You already know that more women are wearing Lycra on the reg instead of jeans. (Workout clothes constantly outpace denim, growing by at least 5% a year, to $68 billion, according to analysts at Barclays.) But in 2016, we expect athleisure (a combination of “athletic” and “leisure”) to become a super trend, stretching its street-style Spandex offerings into every corner of everyday life.

Our cultural obsession with wearing stylish leggings and tops that can go from brunch and errands to casual Friday was recently recognized by Merriam Webster, which recently admitted the term “athleisure” into the dictionary. All around us designers like Tory Burch, Cynthia Rowley, and Rebecca Minkoff are getting into activewear. Collaborations, like Derek Lam 10 Crosby x Athleta, mark the first of dozens we’ll be seeing. Curated boutiques like Bandier and Juja Active that stock dozens of fitness fashion brands in increasingly chic styles are taking off. Buzzy new labels like Tracksmith, ADAY, Karma, and Carbon38’s house collection seem to debut daily. And single-brand stores like Sweaty Betty and Athleta are popping up every time we lace up our sneakers.

“We’re all looking for chic, casual, and comfortable clothing that looks effortless and as the shapes and fabrics get more sophisticated, I think the trend will continue,” says Leesa Evans, a celebrity stylist. Soon the category is going to be a big part of every mall in America—and every woman’s wardrobe.

The spa and beauty world has embraced the tech-enabled sharing economy with on-demand services. Zeel can get a massage therapist to your door in less time than it takes for your takeout order to arrive. The Ritualist does the same with pore-perfecting facialists. Manicube sends manicurists to the office of busy professionals. And Glamsquad deploys hair stylists and makeup artists across NYC, LA, and Miami (with Chicago, Dallas, and Washington, DC slated for 2016). Even a spray tan is just a click away these days.

Their popularity stems from the simple fact that women are just really crazy busy. “During our home appointments, our clients are sending emails, talking to their children, reading the newspaper, or browsing on social media,” says Alexandra Wilkes Wilson, Glamsquad’s co-founder and CEO. “Now you don’t need to spend an hour or more at the salon and put your life on hold to look and feel your best.”

And if the service isn’t in-home or office, it’s more convenient than ever: Manhattan’s Heyday forgos languid spa rituals in favor of affordable, drop-in facials; desert-chic The Now in Los Angeles offers massages in 30 minute increments, so you don’t have to clear your schedule to enjoy a moment of relaxation; and Mud, currently in Chicago and Boulder, offers skin-care masks like DryBar offers blow-outs, in a shared room.
In the process, they’re democratizing the notion of pampering. “People don’t have time, they don’t have money, and it’s pretty inconvenient to schedule [traditional spa] appointments on a regular basis.” says Heyday’s co-founder and CEO Adam Ross. He speaks for the whole beauty movement when saying, “we’re not re-imagining the facial, we’re re-imagining the experience of the facial.” That and making beauty and wellness services possible for otherwise busy, stressed-out people.

Fitness reboots aren’t just for January resolutions. Intense fitness programs, which incorporate additional lifestyle elements such as nutrition and health coaching, are getting more popular as a way to ramp up and recommit to health and fitness, with the added gratification of achieving measureable results (like muscle gain, and lost inches). Barre3’s Amy LeClerc says the 100-studio brand sees “steady month-over-month growth in our 28-to-Great program,” which offer a fitness-nutrition combo platter, and their bi-annual Challenges sees the largest influx of new clients “with thousands of people committing to exercise, an eating plan, and other healthy behaviors that go way beyond the month they’ve committed to.”

AKT’s “Transformation Program,” created by founder and celebrity trainer Anna Kaiser, is an 8-week fitness and lifestyle reboot, with participants working out 6 times a week, cleaning up their eating habits with the help of an in-house nutritionist, and learning new skills at special weekly sessions. Other popular programs include Barry’s Bootcamp Academies, Flywheel’s Power Up, and Equinox Training Camp (ETC), a program that combines nutrition, goal-setting, and high-intensity workouts three times a week with the same group of people. In addition to tools for healthier living, these programs also provide the support and accountability that helps people create healthier habits, which is what makes this a hit far beyond the month of January.

“We’re sharing the benefits of meditation in a way that’s social and fun,” Jesse Israel said recently to a crowd of 800 people who had come after work with friends, significant others, or co-workers to meditate in an auditorium in New York City. Israel’s The Big Quiet, which has organized large meditation gatherings in Central Park and is now aiming to spread to multiple cities, is just one example of how meditating is becoming the new happy hour.

Girlfriends who before may have met up for a SoulCycle class to catch up are now heading to Unplug in Los Angeles and MNDFL in NYC for drop-in sessions, and The Path’s meditation gatherings are be-seen affairs packed with young, creative professionals. Meditative events are diversifying too, so you may hear a lecture from a Buddhist monk, enjoy a swanky vegan dinner after sitting in silence, learn to knit as a group while focusing your mind, or get treated to a sound bath. Chill out time isn’t a just solo activity anymore.

In 2014, we reported on how wellness is the must-have hotel amenity, and that trend is only gaining momentum. Sleep is the new sex, meditation is the new massage, and working out has become a passion. No wonder hotels are incorporating health and fitness into their DNA. A case in point is the newest hotel by IHG®, EVEN® Hotels, where wellness is built in. EVEN Hotels, which just opened its third hotel in New York’s Times Square and plans outposts in Midtown East and Brooklyn in 2016, offers such standard features in guest rooms as stand-up desks, an in-room training zone for core, cardio, and strength, natural eucalyptus fiber bedding, and healthier food and beverage choices.

Sweat will be a bigger consideration of your stay: One of the most highly regarded gyms in the U.S. announced plans to open 75 “fitness-centric” hotels, and boutique workouts like SoulCycle are becoming a hotel amenity (starting with Miami and Los Angeles). As for winding guests down, resorts are introducing new ways, such as “meditation pods” in Ojai, California, to “nests” at a new resort in Portugal that hang from the trees. And one rapidly growing luxury hotel brand just debuted an Integrated Wellness program, in partnership with Dr. Mehmet Oz, with high-tech diagnostic tests, personalized spa and fitness programs, and nutrition advice during your stay.

You could say nut milks are now getting the attention that cold-pressed juices were getting seven years ago. More people are drinking nut and seed milks than ever before, thanks to all the exposure around dairy intolerance and the bad press surrounding soy. People now want milks that are all-natural and emulsifier-free (2015 was not a kind year to carrageenan). Customers are looking at ingredients, says Elly Truesdell, the local brand buyer for Whole Foods’ Northeast region, and they’re putting down the milk cartons. “As better milk alternatives have been made—that are refrigerated and not shelf-stable, and are free of certain ingredients—people are starting to choose those.”

These newer bespoke brands like OMilk are thinking outside of the shell with inventive flavor combos and milks made with cashew, walnut, macadamia nut, Brazil nut, even pistachio. Beyond the supermarket, many cafes are making their own nut milks, with Yelp reviewers praising the creamy homemade offerings at Sqirl, Go Get Em Tiger, and other healthy Los Angeles spots. And for a taste of milk-man nostalgia, outfits like NotMilk and Can Can Nut Milk deliver small batch nut milks to your door. “We’ve quadrupled our production in the last six months,” says Carolyn Flood, the co-founder of NotMilk who—along with her sister Susan—personally drops off the handcrafted blends. “It’s kind of like store-bought orange juice versus fresh-squeezed. It’s just worlds apart.”

This hot new beauty practice has a lot in common with your grandmother’s evening cold cream ritual to remove dirt and makeup—only this modern technique uses natural plant oils. Dozens of beauty brands, from Tata Harper and Elizabeth Dehn for One Love Organics to Burt’s Bees, are launching buzzy cleansing oils. The super gentle concept of oil cleansing is based on the chemistry of “like dissolving like”—e.g., an oil cleanser effectively tackles the dirt and oil on your face—versus water-based cleansers that need surfactants to provide suds to get your skin clean. More women are giving the holistic practice a go: “You massage the oil in from chin to forehead in tiny circular motions for a few minutes,” explains CAP Beauty’s Kerrilynn Pamer. “The massaging action creates heat in the skin, which gently encourages the pores to open, making the cleansing ritual much more effective.”

Fans and formulators say with oil cleansing there’s no stripping of the skin’s acid mantle to the point of it feeling tight and dry, or interfering with your skin’s sebum production or pH levels. And it you choose a plant-based oil cleanser (versus mineral or petroleum-based one), “it will remove the emulsified oil, makeup, and pollution while leaving your skin balanced and nourished,” Pamer swears. “That oil causes breakouts is a myth.”

Lena Dunham’s now famous Instagram quote about her motivation for exercising epitomizes a growing Millennial philosophy about fitness—working out is not about chasing a dress size or for appearances. Dunham and co-star Jemima Kirke (as well as other celebs) are working out to ease anxiety and feel strong rather than just to lose weight. “The fact that Lena Dunham is so vocal about the mental health benefits of fitness really amplifies these two very important messages: fitness doesn’t equal skinny, and fitness isn’t about skinny,” Anti-Diet Project founder Kelsey Miller says. “When you brush aside all that get-skinny jargon, you’re able to go into a workout and experience how good it makes your body and brain feel.”

This marks a huge change in thinking about wellness as a holistic way to live that we’ve never seen before, and we’re entering an exciting era of using Instagram as a platform for people speaking out about this ethos and body politics.