Specialties
If you love yoga and Pilates, you'll really love the Gyrotonic® & Gyokinesis® Expansion System. Gyrokinesis, what used to be called Yoga For Dancers, teaches you how to engage your entire body in each and every exercise. It strengthens your entire system in a way you've never felt before. At my warm, bright, nurturing home studio north of Montana Avenue in Santa Monica you will receive Gyrotonic® private instruction and/or Gyrokinesis® group classes. I am a licensed Gyrotonic and Gyrokinesis Pre-trainer. While re-discovering and strengthening your deepest core musculature, I will teach you how to elongate, support and move your spine in all directions, creating vitality throughout your entire body. You may come in fatigued but you will leave enlivened! By focusing on proper alignment, this system unravels muscular tensions and unearths imbalances using rhythmic movement and breathing patterns. You begin to feel full engagement in your body which you will bring to your favorite sport and everyday life. As well as a Gyrotonic tower, I have specialty equipment including a Jumping Stretching Board and Leg Extension Unit. I offer Gyrotonic & Gyrokinesis Pre-trainings throughout the year, and also host Master Trainers for Gyrotonic & Gyrokinesis workshops.
History
Established in 2011.
I discovered Gyrotonic movement in 2006. I got married in 1993 and after having 2 sons in my early 40's began having chronic hip pain in my yoga practice and running. I explored many healing modalities without relief, until I got on the Gyrotonic tower. I discovered all sorts of imbalances in my body and as a teacher continue to explore these problems as a way of helping other people unravel their own weaknesses and strengths. As a Gyrotonic and Gyrokinesis pre-trainer I love giving people who want to learn how to teach this movement system an even deeper experience.
Meet the Business Owner: Patrie S.
A runner since high school, I discovered Gyrotonic Movement in 2006 to seek relief from chronic hip pain. I tried yoga, Pilates, physical therapy, and many other movement modalities, without success. The minute I tried Gyrotonic movement I felt immediate relief and threw myself into the study of all things Gyrotonic. In my desire to share this work with others I became a certified Gyrotonic & Gyrokinesis Level I Pre-trainer and am also certified to teach Gyrotonic Level II, Jumping Stretching Board, Archway, Leg Extension Unit, Gyrotoner, Therapeutic Applications for Scoliosis, Shoulder and Pelvic Girdle and Breast Cancer Survivors. I opened my home studio, Core Radiance Gyrotonic, 6 years ago. As well as a Gyrotonic Tower, I have a Jumping Stretching Board and Leg Extension Unit. I had a successful acting and singing career from 1976-1991, married for 24 years and we have raised 2 sons, ages 21 & 23.
