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Awareness and Imagination: The GYROKINESIS® Method from a Wheelchair
Blog Content // Interviews // Testimonial // July 19, 2023
Liz Winkelaar is a Gyrokinesis Trainer, choreographer and dancer. She earned a Master’s degree in Canadian Studies at Carleton University, leading to an interest in Disability Art and Culture and to Propeller Dance. In addition to dancing in Propeller Dance’s company, she has taught outreach workshops for Propeller, assisted with the children’s program, and pioneered […]
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Overcoming Long-Haul Covid through the GYROKINESIS® Method
Blog Content // Testimonial // June 21, 2023
In 2020 we spoke with Master Trainer Miriam Barbosa about her traumatic experience of contracting Covid-19 in the early days of the pandemic. Coupled with pre-existing medical conditions, it was a harrowing time. However, Juliu Horvath, creator of the Gyrotonic and Gyrokinesis Methods, gave her a specific breathing protocol, to which she attributes much of […]
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Finding the GYROTONIC® Method 10 Years After a Stroke
Blog Content // Interviews // Testimonial // June 07, 2023
Mark Hartman was an executive in the hotel development sector, an avid daily runner, and just about to retire when he had a stroke that left him debilitated on his left side. After years of working to improve, he found the Gyrotonic Method in Springfield, Missouri. The work has had such a positive impact on […]
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Complementing your Pilates Practice with the GYROTONIC® Method
Blog Content // Education // Interviews // Testimonial // Tips for Trainers // February 03, 2023
4 highly-credentialed movement professionals share their experiences What do you get when you sit down to talk about movement with highly credentialed movement professionals, Dawnna Wayburne, Julie Cordier, Miriam Friedrich-Honorio, and Angela Crowley? Inspired is the first word that comes to mind, but we’re not sure that totally captures the experience, the wisdom, and the […]
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Training and Teaching with Physical Limitations
Blog Content // Interviews // Testimonial // October 24, 2022
Cina Canada, GYROTONIC® Headquarters Media Coordinator, sat down for a conversation with Gyrotonic Trainer Chandler Moore Sanders about her journey as a movement professional and teaching with a physical limitation. In this interview, she shares about the role that teaching the GYROTONIC® Method has played in her life and how her limited vision has in […]
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Movement Professional Finds Fresh Inspiration in GYROTONIC® Education
Blog Content // Interviews // Testimonial // September 13, 2022
GYROTONIC® Trainer Chandler Moore Sanders, has always been a lover of movement. Cina Canada, Gyrotonic Headquarters Media Coordinator, sat down for a conversation with Chandler about her journey as a movement professional. In this interview, she shares about how she discovered the GYROTONIC® and GYROKINESIS® Methods and how this system expanded her teaching repertoire. You […]
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An Olympic Runner’s Perspective on Training with the GYROTONIC® Method
Blog Content // Interviews // Testimonial // December 21, 2021
Olympic runner Steven Solomon discovered the GYROTONIC® Method through Master Trainer Erika Parisi in Sydney, Australia. We were able to get on a call with Steven shortly after he competed in the 2021 Tokyo games to ask how this work has helped improve his running. We also did a follow up interview with his trainer, […]
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A GYROTONIC® Master Trainer’s Perspective on Training with Olympic Runners
Blog Content // Testimonial // Tips for Trainers // December 21, 2021
GYROTONIC® Master Trainer, Erika Parisi, has first-hand experience with and insights into working with athletes. She comes from a dance background and began working with Olympic runner Steven Solomon nearly two years before the 2021 games in Tokyo. She shares her approach to working at this level with a professional runner and how other athletes […]
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Dancing with Covid
Blog Content // Testimonial // August 26, 2020
By Miriam Barbosa I am the founder of Miriam Barbosa Dance as Artistic Director, Dancer, and Choreographer. I am also a GYROTONIC® and GYROKINESIS® Master Trainer and a former Martha Graham Dancer. When I was a teenager, I had numerous episodes of tachycardia, a rapid heartbeat of more than 100 beats per minute. During this time, […]
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Why I Practice the GYROTONIC® and GYROKINESIS® Methods
Blog Content // Testimonial // June 19, 2020
Why I practice the GYROTONIC® and GYROKINESIS® Methods by Master Trainer Rich O’Connor My Body Feels Amazing It’s Functional I’m Not a Zealot It’s Rewarding It’s Empowering When I started my Gyrotonic journey, I was very strong from years of hard training, and heavy lifting, but I was horribly tight and inflexible. I could not […]
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