Mind-Body Connection

Curious about the benefits of sauna for your wellbeing? Discover the rise of Finnish-style saunas in the UK, the mental and physical health benefits of heat and cold therapy, and how one Somerset sauna changed everything.

parkrun is a free, weekly 5k running and walking event held in parks across the world. Welcoming all ages and abilities, it’s a simple way to boost wellbeing, build community, and create healthy habits.

Bristol Lido is a restored Victorian open-air pool and spa in Clifton, offering cold water swimming, sauna, and seasonal food in a peaceful city-centre setting. A perfect mind–body reset, it invites you to slow down, move gently, and reconnect.

Discover five of the UK’s most inspiring wellbeing festivals for summer 2025—featuring yoga, trail running, wild swimming, live music, mindfulness and more. From Love Trails to Wilderness, these gatherings offer movement, connection and joy in stunning natural settings.

Frome Boulder Rooms is a modern, inclusive bouldering centre offering climbing for all levels, from beginners to experienced climbers. With a welcoming community, strength training areas, and expert coaching, it’s a place where movement, confidence, and connection come together.

Explore 42 Acres, a 173-acre regenerative estate and nature reserve in Somerset offering transformative retreats and nature-based experiences. Swim in the lake, meditate in the treehouse, or nourish yourself with farm-to-table food grown on-site.

Discover a community of friendly and fun-loving women of all ages, backgrounds and fitness levels based in the UK. With Women Outdoors, founder Emma Winters has created an environment where you can be your authentic self, develop outdoor skills, connect with like-minded women and go home with a big smile on your face.

Discover a haven for your wellbeing in Bath that gives back to others too

Discover why we’re supporting Mental Healh Swims, the multi-award-winning mental health peer support community.

Discover a wave garden focused on bringing the benefits of blue spaces to everyone.

Talk Club is creating the space for much-needed conversations about men’s mental health. Meet Ben Akers, its inspirational founder, who is leading the change in how men think about mental fitness and emotional strength.

We talk to Rachel Ashe about the social enterprise she founded that offers mental health peer support through cold water dips.

How do you make time to pause? We talked to Madeline Blackburn, founder of Bath’s The Soul Spa, about how we can rethink how we treat our modern-day ailments and create better spaces to hold us on our high streets.

We speak to Amber Rich, founder of The Little Retreat and The Big Retreat Festival about how she arrived at these projects, how wellness is now something that we all reach for, and her role as a curator of discovery and awe.

The world’s first museum is more than a display of gynecological anatomy. It’s dedicated to a serious discussion of women’s health, feminism, and sexuality.

Too soon to think about what your well-being looks like next summer? Not according to this Cotswold based glitterball of a holistic festival.

A modern-day apothecary to help with modern-day ailments deep in the Somerset countryside.

Finding calm in stressed-out London with a new kind of lifestyle studio.

Bryony Gordon launched Mental Health Mates as “a sort of walking/running group for the people for whom it is perfectly normal to feel weird”. Right from its start in London a few years ago people have consistently shown up, with outings now throughout the UK and abroad.

Neuroscientist Dr. Daya Grant discovers a sanctuary in Los Angeles for reflection and a moment of respite from it all.

In conversation with soberIRL founder Karla Carolina on the power of connection in sobriety.

Los Angeles’ DEN Meditation helps find a way to make guided meditation part of your everyday life.

Feeling emotionally overwhelmed or exhausted? Learn why your nervous system sees everyday stress as danger, and how to safely reconnect with your feelings using body-based tools and soft, supportive practices.

A wellbeing experiment in mind-body connection, Qigong, and the search for energy that stays.

Discover the emotional and mental health benefits of walking with five mindful ways to walk, inspired by personal experience and wellbeing research.

Emotions aren’t just in your head—they live in your body too. Here’s what science and experience say about embodied emotions, and how reconnecting with your physical self can help you understand and manage your feelings better.

From nervous system signals to gut health and breathwork, this playful, science-backed post explores how emotional and physical wellbeing are deeply connected — and how to listen when your body is trying to tell you something.

Discover the science-backed emotional benefits of dance and join Claire’s “Year of Living Well-ishly” — a playful, accessible journey into movement, connection, and micro-adventures in wellbeing.

Tired of fitness that feels like punishment? Discover 10 joyful, everyday ways to move your body that support your emotional and mental health — no gym required. For anyone seeking realistic, meaningful ways to feel better in their bodies.

Feel like you’re living in your head 24/7? Explore how we disconnect from our bodies — and how reconnecting through small, kind practices can support emotional wellbeing.