A Healthy Lifestyle in Valencia: How Coliving Supports an Active and Well-Balanced Life

Valencia is a city that embraces a healthy and active lifestyle, with plenty of greenery, outdoor sports corners, and walkable streets. Unlike some fast-paced urban areas, Valencia offers a more laid-back atmosphere that encourages individuals to take their time and enjoy the present moment. The city's vibrant and well-balanced community is made up of people from all walks of life who share a passion for healthy living and prioritize their physical and mental health.

For those looking to embrace this healthy lifestyle and introduce some changes and healthy habits into their lives, staying in a coliving space in Valencia can further support the city’s philosophy and make the transition to a healthier life easier and more substantial.

Read below how coliving encourages a healthy lifestyle and which elements can be beneficial when building healthy habits.

Coliving gives you a supportive community

In addition to providing comfortable and flexible accommodation, coliving offers a unique opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals who share similar values. One of these values is often a healthy lifestyle. A healthy lifestyle can mean many things and be seen from many different angles - active lifestyle, healthy diet, mental health, work-life balance, healthy social life, etc.

But this variety of areas that focus on health and happiness is one of the main reasons a coliving can be so beneficial. Living with 8-15 different people who share similar yet distinct values can open you to multiple perspectives at once. Different perspectives are also often complementary to each other, which allows the group to benefit from a holistic result of multiple approaches and focuses.

In addition to that, with access to a variety of communal spaces and a community, colivers can much more easily engage in physical activities together, share healthy meals, and participate in skill-sharing sessions that can all promote a more conscious life.

Coliving encourages a healthy work-life balance

One of the most prominent benefits of a coliving is the environment that inspires a better work-life balance.

Remote work has many benefits but is often challenging when it comes to day organization, setting boundaries, and finding reliable working spaces.

By staying and working in a coliving space, you will be surrounded by people in the same or similar situations as you are. So, all of a sudden, you will have what you were missing from working in the office: colleagues and a work-focused environment during working hours or in designated working areas.

Seeing others work and be passionate about their jobs will boost your productivity and help you re-structurize your workday. On the other hand, when you feel overwhelmed or have a stressful situation at work, you have people to chill out with and share your struggles - “the water cooler” chatting.

Besides that, with a supportive environment that prioritizes self-care, coliving also encourages healthy and fulfilling after-work care.

This means that you can enjoy socializing with like-minded people, exploring the city, or participating in fun and engaging activities without worrying about maintaining your daily routines or work-life balance.

Seeing others get off their desks and go for a walk will inspire you to do that as well. Moreover, always having at least one person who is up for doing something with you will prevent after-work loneliness and numbness.

Coliving is a fruitful environment for improving mental health

Being with like-minded people allows you to speak about relevant issues, be understood, and explore solutions with your mates. This can be especially important when facing the unknown in a new environment, which is a typical experience for a digital nomad or remote worker.

Sharing challenges with others who are going through similar experiences can help alleviate loneliness and fear.

And it’s not always about challenges and struggles. For a healthy mental state and a genuinely good feeling about ourselves and our lives, it’s important to have people who you share interests with, hobbies you love, and a socially and culturally dynamic lifestyle.

Luckily, Valencia has an abundance of opportunities to find yourself in different groups and events; explore different hobbies, and options, and find your passions. The dynamics of the city, in general, are focused on a fulfilled life and thus the city has corners where everybody can find something for themselves.

Additionally, living with people in a coliving In Valencia will allow you to form deeper emotional friendships and explore your interests and hobbies even more, along with providing you with the necessary emotional support.

Coliving facilitates building healthy habits

Coliving can also be a great place to start a new habit.

Depending on the place, coliving operators often suggest or organize activities that make it much easier to try something new. The activities or suggestions can be various, but there are always some that are supporting healthy habits like cooking together, doing yoga, going into nature, practicing sports, etc.

Besides providing its colivers with direct suggestions or inspiration, coliving has another element that can be very useful for building new habits - a community. In a coliving, residents can be each other’s accountability partners and do things together which makes it easier to stick to the habit.

How we encourage a healthy lifestyle in Vivarium

In Vivarium, we truly believe a community in addition to the city’s offerings can open the perfect opportunity to explore a healthy and happy lifestyle. We witnessed colivers inspiring each other and being one another's accountability partners more times than we can count. Our residents are open to trying new things together and often eager to be each other's support.

For example, our colivers often go to Turia Park to run or do other sports together. Some residents also like to practice yoga and meditation and are willing to share that with others in the house. In Valencia, there are a lot of opportunities for different hobbies so the residents often inspire each other to engage in them, like going dancing, or taking language classes.

Coliving can also encourage healthy eating habits through home cooking, locally sourced produce, and diverse food options. In Vivarium, we have found that cooking together, family dinners, and sharing meals make eating healthy more affordable and enjoyable. Moreover, the residents have the chance to try new foods, explore new methods of food preparation, and expand their culinary skills.

As operators and facilitators, we always try to encourage and inspire our community by organizing such activities. We often organize group getaways in nature, cook together, or do yoga together.

We also love to start conversations about healthy practices, sustainability, and mental health, and we try to facilitate a healthy lifestyle in general with initiatives like getting fresh fruit and veggies from local suppliers.

All activities like this allow residents to bond over their shared interests while also encouraging them to maintain a healthy and active lifestyle.