All the Wellness Stuff We Learned This Year (and Are Totally Practicing in 2019)

Need help kicking your bad habits to the curb? Whatever your vice, there’s a health retreat within driving distance of Los Angeles where programs are tailored to help you put down the Chardonnay, social media or french fries and achieve a healthier, more balanced lifestyle. In as little as a long weekend, you can feel good in your skin again..

Cold and flu season (plus year-round tension headaches) are no match for halotherapy, the practice of relaxing in a spa setting while inhaling micronized salt particles. Storefronts offering the service are opening all over town, and we talked to industry experts about why now is the time for breathing deep.

Can the relaxing effects of cat-cow stretches be heightened by vaping cannabis or sipping THC-laced tea? From the om to Savasana, here’s the story.

Ojai-based spiritual teacher and author Byron Katie is a guru’s guru, lauded by pop seekers such as Oprah Winfrey and Elizabeth Gilbert. She’s come up with four game-changing questions to ask yourself (in writing is best) to deflate the myths we tell ourselves about our world, our friends and ourselves.

Rabbi Judy Greenfeld, aka the “Relationship Rabbi,” doles out her wisdom in a way that’s half learned Jewish woman and half Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. One of her most requested duties is to help resolve family conflicts, advising congregants even when the question doesn’t involve religion at all. 

When we heard about “tapping,” aka EFT (emotional freedom technique), for the thousandth time (this is L.A., after all), we asked for the lowdown from meditation teacher Kelsey J. Pateland found out how quickly a few well-placed finger swipes can ease our anxiety.

The non-psychoactive cannabis extract CBD can ease your tension via a few drops in your morning smoothie, a bath bomb in your tub or even your intimate lubricant. What a time to be alive.