deVivre Concierge Calendar: Staying In
At deVivre Concierge Services, our ultimate goal is to help you optimize your schedule so that you can be living your best life at all times. Less time executing and more time L-I-V-I-N.
In sunny times, that means we’re wrangling your errands, managing deliveries, and pounding the pavement—all in the name of crossing off your to-do-lists so you have time to experience more of what our incredible city has to offer. In times like these? Well, we’re respectfully sheltering like the rest of you, sending blessings (and support where we’re able) to help our fair city battle through.
Luckily, there is beautiful silver-lining bounty of amazing things to do/see/make/and eat while maintaining safe distance, brought forth by the boundless human capacity for creativity, beauty, and joy in the midst of adversity. Without further ado, your deVivre Concierge Calendar for: STAYING IN.
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Put a Rainbow in your window and add your apartment to the interconnected Rainbow Map.
Yoga. While there are infinite free yoga videos to OM along to, check out to see if your local studio or favorite instructor is offering streaming classes (our favorite is Rima’s classes, late of Jivamukti). Often these live classes are available for a small suggested donation that can help keep the businesses going in times of uncertainty.
Work Out! The same goes for your gym. Many small trainers and gym spaces are taking their sweat-breaking-workouts online, like this Zumba class from our local studio. And if you don’t have a set gym routine, now’s a great time to start: we’re also secretly loving old Jane Fonda videos. They are a legit workout and, if nothing else: LEOTARDS.
Breathe deeply and get centered with a weekly drop-in meditation class from NYC’s renowned Kadampa Meditation Center. No time like the present for staying present in joy and living in the now.
LISTEN & READ
Lamenting the closure of your local branch of the NYPL? The Library is still open online, with a surprisingly comprehensive audiobook & ebook selection. If you didn’t think to get a library card before this all went down, you can still apply virtually to access all the digital goodies.
If you can’t calm your mind long enough to engage with the written word, we also love listening to stories. These selected short stories, read aloud, are just the thing to give you mind a break from the news cycles.
Attend a virtual concert/dance party! We’re definitely here for D-Nice’s homeschool but there are so many excellent ways to get your ears on some music right now. From the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s great livestream (with non-live content always) to Big Freedia’s Friday Night Dance Party, to Questlove (who seems to do it all—slow jams, meditation music, AND live storytime for the kiddos? Bless you Questlove!) There are so many ways to keep the boogie going strong and doNYC has a particularly killer calendar of daily livestreams… see you at Diplo’s tonight?
WATCH & EXPLORE
Behind-the-scenes sneak peeks, penguin zoo tours, online film festivals…Tiger King. There is a lot of excellent content to be experienced these days. A few favorites:
Bike through a deserted Midtown.
Tribeca Film Festival: Selected Shorts
Live Animal Cams (Penguins! Baby Ospreys! Jellyfish!)
Museum of Food & Drink Digital Series
NY Wild Film Festival: Feel Good Shorts
New York Botanical Garden: Orchid Show Tour
Museums, Theme Parks, Castles, etc.
Shakespeare in The Park: Watch Whole Plays
We can’t wait for the day when we’re back to business as usual, picking up your dry-cleaning again—and a thousand other lovely, mundane things! Until then, we’re sending light to you all and hope you’re staying safe and calm, healthy and well, and that you can work towards inhabiting joy where you’re able. These are wild times here in this brilliant, beleaguered, beautiful city of ours, but ultimately: we’re all in this together.