GYROTONIC®
A Different Approach to Movement
GYROTONIC® is a cutting-edge movement method that seamlessly blends art with specialized equipment that includes both weights and pulleys. It draws inspiration from yoga, dance, swimming, and tai chi to create a dynamic and fluid exercise system.
This unique approach combines circular and spiraling movements, allowing your body to move freely and gracefully in all directions. Through precise and flowing exercises, this methodology stimulates all the biological systems in the body. It creates space and lubricates joints, increases circulation of blood and lymphatic fluids throughout the body, strengthens muscles, relieves stress, and promotes an overall sense of wellbeing.
Advanced Body Conditioning
As an Athlete or a Dancer, when you immerse yourself in the GYROTONIC® world, prepare to witness an array of astounding benefits in your performance as it will unlock newfound vitality, improve your posture, help you avoid injuries, enhance your coordination, and balance and cultivate a deeper mind-body connection.
With GYROTONIC®, you will experience enhanced flexibility, toned and long muscles, reduced tension, and increased range of motion – all while relishing a sense of inner harmony.
Therapeutic Benefits
GYROTONIC®’s brilliance extends beyond fitness; it shines in the realm of therapeutic applications, and this is the reason why GYROTONIC® is the ideal therapy for such ailments as arthritis and joint pain, osteoporosis, tendonitis, sleep apnea, insomnia, spinal conditions, foot & hand injuries, neck pain, shoulder injuries and lower back pain. GYROTONIC® strengthens the nervous system by using the breath to stimulate movement, helping that way even people with Parkinson’s Disease. It helps to slow the aging process through mental and physical stimulation and regeneration.
Whether you seek rehabilitation from an injury or desire to alleviate chronic discomfort, GYROTONIC®, can be tailored to meet your unique requirements, free your body of pain and restrictions and minimize daily discomfort by decompressing the joints, guiding you gently towards healing and renewal.
KNÓSIS partners with Privateloft.nyc for GYROTONIC® Services within KNÓSIS Space.
GYROKINESIS®
While GYROTONIC® involves equipment; GYROKINESIS® is practiced during mat floor classes using also a specialized stool that provides support to the spine.
GYROKINESIS® classes typically include learning self-massage, movements and corresponding breathing patterns, called “awakening of the senses.”. It then progresses through a series of spinal motions that mobilize the spine and pelvis through arching, curling, bending, twisting, and spiraling.
These movement patterns are repeated in other areas of the body to release the joints of the arms and legs in all possible directions. Some of the movements are performed on low stools, while others are done lying down, sitting, or standing.
By the end of a GYROKINESIS® class, you have completed roughly 100 different movements that leave your body feeling like it just had a full body massage. You may be relaxed, but for the duration of the class, you will have an intense workout that will make you sweat (if the trainer decides to lead you there). You never hold a position for long but work at creating a fluid connection between the postures, creating an invigorating and toning dance.
GYROKINESIS® will help you liberate your body through a series of flowing circular movements that create space in your joints, invigorate your muscles, and elevate your spirit.
Experience the captivating harmonious allure of GYROKINESIS® at Private Loft @ KNÓSIS , where movement becomes a symphony of elegance and your wellbeing takes center stage.
KNÓSIS partners with Privateloft.nyc for GYROKINESIS® Services within KNÓSIS Space.
Meet Angeliki
Master GYROTONIC® & GYROKINESIS® Instructor / Founder of Private Loft
Angeliki Karamina has been practicing GYROTONIC® since 2007. She has been certified by the best and most well-known Master Trainers and has taught more than 4,000 people over her teaching career.
What really makes her unique is her ability to make the method approachable even to people who thought they could never love exercise.
She loves to listen to your specific needs and makes you feel comfortable with your body, no matter what the case is. Her thorough teaching has made her students follow her over the years around the world.
Expertise
She is well known for her vast experience in Therapeutic Applications such as:
Pelvic Floor
Shoulder Gridle
Knee Injuries
Spinal Conditions
As well as her expertise in Biomechanics, Alignment, Kinesiology and Pre & Post Natal.
Her love of movement as healing began after 20+ years of dancing and dance-related injuries, leaving her unable to continue performing professionally. Her wellness journey started when she discovered the deeply transformative and empowering practices of both GYROTONIC® and GYROKINESIS®.
As a Movement Artisan, Angeliki started her career as a dancer in the Royal Academy of Dance in London. She continued as an accomplished performer of Modern Dance- Limón technique at New York City’s leading Peridance Capezio Dance Center. In addition to her dancing career, Angeliki has a Bachelor's in Physical Education and Sports Science from the National Kapodistrian University of Greece with a Specialty in Olympic Games.
In 2011 she founded Living Room SoHo, a renowned Gyrotonic Studio located in the heart of Soho, which was awarded in 2012 as one of the best wellness establishments in the New York City area. Living Room SoHo was well known for its highly-educated trainers, excellent customer service and the unique ambiance and decoration. It was a hub for the whole Gyrotonic community and became a global academic hot spot, since most famous Master Trainers chose to teach their educational courses, under Angeliki Karamina’s management.
A concept created in 2017 that combines bespoke mindful wellness services and eclectic aesthetics. Spaces that go beyond the traditional workout establishments and provide personalized holistic experiences. An integrated mind and body approach to wellness that brings together the deep knowledge and experience of a team of professionals from different fields. Private Loft provides its exclusive services to prestigious venues around the world as well as at private residencies of many celebrities and renowned business leaders. In 2023 Private Loft welcomes New York City in two locations aiming to help clients rediscover their bodies and inspire them to improve the quality of their lives.
Philosophy
Angeliki’s passion for the method and her students inspire her daily.
Her greatest wish and motivation is to share the affirming and inspiring truth with others, that you don’t have to be “perfect”.
She seeks to help her clients relax both their bodies and their expectations of themselves and to offer them the space to arrive at their own definition of what it means to be a valid and valuable human being.