Hey Better Babes. Welcome back to Getting Better. It's me, Jonathan Van Ness. Group Fitness, honey. This has been something that has moved me so much in my life. I don't know if you know this about me, but I was a yoga teacher for years. I grew up as a cheerleader. I was in gymnastics. I was in swimming. And historically, like, group fitness has been a place where I've learned so much about myself. It's where I found community. And also when I found myself not in group fitness,

I kind of found myself in a world of her and my mental health space.

Like, really as an adult, every time I stopped doing group fitness,

it aligned with me becoming like a little depressed and a little disconnected.

My experience with group fitness has helped me realize that getting better can mean moving together.

It can mean like looking

little ridiculous, like flopping around on the ice, like taking a couple falls, maybe not knowing

how to do everything at every time. And that's part of the joy of group fitness is getting to learn,

getting to mess up, getting to make mistakes. Because what we do in group fitness also can kind

of mirror like what we do outside of group fitness.

We always used to say in yoga that like how you practice on the mat is how you live your life off

the mat in a lot of ways. So it's really a way that we can with compassion, learn more about ourselves

and engage more deeply in the world around us. So that's really what today's episode is about.

It's like the 360 all around integration of what group fitness can mean to us in our

lives when it's not totally goal-oriented, when it's not validation-oriented, but really

a curious space for us to get to learn more about ourselves and connect more deeply with those

around us.

So with Airbnb, I got to explore the psychology of group fitness in the most fun way possible.

By hosting my very own Airbnb original experience, which featured a gymnastics day at Chelsea Pears.

It gave adult gymnastics, trampolines, foam pits, cartwheels, community, joy, learning new skills.

The goal was not perfection. The goal is to play.

But this Airbnb experience didn't end up just being about gymnastics. It ended up being about courage, confidence, connection, and remembering that our bodies are here to help us thrive.

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