Welltodo Today: YogaWorks Files For Bankruptcy, 2021 Food Trends, Impossible Foods’ Plant-Based Milk

Today’s key global wellness news articles from around the world, impacting the industry and influencing the business of wellness.

Allbirds: Does the world need another T-shirt?

Does the world need another T-shirt? That was the question Allbirds co-founders Tim Brown and Joey Zwillinger posed before embarking on their first four-piece apparel collection, which launches today. After five years of experiments and material explorations, they decided the answer was no unless that T-shirt was more sustainable than any other on the market.

How Wellness Resorts Are Adjusting Their Protocols During the Pandemic

Remember the days when common travel concerns were limited to relatively benign headaches like time-zone changes, flight delays, and lost luggage? Barely, I assume, since for the better part of the year, the pandemic has grounded many jet-setters and introduced a flurry of additional travel-safety precautions to follow for both personal and public health.

Lyra mental health service teams up with Calm meditation app

Lyra Health, a richly funded start-up selling employee mental health services to businesses, is adding meditation, mindfulness and sleep support to its program through a new partnership with app-maker Calm. By teaming up, the companies hope to treat a broader population of users and expand their base of employer customers.

Whole Foods reveals top 10 food trends for 2021

Heavily influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, Whole Foods Market has unveiled its top 10 food trends for 2021, which include revitalized “epic” breakfast meals and culinary-inspired baby food, to growing consumer adoption of fringe cooking oils and food brands highlighting the versatility of chickpeas.

YogaWorks Files for Chapter 11, Permanently Closes All Studios

YogaWorks, Santa Monica, California, filed for Chapter 11 restructuring on Oct. 14 and has permanently closed all its studios but will continue to offer digital and live-stream content, the company announced. YogaWorks, which in addition to operating studios, also operates an international yoga instructor teaching school.

Fitness studios moved outside to stay afloat. Now winter is coming.

In the shadow of the Vessel, the sky-scraping copper honeycomb structure in New York City’s Hudson Yards, is a huge tent full of bikes that go nowhere. In the parking lot of the Beverly Center, the famed Los Angeles shopping center, there’s a blocked-off section peppered with treadmills and benches.

Impossible is working on a plant-based milk for people who hate plant-based milks

Impossible Foods, the company known for making plant-based meat designed to taste, cook and look like real meat, may soon get into milk.