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Improve Wellbeing While Reaching Golf and Tennis Performance Goals

 

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Sensei launches golf and tennis optimal wellbeing programs.

Building on the success of the Optimal Wellbeing Program (OWP) that launched in February at the secluded Hawaiian wellness retreat, Sensei Lanai, a Four Seasons Resort, to enhance overall health and wellbeing, Sensei will now apply the same data and programs to two new sports performance packages for golf and tennis enthusiasts looking to improve their overall health, productivity and game.

Sensei Retreats, the first of which is Sensei Lānaʻi, A Four Seasons Resort, is where people come to learn the Sensei Way. Located in the most luxurious and inspiring setting, each guest’s stay is led by Sensei Guides and practitioners who hold degrees in their respective fields including exercise science, nutrition, and mindfulness, and is highly customized to help align guest’s actions with their intentions. Highlights include private wellness consultations, small indoor and outdoor classes, relaxing treatments in individual 1000-square-feet spa hales, island adventures and innovative dining guided by the Sensei nutritional philosophy. Additional amenities are expansive tropical gardens decorated with outdoor sculptures by renowned artists, state-of-the-art fitness and yoga facilities, tranquil lagoon-inspired outdoor pool, secluded outdoor onsen baths, nearby hiking, island activities and more.

“The launch of OWP was such a success that we wanted to expand the use of the data captured through WHOOP wearable technology and our on-site diagnostics as well as the guidance offered by our practitioners to help guests achieve and sustain their wellness goals,” said Kevin Kelly, CEO of Sensei. “With premier tennis and world-class oceanfront golf on Lanai, our guests will apply our data-driven OWP techniques to enhance their skills through a highly tailored itinerary designed by our Sensei Guides and sports instructors.”

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The tailored programs are not traditional tennis or golf clinics, but an integration of Sensei’s popular Optimal Wellbeing Program (OWP) with sports instruction. As with the original OWP, technology is leveraged to track and analyze each guest’s unique health data, as well as consultation with exercise physiologists, nutritionists and mindfulness coaches and other practitioners. That data, including a wearable device through a partnership with WHOOP, the human performance company, is then layered in with additional golf and tennis performance metrics through detailed video analysis and instruction. Guests are supported at every step from goal setting to daily practices with an integrated team of Sensei Guides, wellness practitioners and golf and tennis professionals who incorporate the Sensei philosophy — distilling the wellbeing journey into three simple paths for healthier living: Move, Nourish and Rest.

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Golf Optimal Wellbeing Program

Designed for intermediate and advanced players, the five-night program with Sunday arrival starts at $1,640 per night (single) / $2,480 per night (double). Highlights include:

Eight (8)-plus hours of one-on-one instruction with a golf instructor, which includes:
One (1) On-Course Assessment to assess pre-shot routine, mental approach, full swing, short game, putting, course strategy, rotational power, force output (internal), ball trajectory and club head (external)
One (1) Private Lesson to discover the importance and advantage of receiving instant and actionable feedback from the latest Trackman technology measuring club path, angleof attack, spin, club face, club speed/ball speed, carry distance and other key factors
One (1) nine-hole round with a golf instructor putting into practice learnings from prior sessions while implementing new techniques to fine-tune each guest’s course strategy
One (1) round of solo golf at the award-winning Jack Nicklaus Manele Golf Course (Golf Week, Golf Digest, Golf Magazine).

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Tennis Optimal Wellbeing Program

Designed for Level 4.0 tennis players (as ranked by the National Tennis Rating Program), the five-night program with Sunday arrival starts at $1,555 per night (single) / $2,310 pernight (double). Highlights include:

Four-plus hours of one-on-one instruction with a tennis professional and working with other similar-level 4.0 players, which includes:
Two (2) Private Tennis Lessons including video analysis to discover the importance and advantage of receiving instant and actionable feedback on racquet path, spin, racquet face, racquet speed/ball speed, and other key factors
One (1) Tennis Footwork Workshop designed to target each specific tennis stroke and discover how efficient footwork helps save energy, improve court coverage, and maximize reaction time.
One (1) Guided Match Play at the Manele Tennis Garden with the guidance of a tennis professional to learn how to play different styles such as aggressive baseliner, serve and volleyer, counterpuncher and all-court player.

Both programs include the same amenities as the original OWP, including luxurious accommodations, personalized support from pre-arrival through post-stay, biometrics testing, WHOOP wearable technology, private wellness consultations, restorative spa treatments, semi-private round-trip air transport from HNL and more.

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Dior’s 3D printed Eco-structure houses a unique pop-up store

Christian Dior Couture teams with WASP for unique concept store.

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On Dubai’s Jumeirah Beach stands a unique Dior installation composed of two circular modules. The fascinating architectural innovation houses a Dior pop-up store. These innovative spaces were crafted from natural materials –combining clay, sand and rawfibers –using an exceptional 3D printing system designed by WASP. The Eco-pop-up shop was 3D printed in 120 hours.

In a premiere, the French luxury house has designed a habitable structure in proportions never seen before. The cannage motif, a key House code for Dior, is revealed on the walls of this ephemeral boutique. Inside, creations celebrating the gentle life –notably from the Dioriviera women’s collection designed by Maria Grazia Chiuri – were revealed by turn in acidic hues.

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DIOR DUBAI x WASP POP UP; photos: © Mohamed Somji

The continually reinvented Dioriviera summer capsule by Maria Grazia Chiuri is like an invitation to escape. Plays on House codes – from toile de Jouy to the Dior Oblique motif – illuminate women’s ready-to-wear, leather goods, shoes and accessories with punchy chartreuse and raspberry, pop punctuations from the Fall 2021 collection.

Iconic bags, such as the Dior Book Tote and the Dior Caro, mingle with the latest additions to the Dior 2022 cruise line, such as the Lady Dior in the horizontal East-West format and the Lady Dior Wicker baskets. Also on display are Dior Maison essentials including deckchairs, parasols, cushions and bottles adorned with Dior’s iconic Toile de Jouy print. The emblematic design also features on the lounge chairs facing this audacious showcase that carries the promise of a dreamy interlude.

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@DIOR DUBAI x @WASP POP UP; photos: © Mohamed Somji

WASP’s 3D printed Eco-structure was made using Crane WASP The Infinity 3d printer, a modular collaborative 3D printing system. Crane WASP reinterprets the classic building cranes from a digital manufacturing point of view. It is composed of a main printer unit that can be assembled in different configurations depending on the printing area and therefore on the dimensions of the architectural structure to be calculated in 3d. The print area of the single module is 6.60 meters in diameter for a height of 3 meters.

The single module can work self-sufficiently by printing fluids of different kinds: cement, bio cement, natural dough. Once you have a single module, you can expand it by adding traverses and printer arms, thus generating an infinite digital manufacturing system.

It is not necessary to “cover” the entire area involved in the construction with the printing area of the WASP Cranes because they can be reconfigured and can advance with generative attitude depending on the growth and shape of the building. More WASP Cranes, when working together, have a potentially infinite printing area and can be set by the on-site operators following the evolution of the architectural project.

Dior concept store (80 sq.m.) on Nammos Beach, Jumeirah, Dubai is open until 22 March 2022.

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@DIOR DUBAI x @WASP POP UP; photos: © Mohamed Somji

 

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