Han Training - by LiftyBoi

Han Training - by LiftyBoi Originally LiftyBoi Training, Han Training was born in Sept 2021 - establishing the first and only QTPOC-owned training gym in Chicago.

Han Training is committed to accessible, gender-affirming, fat-liberated and strength-forward training for all people.

4 feel-good reasons to Speak with Han this Saturday 💜Gender-Affirming Voice 101 is our weekend workshop for anyone who w...
06/18/2026

4 feel-good reasons to Speak with Han this Saturday 💜
Gender-Affirming Voice 101 is our weekend workshop for anyone who wants their voice to feel more like home. If Pride Fest has your social battery blinking red, we’re a 10-minute walk away with A/C, comfy seating, and free drinks so you can rest, learn, and reset your voice before heading back into the chaos or home to your couch.
Your ticket also helps fund Liftyboi’s sliding-scale scholarships so more QTPOC and disabled folks can access trauma-informed, body-neutral training; last year, scholarships helped 22 members train, and this workshop helps us say yes to even more. Carrie McBreen (she/her), a seasoned gender-affirming SLP, is donating both her time and an extra $100 to PLB, so your registration stretches even further.
🗓 Saturday, June 20
🕓 4:30–6:00 pm
📍 Han Training, 743 W Irving Park

Hey y’all, due to severe weather and beach hazard conditions, tomorrow’s Body & Ballroom on the Beach is canceled.We’re ...
06/16/2026

Hey y’all, due to severe weather and beach hazard conditions, tomorrow’s Body & Ballroom on the Beach is canceled.
We’re disappointed too, and we want to keep everyone safe.
We’re working on a reschedule now and we’ll share the new date as soon as we have it. Plesae stay tuned.
Appreciate y’all, and thanks for rolling with us.

We’ve added a couple new tools to make training at HT more self-directed.Warm-up demo videos are now available, and we k...
06/11/2026

We’ve added a couple new tools to make training at HT more self-directed.
Warm-up demo videos are now available, and we keep our Current Cycle page updated every two months so you can see what we’re working on right now.
At HT, classes help you learn and Open Gym helps you practice.

These tools are here so you can get a quick refresher, follow the current cycle, and move on your own terms.
If you’re new to us, that’s part of what makes Han Training different. We’re not trying to keep you uncertain. We want you to leave with skills you can actually use in your own body, with real confidence.

New member? Start with the warm-up demos and Current Cycle page (https://hantrainingchicago.com/for-members/current-cycle).

(Built with , our Membership Service and Facility Lead)

“한 (han) is a source of energy. You can leave it to fester, or you can use it to keep moving, keep going.” – Minky , fo...
06/10/2026

“한 (han) is a source of energy. You can leave it to fester, or you can use it to keep moving, keep going.” – Minky , founder of Han Training

Han is part of our origin story. It’s a Korean word for the grief, rage, and unresolved weight that injustice can leave in a body. And like Minky says, that feeling isn’t just Korean. It’s familiar to most marginalized folks who’ve had to navigate intergenerational trauma and build survival from scratch.

For us, June is about what that han looks like when it moves: in Black freedom, in q***r joy, and in the tools our communities have always had to build for ourselves.

For Juneteenth week, we’re holding three different doors open.

Taboo Tutorials with — June 14, 2-6 PM at
Q***r relations, harm reduction, safer practice, and community care. Real talk, practical tools, no judgment. Come learn and leave with more than you walked in with. Receive a $20 gift card for taking annonyous HIV testing. No RSVP, all are welcome.
✨ WORKSHOP 1 ✨ Poly, ENM & The Conversations That Actually Matter.
✨ WORKSHOP 2 ✨ Harm Reduction 101: STI, Consent & Taking Care of Each Other

Body & Ballroom on the Beach with — June 17 1-2 PM at Promontory Point
Juneteenth marks Black freedom carried forward, year after year, even when the world drags its feet. Ballroom culture is its own kind of han: survival, beauty, and refusal built from the ground up by Black and Brown q***r and trans people. We’re heading to Promontory Point to move, breathe, and celebrate together. Minky will lead a trauma-informed warmup, and will take us vogue next to the wide open water of Lake Michigan.

Speak with Han: Gender-affirming Voice 101 with Carrie of — June 20, 4:30-6 PM
“Your voice is part of your body, too.” This small-group workshop is a fundraiser, helping keep movement and community care at Han Training more accessible for q***r and trans people of color. We’re not here to fix your body or your voice; we’re here to help you build trust, strength, and new ways of relating to your body on your own terms. Sliding scale, come as you are. Registration link in bio.

All week, the throughline is simple: you don’t have to carry this alone. Not the grief, not the rage, not the joy that feels too big for one body. We’re building rooms where all of that can move, together.

Swipe for dates, times, and registration, or hit the link in bio for the full Juneteenth week lineup.

***rJoy

Someone slid a laminated card under our door this week trying to shame q***r lives. We saw it, rolled our eyes, and kept...
06/05/2026

Someone slid a laminated card under our door this week trying to shame q***r lives. We saw it, rolled our eyes, and kept planning what we actually care about: liberation, joy, and bodies in motion together.

Body & Ballroom on the Beach is one way we’re answering that.

For Juneteenth week, we’re heading to Promontory Point with to move, breathe, and celebrate Black q***r and trans brilliance on the lakefront.

Juneteenth celebrates Black freedom carried forward, year after year, even when the world drags its feet. Pride comes from the same place, from people refusing to stay small in the face of violence and neglect.

Ballroom has been one of the places where Black and Brown q***r and trans folks have created kinship, mocked gender norms, and embodied freedom on their own terms. This June, our arc is about taking that spirit out of the gym and into the spaces our communities already call home, and we’re honored to be moving alongside BSA in their neighborhood.

Han Training founder Minky () will open with a body‑neutral, trauma‑informed warmup, and then Brave Space Alliance’s Prince Hiem Gorgeous Gucci () will lead us into voguing on the sweet grass facing the wide open water of Lake Michigan. You don’t need experience or the “right” body to join us—just a willingness to show up, move at your own pace, and cheer each other on.

Details
📅 Wednesday, June 17
🕐 1:00–2:00 pm
📍 Wallach Fountain, Promontory Point (55th & Lakefront Trail)
✅ Free and open to all
If you’ve been carrying a lot in your body lately, come put some of it down on the dance floor with us.

Someone crafted a laminated card about gay men’s s*x lives and dropped it at our door.For the record: Pride didn’t start...
06/04/2026

Someone crafted a laminated card about gay men’s s*x lives and dropped it at our door.

For the record: Pride didn’t start because anyone had “too many” partners. It started in 1969, when q***r people, led by trans women of color, fought back against police raids and a government that treated us as disposable. It grew because our community chose each other when no one else would.

The numbers on that card don’t match any reputable research. And even if they did, consenting adults living freely on their own terms is exactly something to be proud of.
So if the question is “nothing to be proud of?” our answer will always be: PLENTY.

This June, we’re counting something different how many times you get to feel strong, supported, and a little more at home in your body.

Happy Pride, Chicago. 🌈🏳️‍⚧️

한 taboo doesn’t mean unsafe. It usually means nobody ever gave us tools.On Sunday June 14, we’re teaming up with SWOP Ch...
06/03/2026

한 taboo doesn’t mean unsafe. It usually means nobody ever gave us tools.
On Sunday June 14, we’re teaming up with SWOP Chicago for Taboo Tutorials — an afternoon of real talk and practical skills around care, pleasure, and staying alive.
🕑 2–6 pm
📍 Han Training – 743 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago
No RSVP. All are welcome.

Workshop One – Navigating Sticky Situations
A real conversation about polyamory and open relationships, disclosure, boundaries, HIV education (including U=U, PrEP, DoxyPEP), and how to move through hard conversations with honesty, care, and accountability instead of fear.

Workshop Two – Harm Reduction 101
Grounded, community‑centered teaching on harm reduction, consent, overdose prevention, safer use strategies, and bodily autonomy — with practical tools for keeping ourselves and each other safer while staying connected to pleasure, dignity, and community.

All day – Anonymous rapid HIV testing on site
Free testing with $20 gift cards while supplies last, because taking care of each other deserves to be resourced.

This space is for s*x workers, for q***rs, for kink‑curious folks, for people who are sober, using, questioning, healing, surviving, or just learning. If you’ve ever been told your desires are “too much” or your safety doesn’t matter, we mean it when we say: this room is for you.

June is our biggest month yet — and we want you in it to . 🤍This is HT's most packed calendar in our history: three maj...
05/31/2026

June is our biggest month yet — and we want you in it to . 🤍
This is HT's most packed calendar in our history: three major community collaborations honoring Juneteenth, and the kind of programming that reminds us why we built this space in the first place.
Here's what's coming up:
🗓️ Jun 14 | 2–6 PM — Taboo Tutorials with
Q***r relations + harm reduction workshops, free anonymous testing, and $20 gift cards. Open and welcoming — come as you are.
🗓️ Jun 16 | 6–6:45 PM / 7–7:45 PM — Bodiful Zumba with Miriam
Two sessions of full-body, joyful movement. All bodies, all levels.
🗓️ Jun 17 | 1–2 PM — Body & Ballroom on the Beach with
A Juneteenth mobility special outdoors. Voguing-inspired movement, trauma-informed coaching, community joy.
🗓️ Jun 19 — Staff Rest Day for Juneteenth
We honor the holiday by actually resting. See you after.
🗓️ Jun 20 | 4:30–6 PM — Speak with Han: Gender-Affirming Voice 101
Carrie McBreen, MS CCC-SLP of , leads a workshop on voice and embodiment — a PLB fundraiser. Your voice is part of your body too.
🗓️ Jun 23 | 6:30–7:30 PM — Slow Yoga with Kali
Gentle, slow, body-neutral. No performance required.
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***rFitness

05/20/2026

There's a Korean word called 한 han — and it doesn't have a clean English translation.
Minky Kim, founder of Han Training, describes it like this: generational grief. Rage. A deep longing and sorrow in the absence of justice — something that builds across generations of oppression.
Minky discovered the concept in their mid-twenties, and felt two things at once: relief that there was finally a name for what they'd been carrying since childhood, and frustration that it had taken so long to find it.
This is the first video in — a series that traces how that feeling became the foundation of a gym, a methodology, and a community in Northalsted, Chicago.
Han isn't just Korean. It's the unfinished grief that marginalized communities know in their bodies. And at Han Training, we don't ask you to leave it at the door. We move with it.
Next video: how han became Han Training. Stay with us. 🔥
Learn more at hantrainingchicago.com/what-han-holds-movement-potential-and-finding-ourselves-in-aapi-heritage-month/

Slow down with us this Thursday 🌿We're welcoming Kali to Han Training for a slow yoga class — slower-paced postures, cle...
05/19/2026

Slow down with us this Thursday 🌿
We're welcoming Kali to Han Training for a slow yoga class — slower-paced postures, clear instructions, and every modification you need to feel at home in the room. Whether you're brand new to yoga or just haven't found a class that felt safe, this one's for you.
No performance. No pushing. Just intentional movement at your own pace.
Body-neutral · Trauma-informed · All levels welcome
📅 Thursday, May 21 · 6–7 pm
📍 743 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago
Book your class here: https://app.glofox.com/portal/ #/branch/6140bad7eeba84034f18e613/classes-week-view/69ef942e2cc20f3e9f0b253b/book?book_from=1779339600

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