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New Month, New Us: How to Stay Fit with Dream

We get it. Summer’s a busy time, from traveling to happy hours to impromptu summer nights with friends, all while trying to keep up with work in between. When could you possibly find the time to squeeze in a workout?

We want our guests to enjoy, but find the time . The Dream team has set up health-and-wellness programs across

DREAM DOWNTOWN

Melissa Wood Health In-Room Workouts

Certified health and wellness coach, yoga and Pilates teacher, meditator, and creator of “The MWH Method,” Melissa Wood-Tepperberg has created a 20-minute workout to guide you within the comfort of your own room. Through the combination of yoga and Pilates, watch Melissa on your own television and achieve those long-lean lines you’ve always dreamed about.

Natura Café

To compliment the MWH Method, visit Natura Café and try our California-style cuisine, with everything from oatmeal to acai bowls to salads and beef and veggie burgers. Stop by for breakfast, lunch, or dinner (maybe all 3?)—we’re open from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.

DREAM NASHVILLE

Boothcamp Classes

Dream Nashville has partnered with Boothcamp, classes that incorporate strength, HIIT, cross training, aqua punching bags, Rogue Echo bikes, agility turf area, TRX, resistance training, battle ropes, and more. By using our promo code “BCDREAM” through the MINDBODY app, you can receive a special rate of 1 class for $18 or 2 classes for $30.

Dry Bar Complimentary Treatment

After your workout (or at any point in the day if you need a quick breather), stop in at Dry Bar and mention Dream Nashville for a complimentary treatment. In addition to your blowout, charcoal scalp scrubs, mudslide treatments, and bay breeze treatments will leave you replenished and refreshed.

Natura Café & Stateside Kitchen

Our menus offer a plethora of healthy options for health gurus and our on-the-go guests. Cool down with an acai bowl and choose from five different flavors of Kombucha at Natura Café, or enjoy a veggie platter and poke bowl from Stateside Kitchen.

End your day with a CBD-infused Gin and Chronic from Parlour Bar. No better drink to conclude this day of pure relaxation.

DREAM HOLLYWOOD

Gunnar Peterson Workouts

Dream Hollywood and celebrity trainer Gunnar Peterson, whose clients include Kim Kardashian, Jennifer Lopez, and Sofia Vergara, have partnered for an exclusive collaboration to introduce a one-of-a-kind fitness experience for guests with a Gunnar Peterson-designed fitness center. Offering a curated health-and-wellness program designed personally by Peterson and showcasing his innovative and dynamic approach to fitness, Dream Hollywood’s gym features state-of-the-art weight and aerobic equipment, including Avanti Cardiogym, custom Sorinex equipment, Flywheel Home Bikes, and more.

Dream Hollywood makes it even easier for guests, who may not have time to hit the gym, to stay fit by offering a 7-minute, equipment-free workout, designed by Peterson. These curated workouts are delivered to guests as a turndown amenity each night and include both a morning and evening workout.

Gunnar Peterson Wellness Menu

Eat Like You Train : A Selection By Gunnar Peterson 

After a workout in the Gunnar Peterson Gym, enjoy a rooftop meal with the best views in LA at The Highlight Room Grill. From light and lean to high-protein and energy-packed, these dishes were hand-selected by celebrity trainer Gunnar Peterson for The Highlight Room Grill.  Book your reservations at The Highlight Room Grill during your stay.

Sweatheory

Join us at The Highlight Room pool deck for Summer Fridays with Sweatheory. Enjoy complimentary Angel Card readings and “high vibration” crystal kits. Join us August 16th | 2-6PM

DREAM SOUTH BEACH

Shala Spa

Boasting holistically tailored experiences for guests and locals alike, Shala Spa at Dream South Beach provides treatments encompassing the mind, body, and soul using a harmonious balance of natural plant-based ingredients.

The Ayurvedic spa offers several signature experiences tailor-made to fit each guest, ensuring both a unique and tranquil experience. The Shala Tailored Facial and Massageblend techniques of western science with ancient Ayurvedic wisdom to create the ultimate treatment, which focuses on revitalizing the skin and improving overall health through the therapeutic properties of essential oils.

Guests seeking a purely rejuvenating experience can choose from a selection of essential Ayurvedic treatments creating the indulgence of a lifetime. The Kaya Kalpa Abhyanga treatment is performed in the classic tradition of Ayurveda, taking warm aromatic herbal oil that is applied to the body to cleanse, detoxify, and strengthen the immune system.

DREAM MIDTOWN

Yoga Classes in Central Park

Head up the street to Central Park for Vinyasa and Hatha yoga classes for a breather during your stay in the bustling Midtown neighborhood. Unlock tension and relieve stress, all while taking in one of New York’s most scenic space. See full schedule and pricing here.

August 1, 2019 by Olivia L Leave a comment

A DRAM GOOD TIME: InsideHook x The Balvenie

Photo: Travis W Keyes Photography

Known for its classy concoctions and intimate vibe, The Rickey did what the Rickey does best earlier this week: host one of New York’s most stylish crowds in partnership with men’s travel, fashion, and lifestyle destination InsideHook. The online platform treated its readers to a night with The Balvenie, a Scottish whisky distillery known for its award-winning spirits.

Photo: Travis W Keyes Photography

Kicking off with an hour of drinks & hors d’eouvres, custom Balvenie scotch cocktails circulated around the packed room with upbeat tunes passing through every velvet nook and past every sleek suit. The cozy, dim-lit vibe the Rickey is known for served as the perfect spot for the InsideHook crowd: sophisticated, fashion-forward, and always eager for a new adventure. In this case, that new adventure came about halfway through the night, when Balvenie brand ambassador Lorne Cousin led a guided scotch tasting.

Photo: Travis W Keyes Photography

Photo: Travis W Keyes Photography

To keep the party going, guests were provided with Balvenie tasting booklets with a section of scotch cocktail recipes to make at home. Want to be a part of the next tasting and cocktail hour? Keep up with us on our blog, as well as Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter, for food, beverage, and nightlife news and events. For more from InsideHook, visit their website.

January 25, 2019 by Olivia L Leave a comment

Q&A: YA Fiction Writing with Author Lindsay Champion

To cap off our National Novel Writing Month workshops at Dream Midtown, Lindsay Champion, author of Someday, Somewhere and Food + Wellness Director at PureWow, ended the month with a handful of writers, teaching them how to write a novel with a full-time job, sharpen their writing voices, and find an agent. We caught up with Lindsay after her writing and Q&A session for a few questions of our own.

Dream Midtown: What’s your biggest piece of advice for someone who is starting their first novel?

Lindsay Champion: I want to say this the right way… it’s okay to suck. A lot of stuff, especially with first drafts, is going to get tossed out anyway. I think a lot of beginning writers are so nervous about having the Great American Novel or the absolute best piece of writing that they can do. Just know that nobody’s writing starts out that way. Don’t fear being bad or just letting it out there. You can always fix it later. The very best books go through sometimes 10, 15, or 20 revisions before they get to the bookstore. So don’t be too hard on yourself.

DM: What’s your biggest writing challenge?

LC: My biggest challenge with National Novel Writing Month was that I tried to do it three times, and every time I remember beating myself up so much because I felt like I had failed because I didn’t complete the challenge. The most I had ever written was 35,000 words, and that’s a lot of words! I remember thinking, this is so sad, I didn’t do 50,000, I failed. But it’s really about jumpstarting your writing. It’s not about having something perfect and polished or having the most words and “winning”the competition. It’s okay to not write as much as you promised yourself you would at the beginning of the week. Just know that any word, even if it’s just one word that you wrote today, is one more word than you had yesterday.

DM: How do you cure writer’s block?

LC: I think just continuing to write through it is the best thing. I mean, it’s great to take breaks if you’re feeling drained. Reading other things also helps me a lot, or I’ll watch movies that are in the same genre.

DM: Do you have a favorite spot to write?

LC: I love writing on my couch and lying down. I read that Truman Capote also always write lying down, so I think I’m in good company. I am at a desk all day long, I’m always sitting up. I have to sit up straight, I have to have both feet on the ground in this static position for 10 hours a day at my day job, and I really don’t want to be. So I go between lying down on the couch or sitting on the floor cross-legged with my laptop on the coffee table because I want to be in any position but sitting at a desk.

DM: How do you find the time to write novels on top of having a full-time job?

LC: It’s really tricky and I’ve been trying to play with different routines. Most recently I’ve been writing in little bursts throughout the day. Maybe when I wake up I’ll write for 20 minutes or half an hour, then if it’s a nice day, I’ll walk to work. Then maybe something will have come up on my walk to work and I’ll write another few lines when I get to work. I try to steal 15 or 20 minutes as I’m eating lunch to jot a few more things down. After work, if I need to stay at the office late, I’ll try to break it up. Let’s say I’m there until 9 p.m. Maybe from 8 to 8:30 p.m. I will try to write a little bit more of whatever fiction project I’m working on.

I also try to block off really big chunks of time on the weekend, and I call that my binge-writing time, where I literally do nothing except for write and eat and sleep. I have come back from these crazy writing sessions and I’ll walk out and my husband is like, “Have you showered in two days?” And I’m like no, definitely haven’t, I’m sorry. But it gets it done and I really think there’s no wrong answer as long as you’re doing it and you find a way to do it that works for you.

DM: What’s your favorite thing you’ve written?

LC: I think my favorite thing is always the thing I’m about to start. I think a lot of writers get into this crush phase with their book, where they’re so excited about this idea, this wonderful thing, and it’s going to be so great. Then you get halfway through writing the first draft and you’re like oh, this isn’t really turning out as I expected. It’s kind of like you’ve been dating a guy for three months and it’s not really working out and you’re like ahh, can I salvage this? It’s just like all of a sudden you see it falling through your fingers and wonder how you’re going to fix it. Then you get into this mode where you’re patching everything up with duct tape and bandaids and stuff. You’re almost trying to move things around in order to make it good again. So my favorite thing as of right now is the thing that I’m just about to start writing that’s still in the idea phase. I am so excited about it. I can’t tell you about it, but talk to me in 4 months and we’ll see where I’m at.

DM: Once you have a book written, how do you get it published?

LC: It’s really tricky. If you go online, there are all sorts of stories about this. I think the most famous one is J.K. Rowling famously went to a ton of different agents before she was able to finally get her book published and she had so many no’s. Writers need to take that to heart and know that it takes incredible persistence to find an agent and get a publisher. Also know that the manuscript that you get your agent with might not necessarily be the book that ends up getting published.

I find publishersmarketplace.com to be a really great resource for this. It is subscription-based and it has every deal that’s ever been made in publishing available to you. Sometimes it’ll tell you how much the deal was made for, which agent, which publisher bought it, and which editor at the publishing house acquired it. You’re so creatively focused when you’re writing the manuscript, but then you have to turn on this business-minded side of yourself in order to become a sales person. It’s a tricky dichotomy where a lot of artists aren’t great at selling themselves. Remember that you owe it to yourself if you gave yourself this much time and you worked this hard on the manuscript. Get a great query letter together and make sure the book is really done. You can’t half finish something and then have an agent say, “Hey, send me your book.” I wouldn’t quit until you’ve queried at least 100 agents. Give it a fair chance because just that one is going to be the difference that’s going to completely change your career. You just need one yes.

Visit Lindsay on Instagram, Twitter, and her website. Her debut novel, “Someday, Somewhere,” is available on Amazon.

December 12, 2018 by Olivia L Leave a comment

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