‘At once intolerable and addictive’: five wellbeing courses and apps, road-tested
From bibliotherapy to burpees, gratitude journals to cathartic workouts, Nadine von Cohen logs into Australia’s new crop of wellbeing apps
Jump in and chill out: 10 of Britain’s best affordable retreats
From an ice-cold plunge to a Finnish sauna, treat yourself to massages, steam rooms and scrubs
Stop all the clocks: why are we so bad at going to bed?
Putting off bedtime for one more boxset episode, or some ‘me time’? You may be a sleep procrastinator – and doing yourself serious harm
’You feel like a child again!’ Would exercising at 5am make you a happier person?
While 99% of us are still fast asleep, members of the Win the Morning, Win the Day movement are throwing themselves into a dawn walk or swim. We join them where it all started, on a beach in Hampshire
You be the judge: ‘Can I ask my tenant to stop working out on the front porch?’
In our new column, we air both sides of a domestic disagreement – and ask you to deliver a verdict.
Core needs: wellbeing holidays bounce back to tackle ‘pandemic posture’
Wellness tourism continues to grow with demand driven by the ageing boomer generation and health-conscious millennials
The wonder stuff: what I learned about happiness from a month of ‘awe walks’
Feeling down? You need to experience more awe, psychologists say. So I set off every day to explore my local area, leaving my phone behind
Emma Beddington tries … the Cyr wheel: ‘I’m about as supple as an ironing board’
I have always dreamed of joining the circus and thought this could be the skill for me. Do I have the guts and grace to start spinning around?
Fit in my 40s: I suck at table tennis. Instead, here are my final seven fitness lessons
My last observation – of everything from boxing to circus skills – is that competition between beginners is a mug’s game
‘I felt my body wasn’t good enough’: teenage troubles with Instagram
As research emerges on the harmful effect of the app, three people discuss its impact on eating disorders
Move of the week: how to have happier hips
Pigeon pose stretches tight glutes and opens the front of the hips
Fit in my 40s: a game of petty and enjoyable malice? Step forward, pétanque
It’s extremely meditative. By the end of the week, my capacity for Zen-like calm was epic
Move of the week: how to improve your arms
This tricep push-up will help you develop a more athletic physique and better defined arms
‘I was sliding towards the drop and couldn’t stop’ – the writer who fell from a mountain
It is every climber’s worst nightmare. In this extract from his thrilling book about the glorious – and treacherous – Cuillin Ridge on Skye, Simon Ingram recalls the day its wild peaks almost took his life
Move of the week: how to support your lower back
This exercise will benefit desk-bound lower backs and hips – it’s low-impact, but you’ll feel the burn if you do it properly