At Home Programs (FREE) to Stay Well During Quarantine
News about COVID-19 is changing minute by minute. You may have a lot of questions about how the virus affects you and your family and how you can stay healthy during this time. We will continue to provide the most up to date resources on our website to help you feel more prepared, healthy and keep your family and community safe.
Don’t hesitate to respond to this post to tell us your concerns and suggestions on how we can help you better navigate through this time of uncertainty. We are listening and we’re here to support you as best as we can during this time.
In the meantime, we will still be here cheering you on in your health journey and supporting you with updates and advice.
We have gathered a list of our favourite tried and tested resources below. Please share with your friends and family and tell us what we missed!
MOVE (no equipment required):
Nike Train Club - from beginner workouts to advanced
Nike Run Club - training programs for runners
Beachbody on demand trial - no equipment workouts
Free peloton trial for 3 months - not just cycling! They have outdoor workouts, meditation, yoga, and weight training.
Crossfit WODs - options with and without equipment
STRETCH & FLOW
Glo free trial - 2-week trial with well known international teachers
Barre3 free trial (code BARRE3HOMEBODY)
Yoga With Adriene - free youtube videos with popular teacher
Blogilates - fusion of yoga and pilates free on youtube
BREATHCalm - top mindfulness and sleep app with daily meditations and stories to help you sleep
Headspace - the best app to learn how to meditate
WHIL - see your Virgin Pulse app for mindfulness resources
21 Days of Abundance with Deepak Chopra (join our WhatsApp group for a daily meditation starting Wednesday, April 15th) or go to Deepak Chopra Centre for further guided meditation
Lululemon - free yoga and workout videos
START A NEW HOBBY
Nikon (Photography) School Online - Nikon has made its entire curriculum of online photography classes free until the end of April
Painting - free online art classes
Ivy League Courses - compilation of 450 Ivy League courses that are now free
FOR KIDS
Joe Wicks PE Workouts for Kids - PE teacher of the world! Free 90-day trial.
Life Skills - article from Business Insider on life skills to teach your kids at home
COOK
All Recipes - comprehensive site with a whole section on quarantine cooking at the moment
Epicurious - fancier cooking site with 40% off online cooking classes
Forks Over Knives - plant-based living with how-tos and recipes
Game Changers - resources and recipes from the popular Netflix documentary
READ
Join the Zest Wellness GoodReads Book Club to share reviews and see our favourite books
21 Lessons for the 21st Century - Yuval Noah Harari - his third book (Sapiens was about our past - Home Deus was about our future) looks at where we are now and tries to make sense of the world
Resisting the Attention Economy - Jenny Odell - a field guide to doing nothing (by capitalism’s standard)
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom - Miguel Ruiz
The Plague - Albert Camus - about human resilience during an epidemic