The GYROTONIC® Method

Gyrotonic Pulley Tower

This is the main piece of equipment which consists of a bench handle unit and a tower pulley system. The circular dials give the mover a closed chain connection through the limbs when executing spinal motions. The bench and dials are also fully adjustable, including tension, with smooth feedback. The pulley system on the tower has adjustable heights, with upper and lower straps and adjustable weights. Because it is a pulley system vs. springs such as on pilates equipment, you will experience the same tension throughout your movement, regardless of where you are in space. Exercises can be concentric or eccentric, smooth without jarring, allowing for complete 3-dimensional movement. The feedback of the pulley system is excellent for neurological applications. 

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Gyrotonic Jumping Stretching Board

This piece of equipment provides movers with an opportunity to work kneeling, lying, sitting, standing, crawling, in plank positions, sliding, turning, jumping, hanging, and more. It has a propeller with swivel discs, independent sliders, and cushioned swivel disc sliders. There are pulleys with straps for added options. The feedback of sliding and reaching into infinity is calming and challenging in gravity allowing for thoracic mobility fairly quickly-- integrating shoulder and hip pathways, releasing fascial tension so often found in these areas. The jumping feels free and fluid with a little less gravity, allowing for attention to how we land and connect the whole kinetic chain, engaging our core. 

 

Gyrotonic Leg Extension Unit

This piece of equipment facilitates functional movement utilizing upper and lower body coordination, with a patented cam mechanism that grows with your leg elongation and reach. The resistance is adjustable and can be modified for therapeutic work, with the opportunity for cross-lateral movement and major articulation and strengthening of the feet and ankle joints. Exercises include sitting upright, supine, or prone with legwork. There is an attachment for the Gyrotonic "wingmaster" to the pulley system for yet even more options for coordination of upper and lower body connections, both strengthening and expanding. Exercises utilize the whole body for very challenging core strengthening through the limbs and amazing posterior chain activation--back and hamstring strengthening that really allows for elongation without compression. 

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Gyrotonic GYROTONER®

This piece of equipment allows for handle and dial work on just about any verticle or horizontal plane, overhead for standing or sitting work, and has circular dials for the legs/feet allowing for smooth and fluid 3-dimensional hip mobility. It is totally transformable and adjustable for anyone. One can pitch, bicycle, sideways wave, reverse shoulder release, lunge, squat, and more with amazing fine articulation of the arms, wrists, hands, and fingers. This is a wonderful piece of therapeutic equipment that can modify for the smallest of movements or large, core connecting, dynamic movement!

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Gyrotonic Archway

This jungle gym-looking piece of equipment can be both humbling and gratifying! Hang by your hands and strengthen your grip while doing spinal motions, hang upside down doing spinal motions over a bolster, swing, flip, turn, suspend, and more, exploring how gravity can both help and challenge our connections. It can be the most physically demanding piece of equipment, and also very therapeutic with more simple exercises, accessible by many.