“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  (pictured at right)
Feng Shui Master Practitioner, Consultant, Educator
Kailua-Kona Hawai'i

The word GYROTONIC® comes from the words "gyro" (meaning spiral or circle) and "tonic" (meaning to tone or invigorate). GYROTONIC® exercise is a Movement Art, like Yoga and Tai Chi. As such, it deepens the connection with your vital energy (Chi, Ki, Prana or Mana) and awakens the organic and intuitive wisdom of your body.

"I turn the handles and feel the motion flow through my neck, spine and joints in a circular undulating pattern. Arching and curling, twisting and turning, I feel my movements on the Gyrotonic Tower slowly unwinding the day's tension. Breathing deeply, I feel my mind calming, in rhythm with the peaceful wave of this dynamic yet tranquil method of exercise."

~ Conscious Dancer Magazine, Spring 2010

GYROTONIC® exercise is performed on unique and beautiful hand-crafted wooden equipment (pictured at right) which offers both support and the resistance of water. Exercising on the equipment provides similar benefits as yoga and swimming (producing long lean strong muscles and increased flexibility). Exercises include unique arching, spiraling, curling, and undulating movements (combined with breath, rhythm and flow) 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, while allowing your body to move in ways no other exercise system does.

Our beautiful Studio 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.

GYROTONIC® exercise...your source of infinite possibilities

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!

“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 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 ®.

Core Benefits

• Promotes long, strong, lean muscles
• Builds profound core strength
  
• Increases flexibility, coordination, and balance
• Enhances joint mobility and articulation
• Frees the body of pain and restrictions
• Sharpens mental focus
• Alleviates poor posture and restores structural integrity through the application of alignment principles
• Restores proper body function and integration of all systems: muscular, skeletal, respiratory, circulatory, nervous
• Increases circulation of blood, lymphatic fluids, and energy
• Strengthens the nervous system
• Compliments/supplements physical therapy and other rehabilitative body work
• Helps prevent osteoporosis (helps you build bone)
  
• Helps to slow the aging process through mental and physical stimulation and regeneration
• Enhances any form of exercise, sport, or performing art
• The Bottom Line: GYROTONIC exercise will improve the overall quality of your life

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

What makes GYROTONIC exercise unique?     It's Modern & Organic...

 

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. Each movement in the system has a natural and organic feel to it, a sense that your body already knows how to make these movements. With how GOOD this work feels in your body, it's amazing to think you're actually exercising.


In line with 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:

Can GYROTONIC® exercise be practiced by anyone?

 

Yes! GYROTONIC® exercise is a non-impact fitness method that 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. The GYROTONIC® methodology is a 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! This amazing system that can be practiced by everyone regardless of age or fitness capability and 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.

A GYROTONIC® exercise practice can be a stand alone fitness method, or used to greatly enhance your other physical activities (paddling, surfing, a gym workout, martial arts, dance, Yoga, golf, tennis, playing with the kids, life).

How do I get started?

 

We ask that every new client begin their GYROTONIC® exercise practice with a series of private lessons in order to learn the fundamentals of this amazing system. Please visit our Getting Started page for details. Together, we'll get your body moving, your energy flowing, and chart the course for your ideal program to meet your individual needs.

Explore specific types of GYROTONIC® training benefits

 

Benefits for healthy aging

 

GYROTONIC® exercise provides the ideal workout system for seniors or anyone else seeking more vitality, youthful suppleness, and energy as they age. The passage of time and the pressures of gravity often leave the body with chronic pain and stiffness. Along with poor posture and a lack of joint mobility these symptoms are generally accepted as automatic conditions of aging. But they don't have to be.

Specialized workouts for your needs
We'll work with you to design a GYROTONIC® program that will sustain your long-term health and vitality while keeping you lean, strong and smiling as you move forward through time. We can work with you to:

• Minimize the impact of arthritis
• Alleviate back pain and neck stiffness
• Maintain (or regain) your upright and youthful posture
• Create great mobility in place of hip and knee pain
• Improve overall joint problems and flexibility
• Contribute to the prevention and management of Osteoporosis
• Build internal strength
• Cultivate a healthier, sharper focus and mindfulness

 

Benefits for Core & Full Body Fitness

GYROTONIC® exercise offers a complete system of fitness conditioning. Our GYROTONIC® programs are so versatile they can either stand alone as the physical component of your healthy lifestyle or act as the perfect complement to your fitness cross-training program. By implementing a program of GYROTONIC® exercise you can:

• Gain peak strength while maintaining maximum flexibility
• Develop optimal core and spine strength and mobility
• Get longer, leaner, stronger, and toned muscles
• Reduce your risk of injury
• Enhance your athletic endeavors and day-to-day activities
• Experience an increase in WANTING to exercise

Custom for All Clients
Our programs allow people with all levels of physical training and abilities to benefit. Each client receives a custom designed program to help you meet your goals and keep your exercise plan fresh and inspiring for a lifetime.

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Benefits for Rehabilitation & Relief

GYROTONIC® exercise sessions are

whole-body and intelligent workouts that provide a natural bridge between rehabilitation and full recovery. Where standard rehabilitation methods have an isolated focus on just the injured or affected areas of the body, as licensed therapists we can work along side your physical therapist to ensure continuity as you transition to the more integrated full-body approach required to progress.

Whether tight or torn muscles, tendons, ligaments, or joint inflexibility or bone weakness are at the cause, the GYROTONIC® system can offer an intelligent and safe method of working out that encourages your body as it heals.

• Learn to activate core stabilizing muscles
• Learn to move “from your core” to allow for safer movements while you heal
• Prevent re-injury or further injuries
• Increase range of motion and decrease pain
• Improve overall function
• Have FUN while you learn about your body and make your way back to full functioning
  

Our rehabilitation clients, once released from physical therapy, have successfully transitioned to our other programs with ease and grace.

Empowering & Inspiring
Laura and Steve (our Movement Therapists) can help craft a specialized series of therapeutic exercises designed to treat your individual and specific problem with the private attention you need to fully recover.

You become empowered as you actively contribute to your healing process, and inspired as you progress to wellness.

Steve and Laura both have advanced rehabilitation training in manual therapy, including  GYROTONIC® and Pilates. In fact, Laura and Steve have both recovered from debilitating injuries and surgeries with their own programs of Pilates and GYROTONIC®. We understand injury and we understand recovery. Let us help you on the path.

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Benefits for Athletes & Movement Professionals

No matter what your sport or activity is, our expert GYROTONIC® trainers can design a program specific to your individual needs and goals. GYROTONIC® training will integrate your strength and increase your flexibility. As your body learns to move and respond with intelligence, ease and grace, your performance is enhanced and your risk of injury, whether chronic or acute, is greatly decreased.

For Athletes
The addition of GYROTONIC® exercise to your current training regime creates a cross-training approach, a proven way to get the results you are looking for to keep you at the top of your game!

GYROTONIC® exercise can challenge and progress you through an entire spectrum:

• Weight based training that mimics your sport or activity so you become stronger and more efficient in that scenario (we’ve trained surfers, dancers, martial artists, paddlers, football players, baseball players, basketball players, scuba divers, tennis players, and of course, golfers).
• Re-calibrates your body to alleviate any chronic ailments that result from asymmetrical and/or repetitive movements
• Perfect for improving mechanics and body awareness for golfers, skiers, and tennis players
• Ideal for integrating strength with flexibility for runners, swimmers, gymnasts, martial artists, and dancers
  

For Golfers

GYROTONIC® has been used by top golfers (and their pros) for years. Did you know that Tiger Woods switched from Pilates to GYROTONIC®? The benefits of GYROTONIC® training include:

• Increased spinal flexibility and strength = improvement in your swing
• Improved shoulder mobility = greater shoulder turn
• Greater hip mobility and stability = greater hip turn and power
• Long and lean muscle development
• Full articulation of every joint = balance throughout the body
• Better posture in neutral  = better address and swing
• Relief and prevention of chronic injuries
  

Laura and Steve have received special training in working with Golfers to improve their game. Why not improve yours?

For Dancers
GYROTONIC® was actually originally designed for dancers. Professional dancers from all over the world have been receiving the benefits of GYROTONIC® training for years and years. Including:

• Increased spinal flexibility and strength
  
• Excellent cross-training (you can only dance so many hours a day)
  
• Greater coordination and grace 
• Long and lean muscle development
• Full articulation of every joint 
• Alignment correction
• Relief and prevention of chronic injuries
  

Previously a professional Hula dancer and now professional BellyDancer, Laura offers specialized "Inner Dancer" group and private sessions to help both the pre and professional dancer (of all forms of dance) to enhance their art, as well as helping the non professional dancer (even those with two left feet) find the joy, love and freedom that dance offers.

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GYROTONIC® exercise...your source of infinite possibilities