What is the Wellness Onion? A Smart Framework for Building Healthy Habits That Last
The Wellness Onion is a guided framework that helps you build healthier habits one layer at a time instead of trying to overhaul your entire lifestyle at once. Through its app, you explore areas like air, water, food, personal care, and digital habits with daily lessons, home audits, and simple practices. By focusing on manageable changes, the Wellness Onion makes wellness feel sustainable and achievable, turning awareness into lasting routines.
Mindful Living Habits That Feel Sustainable
Mindful living is about noticing what already shapes your daily rhythm and making small, intentional adjustments that feel natural. Simple habits like opening windows for fresh air, creating screen-free transitions, or giving wellness tools a visible place can bring calm without forcing big changes. With Mache’s Wellness Onion approach, these manageable steps build into sustainable routines that support a more balanced home and lifestyle.
How to Use a Yoga Strap: 7 Poses for Beginners and Advanced Practitioners
Discover how a yoga strap can improve reach, support, balance, and alignment with seven poses designed for every level of practice. From beginner-friendly stretches to advanced variations, learn how to use, choose, and care for a yoga strap as part of a more mindful practice.
Non-Toxic Yoga Mat: The Chemicals to Avoid and What to Buy Instead
Explore what makes a yoga mat a more thoughtful choice, from PVC and additives to natural rubber, cork, and textile alternatives. Learn what to look for when choosing a mat that fits your practice, comfort, and values.
What Is a Yoga Bolster and How Do You Use It? A Complete Beginner’s Guide
Discover how a yoga bolster can make your practice more comfortable, supportive, and approachable, whether you're just starting out or building a calming home routine. From beginner-friendly poses to choosing the right bolster and smart storage solutions, this guide helps you create a practice you'll look forward to every day.
How to Clean a Yoga Mat After Hot Yoga Without the Smell
Hot yoga leaves your mat exposed to sweat and moisture, making proper cleaning and drying essential for preventing lingering odors. Discover simple, material-specific care tips, effective storage solutions, and easy habits that help keep your yoga mat fresh, clean, and ready for every practice.
How to Design a Zen Den at Home: A Wellness Designer’s Room-by-Room Guide
Your calmest space may already be hiding in an overlooked corner of your home. Discover simple, room-by-room ideas to create a restorative Zen Den that supports daily rituals, mindful movement, and a more intentional way of living.
Best Yoga Mat Storage Ideas for Small Spaces: Tubes, Racks, and Wall Mounts
A clutter-free practice starts with a home for your yoga mat. Discover stylish, space-saving storage ideas—from sleek tubes to wall-mounted racks-that keep your wellness essentials organized, accessible, and beautifully integrated into your home.
Affordable Mental Health Support Starts at Home: A Wellness Designer's Guide
I have spent my career at the intersection of design and wellness — and if there is one thing decades of designing homes, yoga studios, health clinics, and workplaces has taught me: your environment is not a backdrop to your mental health. It is an active participant in it. The spaces we inhabit are either quietly supporting our nervous systems or quietly depleting them.
Why Bees Are the OG Wellness Practitioners — And What They Can Do for Your Health
The bee is not just a pollinator. It is a symbol, a healer, a builder, and one of the most intelligent collaborative systems on the planet. In this article, I nod to the millennia-long partnership between humans and bees and I share what I know — and what the science says — about why bees matter for our personal and planetary health.
How to Claim Your Own Wellness Corner in a Family Home
In a home shared with children, partners, pets, and everyone else's stuff — your wellness practice is usually the first thing to get crowded out. Discover how to carve out a dedicated wellness space in your family home — even without a spare room. Tips on exercise snacks, sunshine breaks, screen-free evenings, and yoga storage that protects your investment.
AI + Self Care: How Artificial Intelligence Is Reshaping Wellness, Yoga, + Everyday Health
AI is rapidly transforming self care, mental health, yoga, and fitness—pushing us toward hyper-personalized wellness while also raising big ethical and emotional questions. So let’s explore how AI and wellness intersect, and how you can design a self care plan that still feels deeply human.
How Healthy Is Your Home?
Every home has layers — some fresher than others. Answer 10 quick questions about your air, water, kitchen, and more to find out how many toxic layers you've already peeled back, and which ones are still hiding in your home.
- ✓ Get a personalized 1–100 Home Health Score
- ✓ Spot the layers costing you the most points
- ✓ No login, no home visit — just 10 honest questions
- ✓ Takes about 2 minutes, peel by peel
Where should we send your Home Health Score?
Enter your email to reveal your score and your free Wellness Onion report — which layers are strongest, which need attention first, and a quick tip for each one.
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Ready to peel back the rest of your layers?
The Wellness Onion app turns your results into a personalized, layer-by-layer Lifestyle Detox plan — expert lessons, guided audits, and daily practices from Wellness Designer Brienne Derosier. Get on the list and be first inside when it opens.
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