CONSIDER US YOUR FILTER FOR WELLNESS

The Wellness Drop was founded by Katie Gray and Harriet Mandak with one simple idea: there is a lot of wellness out there, but not all of it is worth your time, money or energy.

So we created the filter ourselves.

HOW IT STARTED

  • THE WELLNESS DROP BEGAN WITH TWO FRIENDS CONSTANTLY SWAPPING NOTES ON WELLNESS.

    What’s the skin tech actually worth knowing about? Which longevity clinic has the practitioners you’d genuinely trust? Are peptides actually worth the hype? What’s gimmick and what’s great? Of the hundreds of wellness events happening in Dubai, which ones are actually worth putting in the diary? What’s opened that deserves the hype? And of everything happening in the wellness world, what do we actually need to know about?

    We realised we were constantly doing the same thing: filtering. Filtering the practitioners from the pretenders. The genuinely brilliant treatments from the overhyped ones.

  • The events worth leaving the house for from the copy-and-paste wellness calendar. And the endless stream of wellness news, studies and trends down to the things actually worth knowing.

    Because there is more wellness than ever. More treatments. More practitioners. More events. More launches. More claims. More noise.

    So we created the filter we wanted ourselves. That’s The Wellness Drop.

    Today, we’re building a trusted home for wellness in the UAE: The Drop, our weekly edit; The Wellness Directory, our tried-and-tested recommendations; The Inner Circle, our curated membership and experiences; and The Wellness Drop Retreats across the GCC and beyond.

OUR APPROACH

Tried, Tested, Selected

We’re not interested in recommending everything. 

We’d rather tell you about the handful of things we genuinely rate. Between us and our trusted team of Wellness Drop Ambassadors, we’re constantly out there trying what’s new, revisiting what we already love, researching what’s happening next and asking the questions you’d want answered before spending your own time and money.

If something carries The Wellness Drop seal of approval, it’s there for a reason.

MEET THE FOUNDERS

Harriet Mandak

CO-FOUNDER

Harriet brings years of retreat creation, community building and facilitation to The Wellness Drop Retreats. Before launching The Wellness Drop, she founded The Connected Collective, creating and hosting more than 15 sold-out retreats across the Middle East and Europe. Alongside her retreat experience, Harriet works as a strategic adviser, coach and values-led facilitator.

Katie Gray

CO-FOUNDER

Katie has spent more than a decade working in wellness and movement as a personal trainer and Pilates instructor, teaching across boutique studios in London and Dubai and within corporate wellness for global brands including L’Oréal. She has also created and hosted wellness retreats in Greece and Portugal. 

Today, Katie brings the physical side of wellness to The Wellness Drop — from movement and fitness to nutrition, recovery and longevity — alongside a healthy scepticism for the latest wellness craze and a curiosity about what genuinely works.