NY Spirals Spring Event
GYROTONIC LAB
TUESDAY MAY 22nd
8:15 - 9:45 PM
THE QUADRICEPS AND KNEES
Learn creative and innovative ways to address the leg - focusing on the quadriceps muscles AND protecting the knees. MANY exercises will be taught, with time for all participants to EXPERIENCE.
Walk out with a whole new bag of tricks for the legs!
Cost: $10 – members
$15 – non-members
NY Spirals renewal: $15
Guest Teacher
Lisa DelSignore owns and managees Fluid Fitness. She began her GYROTONIC® work in 1989 while recuperating from a dance-related back injury. During this time, she studied with the creator of the system, Juliu Horvarth and master trainer Hilary Cartwright. In 2000, Lisa received her GYROTONIC® instructor certification. She is also certified in GYROKINESIS®, Jumping-Stretching Board, Leg Extension Unit, Gyrotoner®, Ladder and Archway. Lisa continues to expand her knowledge through periodic training updates and complimentary techniques.
Open only to Gyrotonic® or Gyrokinesis® Teachers
212-278-8330
Power Plate® Reviewed at Dr. Mercola's Website
"Russian Invention Blasts Away Excess Belly Pounds Twice as Fast..."
Here's an excerpt from Mercola.com about the benefits of Power Plate.
Click here to read the whole article.
How the Power Plate Works
The Power Plate works by vibrating in three-dimensions, or three planes: vertical, horizontal and sagittal (front to back). If you have ever been in an earthquake, you have experienced this sort of complex motion—right and left, front and back, and up and down—it's very hard to stand up in an earthquake! But the Power Plate moves very quickly (25 to 50 times per second) across very small distances (one to two millimeters), so you aren't knocked off balance, but just enough that your muscles must accommodate.
When the Power Plate vibrates up and down, your muscle tone improves.
Left to right and front to back movements improves your balance and coordination.
So the net result is a dramatic improvement in strength and power, flexibility, balance, tone and leanness—for starters.
When you stand on the vibrating Power Plate, each muscle in your body reacts in a continuous flow of micro adjustments, contracting reflexively. Just like when your leg automatically jerks after your physician taps it with his reflex hammer, your muscles react automatically to the Power Plate's vibrations—25 to 50 times per second.
Stimulating your muscles and nerves this way results in more work being done by your body in a shorter period of time—with FAR greater recruitment of your muscle fibers.
Think about it...
If you apply 30 Hertz (30 cycles per second) for 30 seconds, you are triggering/stimulating your neuromuscular system a total of 900 times in just half a minute. This means you can train to athlete status with about 12-25 minutes of Acceleration Training, three days a week.
Hilary Cartwright in Dance Teacher Magazine
How I Teach Yoga for Dancers
In this article in Dance Teacher Magazine, Gyrotonic guru and Yoga for Dancers creator Hilary Cartwright speaks about the benefit of somatic practice. Click here to read the whole article!
You can also watch a video where she demonstrates two exercises to develop students' arabesques. Targeting the hamstrings, deep rotators hips and psoas muscles, these exercises can be added direcly to dancers' daily classes. Click here to watch!
