The global health and wellness market was valued at USD 4,886.70 billion in 2022 and is expected to reach over USD 7,656.7 billion by 2030. Today, wellness is not just about physical healthcare, but also about building a healthy life on a mental and spiritual level.
Fair to say wellness is one of the great post-pandemic “winners.” By this, we mean how the concept of total well-being has become a priority for so many people. Something that 5 or 10 years ago was considered a luxury has become a necessity today.
The growing burden of work and income pressure along with lifestyle, societal and environmental demands, has evidently driven the rise of mental and physical health issues. Our bodies and minds are extremely interconnected, more than most of us understand, so it’s unsurprising that mental ill health directly affects our bodies. Depression, anxiety and chronic stress can come with headaches, fatigue, digestive problems, insomnia, difficulty concentrating and other chronic diseases.
Alarming figures – The World Health Organization reports that 1 in 8 or 970 million people globally suffer from some sort of mental disorder and 41 million people die from chronic illnesses each year.
Enter – local wellness evangelist, Yap Yann Fang, who has been in the industry for over 20 years, having built a successful Wellness & Beauty brand – B&Co Clinic. Whilst providing wellness services to her clients, she has seen the important interconnection of physical health with mental health in achieving one’s total wellness. This has driven a burning passion towards the next-gen of Wellness Management – Biohacking, for the mind and body.
Simply put, biohacking is about making incremental changes to our bodies, diet, and lifestyle to improve health and well-being. Also known as human enhancement, biohacking has a wide range – starting from from meditation to changes in diet and supplements to improve gut bacteria and on the extreme, efforts to improve brain function, such as Elon Musk’s Neuralink (in R&D stage at present). The best biohacking results really come from being well-informed and cautious about what works for your body.
Yann herself was won over by her own personal transformation through biohacking experiences she encountered around the world. Today as a believer and advocate, she partners with various experts to bring advanced biohacking to Malaysia. Today she is in the midst of building a 30,000 square feet total wellness centre in the Klang Valley, which is aimed to be launched between Q4 Fy23 – Q1 FY24.
Today, she partners with Pavel Stuchlik (popularly known as NOA|AON), a science based holistic wellness practitioner, to bring Malaysia’s first ever biohacking workshop of its kind. Pavel, has a vast body of experience and certification in breath-work, meditation and audio stimuli – and has held over 400 workshops, addressing a wide range of audience.from people just like you and me, to Fortune 500 corporate clients looking to destress and reset such as FaceBook, Verizon, Zappos, Black Rock and WeWork.
He has also appeared as a speaker at global events such as the Biohacking Conference and works with neuroscientists from Berlin to create scientifically calculated audio stimuli that can help cure and heal the mind and body. (Pls see below for more details on Pavel).
From an early age, Pavel had a successful career as a professional cyclist, travelling the world to compete in international races. He had a first hand experience on the effects of chronic stress as a gruelling training regimen and mental focus was required to compete as an elite athlete on the world stage.
During his competing years, a depressing life-threatening bout with the Epstein-Barr virus caused Stuchlik to quit racing. In an attempt to restore himself, he embarked on a soul-searching quest that carried him across the globe, exploring various things before growing a deep passion for wellness and mental wellbeing. A notable highlight in Pavel’s journey is being a part of achieving a Guinness World Record in putting together the largest fitness workout in the world, to raise USD 500,000 to find a cure for ALS (a rare neurological disease).
His other accomplishment as a major franchise owner of OrangeTheory Fitness, the multimillion-dollar wellness franchise boasting more than 1,000 locations around the world. With audio therapy playing a major role in the franchise’s widespread popularity – Pavel increasingly found his passion drawn to audio/music and the neuroscience behind it.
In his “Core System Reset” workshop held today at Ruma Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, participants experienced the aligning of their body and mind through 3 main components of breath work, meditation and audio stimuli – where participants were guided to achieve a state of improved wellness.
