Welltodo Today: Danone Invests In Plant-Based Food, Halifax Bank Is Selling Yoga? Mindful Sex

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

Building A Wellness Community Where All Are Welcome

While many businesses like to claim they’re all about community, Elisa Shankle and Darian Hall have made community the center of their wellness business in Brooklyn. Anyone can wander into HealHaus, a brightly colored space with a café at the front.

How cult brands like SoulCycle and Airbnb are actually kinda cult-like

When billionaire real estate tycoon Stephen Ross decided to host a fundraiser for Donald Trump last summer, it’s unlikely he was thinking much about SoulCycle. The spinning-class chain is a small piece of his $60 billion empire, Related Companies, which controls 13,000 apartment rentals, 5,500 luxury condos, 60,000 housing units, and 30 million square feet of commercial real estate around the country.

Celebrity-favoured Rumble launches second fitness concept with two new studios

US-based boutique fitness operator Rumble has revealed the first two locations for its new studio concept. The company will open Rumble Training sites in San Francisco and New York, offering a new 45-minute, 10-round, strength and conditioning workout that has been designed to deliver “serious results in a fun and high-energy setting”.

Will Halifax’s yoga bank sell more mortgages?

It is six in the evening in the heart of the City of London, and smartly dressed office workers are on their way to the Tube. But they stop to do a double take as they rush past a glass-fronted…

How to make fiber supplements fun: Just add sparkles

Is it possible to make fiber supplements, UTI prevention pills, and boric acid suppositories hip? Lauren Bosworth, who founded feminine healthcare brand Love Wellness three years ago, sure thinks so. (You may remember Bosworth as a cast member of the MTV shows Laguna Beach and The Hills.)

How mindful is your sex life? The women behind sexual wellness app Ferly

When Billie Quinlan and Anna Hushlak were described by Forbes as “the entrepreneurs who want to bring mindfulness to your sex life”, some readers of the business magazine may have been puzzled. A sexual wellness app? What would be the point?

Good Hemp launches CBD plant-based milk in a UK category first

Good Hemp CBD Barista Seed Milk will be on shelves in November followed by Good Hemp CBD Creamy Seed Milk and Good Hemp CBD Chocolate Hemp Milk later this year. David Shaw, MD, Good Hemp, said with the UK CBD market already worth over £250m and consumer interest in the benefits of cannabidiol products at an all time high, it decided now was the time to introduce CBD hemp milk.

Lululemon’s new drops are high fashion and weather ready

Browse on over to Lululemon’s website today, and you’re going to see a lot more than just yoga gear and stretchy nylon. That’s because the royal brand of athleisure just dropped new men’s and women’s collections-and they’re not what you’d expect. The new women’s line is a collaboration launched with high-end Serbian fashion designer Roksanda.

Danone invests in plant-based food company Forager Project – FoodBev Media

Danone, through its Danone Manifesto Ventures unit, has invested in plant-based food and beverage firm Forager Project. Forager Project, which manufactures a range of dairy-free yogurts and milks, said the collaboration will help it build its portfolio, enhance sustainable sourcing and production, increase brand awareness and widen distribution.