Latest yoga and wellness news
Gallup, the world’s leading analytics and advisory firm, has partnered with The Art of Living Foundation to launch what they’re calling a first-of-its-kind global study on meditation and wellbeing. By incorporating new meditation-focused questions into the Gallup World Poll — one of the most comprehensive surveys of human experience on the planet — the initiative … Read more
Absolute Sanctuary, nestled on the tropical island of Koh Samui in Thailand, has been crowned the Best Global Yoga Retreat at the prestigious 2026 Global Spa Awards. The annual awards, organized by The Luxury Spa Edit, celebrate the world’s finest spas, wellness retreats, and wellness brands across 30 categories, making this recognition a significant milestone … Read more
The World Health Organization has renewed its recognition of India’s Morarji Desai National Institute of Yoga (MDNIY) as a WHO Collaborating Centre for Traditional Medicine (Yoga), extending the designation through 2029. The move reinforces India’s position at the forefront of evidence-based yoga research and signals growing global acceptance of yoga as a legitimate public health … Read more
For decades, yoga has occupied an interesting middle ground in Western wellness culture — respected as exercise, valued for flexibility, but rarely taken seriously as a medical intervention. That is changing fast. In 2026, a growing number of wellness experts, neuroscientists, and healthcare providers are reframing yoga not as a fitness trend, but as what … Read more
Scientists have long suspected that meditation does more than just calm the mind. Now, groundbreaking research using intracranial EEG recordings — electrodes placed directly inside the brain — is revealing just how profoundly meditation can alter activity in some of our most important neural structures. A recent study from Mount Sinai researchers has documented, for … Read more