Destination Wellness: Global Secrets for Better Living Wherever You Are, Hardcover

Destination Wellness offers ideas and inspiration for reducing your stress and finding your zen, listing travel destinations where you can do just that, from week-long meditation retreats and intensive creative workshops to luxury day spas and Ayurvedic health centers. Across the modern world, many of us are feeling the urge to get away from it all, take time out from the chaos of everyday life and reset. Smart phones and devices, endless meetings, work, appointments, children, pets and chores dominate our days, and stress is becoming an increasing health issue. It's time to put yourself first, indulge, detox, relax and find some inner calm.

With stunning illustrations and tips on health and wellness, Destination Wellnesss will help you to start relaxing with a bit of armchair travel before you've even set off on your trip to a better you. Illustrations by Manhattan-based artist Wenjia Tang.

About author(s):Kate Morgan is a freelance travel writer and editor based in Geelong, Australia. She has traveled to and written about destinations all over the globe from Kyoto, Zimbabwe and Amsterdam, to Phuket and India. Kate has also had the grueling task of receiving facials and body scrubs in luxury day spas, and has indulged in massages and meditative yoga in wellness retreats, all in the name of research. She has worked in-house at Lonely Planet as a commissioning editor, and also written for various travel guidebooks, online and in magazines for companies such as Lonely Planet, BBC Travel, Condé Nast Traveler, Broadsheet Media, Waitrose Magazine in the UK and Tourism Australia.