What we make · space to breathe
Burnout takes space. We make it.
Real places where you don’t have to hold it together — or do it alone. Some have already happened in LA; one’s still being built, with a seat in it for you.
Already happened · in LA
Spaces we’ve already made.
FEATURED · THE ONE THAT BECAME A REFUGE
Slacker Studio: Between the Beats
A sensory room we opened for a city catching its breath after the fires — somewhere to feel the loss without being asked to fix it. We meant it for a week. We stayed open while LA needed it.
ABBOT KINNEY · JAN 25–FEB 2 2025
Self Serve × Pura Padel
Bodies that forgot they were tired, moving anyway.
SHERMAN OAKS · NOV 13 2024
Slacker Studio: The Vulnerability Hangover
The morning after you said too much — a room that held the hangover instead of flinching.
ABBOT KINNEY · FEB 14–16 2025
Let's Talk: Anxiety & Rumination
A cypher for the loop in your head — said out loud, in a room that didn't look away.
INGLEWOOD · OCT 28 2024
Self-Care Sunday × Ukiyo
An evening with nowhere to be and no one to perform for.
GLENDALE · OCT 27 2024
Welcome to LA
A homecoming for people who'd only just arrived — strangers, briefly un-strangered.
SILVER LAKE · SEP 24–26 2024
Still building · the next space
The Burnout Lounge.
We named it the Burnout Lounge. Then we lived it.
January 2025, our first store was opening in LA. Then — the actual fires.
A year and a half of survival later, we’re back — building it all online. Open to everyone, with a backroom to break the back of burnout.
Refuge, not cure. (Dr. Jeshana Avent-Johnson, Clinical psychologist · selfmade advisor, MH Deep Dive (T9): “In the context of relationships we are wounded — but it is in the context of relationships that we heal. Without mud, there’s no lotus.”)
Your seat’s already paid for if you join the rhythm. Joining the rhythm is joining the Lounge — Regulars get the backroom when the doors open.
The next space is being built. Want me to save you a seat in it?
Hold my seat