HTLA Presents: How Not To Be Lonely: Part 5 - Feeling Lonely? Get Moving, Make Some Friends

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🗓️ 30 March 2024

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Summary

In our next installment of our series on How Not To Be Lonely in LA, we’re covering all the ways moving in synchrony together promotes closeness. Really, it’s just an excellent way to make friends.

Luckily in LA, there are unlimited amounts of classes, courses, leagues and clubs one can join based on your particular interests. Whether it’s a dance class, sports league or a mixed martial arts training, there’s literally something for everyone.

How To LA producer Megan Botel discovers why moving in what’s called "behavioral synchrony" is so good for connection, and learns about how one really popular activity in L.A. is bringing people together.

Guests: Sana Kim Davis, marketing director at Santa Monica Pickleball Center; Jamie Krems, assistant professor of psychology at UCLA; Micah Mumper, Longbeach resident and pickleball fan

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0:00.0	I'm Julia Paskin.
0:01.6	Join me as I talk with NPR's Sarah McCammon
0:04.2	about her new book, The Ex-Vangelicals,
0:06.4	Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church.
0:09.4	That's April 25th at the Crawford, tickets at LAS.com
0:12.6	slash events.
0:16.6	Hi, I'm Megan Motel, producer on the LAS Studios show
0:20.3	How to LA.
0:22.2	For the past few weeks, I've been working on a special series exploring how people are dealing
0:26.6	with feelings of loneliness.
0:28.8	According to the Surgeon General, we're dealing with an epidemic of isolation and people in Los Angeles may be
0:35.0	loneliness than most. Through this series I've been exploring the depths of those
0:39.5	feelings for people in all walks of life and also digging into how folks are easing these
0:44.8	feelings by creating connections and all sorts of communities around this city.
0:51.0	And today we're talking about the kind of connections one can make through physical group activities.
0:57.0	Take a listen. This is how to LA, I'm Brian de Los Santos. Today we're back with another installment of our how not to be lonely in LA series and
1:16.4	We're gonna get moving
1:18.6	Getting active in group settings has been shown to promote bonding and improve emotional and of course physical well-being.
1:25.9	There are a lot of groups in LA to help you find these kind of connections too.
1:29.5	How to Really producer Magna Botel is going to take it from here.
1:45.0	All right, so we've been on this journey exploring loneliness and human connection for a while now. It's taken us all around this city,
1:47.0	and it's introduced us to all sorts of Angelinos
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