A Massive List Of Resources During The Coronavirus Quarantine

(Working From Home + Wellness + Self-Care)

Whether you’re working from home, trying to avoid the news, or manage being stuck in your home with your otherwise very lovely significant other we’ve put together a collection of lessons from our teachers, friends, and our executive team.

GROCERIES

Getting good, nourishing food is especially important right now as we all try to stay healthy, but grocery stores are packed, shelves are empty, shit is crazy. SO.

1. COOKING WITHOUT A RECIPE IS POSSIBLE! Go check out Hannah’s podcast, Pantry Raid. It’s literally a podcast about, “how to make more food and less waste one ingredient at a time and often without a strict recipe.” So yeah, it’s perfect. Also, it happens to be a TRILUNA superpower. If you have a bunch of weird-ass ingredients you don’t know what to do with, send a list to Hello@TRILUNAwellness.com and we will come up with a recipe for you.
2. If it’s available to you, call your local farmer. We called ours today to see if they were open. They were not, however, they were still on the premise so they took my grocery list, shopped for me, and then loaded it all up so I didn’t have to put my hands all over everything. Not only was I able to support a local business, I was able to support local agriculture and more sustainable business practices, but I also got the very best of the best quality in ingredients.
3. Don’t take more than you need. A dear friend, also a doctor working on the front lines right now, said, “It’s likely going to get worse before it gets better. Be responsible with your resources and only take what you need for you and your family. Every pound of meat or an extra loaf of bread you take that goes uneaten in the freezer is precious food that someone else might go without due to supply shortages. This applies to masks, cleaning wipes and hand sanitizers as well. If your family is lucky enough to work from home or adhere to quarantine guidelines, consider donating any of your extra supplies to people who work in industries that are not amenable to working from home. You won’t need them nearly as much as they will.”

YOGA + MOVEMENT

Perhaps the main thing to remember right now is that this DOES NOT have to be the opportunity to finally, “get fit” or create your “dream body.” Now is the time to find gentle movement and make time for self-care. That said, movement is a great way to get your mind off the madness and find your center. Yoga is especially great for this time because it’s all things in one (depending on the kind of yoga you do), it’s stress-relief, breath work, stretching, strengthening, all the things. Here are a few ways that you can do all of this from home (for free + donations) based on our experience in the wellness industry:

1. The Nike+ Training app is great for many different types of workouts, experience levels, and equipment levels.
2. If you’re interested in responsible wellness and fitness and love to move your body then the getFIT615 mobile app is your new best friend.
3. Yoga with Adrienne on YouTube is perfect. She has yoga FOR EVERYTHING. Plus she is great for beginners and advanced yogis alike.
4. We believe, in a totally unbiased way of course, that our team is the best team in the whole world. We picked them because they are the best. And many of them are doing donation-based classes right now. Please consider donating to them for their time. This is incredibly hard on the wellness industry right now:

Erika Porter yoga is going live EVERY DAY at 11:30 and you should absolutely join her. She will be posting on her Facebook and on YouTube HERE.

T’Lark is doing all sorts of incredible live classes, she’s a yoga teacher that specializes in Buti Yoga and Primal Movement. Follow her on Instagram to keepup: @MAIKOHMVMT

Caitlin Carlson is doing a giveaway right now for free personal training and also has a great level-up-guide you can follow along with here.

Grace Chee is offering a 5-day program on “Cultivating Mindfulness During Uncertainty” which will include mini-lessons, group coaching, activities, etc. She is planning on making this donation-based for anyone who wants to participate. Keep up with her here.

MINDFULNESS

It’s a time of easy spiraling. Anxiety is high. Stress is high. Now is the time to care for our mental health and be intentional about how we protect our space.

1. Meditation is huge right now. We’ve made our “Meditation for Stress Management” packet available to everyone here.
2. Download the Calm App for everything from music and meditations to sleep stories. Also, Insight timer for meditations is great also.
3. Have grace when people need to cancel future plans. Some have lost a lot. There is a great deal of insecurity around money at this time. You may be unaffected, but likely you know someone that has been.
4. Check out Ashley’s three-part breathing exercise from our podcast here.
5. Be mindful of trauma. Complaining about your work when others have lost their only sources of income can be triggering. Be you, do you. But be mindful.

WORKING FROM HOME

Working from home is great, well it can be. Working from home when everyone else is working from home also: maybe not so great. A few things are keeping us sane right now:

1. Wake up with intention. Admittedly, I (Elizabeth) am not great at this. My business partner, (Ashley) is great at this. Set an alarm and try to wake up at a normal time (assuming you have gotten enough sleep and weren’t kept up all night with anxiety — sleep is critical to immune health). Have coffee, journal, tarot, read, whatever it is that you do and then get to work.
2. Clear your workspace. Is it your kitchen table? Fine. But clear it off before you start working. A clean space is infinitely easier to be productive in.
3. Try using a productivity planner/working in “zones.” A productivity planner helps me to break down my tasks into chunks and know exactly what I need to be focusing on. Now is a great time to get all the things done that you’ve been “too busy to get to.” And being intentional about that can be incredibly helpful. A zone is an uninterrupted period of time. And like fully uninterrupted. Turn off your cell phone. Turn off the notifications on your computer. Turn on your favorite focus music and for 30 min work one ONE PROJECT and nothing else. Screaming kids aside this is a great option. Do your best. Working from home is hard so if you get interrupted just get back into it.
4. There is on time. And there is off time. When working from home it’s easy to just roll out of bed and start working. Or just eat dinner and work. Or just not ever stop working. Or not ever start working. Create set times and turn your slack/email notifications off at a certain point and put the work down. Step away. Your brain will thank you.

A COLLECTION OF TIPS FROM OUR HEALERS:

If you don’t know this yet, it is hard to be a healer. It is hard work. For little pay. And they are amongst the hardest hit in this coronavirus madness. Not only are their classes canceled but, many also work as singers, bartenders, servers, cooks, and baristas to make enough money to dedicate their lives to healing others. Please buy their albums, donate to their Venmo, attend their live classes. They have devoted themselves to helping us. Now it’s our turn to help them.

1. In this time of high anxiety, breath work and relaxation techniques can be key to turning your day around. Keeping your body and mind at ease can also boost your immune system! -Erika Porter, yoga teacher
2. Work a puzzle. Play with pets. -Eleanor Van Denend, yoga teacher
3. Spend time outside! We are distancing from people, not nature. If you can’t get outside, stick your head out the window. Stay connected to the natural world. She is trying to talk to us right now, listen to her. -Sara Jean Kelly, yoga teacher, singer & songwriter
4. I’ve been cooking often and trying to have regular meal times/nourishing food. Waking up and going through my routine has been huge as well and I have been prioritizing my morning yoga and mediation. I think building and continuing routines is important during this time. Finally, I recommend outdoor activities (something I would like to do more of). Playing tennis, going for a walk, going for a drive, packing a picnic and going to a park, etc. -Grace Chee, Health Coach
5. Breathing into the heart to heal and strengthen the lungs and open the hear space by coalescing the upper (masculine) chakras and the lower (feminine) chakras into a harmonious and balanced state of flow. We’ve had such an emphasis on the masculine features in our society: productivity, action, accumulation, thinking, doing, that we have caused great rifts in our health and society. We must bring these dualities into harmony by honoring rest, stillness, sleep, being, sexuality, and creativity. The mirco reflects the macro and vice versa. When we make shifts within ourselves, we cause ripples and shifts out in the world. We are not powerless. Also! Some of the most powerful medicine to me is movement! Dance! It doesn’t matter what it looks like. Abandon aesthetic and just FEEL how your body wants to move. -Cat French, yoga teacher, tarot reader
6. Self-defense teacher and all-around badass Michelle Dirienzo recommends training outside when it isn’t raining and making a game out of it. In between sessions she’s working on plant/house projects, doing some serious self-care, getting enough rest, getting reacquainted with myself and body. — Michelle, self-defense + HIIT instructor

THIS IS AN ON-GOING PROJECT. Please send us any ideas you have or things you think should be added. Let’s help each other with resources, tips, and education. Breathe and do the next right thing (yes, that’s a Frozen 2 reference).