Turning on the holistic wellbeing mode
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MORE and more people are paying attention to a healthy lifestyle that encapsulates body and mind and pays attention to diet as well as daily necessities. Living a healthy life is not just about going to the gym or meditating every once in a while, but it’s a holistic mission that takes some effort to achieve. If you do want to change your life and be healthier, the below list gives you some insights into the city’s top addresses for lovers for everything vegan, organic, and eco-friendly.
The Living Room by Octave
As a holistic wellbeing center, it offers customized and integrated programs that focus on body and mind for any life stage. As the mission is to empower people to reach their full wellbeing potential, a group of wellness professionals and coaches helps you to get find a fitness training, nutrition, psychotherapy, physiotherapy, yoga and meditation program that suits your needs as well as life coaching and traditional Chinese healing.
Housed in a four-story villa in the former French Concession, the wellbeing center is designed as a relaxing and mind-healing place. It features a practice room, inspiration room, studios, healing room, fun room, kid’s center, bookstore, organic garden, roof terrace and a restaurant. The one-stop customized healing program crafted by expert practitioners enables you to have comprehensive health evolution.
“Our goal is to see Octave as a daily part of our members whether that’s through programming, eating at Thought For Food restaurant or socializing with like-minded people who are interested in personal and physical health,” says Olivier Horps, the managing director.
Address: 357 Jianguo Rd W.
Tel: 3338-4666
Website: www.livingoctave.com
Green Mix
At this one-stop wellness shop, you can enjoy vegan dishes and fresh smoothies at the café, try on a flax dress, shop for unique handmade or recycled home furnishing and art, or stock up on your organic groceries, and it’s also a place to meet other healthy lifestyle lovers, designers and nutritionists.
When you walk into the shop, you are welcomed by a fresh flower station.
The vegan dishes are one of the highlights. Must-tries are avocado quinoa salad, homemade vegan sashimi featuring mushrooms, broccoli and zucchini with mustard, miso sea velvet soup, homemade organic soybean steak, organic panini with grilled vegetables and organic multi-grain rice in bamboo tubes.
Address: 432 Dagu Rd
Tel: 6339-1618
Website: www.igreenmix.com
Sprout Lifestyle
As a combination of organic food, café, retail store and workshops, it is a nutrition learning and communicating platform for healthy food and lifestyle lovers. “A healthy body is the basis of a happy life,” say Kimberly Ashton and Georgia Zhou, founders of Sprout Lifestyle who share a passion for good quality, nutritious and healthy food. “We aim to inspire others to adopt healthy habits and respect their body, mind and the environment.”
At such relaxing place, you can chat with friends at café with seasonal soups, salads, whole grains based meals, healthy desserts and unique smoothies and elixir tonics, or grab some natural food, snacks and convenient products at the retail store.
One of the highlight is the weekly cooking class and workshops by learning nutrition, detoxification, food therapy and macrobiotics knowledge. Hosted by health coaches and nutritionists, the group workshops encourages member to challenge the “No Sugar Four Weeks,” “Detoxification Two Weeks” and “Energy boost Two Weeks.”
It also offers catering service. Whether for an office party, birthday, or private event, it has a broad range of healthy canapés, deserts, drinks and more.
Address: 388 Shaanxi Rd S.
Tel: 400-821-5190
Website: www.sproutlifestyle.com
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