The Mary Free Bed YMCA is a revolutionary health and wellness facility designed with everyone in mind, offering unique and accessible spaces that benefit the entire community through its focus on Universal Design. The acre, LEED certified campus is home to a wide range of fully accessible spaces and amenities β here you will find everything you need to achieve health and wellness. This pioneering environment enables people of all abilities to experience what the Y is all about.
For further assistance, please contact us at membership grymca. Visit the YMCA of Greater Grand Rapids as a guest of a member and enjoy our pools, state of the art workout equipment, group exercise classes and growing community.
At the Y, we believe it is our civic responsibility to support military families in our community. The Y offers reduced pricing and zero joining fee to all military families, past and present. Please bring your military ID or other form of verification. To learn more, click the button below to view our current corporate partners or contact Tara at Focused on improving the health of our community, the Carol Van Andel Healthy Living Center, located inside the Mary Free Bed YMCA serves as an incubator for new national, regional and local healthy living initiatives and innovative evidence-based programs intended to reduce the growing obesity epidemic and combat preventable chronic disease through nutrition, physical activity, and education.
In addition to the numerous education and physical activity programs offered through the Carol Van Andel Healthy Living Center, the Center provides holistic and comprehensive nutrition education to individuals and families in our community through the following:. A universally designed teaching kitchen where food, education, and compassion become one. Members of our community learn how to make healthy affordable meals that will feed the entire family, no matter the size.
Local culinary and nutrition experts will facilitate programs that inspire participants to prepare healthy, cost effective foods that taste great and are locally grown. The Teaching Kitchen provides universal access that unites able-bodied individuals and persons with disabilities under the pursuit of opportunities that make wellness accessible to all.
