing out with their high fiber, minerals and vitamins, and having low fat, calorie and sodium values, these nutriments serve as the diet culture of the year that should be given a chance. 

Mocktails, i.e., non-alcoholic cocktails, are very healthy options in terms of body’s fluid needs. And the best thing about these non-alcoholic cocktails is that they are not subject to any restrictive rules in terms of its content. You can thus mix any of your favorite vegetables, fruits and spices and just enjoy your beverage.

In line with all the aforesaid trends, Spa & Wellbeing centers are updating their menus and offering wellness programs focused on healthy eating.

7) Refreshing Travel

Once we look at the travel and holiday options of 2022, we come across refreshing and purifying Wellbeing trends. When we wish to get away from everything for our physical, mental and spiritual health, holiday options enabling us to fully experience the Slow Life movement, welcome us. SPA & Wellness centers embraced by nature, where calmness prevails and with their minimalist decorations, that would neither tire the minds nor strain the eyes take an essential place, hereby.

Therapies and retreat programs based on concepts such as mindfulness, digital detox, sleep therapy, immunity, stress management and on other themes that will strengthen our bond with nature like Forest Bath appear to be included in our weekend getaways and longer vacation plans this year.

8) Wellbeing at Home 

In addition to therapies contributing to our self-care at the SPA, we may naturally desire to maintain these healthy habits at home, with our own means. At this point, aromatherapy care products, candles and incenses with natural ingredients, natural stones and crystals, air purifiers and aroma diffusers, sleep-hygiene-oriented supports, use of clean homecare products, kitchen designs suitable for plant-based nutrition and scents projecting the power of nature come into play.

Fitness, yoga, meditation and Wellness related apps, podcasts and video channels, stress and sleep trackers, special music and sound lists on Spotify technologically supporting our holistic health are manifesting themselves as notably effective options to help us achieve a Wellbeing mood at our nests. 

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