On January 31, the Global Wellness Summit (GWS)released "12 wellness trends for 2023." Several themes emerged:

- Radically different consumer values coming out of the pandemic, from a rejection of a "self-obsessed" wellness to a demand for science and solutions that work.

- Science is king. GWS says we're moving beyond clean beauty's often muddy claims to lab-tested, scientist-created "biotech beauty."

- A return to wellness roots--with a difference. After three years of "touchless wellness" people hunger for sensory immersion. New directions in multisensory integration are emerging with light, scent, temperature, touch and sound being blended to create a new era for "sensory wellness."

These themes yielded the 12 trends for 2023, for which the report, as well as freely available summaries, go into in detail. In the report, each trend is explored by experts. The trends are:

1. Wellness + Gathering: Wellness Comes for the Loneliness Epidemic by Beth McGroarty

2. Wellness + Travel: From Global Smorgasbord to Hyper-Indigenous by Elaine Glusac

3. Wellness + Workplace: Workplace Wellness Finally Starts to Mean Something by Skyler Hubler and Cecelia Girr

4. Wellness + Beauty: From "Clean" to Biotech Beauty by Jessica Smith

5. Wellness + Cities: Urban Infrastructure Just Might Save Cities by Robbie Hammond and Omar Toro-Vaca

6. Wellness + Weight: The Skinny on Brown Fat and Eliminating Obesity by Michael Roizen, MD

7. Wellness + Governments: The Case for Coming Together by Thierry Malleret

8. Wellness + Water: Blue, Hot, and Wild by Jane Kitchen

9. Wellness + Sports: New Business Models for Hospitality by Lisa Starr

10. Wellness + Senses: Multisensory Integration by Ari Peralta

11. Wellness + Biohacking: The Wild, Wild West of Biohacking by Marc Cohen, MD

12. Wellness + Faith: Having Faith in Business by Brian Grim

To read more about the trends or purchase the full report, click here