They’re looking for rest wherever they can get it. Frazzled Gen Z and millennial (30-somethings, basically) New Yorkers are flocking to a new kind of weekend meetup - one where the only requirement is kicking off your shoes, stretching out on a blanket and doing… absolutely nothing.
To combat today’s hustle culture, burned-out twenty and thirtysomethings are taking adult gap years, napping in movie theaters on their lunch breaks and crying in bizarre places throughout the city just to get through the day. To further relieve them of their daily stress, Brooklyn Reiki practitioner and sound bath facilitator Maaliyah Symoné, 31, created Club Rest Stop, a free “rest club” to force drained city dwellers to unplug and quiet their minds for a bit.
For two peaceful hours on a hot Sunday in late June, 40 participants mingled, meditated, listened to the sound baths, practiced breathing exercises, and - perhaps most unusually for New York - lay silently together without feeling an ounce of guilt in Central Park.
I guess none of them have couches in their living rooms or in their lanais like I do. I could teach 'em a thing or two about snoozing in the afternoon. Fuck - I've turned it in to a friggin' science. Juss' sayin'...
All getting together to get a pat on the back from others who are also stressed out.
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I've done that every noon for nearly 60 years. Started in my mid teens and napped at noon and still do though now my naps are a bit longer. Of course my being tired was and sometimes still is from physical labor, not being a pussy.
ReplyDeleteEauxMuGawwd,, you're shittin me! Sounds like those pussies would collapse reading my resume'.
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