OUR MISSION
EVERYBODY is devoted to creating and supporting a brave and inclusive environment for all bodies to move, strengthen, and heal.
We believe that health and wellness should be accessible, affordable and adaptive to all people regardless of their gender, size, age, ethnicity or ability.
Our Values
We are a business founded on the core principles of radical inclusion, diversity and equity. Whenever we call ourselves a “radically inclusive business,” we mean that we have a zero-tolerance policy regarding racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, fatphobia, and transphobia. We remain committed to this often challenging and rigorous work.
Since our founding, we have consistently held these values as our guiding principles as a business, and we have facilitated accountability processes whenever we have encountered actions or attitudes that go directly against these values. This page serves to outline our core values, provide educational resources, name our expectations of each other and ourselves and share our working Action Plans to hold everyone accountable to this mission of intersectional liberation.
Social Contract
As members of the EVERYBODY community, we each have a responsibility to help create & maintain a culture of inclusivity. Anyone who uses our space, from a day pass to an unlimited membership enters into a social contract that defines what radical inclusivity means to us. Our Social Contract is given to each new person who comes through our doors. We review and edit this contract regularly. It is available both in English and Spanish at our front desk.
Brave Space
What is the difference between “safe space” and “brave space”? We specifically don't say EVERYBODY is a "safe space" because safe space is not possible to ensure. While we make it explicit that we don't tolerate oppression or discrimination here, we don't pretend that the walls of this building keep out anyone's prejudice, ignorance, pain or privilege. In fact, we acknowledge that the project of creating radically a inclusive space here at EVERYBODY can, will and does inevitably invite a unique clash of cultures, beliefs, identities, ideas and lived experiences.
This is all part of the unique challenge of true radical inclusivity, which requires a lot of courage from all of us to create and maintain. Here are five ways we try to encourage what we call Brave Space:
Come open, willing and ready to learn.
Acknowledge the privileges you carry.
Actively listen.
Use inclusive language.
Try to have direct conversations whenever possible.
Land Acknowledgment
EVERYBODY acknowledges the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples as the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar (Los Angeles basin, So. Channel Islands) and are grateful to have the opportunity to recognize the taraaxatom (indigenous peoples) in this place. We pay our respects to Honuukvetam (Ancestors), 'Ahiihirom (Elders), and 'eyoohiinkem (our relatives/relations) past, present and emerging.
In EVERYBODY’s effort to refine and define our anti-racism stance, we are adopting an Indigenous Californians land acknowledgement used on our website during events/classes and in our correspondence and HR material. The purpose of the land acknowledgement is to recognize the ancestral homelands of Indigenous Californians past and present, that our physical space (the gym and the majority of our teachers, staff and ownership) occupy. By incorporating this acknowledgement, we take steps to know and honor the Native history of Los Angeles. This is equally important in understanding the historical displacement and genocide of Indigenous Peoples as well as recognizing the descendent populations that still live, strive and thrive in the LA basin.
We are adopting the land acknowledgements that were developed over several years of reciprocal relationship building between Gabrielino/Tongva tribal elders and leaders, including Tongva Tribal Council and Cultural Consultant, Julia Bogany, and UCLA’s American Indian Studies Center (AISC).