Plans for World Wellness Weekend 2025 revealed

The ninth World Wellness Weekend will take place from September 19-21, 2025. More than 10,000 venues in 160 countries will offer free, feelgood wellness celebrations centred around vitality, serenity, solidarity and sustainability.

The popular annual global event encourages participating venues to inspire consumers to try inclusive wellness activities and classes.

Pure Fiji cosmetics and Navutu Stars Resort will officially kick off the celebrations at sunrise on September 19 in Fiji with aerobics, yoga and spa rituals.

Anara Spa at Grand Hyatt Kauai will close the event at sunset on September 21 with ‘Street Wellness: Strategies For Wellness In A Wacky World’.

Good health and wellbeing for all

This year, World Wellness Weekend is launching wellmap.org, a new website with a geolocator in 18 languages.

The site will help people find the free indoor group sessions and outdoor recreational activities available globally across the weekend.

Wellness sessions will also be available online on World Wellness WebTV, including training sessions, talks, webinars with holistic practitioners and workshops with massage champions.

Wellness starts with ‘we’

World Wellness Weekend is a non-profit international association launched in 2017 to support the United Nations’ objective of good health and wellbeing for all.

Global partners for 2025 include Endurance Zone, Nutrition Beyond Borders, Campaign Nonviolence, European Week of Sports, Lemi, Matrix, Agilysys, bbspa group and cosmetic brand Vagheggi.

Hospitality groups supporting #WellnessForAll during World Wellness Weekend include Marriott, Ritz-Carlton, Westin and Heavenly Spas, Sheraton, St Regis, Le Meridien, W Hotels and Autograph.

All Six Senses Hotels, Resorts and Spas, 50 Banyan Group properties across Asia and 20 Accor properties will be participating.

World Wellness Weekend is also collaborating with World Cleanup Day (WCD), which is on September 20.

To date, WCD has brought together more than 114 million people in 211 countries to tackle the waste crisis and cleaned up 543,704 tons of waste.

During World Wellness Weekend, venues will clean up parks, beaches, river banks and neighbourhoods, then join a guided relaxation meditation for an inner and mental cleanup.

Global highlights for 2025

In India, the J Wellness Circle will organise a wellness festival across its portfolio of more than 80 properties.

In the UAE, World Wellness Weekend will mark the start of the countdown to the Dubai Fitness Challenge 30×30 in November, a month-long celebration of fitness and wellness.

And in the UK, David Lloyd Clubs will run activations in its 100 properties, while AIRE Ancient Baths will be offering mindfulness sessions, sound baths and guided meditation in five venues.

“It is an honour and a pleasure to lead this planetary wellness celebration,” said World Wellness Weekend founder Jean-Guy de Gabriac.

“Each of us can have a positive influence on others as a #WELLfluencer. We can take easy and progressive steps with the Five Pillars of Wellness to sleep longer, eat better, exercise more, be more mindful and take better care of underserved communities and nature.”

The full list of activations across the weekend can be found here.

Sign up here to receive our weekly news delivered direct to your inbox