Seattle Changing Room - Offering Gyrotonic and Gyrokinesis Training

This week’s trainer spotlight on Kim!

My favorite exercises keeps changing. I’ve been doing Gyrokinesis since 2002, so every decade my body wants different openings. The awakening series for neck, shoulders, hands, and feet brought me to GK. I’m always on the lookout for awesome hand and foot exercises. Side arches are my current exercise of choice.

I am a fiber artist, so flexible and healthy hands and spine keep me in my creative flow.

Come join my Monday 10:00 AM all-levels Gyrotonic class. It is perfect for people coming back to the Gyrotonic practice after a hiatus.

This weeks trainer spotlight is Erica!

“Gyrokinesis spinal motions with arm movements was what helped my skeptical teenage self fall in with love Gyrotonic.

Through imagery in free space, I started to feel the support my body needed to be doing for itself on the equipment. It also transformed my approach to ballet, and helped me through many injuries.

A decade later, the Archway course added another level of challenge and fun, requiring even deeper internal connections in order to navigate my body hanging in gravity, which I now take with me into all Gyrotonic movements.

I am a contemporary dancer, student of aikido, and youth aikido and dance instructor. I believe that all movement modalities have value, and I love to see how they overlap and influence each other to make well-rounded movers and human beings.

I’m working to build a youth movement school.

Follow the journey

I currently lead an all-levels Gyrotonic class at 5:00 on Tuesdays.”

This week’s trainer spotlight is: Jessica!

What exercise made you first fall in love with gyro?

“I always liked the exercises behind the body, like shoulder release, or arms spiralling behind in the arch & curl series.

Those exercises really messed with my brain (since my eyes could not help) and I had to learn how to feel into the movement. It’s such a great way to learn to trust your body!

Fun Fact:

One of my favorite hobbies is being a Tango DJ. I studied music as a kid, and kept doing music stuff throughout my life. Being a DJ is the most recent (and fulfilling) chapter.

Jessica offers evening and weekend sessions. “I would say an overarching theme of sessions with me is humor. This work is fun!”

This week’s spotlight: Elaine!

As the current managing owner of Seattle Changing Room, Elaine is deeply committed to keeping the studio’s warm, welcoming feel at the heart of everything. “I want it to feel like a calming and supportive space for clients and staff alike from the moment they walk in. I love our client community and want everyone to feel accepted and cared for here. Our trainers are truly top-notch. They bring so much care and attention to each person they work with.” Elaine especially enjoys witnessing the transformations that unfold over time through the GYROTONIC® Method. “Seeing that ‘aha!’ moment … that realization that they can do more than they believed … never gets old.”

Up next for trainer spotlight: Marissa!

Favorite Exercise: The exercise that made me fall in love with Gyrotonic was a simple Single Leg Bicycle. A super slow Single Leg Bicycle is still the first thing I crave in my personal practice, nothing steadies my pelvis and settles my femur in the socket quite like it! It brings an immediate sense of grounding to my whole nervous system.

Offerings: Join Marissa on Friday May 1st 5-6pm for a ONE TIME POP UP CLASS!! Open to all levels. Use promo code “MeetMarissa” when registering for $10 off of regular class price

Fun Fact: Marissa has lived on 3 continents.

Continuing our trainer spotlight series, up next: Michele Curtis!

*Michele has two sweet pups (Lura and Lasso) who love to get pets during Gyrotonic private sessions.

*Michele is a massage therapist of over 30 years

*Michele is an herbalist and is currently in an 8 month meditation certification program.

*Michele loves to dance and explore the forest on hikes

A huge thank you to the incomparable for an enlightening weekend of experiential anatomy, proprioceptive awakening, movement and TACOS! (IYKYK). Domini, your knowledge, wisdom, generosity, enthusiasm, and humor made the J.E.D.I. Spine Tricks weekend a singularly fabulous experience. Thanks so much and we’d love to have you come again!

Congratulations to this fabulous group who just completed their GYROTONIC Apprentice Review course! Thanks to Master Trainer from for leading us through it all! ®️

Congratulations to Seattle's newest GYROTONIC Apprentice trainers! Alice, Cathy, Fang, Lyydia, Mariko, RJ, Roz, Sharon, Yi were all stellar students in our GYROTONIC Foundation course with the amazingly wonderful ! Thanks to the lovely Karen Grady from for collaborating to bring together all these wonderful people. And congrats to our very own Elaine Shen for completing the course to become a GYROTONIC Pre-Trainer! We celebrated our certificates with flowers, food, and sparkling wine from . Work with our new apprentices at Pivot Movement Studio in Bellevue and Seattle Changing Room in Seattle!

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Congratulations to this fabulous group of trainers and many thanks to the amazing Christina Stroh for sharing her experiences, expertise and wisdom in the GYROTONIC(R) Pre and Post Natal Applications course this past weekend! We’ve all been introducing the material to our clients here at Seattle Changing Room - so useful for so many clients, whether or not they are pregnant or postpartum. Can’t recommend this course enough!