WHY YOUR MEMBERSHIP MATTERS.

One of the ways we have always departed from mainstream gym culture is by supporting our community members who need it most. We know a lot of folks simply can't afford gym membership who would most benefit from our services, and that's why we have created sponsored memberships and opportunities for those in need.

We continue our commitment to building an inclusive community by offering 10 sponsored (free) local all-inclusive and 10 online (HOMEBODY VOD*) memberships. These memberships are for both locals and folks who reside outside the LA metro area.

If you are in need of our services, including access to a fully equipped gym, classes led by and for our diverse community, and online programming available anywhere in the world, we invite you to fill out our online form by 12/31 to be considered. Recipients will be notified early January.

Transgender, BIPOC, and disabled folks highly encouraged to apply! (Even if you reside out of state!)

We understand that services and healthcare access are particularly at risk for our queer and transgender community members at this moment, and we would love to reach those in regions outside California where safe and guaranteed access to LGBTQIA+ affirming healthcare and services is being restricted and banned by the incoming Administration. 

If you know of any LGBTQIA+ orgs in ‘red states,’ or more deeply affected areas, please help us reach out by forwarding this link and invitation to apply for membership.

Thank you for your support and membership, which helps us subsidize and support these sponsorship opportunities. Consider joining or renewing during our membership sale going on now thru 12/31/24! 

During this time of year, we also want to make it abundantly clear that your body is the BOSS, and we’re here to listen to what you need to help you connect with your own body, just as you are. Our shared goal is for folks to feel better in their bodies, to love their bodies, and for movement to be a form of pleasure, not punishment. Unlike most gyms, we don’t tell you what you need to do or look like to be “fit” or “healthy.” Our mission is clear and guided by a fundamental goal of making health and wellness accessible, inclusive, and affordable for all people.

*WHAT IS HOMEBODY VOD?

Our online programming has evolved from ZOOM classes created overnight in the wake of the pandemic as a means for our own survival as a small business when our brick and mortar location was forced to close for 6 months in 2020. During this time, we had to go exclusively online, growing our audience overnight to people across the US and the world.

From $5 livestreams on ZOOM to a wide range of home workout videos you can do in your room (or anywhere in the world!), HOMEBODY has now expanded to a growing fitness video library that is accessible to all!

Most importantly, we developed HOMEBODY to show that people who have historically been excluded from fitness spaces and leadership are the most important people to feature at this critical time when representation matters most. We also recognize that there are many people who either require or prefer the ability to work out from home for their own comfort and safety.

Along with our core MOVE/BUILD classes, we deliberately celebrate movement in non-traditional forms that include restorative and non-aerobic modalities. Centering rest and restoration with our RISE/HEAL classes is just as important to health and wellness!

HOMEBODY offers a wide range of movement practices that give you a variety of options for home workout: Yoga, Pilates, Boxing, Barre, Dance, Aerobics, Tai Chi, Meditation, Self-Defense, Weightlifting tips for top surgery, Mobility, Core & more! And it’s all produced in house by local members, staff, and our friends at SLOW BLINK, with a super fun 80’s neon vibe. No more ZOOM logins or rewinding tapes, just watch on your phone, tablet or desktop 24/7!

ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP SALE

VOD is also included in your membership or available as a separate subscription for non-local folks. (Or anyone who requires/ prefers an online only workout option.)

Check out a few HOMEBODY classes on our YouTube channel!

Sale Pricing available thru 12/31/24:

$33/ mo. Basic Gym + Amenities + VOD

$66/ mo. Gym + Classes + VOD. Includes all of our classes, amenities, and off-site swim/ beach events.

$20/ mo. VOD only.

Trans Lives Matter. Your Membership Matters.

Thank you for helping us support our Sponsored Members!

TRANS AWARENESS MONTH

November is Trans Awareness Month and Nov. 20th is Transgender Day of Remembrance.

On these days where we remember and honor those who have come before us, we pause to acknowledge how far their lives have taken ours. Especially at a time when their very existence was discouraged and denied. We honor their legacy by recognizing all the services and access and language and visibility that we enjoy today as beautiful gifts they have given us. May we honor the privileges we enjoy of being and becoming who we are even as we face forces that continue in vain to try and dim and extinguish our beautiful and eternal light. 

brief HISTORY

Transgender Day of Remembrance was founded in 1999 by a small group, including Gwendolyn Ann Smith, Nancy Nangeroni, and Jahaira DeAlto, to memorialize the murders of Black transgender women Rita Hester in Allston, Massachusetts, and Chanelle Pickett in Watertown, Massachusetts.

Remembering Rita Hester and Chanelle Pickett

VIA Transremembrance.org: What began a quarter century ago continues today. Activists and organizations around the world work collectively and independently to honor and remember our dead. We share names and stories, talk to loved ones, scour news and police reports, and build networks in our communities. Still, the work is never done, and the list is never complete.

Black trans women are more than the victims of anti-trans violence; they have always been at the forefront of the movement – building community, advocating for policy change, and organizing to protect our rights. Read more here.

90’ TRANSITIONING TBT

A note from Sam, EVERYBODY Co-Founder: In 1998 I remember standing in a line and then sitting in a row of chairs for up to five hours or more to be seen in a clinic on “Transgender Tuesdays” at the Tom Waddell Clinic in San Francisco.  This room was a sanctuary for people like me seeking care that was not yet available anywhere else. 

Tom Waddell Health Clinic in San Francisco

I remember how it felt like such a gift that the only cost was the endless wait. This was only made bearable by the gorgeous array of people in the room. Everyone shared their beauty tips and pointers for how to pass, where to get surgery and who to avoid. The jokes were nonstop, the comments searing and riotous. The stories were heartbreaking and hilarious in equal turn. The range of lived experiences in the room was vast and there were huge chasms of privilege between so many of us and yet there we were together, all in desperate need of the same free services the City of San Francisco was openly providing us. What a time to live through. I’m so grateful for this experience.

‘Transgender Tuesdays’ highlights the personal stories from and services provided to the Trans Community during the 1990’s at the Tom Waddell Clinic in San Francisco.

Today I want to honor those people who shared that room with me, 25 years ago as I know so many of them are no longer with us. We have lost too many of our elders far before we should have. Too many have been victims of mental illness and  forces of violence beyond their control.  And some of us live on, still fighting, still pushing forward and insisting on a more inclusive world. Sabel Simone Loreca (pictured below) was there with me in that room then, and I’m so grateful to still share space with my beautiful sister today.

Trans Community Advocate and Personal Trainer Sabel Samone Loreca

Thank you to Trans Advocate, Activist, and EVERYBODY Personal Trainer Sabel Samone Loreca for continuing to build and fight for safer communities, access to gender affirming health care, and resources for our Transgender community since the ‘The Bad Old Days’ of the early 90’s . Please follow Minority Aids Project and G.L.A.M.O.R. MAP for more.

TRANS AWARENESS MONTH & BEYOND

We are Trans and Woman owned and actively hire within the wide spectrum of our Queer and Trans communities. We are currently connecting with local orgs in ‘Red States’ to offer free online programming to Trans youth in need while locally continuing our sponsorship program for Trans folks at the Gym. We will also continue to support LGBTQ founded and focused orgs including Pink Haven Coalition: community defense, mutual-aid, and alternative systems of care for gender diverse people, Border Butterflies Project: an arm of the Trans Law Center assisting LGBTQ+ asylum seekers at the U.S. Border, and Miry’s List: assisting new arrival refugee families.

Border Butterflies Project

When we first opened our doors in 2017, we faced similar circumstances to the ones we find ourselves in today- a government taking power that openly opposes and blocks access to care for so many in our marginalized communities that are in struggle and need: the trans community, the immigrant community, BIPOC folks, disabled folks, survivors of sexual abuse, the elderly, the list goes on...

We will continue to show up for all our communities in need, to provide safe harbor and access to resources for hope, strength and resilience. We will continue to offer opportunities for our community to explore and expand relationships with our own bodies as sacred, inspired, whole, and a source of connection to all beings everywhere. May our movement practices deepen our compassion for ourselves, for each other, and provide a gateway to our own refuge and recovery.

May we continue to shine for our ancestors, transcestors and for each other, always.🏳️‍⚧️