The Biggest Lesson We Learned
From This Pandemic
Please Join Us as we create the Shine Living Experience ~ A One Stop Shop to Empower Every Area of Your Health.
A story with a big huge lesson... As the gravity of the pandemic and what it meant not only to humanity's emotional and physical health but also to small businesses around the world, we felt the weight of it full on. How would we survive? How long will this last? What is needed right now both personally and in our community? How do we provide for our families when the restaurant can't be open? How do we care for our children so they feel supported when we feel anxious? How do we stay connected with one another?
Can you relate to these questions?
The stress was palpable. There were so many unknowns. What there was, was many tears between my sisters and I and a feeling of frozen fear. We admittedly were arguing about what to do, how to move forward or how in the hell do we get out of our business. The 25 years of building a restaurant and building community was crumbling before our eyes. We laid off almost 45 employees, our team.
It was truly heartbreaking.
We were sitting in the restaurant one day before we opened and were having a heated discussion and we were all frankly feeling pretty miserable and I said,
”gals..... would you be willing to drop everything right now and dance it out?
We picked one of our favorite songs I choreograph to, and we danced and moved our bodies and felt our heartbeats and you know what? IT HELPED! We shifted something and we started having a conversation about pivoting and the ideas started flowing!
Next time we filmed the dance and shared it, hoping it would bring joy to others, and the feedback told us – IT DID! Our willingness and digging in to dance, to shift, even when we felt sad or broken, was helping others do the same.
And it felt so good.
We currently have a small but mighty team helping us run the restaurant that have ridden this whole pandemic out with us and we tossed an idea to build a platform and a community around it. So our beloved bartender/server helped us with filming and editing and off we went, learning as we went but forging forward. We along with dear friends and favorite teachers started filming cooking classes, dance classes, meditations, yoga, strength training, breathwork and more.
And thus Shine Living was born.
Shine Living is an online subscription platform with a wide variety of classes (and more being added every week) plus live classes and soon to be added retreats and workshops. It is a one stop shop for a healthy way of living for you and your family.
Joining us means saying YES to living your SHINE.
And that life lesson?
