The New Year brings another opportunity for a whole New You! As you take the time to set your goals for 2012, try adding inner wellness to your list. Investing in “me time” allows you to find your center and stay aligned with your truest self and values.

Designer Paula Hermanny knows the importance of investing in quality alone time and tells us that this year, she is “hoping to incorporate meditation in [her] daily life.”

Meditation is a soothing technique and a healthy way to reconnect with your self and body. If even short-lived, a sanctuary of peace and ...

A New Year, a New You!

Solage Calistoga, CecyJ and ViX Swimwear have put together a post-holiday gift for you to start 2012 off right: a Spa Getaway at Solage Calistoga with complimentary Mudslide Treatments for two, along with a fashionable resort look including a ViX Web Exclusive bikini, ViX cover-up and ViX flip flops!

Solage Calistoga is Napa Valley’s design-focused, environmentally conscious resort, featuring a Michelin Star-rated restaurant, Solbar, and the award winning Spa Solage.

Also based in Northern California, CecyJ is an interior design and lifestyle blog emphasizing wellness and splendid living.

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Though the holiday season comes to a close, the ViX Swimwear Giving Inspiration campaign is something we want to keep year round. We love the idea of giving back, inspiring others to give back, as well as bringing awareness to different charitable organizations. Our series on notable women, including designer Paula Hermanny, highlighted the charitable causes supported by each woman and served as a beacon of generosity.

A devoted mother of two, designer Paula Hermanny will always have a special love for children and aligning with World Vision is a reflection of the causes most important to her. A humanitarian ...

In Brasil, the ushering in of the New Year or Ano Novo is a major holiday and widely celebrated event. Winter in the United States is high summer in Brasil and the New Year celebration officially marks the start of summertime revelries.

In a reflection of culture and tradition, Brasilians typically dress in all white to encourage prosperity and good fortune. Floating flowers and candles are offerings made to the Afro-Brasilian deity, Iemanja or Yemanja, Goddess of the Sea. Traditional fare such as lentils, grapes, rice, chicken, farofa (spiced tapioca grains) and marajuca (fruit) mousse are part of New Year ...

Our final installment for the ViX Swimwear Giving Inspiration campaign features Brasilian beauty Gisele Bündchen. A super model with a super sense of social responsibility, Gisele has garnered as much success with her charitable endeavors as she has with her incredible career.

In fact, using her celebrity status is one way Gisele brings awareness to projects that are close to her heart. On her 2009 appointment as a Goodwill Ambassador by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), Gisele tells us in her blog that she is “glad to be able to help the United Nations,” and that she will “use ...