Welltodo Today: The New Spa Experience, Bikram Files For Bankruptcy, Lab-Grown Meat

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

Will digital streaming burst the boutique fitness bubble?

There’s nothing quite like the energy at your favorite boutique fitness class when the lights are down low and the endorphins are high. The motivation you feel when you sweat it out in a room with 30 other people working as hard as you are is undeniable.

You Can Try Magnetic Acupressure With Gwyneth Paltrow In New York This Winter

East Coast Goop fans rejoice – wellness guru and lifestyle brand founder, Gwyneth Paltrow, is bringing “In goop Health,” her very own health and wellness summit to New York City. Today, the actress and Goop founder announced that the second happening of the event will occur early next year, on January 27th, with a day long summit that will touch upon all things beauty, health and wellness.

Pass the Avocado Toast – Updating the Luxury Spa Experience for a New Generation

What do millennials want out of a luxury wellness experience? Apparently, avocado toast. That’s just one of the findings lifestyle publication Well+Good discovered after surveying 4,600 of its readers. Unlike days of yore, when the only way to discover wellness concepts was by going to an iconic high-end destination spa like Canyon Ranch and Miraval, today, wellness is accessible nearly everywhere.

This cardiologist is betting that his lab-grown meat startup can solve the global food crisis

Memphis Meats founder Uma Valeti sought out to find an alternative to the meat industry after discovering the brutality and unsanitary conditions behind it. Valeti, a doctor, teamed up with a molecular biologist, Eric Schulze, to create meat products in a petri dish.

Bikram Choudhury Yoga Inc files for bankruptcy in wake of sexual harassment claims

She also accused him of pressuring her to cover up sexual harassment of women, and in a separate lawsuit filed this year, of fraudulently transferring assets such as luxury cars including a Ferrari and a Bentley to avoid paying judgments against him.

‘Learning to live’: why sophrology is the new mindfulness

We have welcomed mindfulness so wholeheartedly into our collective wellbeing consciousness that there are now more than 1,300 mindful apps to choose from. In busy cities, you’re never more than six words away from mindfulness. However, modern life dictates that when something reaches saturation point, it must be replaced by something new.