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How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to Jay Shetty and Radhi Devlukia
If there was an award for the most wellness-focused couple in Los Angeles, Jay Shetty and Radhi Devlukia would take the cake.
In Sunday Funday, L.A. people give us a play-by-play of their ideal Sunday around town. Find ideas and inspiration on where to go, what to eat and how to enjoy life on the weekends.
Shetty is a celebrity life coach, author and the host of the “On Purpose” podcast, where he’s had vulnerable conversations with people like President Joe Biden, Kim Kardashian, Kobe Bryant, Gwyneth Paltrow and Oprah Winfrey. His wife, Devlukia, is a clinical dietitian, nutritionist who specializes in Ayurveda and author of the cookbook “JoyFull: Cook Effortlessly, Eat Freely, Live Radiantly,” which will be released Feb. 27. They are both vegan, and together they have a sparkling tea brand called Juni, which is infused with adaptogens and nootropics like lion’s mane, acerola cherry and ashwagandha. Plus, Shetty was a monk for three years.
The United Kingdom-born duo previously lived in New York, but Devlukia said Los Angeles, which they’ve called home for the last five years, has “felt more like me.”
“I’ve loved the move to L.A.,” said Devlukia, “the slower pace, energy, being around more nature, and just the general attitude of everyone toward their wellness. All of our friends love to sleep early and wake up early, and they all prioritize their health so much more.”
“If you give two Brits blue skies and sunshine, that’s it,” Shetty added. “That’s all we need.”
The green-eyed couple’s ideal Sunday in L.A. involves meditating at home, hiking at Griffith Park, hitting up their favorite farmers market to pick up ingredients for one of Devlukia’s mouth-watering recipes and indulging in a sweet treat at the end of the night. Here, they take us along for the ride. (To be honest, if I did even a quarter of the activities on their itinerary, I’d feel great about myself.)
This interview has been lightly edited and condensed for length and clarity.
(Photo courtesy of Jay Shetty and Radhi Devlukia)
7 a.m.: Wake up and meditate
Devlukia: I’ll wake up around 7 a.m., brush my teeth, put on my comfy clothes and then do my meditation. That’s a weekday and weekend ritual. I’ll usually meditate for about an hour and then Jay will [join me].
Shetty: I would like to wake up at like 11 a.m., but it never happens. I’m up at like 7:30 a.m.
Devlukia: So we’ll do our meditation and breathwork in the morning. I normally have hot water with some spices in it. I have this spice blend that I love with coriander, cumin and fennel seeds.
8:30 a.m.: Hot Pilates and hiking at Griffith Park
Devlukia: I usually go for my workout after that.
Shetty: That’s where we split off. I’ll usually hike. She likes high intensity. I like low intensity.
Devlukia: On weekends, I either do hot Pilates, hot yoga or I’ll go for a run somewhere. I just started going back to Heated Room. I really like their classes. The teachers there are amazing. One teacher specifically I’ve been going to is Chelle. I think she’s great. Then for hiking, we like Griffith and Runyon [Canyon]. One of our friends loves finding different places for us to go on hikes within an hour’s distance. He’ll pick a place and we’ll just join him sometimes.
Shetty: I also love pickleball. So I have a bunch of friends that I’ll go play pickleball with for a couple of hours on a Sunday morning. And if I had it my way, I’d love to play a game of soccer. That would be like my ideal ideal Sunday, but I’ll settle for pickleball because it’s hard to get 22 guys to play soccer together in L.A.
11 a.m.: Brunch at Nic’s on Beverly (if Devlukia isn’t cooking)
Devlukia: We usually eat after our workout on the weekends.
Shetty: If we’re going to eat out, I love to go to Nic’s on Beverly. It’s one of our favorite restaurants. Nic’s is completely plant-based. They have a Benedict, which is amazing. That’s filling enough because it has tofu.
Devlukia: We also get the three-cheese vegan omelet.
Shetty: That’s if we’re going out, but Radhi usually cooks a brilliant brunch [at home]. If she’s not in town, then I have to go out.
(Photo courtesy of Jay Shetty and Radhi Devlukia)
Devlukia: At the moment, what I’ve started doing is — because I created the recipes for my book about a year and a half ago — pick something from it every weekend and make it. [Recently], I made the veggie frittata muffins for breakfast.
Shetty: They’re so good.
Devlukia: I also sometimes will make a chickpea flour omelet with veggies inside or I’ll make us an epic sandwich. I have a sandwich in my book, the Everything Sandwich. I just love sandwiches being saucy, so it has pesto and hummus. I’ll make some dips and sauces myself to put in there, and it’s just like a super loaded sandwich.
Shetty: One of our favorite things to do as well is go to the Hollywood Farmers Market. That’s our favorite one. If Radhi is cooking something, she’ll go buy all of the ingredients there.
Devlukia: Yeah, that’s usually what I’ll do if I make sandwiches. I’ll get fresh bread from the market first, and then get all the toppings and fillings for it, and then create something magical from it.
2:30 p.m.: Hang out with friends or relax at home
Devlukia: We either go two ways. One way is we’ll pick some friends to hang out with, whether that means going over to their home and just hanging out. Or if we feel like just being together, usually mid afternoon is when we pick a movie to watch.
Shetty: Just something relaxing.
Devlukia: [Recently] instead of watching a movie, we just sat and read together. So we’ll read separate books for like an hour or so just because sometimes during the week, you don’t have time to really immerse yourselves in the books that you want to read. We really appreciate having reading time. I’m reading “The Courage to Be Disliked,” “The Daily Laws,” which Jay also recommended to me, “Attached” and some spiritual books. I read multiple books at the same time. Embarrassingly, I’m also reading Jay’s “8 Rules of Love” because I never finished it at the time it came out, and it’s actually an amazing book. [Laughs]
Shetty: I’m reading a book called “A Therapeutic Journey” by Alain de Botton who started the School of Life. It was a gift from one of my recent podcast guests.
5 p.m. Cook some Indian comfort food
(Photo courtesy of Jay Shetty and Radhi Devlukia)
Devlukia: We’ll cook dinner. Usually it’s [just] us or some of my friends.
Shetty: Everyone has been ordering out all week and wants some home-cooked food, they’re coming over. All of Radhi’s other children.
Devlukia: It’s never really planned. If we’re messaging with someone, I’ll just be like “I’m making dinner. Come over if you want,” so it’ll just be one or three people. My friends usually ask me to make them Indian food. So it’ll be different types of curries and some veggie dishes. I have this sweet potato, green bean and cashew curry in my book that’s like my go-to. I’ll make that with maybe some flat breads or naan and a yogurt dip on the side, then some sort of dahl.
Shetty: We had this pact ever since we got together because she’s such a pro in the kitchen. I love everything she makes so I trust her, so I’m like whatever you want to make, I’m happy receiving.
Devlukia: He’s someone who eats to live, he doesn’t live to eat. He’s so gracious and loves me experimenting with food, but the thing he gets most excited about is chocolate. So that is like his indulgent food. Apart from that, he will eat to live and he’ll be happy with anything he gets.
Shetty: And this is why I don’t request stuff because if I was asked “What do you want?” I’d say a burger or something basic. But if I don’t say that, I get all of this.
5:30: Or maybe go to a restaurant
Devlukia: I’ve struggled quite a bit to find good Indian restaurants in L.A. There is an area in Artesia called Little India where they have all these amazing Indian restaurants. I like Surati Farsan Mart and Honest [Restaurant]. But around here, if I really want an Indian fix, and I can’t be bothered to make it myself, there’s a place called Tulsi Eatery [that I like]. They do really amazing vegetarian, plant-based Indian food.
7:30 p.m.: Grab some dessert
Shetty: If I’m being bad then I’ll get a dessert from Van Leeuwen. They have a vegan list of flavors, which are amazing. I’ll get chocolate fudge brownie ice cream with chocolate sprinkles, rainbow sprinkles, honeycomb crunch and maybe some chocolate brownie pieces depending on how I feel. Plus, hot fudge!
Devlukia: Normally if we go out for dessert, we have to make two pit stops. My place is Yoga-urt, which has frozen yogurt. I get similar toppings. They make a hot chocolate sauce and I like to throw some strawberries on mine, some nuts and mochi.
Shetty: Might as well add some broccoli on there too. Add some spinach. [Laughs]
Devlukia: He thinks that if there’s fruit in something, it’s not a dessert. How rude! [Laughs]
8 p.m.: Get ready for bed
Devlukia: We’ll come back, and honestly we’re both early sleepers. We’re in bed by 9 p.m.
Shetty: Especially on a Sunday. I’ll look at my calendar for the rest of the week and my schedule. I’ll set an intention of how I want to walk into the week.
Devlukia: I’ll do a skincare routine, which I love every night. I’ll exfoliate and get myself fresh for the week. Then we’ll get into bed. We both knock out really fast. At 9 p.m. on the dot, we’ll be knocked out.
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Abriana Vicioso is the host of the Flower Hour, which takes place monthly.
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Each flower carries a personal history. For Abriana Vicioso, the calla lily was her parents’ wedding flower — a symbol of her mother’s beauty. “She had this big, beautiful white calla lily in her hair,” Vicioso says. “I love my parents. They’re the reason I’m here. I’ll never forget where I came from.”
The Flower Hour begins with Vicioso announcing, with a warm smile: “Today is about touching grass.” The florist-by-trade gestures behind her to hundreds of flowers contained in buckets — blue thistles, ivory anemones and calla lilies painted silver — all twisted and unfurling into the air. “Tonight is going to be so sweet and intimate,” Vicioso says, eyeing the beautiful chaos at her feet. A grin buds across her face.
Moments before the workshop, participants sit at candlelit tables exchanging horoscopes and comparing their favorite flowers. A mention of the illustrious bird-of-paradise flower elicits coos and awe from the women. Izamar Vazquez, who is from Jalisco, Mexico, reveals her fondness for roses, which make her feel connected to her Mexican roots.
Vicioso hosts her flower-themed wellness workshop near the iconic Original Los Angeles Flower Market in downtown L.A. In January, the first Flower Hour event sold out, prompting her to make it a monthly series. Vicioso describes the event as a “three-part journey” where participants are invited to drink herbal tea, smoke rose-petal-rolled cannabis joints and create a floral arrangement. “The guide is to connect with the medicine of flowers,” Vicioso says.
Rose petal joints, tea and flower arranging are all part of The Flower Hour event’s offerings.
The event is hosted at the Art Club, a membership-based co-working space. “The Flower Hour is really beautiful. Everyone gets to explore their creativity while meeting new people,” says Lindsay Williams, the co-owner of the Art Club.
The idea for Flower Hour came to Vicioso during a conversation with her mother. “We joke all the time that flowers were destined to make their way into my life,” she says. She works as a florist and models on the side, even appearing in the pages of Vogue. Vicioso grew up in a Caribbean household, where flowers and offerings were part of daily life. “In my culture and religion, a lot of my family practices — an Afro-Caribbean religion — we build altars.”
Like many cultures, flowers carry sentimental value in her religion. “I’m Caribbean, so a lot of my family practices a Yoruba religion, which comes from Africa. In the Caribbean, it’s well known as Santería.”
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After a difficult year and a breakup, Vicioso wanted to marry her love of flowers with community building. Because Vicioso uses cannabis medicinally, the workshop naturally includes a smoking component. “My family has smoked cannabis for a lot of reasons for a long time. It’s a really healing plant,” she explains.
In the workshop, even the cannabis gets the floral treatment. Vicioso presents her rose-petal-wrapped joints on a silver platter at each table. She rolled each by hand. “If you’ve never smoked a rose-petal-rolled joint, the difference with this is it’s going to have roses that have a slight tobacco effect,” she announces.
During the workshop, Vicioso stresses the importance of buying cannabis from local vendors. The cannabis provided was purchased from a Northern Californian vendor. The wellness workshop aims to reclaim the healing ritual of smoking cannabis. “This is a plant that has been commercialized,” Vicioso says. “There’s a lot of Black and Brown people who are in jail for this plant.”
The resulting workshop is what Vicioso describes as “an immersive wellness experience that is the intersection of wellness, creativity, community and an appreciation of flowers.” The workshop serves as a reminder to enjoy Earth’s innate beauty in the form of flowers — including cannabis. “It’s this gift that the universe gave us for free and that I have this deep connection with,” Vicioso says.
Conversation cards to generate discussion among participants (top, letf). The workshop serves as a “third space” for Angelenos to engage in tactile creativity and community building outside of traditional nightlife settings.
After enjoying lavender chamomile tea and smoking a joint, Vicioso introduces the flowers to the group before inviting them to pick their own. She emphasizes each flower’s personality traits, describing green dianthus as a “Dr. Seuss” plant. Then, there are calla lilies with their “main character moment.” It gets personal. “Start thinking of a flower in your life that you can discover,” she says. “If you’re feeling like you need inspiration, you can always remember that these flowers have stories.”
Vicioso infuses wisdom into her instruction on floral arrangements: There are no mistakes. Let the flowers tell you where they want to go, she urges. Intuition will be your guide — the wilder, the better.
“Hecho in Mexico” reads a sticker on a bunch of green stems. “Like me,” says Vazquez with a laugh. “They’re all doing their own thing. Like a family,” she says later, arranging stems.
The Flower Hour participants and Vicioso, center, chat as they build their own floral arrangements at the sold-out event.
Two participants — Vazquez and Rebeca Alvarado — are friends who run a floral design company together called Izza Rose. Like Vicioso, the friends have a connection to flowers through their Latin American culture. They met Vicioso in the floral industry and were overjoyed to discover her workshop.
“This is a great way to connect with other people,” says Vazquez.
Alvarado agrees, adding: “You’re getting to know people outside of going to bars. You can connect in different ways when there’s an activity.”
Vazquez uses flowers to stay connected to her Mexican heritage, adding that she prefers to support Mexican vendors. In recent months, the downtown L.A. flower market has struggled to recover from ongoing ICE raids. “Some are scared to come back,” says Vazquez.
Hand-rolled cannabis joints wrapped in rose petals are presented on a silver platter at The ArtClub (top, right). The Flower Hour aims to reclaim the healing rituals of cannabis and flowers.
Another participant, Barbara Rios, was attracted to the workshop for stress relief. “You can hang out with your friends, but it’s nice to do things with your hands,” she says. “I work a stressful job, and it’s nice to have that third space that we’re all craving.”
On this February night, the participants were predominantly women, save for one man. In the future, Vicioso hopes that more men learn to engage with flowers. “There’s a statistic about men receiving flowers for the first time at their funerals, and I think we have changed that,” she says.
To conclude the workshop, Vicioso encourages participants to build lasting friendships and incorporate flower arranging into their daily practice — even if it’s just with a small, inexpensive bouquet.
“Get some flowers together, go to the park, hang out with each other and hang out with me,” she says. Participants leave with flower arrangements in hand. In the darkness of the night air, it briefly looks as though the women carry silver calla lilies that are blooming from their palms.
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