Fast forward to today and Gran Canaria’s wellness offering has evolved beautifully. Alongside its natural assets sits a new generation of thoughtful spa experiences, sleep programmes and holistic retreats, all designed to help you truly switch off. This is wellbeing, island-style: unforced, deeply nourishing and effortlessly luxurious.

Where to Stay for Deep Rest and Relaxation

For a wellness escape that balances nature with considered design, head south where many of the island’s most beautiful beaches and spa hotels are found.

Wellness meets Rest & Relaxation

Tucked into the charming harbour town of Mogán, Hotel Cordial Mogán Playa feels more like a Canarian village than a resort. With its low-rise buildings, chapel and lush botanical gardens (home to more than 450 plant species), it invites a slower pace from the outset. The Inagua Spa & Wellness is a highlight, flooded with natural light and garden views, while the flotarium pool, rich in salts, allows you to float weightlessly as the sun gently warms your skin. A deeply calming experience.

Nearby, Cordial Mogán Valle Apartments offers a relaxed, garden-filled setting with multiple pools and the Salinas Spa & Wellness centre, perfect for those seeking flexibility without compromising on wellbeing.

Meanwhile, the Cordial Santa Águeda Resort delivers a more contemporary, family-friendly take on wellness living. With its seafront location, infinity pools and the beautifully designed Callao Spa & Wellness, guests can enjoy organic treatments alongside a soothing wet circuit of sauna, steam room and leisure pool.

Seaside Escapes with Soul

Just moments from Playa del Inglés, Seaside Sandy Beach offers a tranquil oasis wrapped in Arab-inspired architecture and subtropical greenery. Its rooftop Spa & Wellness centre is particularly special with panoramic views, a private jacuzzi terrace and a heated saltwater pool complete with hydromassage jets.

A short drive away, Seaside Palm Beach, set beside the Maspalomas Dunes Nature Reserve, blends retro 1970s design with modern luxury. Three heated pools, palm-filled gardens and a refined spa make it an ideal base for restoration. Treatments such as the Pantai Luar massage, a rhythmic Far Eastern ritual using warm herbal pouches, melt away tension and restore balance.

For those seeking the pinnacle of indulgence, Seaside Grand Hotel Residencia offers a five-star Gran Lujo experience. Nestled within tropical gardens close to Maspalomas Beach, its colonial-style architecture sets the tone for an exceptional spa journey, complete with salt caves, ice fountains, Finnish sauna, sensation showers and deeply restorative treatments.

Wellness with a View

At Salobre Hotel Resort & Serenity, architecture and landscape exist in harmony. Built into the rolling terrain just inland from the coast, the resort’s tiered design reveals breathtaking views across mountains and sea. Infinity pools, particularly the sunset pool, invite long, golden-hour soaks, while Balinese beds offer front-row seats to some of the island’s most memorable sunsets. The Be Aloe Wellness spa uses the resort’s own aloe vera in treatments, while Tempo, a science-led sleep and wellbeing programme, takes rest seriously, ideal for those looking to reset their rhythm.

Thalassotherapy at Its Finest

Gran Canaria is also a destination for thalassotherapy, a wellness tool used for thousands of years. Gloria Palace San Agustín Thalasso & Hotel is home to one of Europe’s largest thalassotherapy centres, with approximately 7,000m² dedicated to seawater-based treatments designed to restore, rebalance and rejuvenate.

Perched dramatically between Puerto Rico and Amadores beaches, Gloria Palace Amadores Thalasso & Hotel appears to rise from the cliffs themselves. Its seawater hydrotherapy circuit, offering pools at varying temperatures, delivers both therapeutic and sensory benefits, all with sweeping ocean views.

Facing Amadores Beach, Gloria Palace Royal Hotel & Spa combines natural stone architecture with understated luxury. Its heated infinity pool seems to blend seamlessly with the sea, while spa treatments, including hot stone rituals and complimentary hydromassage stations, invite total relaxation.

Gran Canaria isn’t about chasing wellness trends, it’s about returning to what truly restores us. Sun, sea, thoughtful spaces and time to slow down. Whether you’re floating in salt-rich waters, indulging in a sunset soak or rediscovering deep sleep, this island offers a gentler way to reset, and a reminder that wellbeing doesn’t need to be complicated to be transformative.

For more inspiration on planning your wellness escape, visit grancanariawellness.com

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“Create a colour scheme. A yellow and green colour scheme is great for Easter – fresh and Spring-like.“

“It’s all about Layering. Layer two tablecloths together in different prints or patterns to add impact.“

“Bring the Outside In. Big bunches of mimosa are great as a statement table piece and I love using seasonal fruit and vegetables for tablescaping and as candleholders. Add some Spring potted plants on the table to bring a bit of the outside in.“

“Easter is Fun. Bring in some fun by adding seasonal things like eggs and baskets.”

SHOP THE EDIT

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Hip & Healthy is a leading digital wellness and beauty title with award-winning content that spans health, skincare, fitness, travel and lifestyle. Started over 12 years ago, the Hip & Healthy team is a small group of people with a wealth of experience drawn together by our passion for wellness and self-care, content and a great almond milk latte. Constantly at the forefront of the wellness industry, we are always coming up with new and effective ways to deliver content. We are looking to grow our instagram and establish and grow our TikTok.

We all work from home and our hours are fully flexible to help H&H employees strike the right work/life balance that suits them.

This is a new, part-time role. 16 hours a week. Starting June / July 2024. Pay is based on experience.

The ideal candidate will have some experience in social media and in Canva, and / or Photoshop.

The role includes (but is not limited to):

• Creating a social media plan and executing it
• Content strategy to support articles on Hip & Healthy
• Editing videos for social media
• Creating IG Stories to promote articles
• Attending occasional events / retreats for social media purpose
• Growing our instagram followers
• Engage with followers
• Use tools such as canva to create campaigns
• Use marketing tools to schedule campaigns
• Monitor content and campaigns and provide reports
• Establish relationships with social media influencers to develop a strong network
• Keep an eye on social media trends
• Using scheduling platforms to plan social calendar

If you’re interested, please email sadie.reid@hipandhealthy.com with your CV and cover letter.

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Hip & Healthy is a leading digital wellness and beauty title with award-winning content that spans health, skincare, fitness, travel and lifestyle. Started over 12 years ago, the Hip & Healthy team is a small group of people with a wealth of experience drawn together by our passion for wellness and self-care, content and a great almond milk latte. Constantly at the forefront of the wellness industry, we are always coming up with new and effective ways to partner with amazing clients to deliver successful and inspiring campaigns. We are also looking to expand our clients in the beauty industry and so particularly looking for candidates with experience in this market. Hip & Healthy also manages the campaigns for two other titles – Get the Gloss and Suitcase Magazine.

We all work from home and our hours are fully flexible to help H&H employees strike the right work/life balance that suits them.

This is a new, part-time role. 16 hours a week. Starting June / July 2024.

The candidate needs to have sales experience. 

The role includes (but is not limited to):

• Seeking out and converting new business opportunities for Hip & Healthy and our portfolio brands (Get the Gloss and Suitcase Magazine)
• Liaising with clients and the Hip & Healthy and Portfolio teams to deliver campaigns 
• Reporting to our Head of Partnerships with updates on tasks

If you’re interested, please email sadie.reid@hipandhealthy.com with your CV and cover letter.

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Join us as our new Promotions Coordinator. This is a fantastic opportunity to join the H&H team and be central to delivering commercial campaigns, partnerships and content.

The Hip & Healthy team is a small group of people drawn together by our passion for wellness, content and a great almond milk latte. Constantly at the forefront of the wellness industry, we are always coming up with new and effective ways to partner with amazing clients to deliver successful and inspiring campaigns.

We all work from home and our hours are fully flexible to help H&H employees strike the right work/life balance that suits them.

This is a new, part-time role, at an entry-level salary. 24 hours per week.

The candidate needs to be:

• Highly organised

• Keen learner

• Team Player

• Confident writer

The role includes (but is not limited to):

• Liaising with clients
• Managing all campaign activity
• Copy-writing to a client’s brief
• Ensuring all deadlines are met
• Reporting on activity
• Working with the Editorial and Design Team to produce Solus Newsletters and Social Posts for Clients

If you’re interested, please email sadie.reid@hipandhealthy.com with your CV and cover letter.

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Blood Glucose Monitoring

Your blood glucose levels are an important part of your health. This is especially important for people with diabetes. Blood glucose monitoring is sometimes referred to as blood sugar monitoring, and it can give you a better idea of what is going on inside your body and how you can adjust your diet to balance your levels.

This blood glucose monitoring guide from Making Diabetes Easier has a wealth of information on blood sugars for people with or without diabetes. You can also find more details on the monitoring tech that you can now use to keep an eye on your blood glucose levels. Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) keeps an eye on your levels all day and you can receive notifications displaying your levels. Flash glucose monitoring (FGM) allows you to take intermittent readings when you want to.

Heart Rate And Blood Pressure Monitoring

Measuring your heart rate and blood pressure used to have to be done at a doctor’s office or hospital, but not anymore. The is a range of home monitors available that allow you to take readings multiple times a day and build a better picture of your heart health. This can be incredibly beneficial and motivating if you are trying to lose weight or take better care of your body’s most important organ.

The best of these devices link to health and fitness apps on your smartphone that uses the data to display it as graphs and charts that you can use to monitor your heart health at a glance. These apps can work alongside dietary and exercise applications to create fitness and diet plans you can follow to boost your overall health, lose weight, and improve the condition of your heart.

Exercise And Weight Monitoring

Wrist-mounted fitness trackers are one of the most popular health-focused devices on the market today. They can easily track your exercise, including the steps you take throughout the day, to give you a better idea of the calories you have burned. When used alongside smart scales, you have everything you need to make lasting and positive changes to your health and can lose weight as well as strengthen muscles.

These devices and apps have a fantastic record of helping people to improve their health and fitness. The data they generate, and the targets they set, are like having a fitness trainer on your wrist. They keep pushing you to achieve your goals and encourage strength training. If you are looking for a simple and cost-effective way to improve your fitness, one of these can be your first step towards a fitter and healthier future self.

Any one of these devices can help you live a healthier life, but when you combine all three you have both the knowledge and the power to make lasting and long-term changes to your health and fitness. The road to health begins with a single step, make one of these devices your first step toward better health.

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David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet
The one and only David Attenborough brought us this fantastic documentary back in 2020 as a way of shaking up our vision of the world and to really understand what is happening to the planet on and off the shore as a result of climate change. Heartbreaking, yes, but it does offer a glimmer of hope of what could be if we all put our heads together.
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Before The Flood
Leonardo Dicaprio stars in and directs Before The Flood to showcase what exactly is on the line if we don’t drastically ramp up our sustainability efforts globally. He looks at how other countries approach climate change as a way of proving what can be done but also the intense political struggle that is affecting the speed of change.
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Minimalism: A Documentary About Important Things
The simple life, the good life, Minimalism is a perfect example of how we can all live on less and actually be happier for it. This is a journey about discovering what it is we need to actually survive and thrive and how our obsession with possessions and destructive habits around waste is contributing to climate change.
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Down To Earth
A series of short but informative episodes all about sustainable living, Down To Earth, staring Hollywood heartthrob (well, in our eyes anyway) Zac Efron and wellness expert pal, Darin Olien takes you to the depths of Costa Rica to the nordic nation of Iceland to unveil pioneering technologies used to combat climate change and the incredible people behind them. 
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The True Cost
When we think of sustainability we often look at our diets, how we travel or perhaps our waste in general but lurking in your closet could be one of the worst culprits for climate change. Fast fashion is a shockingly huge problem and The True Cost, delves into the high price we pay for materialism and what effect our throwaway shopping habits have on not only the environment but human rights.
WATCH TRAILER

READ MORE: Sleep Chic: Our Favourite Sustainable Sleepwear Brands

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Gardening is beneficial for both our physical and mental wellbeing, making it a fantastic pastime. However, it doesn’t have to take up all of our free time (if you don’t want it to); to make life a little bit easier, Miracle-Gro’s Gardening Guru, Kate Turner has shared her gardening tips for beginners that you can do this spring to get the most out of your garden with 15 quick jobs, each taking only 15 minutes. Whenever you get your gardening fix, a quiet drawn-out Sunday afternoon or in-between Zoom calls, you can fit these jobs in.

Kate comments: “Gardening is a great break for our minds during busy days and doing something as simple as raking your lawn for 15 minutes gives you the opportunity to pause and refresh, not to mention a great excuse to get outdoors. If you have children, it’s great to get them involved and excited about what you can grow and enjoy together.”

Plan your plants: Review your planned growing site to ensure that it’s the best spot for optimum growth. Most edible plants, including fruit, vegetables and herbs need at least six hours of sun per day in order to thrive, so choose a sunny spot for your growing and make sure that you have easy access to a water source. A long hose is your best friend!

Mood Board: Creating a mood board of what your ideal/dream garden could look like, either using an app like Pinterest or a good old-fashioned collage. Explore different colour combinations of plants and don’t forget to add in water features, outdoor furniture and anything else that takes your fancy, dream big!

Sowing calendar: Start your planning by considering what produce you’d be most excited to grow (and eat) and start plotting in your calendar when you should start growing each plant. You could use Miracle-Gro’s UK vegetable planting calendar as a starting point.

(Pre)Spring clean: A quick but satisfying job is raking your lawn to remove any dead grass, leaves and debris from the winter months.

Love your lawn: Raking your lawn may reveal some bare patches in need of TLC. Lightly fork over the patch and sprinkle over some topsoil or compost. Following pack instructions scatter over the grass seed and finally cover the seed with a light sprinkling of compost and water sparingly with a watering can.

Weeds no more: As well as the plants that we intend to grow, weeds also start to put on growth in spring. Tackle them now before they take hold either by pulling out at the root or for a convenient option, use a weedkiller such as RoundUp NL Weed Control Ready to Use; a natural, easy to use weedkiller in a spray bottle. You’ll see visible results in just 3 hours and the area will be ready for replanting in 24 hours!

Pleasure in preparation: If your vegetable patch is in the ground rather than a raised bed, improve your soil by adding a nutrient-rich compost like Miracle-Gro Performance Organics Fruit & Veg. Gently fork a good layer about 3 inches into your existing soil for bumper crops!  

Burst of flowers: In spring, your local garden centre will start selling flower plugs, such as pansy, primrose and polyanthus plants. Create a colourful spring display in a container by filling it up with bursts of spring colour. After your last frost, fill the pot with compost, add the plants by carefully removing them from their pots and into a hole deep enough for the root ball. Firm them in, adding more compost if needed.

Encourage garden wildlife: Put out additional bird food during the spring breeding season and then stack logs and twigs from your spring clean to create a wildlife corner. Little ones will love nature-spotting in the garden and spying different birds and other creatures is a great home-learning opportunity.

Mulching: Mulching your trees and shrubs helps to retain soil moisture, suppress weeds, and insulate plant roots. Miracle-Gro Premium Fibre Smart Mulch is a peat-free mulch option. Make sure the soil is weed-free and moist and then add at least 2 inches of mulch, gently raking afterwards to level the surface.

Time for tomatoes: For those of us who are short of time, purchasing young plants from your local garden centre in nursery pots is a perfect time-saving hack. For your 15-minute job, pot up each plant into a larger pot filled with good quality multi-purpose compost and place somewhere sheltered and sunny.

Pond in a pot: Create a mini pond by choosing a glazed pot without a drainage hole. Partly fill with water and add a plant such as a miniature waterlily still in its pot. Then, top up with water and place the pot anywhere in your garden/patio or even balcony.

Herb tea garden: Choose a large container and fill with gritty compost for good drainage. Add pots of herbs such as camomile or lemon balm and add small gravel to the surface to stop compost from splashing the leaves when watered. If mint tea is your favourite, grow it in a separate container as this plant will soon take over.

Upcycle: Instead of buying plastic pots, upcycle items such as tin cans, ice cream tubs, colanders and even old boots. With a bit of decoration, you can have a home crafted and environmentally friendly plant pot! This is a great activity to with children just remember that an adult will need to add drainage holes.

Make room for more: Just because you have limited space, doesn’t mean you can’t grow plants and produce. Spend time planning your space and consider what you want to prioritise, literally thinking outside the box. If you have a patio or terrace then the only way is up! Growing plants up walls and fences makes the most of your space as well as giving you a bigger choice of plants to grow. Creating surfaces of different heights for pots and small planters will increase your growing space as well as looking gorgeous. A windowsill can make the perfect spot for herbs and tomatoes plants, so get your creative juices flowing, do some research and the sky (literally) is your limit!

To find out more, visit www.lovethegarden.com

READ MORE: The Best Self-Care Practices According To Your Star Sign

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Sadhguru: The last few months have been challenging times for all of us. When things are not going the way you want them to go, that is when your capability is most needed. But if you are anxious, worried and get into a panic, you will be paralyzed. A human being who is joyful, sensible and responsible can deal with situations much better than one who is fearful. 

#1 Keep Accounts of Your Joyfulness 
In business, only one who keeps accounts knows whether he is making money or going down. Similarly, you must maintain an account – “How many moments of joy did I have today?” We are not using joy as a goal. Joy does not mean that you attained to something. Joy is a measure – it simply means life has come to ease, you are not messing yourself up. 

Every day, if you keep accounts, you will see that no matter what the hell happens in life situations, you will not go down.

#2 Wake Up with a Smile 
When you get up in the morning, the first thing you should do is smile because just the fact that you woke up is not a small thing. Thousands of people who slept last night did not wake up today, but you did. So smile because you woke up. Then look around and if there is someone, smile at them. For millions of people, someone dear to them did not wake up this morning. Everyone who is dear to you woke up – Wow! It’s a great day, isn’t it? 

You may think this is ridiculous, but this is the most valuable thing – that you are alive and everything that matters to you is alive. Appreciate it and smile at least.

#3 Make the Best New Year Resolution
One of the resolutions you take for the New Year should be, “I meditate.” Right now your mind is the boss and you are the slave. As you become more meditative, you become the boss and your mind becomes the slave; there is a clear space between you and your body and mind. Once there is a distinct separation, this is the end of suffering because there are only two kinds of suffering you have known – physical and mental. Only when there is no fear of suffering, you will dare to explore the full scope of what it means to be human.

We love this free 12-minute meditation from Sadhguru called Isha Kriya. It is available on YouTube here – ishaeu.org/hipandhealthy

READ MORE: How To Use Mala Beads To Reduce Anxiety

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Spanning industries such as food, drink, beauty and supplements, CBD has landed in the market with an almighty bang, and with good reason, customers are seeing considerable positive effects from consuming CBD products. With so many amazing brands on the market all with unique and exciting products, we at Hip & Healthy wanted to do a deep dive into finding the best of the best for CBD beginners and beyond. So far-reaching is this category of products that we wanted to bring to the forefront the CBD heroes that we hail daily, from solutions to period pains to antidotes to anxiety, and everything in between. This August, Hip & Healthy are excited to bring you the UK’s first-ever CBD Awards. Chosen by our CBD enthusiastic editors, from a variety of incredible brands, we can’t wait to highlight the very best CBD products out there.

Winners will be announced on the 18th August so stay tuned to discover the crème de la crème of CBD!

Read more: “I Spent Lockdown Trying CBD Products and This is What I Discovered…”

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