The best women’s health tracking device

Today I wanted to share with you one of the best womens health tracking device – the Bellabeat range. I was gifted with their latest Leaf Chakra necklace and invited to their wellness breakfast a few weeks ago and it was such a beautiful event with delicious food, meditation, face yoga (yes!) and a talk from the company founders about the importance of women’s wellbeing. 

Urska Srsen, one of the Slovenian co-founders of Bellabeat worked to create this range of women’s wellness trackers alongside her mother, a doctor in obstetrics and gynaecology. Srsen’s mother noted in her talk how the hospital she worked at in Ljubljana had such low neonatal mortality rates, but a correspondingly (and shockingly high) case of maternal mortality rates in the year post birth. And further more a big percentage of these maternal mortality rates were due to suicide in the first year.

To help solve this problem, they created a product range specifically for women to make sure they are tracking and taking care of their own physical, mental and emotional wellbeing.

(The mother-daughter team!)

So much of Dr Tanja Premru-Srsen’s talk was about the fundamental connection between mind, body and wellbeing – which is something, as you may know, that I completely agree with – (and is already so much “built into” the yoga practice itself). So much of the role of “women” is about being the carer/nurturer/friend/support/mother/sister – but really the more we are able to care, support and maintain our OWN wellbeing – the more we can show up for others.

What I love about the Bellabeat health tracker range is that it is such a beautiful design! (Take a look at my post on the original bracelet here). Their new chakra leaf necklace includes either a crystal or onyx stone on the inside – so if you’re a yogi or into the healing potential of having crystals close (#hippiesforlyf) – then these are a gorgeous option for you and because they each have a unique stone, no two necklaces are alike. Although the leaf chakra can’t be worn like a bracelet like their original Urban leaf, it can be removed from the chain and worn directly clipped onto your clothes – so that it can still monitor your breathing and movements.

What makes this product so beautiful as a women’s wellness tracking device is that there is no extra screen to have to look at – so it’s not distracting and doesn’t feel like “another technological thing” you have to keep up with. It is also way less interested in calories and heart rate (which can be a bit stressful and overwhelming TBH!) and WAY more focused on overall health and holistic wellbeing through tracking movement, meditation, sleep, hydration and menstrual cycle – (if you wish) to give you an overall stress indicator. All the data is synced automatically to your phone – with such a simple to navigate user interface.

It really is a very beautiful design and is a stylish wellness tracking product that you can also wear “in your fancy clothes” (Side note: yoga teacher life meaning-  anything other than yoga leggings are “fancy clothes”) without it looking like you’re about to either a) hike a mountain or b) assess your heart rate variability on a series of ten thousand burpees. (Lol, please no body do that).

As part of the wellness morning we had two wellness inspired “activities” – the first a beautiful meditation lead by Roxie Nafousi (isn’t she a babe?!) which we all tracked on our Bellabeats. It was also great to hear Roxie chat with the founders in an informal interview style – to hear in a little bit more detail about how powerful meditation is for our wellbeing.

FUN FACT: The stretches of DNA strands called Telomeres play a part in affecting how the cells of the body ages. These Telomere structures are repaired by specific enzymes in the body – and, as Dr Premru-Srsen was telling us, research has been done that shows that people who have a regular meditation practice have a greater presence of the enzymes that help repair the Telomere strands. The bottom line is: meditation is literally anti-aging. (Like, for reals.)

We also had the most interesting “face yoga” session with Karin Velikonja – I’ve never tried face yoga before, but after seeing some of her transformation pictures – I’m SOLD! Of course as you can imagine – you feel like a real mumbo when you’re pulling your cheeks and eyelids into slits and trying to mouth the alphabet – but it was a SURPRISING workout for the face and I definitely felt sensation I’ve never experienced in my face before! (Who would’ve thought?!) Isn’t odd that we think about exercising literally every other muscle in our bodies to maintain healthy functioning but not our faces – which are the first thing anyone ever sees about us.

The whole day was created with a complete overall view on holistic wellbeing – my absolute FAVOURITE thing of the day was our amazing goodie bag which contained the brand new SPRING water bottle from the Bellabeat range. I am personally SO excited about this product! The Spring bottle is such an amazing and intuitive piece of functional technology!

The purpose of the Spring Bottle is to help track your daily hydration – as the amount of water automatically syncs with the app in your phone (I know). BUT what I’ve found to be more interesting than the tracking of the water is that it actually encourages me to drink more water in general (which I guess is the point!) and is SUCH a useful thing for a self-confessed “non-water drinker”  (shock, horror) like me. The design, as is usual with all Bellabeat health tracking range is gorgeous as ever –

(And dishwasher safe – holla!)

Bellabeat also introduced us to another product they are launching soon – I’m not allowed to mention it as it’s under embargo until early December – but let me just say – it is GORGEOUS! And if you are looking for the perfect gift to get your lady-friend this Christmas, this may just be the VERY thing!

Thank you SO much to the Bellabeat team and to the wonderful ladies at Wildfire PR for inviting me to the event, I had such a wonderful time meeting everyone and chatting and hearing about the gorgeous products you have lined up! I can’t wait for the world to see them!

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to drink my water.