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Introducing "Humans of Fitness"

Introducing "Humans of Fitness"

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Julia
February 02, 2026

Hey mobis 🐝

We’ve got a lot to share! New features, upcoming events, and something special we’re launching this month.

New Series: Humans of Fitness

We’re excited to introduce Humans of Fitness, a new series spotlighting the real people in our fitness community. In each interview, we’ll hear about the stories, the challenges, and the real person behind the fitness journey.

Our first feature is Steph, who shares how movement helped her rebuild trust with her body after illness, loss, and starting over.

👉 Scroll down to read the full interview

What’s new on mobius

Make sure to update your app to get the latest!!!

💬 Commenting in the Discover feed
You can now comment on posts in the discover feed! See someone doing something that inspires you? Let them know!

🤝 See who you have in common
When viewing someone’s profile, you’ll now see shared connections. So follow your friends, and your friends of friends of friends, because fitness feels better when it feels social.

🐝 Pods are live!
Pods let you share your fitness journey within a specific community. Whether that’s your studio, your gym, your run club, or organization, keep cheering each other on outside of class.

🌆 NYC friends: Join the mobius NYC pod by searching @mobiusnyc in the app. We’ll be posting pics from all our IRL events in here and would love to cheer you on too!

Want your own pod?

We’re actively launching pods with studios, gyms, and fitness communities (this could be your run club, your rec sports team, your friends, or anywhere you’re getting active with others).

If you’d like to recommend a pod, just reply to this email or message us in the app —
Profile → Support & Feedback — and we’ll get one set up for you.

Upcoming Events

Here’s what we’ve got in NYC this month:

[solidcore] - Move, Meet, Manifest
📍 [solidcore] Soho | 🗓 Feb 6
For female-identifying founders, join us in collaboration with Mad Women for an energizing class, followed by mingling & manifesting at a nearby cafe.

Tea, Yoga, & Chill w/ Satori
📍 Flatiron | 🗓 Feb 8
We're hosting a laid-back Sunday yoga hang for ambitious humans who love building and breathing. The flow will be super chill, and we’ll have time to hang & chat after.

Othership Social Free Flow
📍 Othership Flatiron | 🗓 Feb 18
We're bringing the mobius community to Othership. Use this link to grab a discounted pass, then book the 9pm time slot on 2/18 through the Othership website (slots will open on Wednesday).

Our events are all about moving together and meeting new people in your community. We’d love to see you there!

Humans of Fitness Vol. 1 — Steph

“I got a divorce. And then I moved.”

Steph says it plainly, but nothing about that moment was simple.

When she left, she left fast – two boxes, her cats, and everything else behind. The marriage hadn’t ended gently. His mental health was deteriorating, and staying felt unsafe. Looking back, she describes it as living in fight-or-flight for a long time. Survival mode doesn’t come with closure, it comes with momentum.

So she threw herself into work.

She moved cities. Got promoted. Traveled. Built a career that looked aligned from the outside. But when the adrenaline wore off, something lingered underneath it all, a nervous system that never quite felt calm.

Then she landed a new job.

It was at a startup focused on neurodivergent job seekers, work that felt more human, more purposeful. Still, her body had its own story to tell.

Steph had always moved. In high school, she ran with her dad – a ritual that doubled as connection and quiet coaching. You can do one more mile. His voice there has stayed with her.

But during COVID, everything changed.

She got COVID three times in two years. Then came long COVID. Then a POTS diagnosis. Then MCAS. Her heart rate would spike while she was sitting still. Once, palpitations cracked a rib. At her lowest, a nurse came to her apartment every few days to administer saline. Her life narrowed to medications, fear, and the uncertainty of what her body might do next.

“It was the lowest low I’ve ever experienced,” she says.

Movement, the thing that once regulated her, became something she had to relearn entirely.

She started with walks. Slow ones. Then yoga. Every day.

“I decided I would practice yoga every day for a year,” she says. “And I still am.”

Yoga rebuilt something deeper than strength. It changed the way she spoke to herself. It gave her confidence back, not the loud kind, but the steady kind. The kind that says maybe I can try.

Her first run back was less than a mile.

“I remember leaning against buildings because I thought I was going to pass out.”

But she kept showing up. Not pushing harder, just staying consistent. One mile became routine. Breath became familiar again.

Then her CEO ran a marathon.

“And I thought… if she can do that, maybe I can do something too.”

Steph signed up for a half marathon with barely six weeks to train.

From one mile to thirteen.

It wasn’t logical. It wasn’t cautious. But it felt right.

By then, her yoga practice had given her the breath control and nervous-system awareness that running demanded. Running didn’t feel foreign, it felt like remembering. Like coming home to something she’d lost but never fully let go of.

She ran that half marathon in the rain, in November, wearing a tank top while others layered up. The weather was perfect for her body. Her dad laughed when he saw the photos.

She finished smiling.

Running, she says, reminds her of her strengths – not despite her medical conditions, but alongside them. She runs with umbrellas when the sun is out. She layers strategically. She listens closely.

Her favorite quote is, “what goes up must come down”. And when it gets hard, she talks to herself the same way she does in life:

Just get to that point. If you need to close your eyes, close your eyes. But keep going. What goes up must come down.

That language shows up everywhere now: in her work, her community building, her willingness to host events and step into rooms that scare her.

Fitness didn’t make her fearless.

It made her brave.

“It taught me that I can meet myself where I am,” she says. “And that’s enough.”

Steph doesn’t move for metrics. She doesn’t chase optimization. She runs, practices yoga, watches birds mid-stride, and builds community, because movement is where she feels most regulated, most herself.