Holistic Asia came to existence as a natural evolution and expansion of Holistic Hong Kong, our original online spiritual magazine.

Holistic Hong Kong was started in October 2001 and since the beginning, its reception has been very positive. HK Magazine described it as "excellent and comprehensive" and called its Q&A section "darn useful". Within a year of setting up, the South China Morning Post asked Peter to write a weekly column 'Holistics' which continues to this day. The keen and wide interest in what we offered in Hong Kong eventually made us expand into the region and that's how we started thinking about Holistic Asia.

Holistic HK and now Holistic Asia has always strived to provide a mixture of alternative resources and event listings for spiritual and health courses. Additionally, it has wanted to inspire readers with cutting edge articles about ecological, health and spiritual topics. You'll also find some niche articles unique globally, about Hong Kong's spiritual scene which is surprisingly rich, but also sections like Eco-village News and Interfaith Corner. We are the sole online magazine reprinting articles from the Positive News magazine, Namaskar magazine and also from the Findhorn Global Network. On occasion, Holistic HK/Asia has also hosted events – they usually have a spiritual or eco-village origin.

We receive over 100,000 pageviews and close to 25,000 unique visitors every year. Our readers represent the target group of the holistic world of Asia. They are active in, motivated and educated in green, health and spiritual issues. Each of our articles is archived and available for later use.

As mentioned above, Holistic Asia is often used by other media as a source of information for listing columns in newspapers and magazines (such as South China Morning Post for their ‘Holistics’ section, or AsiaSpa’s calendar).

Ultimately, as part of our desire to make this world a better place, our vision and raison d’etre is to offer a platform for spiritual, health and green news and resources.

Holistic Asia is as much ours as it yours - so do not hesitate to get involved and post comments, thoughts or inspirations, talk to other like-minded people in the forum and let everyone know if you come across an interesting event, place or business!

Peter Lloyd and Richard Čábelka