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What is GYROTONIC exercise? GYROTONIC exercise feels expansive and great!


It's Modern & Organic...

 

Why exercise? Each of us has many reasons for exercising. Yet, most forms of exercise focus on one or two components of overall health, ignoring the interdependent nature of the body's inner workings. GYROTONIC® exercise is unique as it works the body in an integrated and organic manner that ultimately achieves all of your health and well-being goals in a harmonious and joyous way.
In line with more traditional types of yoga, the aim of a GYROTONIC® practice is to bring your body, mind and spirit into union. This ancient spiritual approach towards overall health has been infused into an exercise system that has been created to answer the growing needs of a faster paced, dynamic culture. It is modern day yoga for the modern day individual.



Is GYROTONIC® exercise new?

While many have not heard of this amazing system, GYROTONIC® exercise has been the best kept secret of dancers, professional athletes, rehabilitation specialists, and people "in the know" worldwide for over 30 years. In many circles, it is considered to be the couture of exercise and has been deemed the most complete mind-body-spirit exercise available.

Unlike anything you have tried, once you have experienced a GYROTONIC®  session, you'll find it to be the best exercise you have ever experienced, combining:

  • the power and energetic focus of Martial Arts and Tai Chi, GYROTONIC Trio: Kimberly, Eric and Barbara
  • the flexibility and internal focus of Yoga,
  • the grace and strength of Ballet,
  • the core conditioning and posture improvement of Pilates, 
  • the body sculpting of weight training, 
  • the cardio-vascular benefits of swimming,
  • efficient, balanced, invigorating, rejuvenating,
  • massage your organs, detoxify your body, find peace,
  • lengthen, strengthen, awaken to the possibilities,
  • Imagine all this in a relaxing yet rejuvenating workout.

Warning: GYROTONIC® exercise may be the first workout you actually look forward to doing and may become habit forming.


How is it performed?

GYROKINESIS® (Yoga in Motion) classes are open to the public with drop in's always welcome (stools and mats are provided). The practice of GYROTONIC® exercise (equipment based) begins with private lessons. From there students either continue to work privately one-on-one with an instructor or may join one of our more advanced duet or group trio classes.

With it's beautiful hand-crafted wooden equipment offering both support and the resistance of water, exercising on the equipment provides similar benefits as yoga, swimming and gymnastics (producing long lean strong muscles and increased flexibility) via unique arching, curling and spiraling movements with counter balanced weights (yet without any strain to the body). The levers, pulleys and handles provide continuous resistance, developing muscles that are generally ignored in standard exercise approaches.

Our beautiful GYROTONIC® Sanctuary has been thoughtfully designed to create an oasis of serenity, peace and inner focus amidst your busy life. A place where you can arch and spiral and spend an hour focusing on you! Envision the possibilities.


Who can do GYROTONIC®?GYROTONIC Trio

You can! A GYROTONIC® exercise practice can benefit everyone regardless of age or fitness level and greatly enhances other physical activities (paddling, surfing, martial arts, dance, Yoga, golf, tennis, playing with the kids, life). This non-impact fitness method will meet you where you are and take you where you want to go. And you can do this in an enjoyable, gratifying manner that will help to keep you consistent in your exercise program. GYROTONIC® methodology is also a low impact mind-body-spirit movement art that has more depth and substance to it than than other methods, is easy on the joints, and is pure fun and feels GREAT!

“GYROTONIC® and GYROKINESIS® with Laura have brought me back to life!  After years of stress from parenting and running a business, my body, mind and spirit were seriously out of balance. GYROTONIC and GYROKINESIS have brought graceful movement, elegant strength and joyful vitality back into my body and back into my life! Now I can't imagine life without GYROTONIC! Thank you!”

 Marta Barreras
Feng Shui Master Practitioner, Consultant, EducatorSherron on the GYROTONER
Kona, Hawai'i

 

What does a GYROTONIC® session feel like?

Exercise that Stirs the Soul

 

GYROTONIC® exercise is an invitation to move, breathe and expand into your own true wholeness. The system calms yet invigorates your mind, body and spirit so that you are experiencing exercise that feels uplifting, freeing and organic. In other words, you are experiencing....The Art of Exercising and Beyond ®.

 
“The ultimate aim is to be at home in one’s body, experience greater freedom of movement, to feel unrestricted and uninhibited, to be free from pain, to be at one with the nature of oneself, and to experience exercise as a creative and delightful experience.” 

– Juliu Horvath

GYROTONIC® exercise is a Movement Art, like Yoga and Tai Chi. It deepens the connection with your vital energy (Chi, Ki, Prana or Mana) and awakens the intuitive wisdom of your body. GYROTONIC® exercise has unique arching, spiraling, undulating, and pulsating movements (combined with breath, rhythm and flow) that allow your body to move in ways no other exercise system does.

Find the Fluid Strength, Flexibility and EnergyLaura in Levitation on the GYROTONIC Ladder

you never new you had




A GYROTONIC® session will stretch, strengthen and lengthen your whole body in an energizing workout from head to toe. A regular GYROTONIC® practice complements other fitness activities, helping to aid in a quicker recovery time and tends to prevent sore muscles and strains. GYROTONIC® exercise enhances sports activities allowing for an expansion of dynamic stability, range of motion, and fluid grace. Professional dancers and athletes use the system to cross-train, and many of our students find it helps them to prevent as well as heal injuries and back pain. GYROTONIC® training is used world-wide in rehabilitative settings as well, making the system beneficial and enjoyable for everyone!

GYROTONIC Kona ~ Steve performing SailorIs the GYROTONIC® method different from Pilates?


Yes. Because of the use of machines, comparisons with Pilates arise. While Pilates moves in mostly straight lines and linear movements focusing on specific body parts staying still and stable while others move, GYROTONIC® principles embody the idea that there are no straight lines in nature and that everything that lives moves. Therefore GYROTONIC® movements are comprised of arcs, circles, and spirals in a continuous flow or dance of life, breath and movement.

 

The exercises are powerful, and when performed with conscious breathwork not only work all the muscles and joints, but also stimulate and massage the internal organs, leaving you with a feeling of rejuvenation and vitality! Many students comment on how good GYROTONIC® exercise feels – it’s like great bodywork, meditation and exercise all in one. And it's good for you.

        "GYROTONIC® is the first exercise program that I actually look forward to doing!" 
                                                                     ~ M.S. Kailua-Kona

 

What are the benefits of GYROTONIC® exercise?

 

  • A natural way to counterbalance the stress associated with today's way of life
  • Improves overall well being
  • Improves posture
  • Helps to control body weight and sculpts the body
  • Increases strength and flexibility
  • Releases stress and tension while energizing the body and clearing the mind
  • Is fun to do and everyone can do it!
  • Improves joint mobility and range of motion
  • Increases circulation, energy and cardiovascular health
  • Increases awareness of mind-body connection
  • Freedom and joy of movement
  • Focus is on the energetic perspective of the body
  • Follows the natural energy lines (meridians in the body) building internal and external strength through organic motion
  • Rehabilitates injuries and their compensation patterns and is useful as injury prevention
  • Increases stamina, immune system function, and helps to arrest the aging process
  • Builds functional strength which leads to improved athletic performance
  • Improves coordination and balance
  • Complements physical therapy and rehabilitation programs
  • Harmonize body, mind and spirit
 

Can GYROTONIC® exercise be practiced by anyone?

 

Yes! GYROTONIC® exercise is a low impact expansion fitness system that can be practiced by everyone regardless of age or fitness capability andGYROTONIC Kona ~ building graceful strength is ideal for anyone wishing to gain health, fitness, stamina, strength, flexibility and wellness. The exercises are taught in progressions to accommodate people at all levels of ability.


 

How do I get started?

 

We ask that you begin your practice of GYROTONIC® with private lessons in order to learn the fundamentals of this amazing system. Call GYROTONIC® Kona at 329-0005 or utilize our on line booking system to schedule your first appointment. Together, we'll get your body moving, your energy flowing, and chart the course for your ideal program to meet your individual needs.


 

The History of GYROTONIC®

 

GYROTONIC Founder Juliu HorvathThe very effective and low impact system of GYROTONIC® was developed in the mid 1980’s by Juliu Horvath, a Hungarian raised in Romania and a former ballet dancer with the New York City Opera. After experiencing many personal struggles and chronic illnesses, along with a dance career ending injury, Juliu spent many years in self-exploration and study of Yoga, acupuncture, and meditation. These experiences not only led him to true healing, but he was also inspired to create a movement system that offers the same benefits as yoga, dance, gymnastics, swimming and tai chi, but is not derived from these other exercise modalities.

 

GYROTONIC® methodology allows users to stretch and strengthen muscles, while simultaneously stimulating and strengthening connective tissues in and around the joints of the body. These exercises are synchronized with corresponding breathing patterns, thus enhancing aerobic and cardiovascular stimulation and promoting neuro-muscular rejuvenation. The circular, spiraling and undulating movements that characterize the GYROTONIC EXPANSION SYSTEM® help to increase the functional capacity of the spine, contributing to a spherical and three-dimensional awareness, resulting in increased equilibrium.

 

Please visit www.gyrotonic.com to learn more about Juliu Horvath, location of studios worldwide, along with the path to certification.

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