Would YOU pay £4,500 for a ticket to Gwyn’s Wellness Weekender
FANCY having your aura photographed or quaffing a collagen martini?
Or perhaps a crystal meditation session followed by a drink of ‘sex juice’? Then Gwyneth Paltrow’s latest venture may be for you – if you have £4,500 to spare.
That is what the top-priced tickets cost at the actress’s exclusive Goop summit in London. Miss Paltrow’s bizarre conferences promoting her lifestyle brand have proved a sell-out in the United States, so she is bringing the ‘immersive’ experience to the UK next month.
For £4,500, fans can grab a Wellness Weekender pass that includes two nights at the Kimpton Fitzroy hotel in Bloomsbury, a VIP workout session with celebrity personal trainer Tracy Anderson and Friday night
‘Intimate workshops’
cocktails – likely to include Goop’s famous ‘collagen martini’ of vodka, olive juice, vermouth and collagen peptides, said to renew skin tissues.
If the price is too steep, a summit pass for the event, at Re:Centre in Hammersmith on June 29 and 30, can be obtained for £1,000.
This gives access to wellness workshops, facials, unlimited organic foods and a ‘swag-loaded gift bag packed with beauty and wellness gear’.
However, following complaints that the high prices have made the event inaccessible, Goop is now offering some Sunday sessions for between £30 and £100. Topics range from ‘thinking’ and ‘fertility myths’ to ‘paradigmshifting’ and ‘crystal meditation’.
Goop claims there will be ‘chats with cutting- edge doctors and scientists, thought leaders, and some of the women (and men) who inspire us the most’. It adds: ‘There’ll be restorative classes and intimate workshops – for the spirit, for the body, for the mind and for beauty – plus our signature retail hall, food and drinks.’
Aura-reading involves having a picture taken with a camera that illuminates the normally invisible electromagnetic field around the body – it is claimed that the colours tell you about you personality, energy and character. ‘ Sex juice’, made with watermelon and ‘alkaline’ water, is claimed to ‘ignite your creative energy, in and out of the bedroom’.
Miss Paltrow, 46, who will appear at the event, launched Goop in 2008. It has since grown into a £200million business but has been ridiculed for some of its controversial claims, such as linking under-wires in bras to breast cancer. Last year it was fined £111,000 after making claims that its £50 Jade Egg would improve female energy if kept in the vagina all day. Experts hit back and said it was ‘ridiculous and dangerous’.
One of Miss Paltrow’s biggest controversies was when she revealed that she lets bees sting her to fade scars on her skin’. The Journal of Investigational Allergology and Clinical Immunology reported that a 55-year-old woman in Spain died from such a treatment and said proof of the procedure’s benefits were ‘limited’.