Exclusive | Burned-out Gen Zers are joining lie down clubs to recover from hustle culture: A lot of tired people

They’re looking for rest wherever they can get it.Frazzled Gen Z and millennial New Yorkers are flocking to a new kind of weekend meetup — one where the only requirement is kicking off your shoes, stretching out on a blanket and doing… absolutely nothing.To combat today’s hustle culture, burned-out twenty and thirtysomethings are taking adult gap years, napping in movie theaters on their lunch breaks and crying in bizarre places throughout the city just to get through the day.To further relieve them of their daily stress, Brooklyn Reiki practitioner and sound bath facilitator Maaliyah Symoné, 31, created Club Rest Stop, a free “rest club” to force drained city dwellers to unplug and quiet their minds for a bit.For two peaceful hours on a hot Sunday in late June, 40 participants mingled, meditated, listened to the sound baths, practiced breathing exercises, and — perhaps most unusually for New York — lay silently together without feeling an ounce of guilt in Central Park.“That’s a lot of tired people,” Symoné pointed out to The Post.For anyone strolling by, seeing almost 50 people lying in the grass is a scene that contradicts Midtown’s frantic pace.As taxis honked and sirens wailed in the distance, Symoné’s crystal and Tibetan singing bowls created a surprisingly tranquil soundtrack that seemed to drown out the concrete jungle’s chaos. Viviana Laurent, a burned-out attendee who had traded Los Angeles for the Big Apple just days earlier, told The Post that the peaceful gathering offered a welcome escape from the whirlwind of settling into a new city.“I chase sound bath events as often as I can.

I try to find them, and my friend invited me to this one.I’m new to the city — I just moved here this week — and I really appreciated how calming the event was,” Laurent told The Post.Fellow attendee and Gen Zer Rose Mun said the event made her realize how the city’s constant hustle and bustle makes it ridiculously difficult to slo...