Promoting Health

Health and Wellness at the YWCA. At the YWCA of Asheville, our approach to wellness is healing-centered, trauma-informed, diverse, and inclusive of EVERYbody. We are committed to providing a space where EveryBODY feels welcome. Ours is a gym where you can be fully and unapologetically yourself, so you can show up and care for the most important person, you. Our unique programming honors who you are.


  • Fitness Center

    Fitness Center

    YWCA Health & Wellness is for everyBODY. Offering gym, group classes, workshops, personal training and more.

  • Membership & Services

    Membership & Services

    Become a YWCA Fitness Center member where your health fuels our mission!

  • Group of women participating in a yoga class in a gymnasium, seated on mats, with one arm raised overhead, with a yellow wall and a mirror reflecting the class in the background.

    FREE Community Classes

    Anyone regardless of membership can join our FREE community classes.

  • Four people practicing downward dog yoga pose on exercise mats in a room with white brick wall.

    Light A Path

    LAP is driven by volunteer certified yoga/fitness instructors who offer mindful movement classes for people who are incarcerated, and those in recovery at community partner locations.

  • Aquatics

    Aquatics (closed for renovations)

    YWCA Indoor Pool | offering swim lessons for children and adults, water exercise classes, lap swim.
    *The Pool Is Temporarily Closed for Renovations

Eliminating Racism, Empowering Women and Promoting Peace, Justice, Freedom and Dignity For All -

Eliminating Racism, Empowering Women and Promoting Peace, Justice, Freedom and Dignity For All -

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YWCA is on a mission. For 118 years, we have been at the forefront of movements for social justice, freedom, and equality.

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