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The results have been tallied, and the shortlisted spas for the World Spa and Wellness Awards 2021 have been revealed and we are pleased to announce that Ms. Renate Hermes, Group Director and Wellness Coach at Duniye Spa in the Maldives, has been chosen a finalist for the highly coveted award in the individual category.
Every year, the month of June is marked as Wellness Month. Renate Hermes, Group Spa Director, planned the “Mindfulness at Work” wellness program for the staff this month, which will take place every Monday at 8:00 a.m. and will be facilitated by Renate herself.
The program is designed for the entire team, giving resort employees the option to participate in wellness programs and encourage them to adopt proactive measures for enhanced physical, mental, and emotional well-being at work.
Renate is passionate to promote and increase awareness about the benefits of a healthy team, stressing the link between employee health, employee productivity, and corporate success.
The father of modern mindfulness Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn defines mindfulness as “ the awareness that arises to paying attention on purpose in the present moment nonjudgmentally in the service of self-understanding.”
The quality and value of mindfulness lie in the moment to moment non-judgmental awareness, to strengthen feelings such as compassion, loving, kindness, self-compassion.
It seems that the term “mindfulness” is often hijacked for various diffuse concepts and trendy terminology in emerging wellness trends. Mindfulness is an ancient, time-proven way of ‘being/doing’- that has been practiced across cultures and centuries. Thanks to the profound work of Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn it has found its way into modern mainstream medicine, culture and society.
When things around us seem to disintegrate, we are longing more than ever to find integration, peace and calm. We have a need to connect to our sanity, to our wholeness. We want to feel that we are ok. We are OK.
The quickest way to create a sense of calm and peace is through your body, your breath. Invite your awareness to your breath, observe any sensation you might feel right now, right here. Notice it, let it be, hold it in your awareness, observe it. Thank your breath, thank your body for the miraculous way it takes care of itself. You don’t need to think of breathing. It’s just happening. Simply becoming aware of it, helps us to appreciate it. And expanding our awareness we start to appreciate our wholeness, our integrity. We are ok, despite what is happening around us.
