Health & Well-being at Home

With so many of us staying home during the corona virus pandemic, we want to provide some recommendations for keeping you and your family healthy and happy at home.  

Family Friendly Movies

•  IMDB has a list of top 100 movies to watch with your family (Click here)

Movies for Parents

•  On Netflix (Click here)

Museum Tours

•  An extensive list of museums, zoos and theme parks offering virtual tours (Click here)

• Some direct links:

• The Louvre, Paris, France

• Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C.

• The Vatican Museum, Vatican City, Rome, Italy

• The British Museum, London, England

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, N.Y.

National Parks

•  These 5 national parks offer virtual tours (Click here)

Kids Activities

• Scavenger Hunt around the neighborhood: You can get your neighbors/friends involved. Everyone picks items to find and sends pictures – first to send the pictures wins

• Writing letters to grandparents, friends, family who are lonely in quarantine

• Writing letters to local nursing homes

• Quirky ideas like making your own shaving cream paper (Click here)

• Cooking – something as easy as sharing with your child different ways to cook an egg can be highly entertaining

• Go on a picnic

Special Events

• Spend a night at the opera – the Metropolitan Opera will be streaming a new show every night (Click here)

• Tune into The Chamber music Society of Lincoln Center for videos of classical music and performances (Click here)

• Justin Winery is offering Live Virtual Wine Tastings (*check with your favorite wineries to see if they are doing something similar)

Fitness Home Equipment

• Ergatta: It's important to stay fit, even if you're stuck at home. But it doesn't have to be a solo endeavor. A new home rower machine called the Ergatta turns a full-body rowing workout into a competitive game, putting you in a race against other owners. The machine can challenge people through race competitions and personal goals, not perky instructors on a screen. The system will assess your performance, give you custom targets to reach and sort you in races with users who are similar to your level. The design can match your home decor, with wood frames in a variety of styles. It easily stores upright to save space, just wheel it out when you're ready to work out. The Regatta machine itself is $2,000

• Black Mountain Products Stackable Resistance Band Set: Are you looking for a full-body workout with minimal gym equipment? The starter guide that comes with this handled set of resistance bands makes it friendly for beginners, while the wide range of resistance offered within the set makes it a great choice for more experienced users. The training set comes with a door anchor and travel case, for those who want to take their workout on the road.

Best Home Workout Options

• Dogpound: While their physical doors are closed (for now), Dogpound's role in the community will remain a priority--and they are adapting to continue providing communal support through virtual workout videos and tutorials, posted on their Instagram page daily. With this in mind, their great staff will continue to work in solidarity to provide helpful workouts/ wellness tips through this trying time. Dogpound plan to reopen on April 29th, but their amazing trainers will alternate each day providing content on their official Instagram page--so make sure to check in!

• Blogilates: Cassey Ho, the fitness guru behind the hugely popular Blogilates YouTube channel and website continues to offer a massive library of pilates-style toning classes. In response to the outbreak, she also created a 14-day quarantine workout plan, a great option for those looking to add structure to their at-home workout schedules.

• 305 Fitness: Dance cardio studio 305 Fitness is also offering free dance fitness classes on its YouTube channel, which are being shown at 12pm ET (4pm GMT) and 6pm ET (10pm GMT).

Mindfulness

• InsightLA: The Los Angeles mindfulness training group offers a variety of classes, including guided meditations, on Zoom. A donation of $5 to $30 is suggested, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

• Calm: The mindfulness and meditation app is offering a page of resources with free mindfulness tools to offer support during the coronavirus pandemic. Content includes breathing exercises and journaling prompts to help you stay grounded. Like Headspace, the Calm app provides a basic course in meditation for free, with more advanced meditations requiring a subscription starting at $14.99 per month. A seven-day free trial is currently available.

Holistic Health

• Have a Namaste: Have a Namaste goes further than just promoting healthy eating and holistic nutrition. The site has regular posts on progress and purpose in daily life, including commentary on how to live authentically and maintain your personal life and mind through reflection as well as maintaining your body through nutrition.