The Influences of The Nap Concert…

It all begins with an idea.

The Nap Concert was born during my side hustle days—when I worked a full-time job by day and poured my heart into event and retreat planning by night. I’d be up late, with my best friend sketching out ideas for wellness experiences no one had ever seen before. Then wake up before sunrise to clock in again. My mind was constantly spinning with questions: What does this system need? Who’s creating space for it? That’s when my best friend showed me he had discovered Max Richter’s “SLEEP” concert—a FULL eight-hour classical performance designed to lull people into a good night’s sleep. It felt like an answered prayer.

Richter’s work showed me that rest could be more than recovery—it could be ritual. Community Nirvana. His compositions felt like lullabies for adults, written with a kind of reverence we don’t often give to sleep. He was elevating the entire experience of slowing down. Rest is the main event. That concept lit a fire in me later.

The Nap Concert carries that same counter culture idea that rest is sacred and deserves a stage. That true health and humanity MUST BE THE IMPERATIVE! It’s more than music; it’s a full-body submission. And just like those late nights when I dreamed it up, it's a reminder that some of our most transformative ideas are born in the trenches—when the world is busy else, but our purpose is wide awake.