This week in PostMag: Hong Kong’s wellness trends for 2025
This week’s PostMag explores Hong Kong’s wellness trends for 2025, from pickleball to mushroom coffee and Transcendental Meditation
Wellness has come a long way since I was a kid. Back then, yoga hadn’t gone mainstream yet, juice was healthy (not a way to mainline sugar) and the idea of mental well-being barely a blip in general discourse. Eating carrot sticks and avoiding Twinkies? You were doing great.
Decades later, it’s more complicated. There’s body, mind and soul to consider. (Of course, they always were, but now we’re actually acknowledging it.) In that spirit, we’re looking at wellness from all angles in this special issue.
Looking into the year ahead, Gavin Yeung speaks to Hong Kong experts for a forecast of 2025 wellness trends. Are you ready for mushroom coffee? Let’s see if those predictions come true over the next 12 months.
What we know for sure is that a pickleball craze is taking over Hong Kong. The emerging sport has garnered support from both the government and the private sector, finds Joyce Yip, with new pickleball courts popping up everywhere from Tin Hau and Wan Chai to Tsuen Wan and Ma On Shan.
Run clubs are also sweeping the city, discovers Amalissa Hall. Like nearly everyone, I’m terrible at motivating myself to pull on trainers and get out on the pavement, even with the end reward of endorphins. Run clubs make it a social event and who doesn’t like community? A bit of peer pressure can’t hurt the motivation, either.
Thankfully, wellness isn’t achieved only through the lactic-acid-generating pain that sport induces. Mark Footer rounds up wellness retreats around South and Southeast Asia – I love the idea of “a flexible menu of yoga, fitness, spa treatments and emotional therapies” – and, at Hong Kong’s own 10x Longevity, Karen Chiang spends 2.5 hours cycling through a hyperbaric oxygen chamber, infrared sauna, cold-plunge bath and red light therapy.
