This Saturday, June 13th the world celebrated Global Wellness Day. With the slogan, “One day can change your whole life.” Global Wellness Day is celebrated on the second Saturday of June every year. The main aims of this day are:

This Saturday, June 13th the world celebrated Global Wellness Day. With the slogan, “One day can change your whole life.” Global Wellness Day is celebrated on the second Saturday of June every year. The main aims of this day are:

  • To recognize the value of our lives
  • To pause and think, even for just one day of the year
  • To be free from the stress of everyday city life and bad habits
  • To make peace with ourselves
  • To raise awareness about living well and increase motivation, not for just today but for the remaining 364 days of the year

First celebrated in 2012, Global Wellness Day was established in Turkey as the “first” day dedicated to living well, and has now been accepted worldwide. To highlight GWD’s progress, in 2019 Global Wellness Day was celebrated simultaneously in more than 150 countries at 8000 different locations with different events ranging from a 45K marathon to zumba and from Tai Chi to the medical care of children at the Thailand and Myanmar border and visiting elderly people’s houses. This Saturday, wellness professionals, practitioners, experts, and trainers took part in 24 hours of #GlobalWellnessDay celebrations.

Thank you to everyone who joined our Athletes’ Commission Chair, Janice Lyn, who did a Muaythai workout for the Thailand chapter of Global Wellness Day. Now more than ever we need to think about leading better lives with the unprecedented events of C ovid-19 and the uncertainties in our world today. Participation in this day is a reminder how Muaythai has the power to change lives.

Janice shared with the GWD community how Muaythai changed her life, revealing to her many values; the value of confidence and unity, giving the example of IFMA’s #MuaythaiConnects social and active challenge and how Muaythai has stood as #OneWorldOneMuaythai to promote health and positivity during the pandemic to beat Covid-19. Other values that Janice shared were the value of the traditions and the cultural heritage of Muaythai, the value of family and how Muaythai follows the Olympic values with our values of honor, tradition, respect, excellence and fair-play.

Lastly, and perhaps most relevant to GWD2020, Janice shared the parallels that both Muaythai and Holistic Wellness share in the balance of the Mind, Body and the Spirit.

To Muaythai practitioners all over the world Muaythai is a natural medicine, from building confidence, to tackling mental health, to being a bridge for all abilities through to fortifying the balance of the Mind, Body and Spirit.

Today is just a reminder of how important leading a healthy lifestyle is and caring for your body, not just your physical body but your mind, body and spirit. This will help you get through the toughest of times. This is a really tough time that we are going through so be sure that you do everything that you can to keep yourself healthy and to keep your loved ones healthy as well.

Happy Global Wellness Day from the IFMA Family!