Keli Fine, Gyrotonic® Master Instructor

Keli Fine began her Gyrotonic training in New York City in the late 1980s with the first Gyrotonic studio. After returning home to San Francisco and pioneering one of the first satellite studios she continued her studies with Juliu Horvath on both coast. Currently based in Sonoma, California she travels and teaches worldwide conducting workshops and teacher training.

Yoga and dance were the main influences of early life. Keli spent twelve years participating in the first Yoga center in San Francisco, leaning toward the expressive and esoteric qualities of movement. She then focused on a career as a choreographer using Gyrotonic as an inspiration for her work.

During the past 15 years Keli has renewed her love for Yogic practices, studying with world-renowned teachers Ramanand Patel and Kofi Busia, as well as continuing to study with Juliu. Keli is known for her ability to guide and inspire her students to move beyond limitation into freedom, passing on the love and knowledge she has received from her teachers.

Email: kelifine@hotmail.com
Phone: 415-310-2133

2005 schedule

See descriptions of courses below schedule

January 17-21 Client Intensive, Sonoma

January 29 & 30 Apprentice weekend review, Sonoma (Sat./Sun. 11:30am-6:30pm)

February 13-24 Gyrotonic Foundation Teacher Training , Zurich Switzerland
Contact: Raphael Brand raphael@muladhara.ch

February 25-27 Gyrotonic Jumping Stretching Board Pre Training, Bern Switzerland
Contact: nina f. schneider on.offwerkstatt@tiscalinet.ch

March 1-3 Gyrotonic Ladder Teacher Training, Bern Switzerland
Contact: nina f. schneider on.offwerkstatt@tiscalinet.ch

March 7-12 Gyrotonic Jumping Stretching Board Teacher Training, Bern Switzerland
Contact: Nina f. Schneider on.offwerkstatt@tiscalinet.ch

April 21& 22 Apprentice Review (Thurs. Fri. 1-4pm), Sonoma

May 2-7 Client Intensive, Sonoma

May 9-13 Client Intensive, Sonoma

May 16-20 Client Intensive, Sonoma

May 23- June 22 Private Client schedule at Studio M, Sonoma (M,T,W,&F)

June 3-5  Certified Teacher Update, Sonoma

June 18 & 19 Apprentice weekend review, Sonoma (Sat./Sun. 11:30am-6:30pm)

August 27-28 Apprentice weekend review, Sonoma (Sat./Sun. 11:30am-6:30pm)

September 19-23 Client Intensive, Sonoma

September 25-30 Gyrotonic Level 2 preparation, Sonoma

October 1, 2005   -   June 2006  -  Teaching in India & Europe
You can contact Keli while she is away by emailing to  kelifine@hotmail.com

2006 schedule  TBA

For all sessions and registration in Sonoma at Studio M.
call Jane for scheduling: 707-938-5593 or email: kelifine@studiompilates.com

Gyrotonic Foundation Teacher Training
Course specifics and details on becoming a teacher see: www.gyrotonic.com/certification.htm

Client Intensives
Client Intensives are open to certified teachers and apprentices as well as clients who have already had a session with me. We will work for five consecutive days of either privates or semi-privates. The focus of the work for the week is to be decided according to each person’s goals.

Last year I tried these intensives as an experiment and the results were so incredible that they have become one of the main staples in my schedule.

Apprentice Reviews
Apprentice reviews are open to students who have gone through the Foundation teacher training. Some of them are just afternoons and some are full days or weekends.The full days usually start with Gyrokinesis®. The machine review is applicable to the apprentice hours required for certification.

Level II Preparation
Level II Preparation is a 6-day course designed to prepare you to take Juliu’s Level II Teacher Training.You will learn to give yourself an advanced workout.

Gyrotonic Ladder Teacher Training
Remodeled from the original wooden ladder that was used in Juliu’s first studio in the Eighties, the Ladder has undergone several incarnations. Today it has been transformed into a dynamic piece of Gyrotonic apparatus. The Ladder gives us that extra support to open and strengthen hard to reach areas while instantaneously integrating newly found strength and flexibility within the whole body.

Using gravity to work for our benefit, the Ladder has a supporting rung that supports any gravitational position we would like to work in. Once mastered, the Ladder lets us sweep from forward bends to backbends or from side to side in a single fluid movement using gravity as the resistance.

There is nothing similar to the Ladder and its various innovative exercises. The way it can open the upper chest and thoracic areas is unsurpassed. Using the adjustable hand loops, any part of the spine can be leveraged open using the supporting rung. Exercises are designed to offer us full control over the amount of force used to facilitate these openings.

The approach to leg work is also totally unique. Using the rung and support bars, the entire back is elongated and stabilized between the front and back of the Ladder. This creates a strength position from which to move the legs through space--imagine doing the hamstring series facing downward with the legs suspended about four feet off the floor.

Once familiar with the Ladder, students will be able to integrate it into a workout using other equipment or complete the entire repertoire as a full workout.The effect is absolutely invigorating.

Jumping Stretching Board Pre-Training and Teacher Training
The Jumping Stretching board was part of Juliu’s original patent, combining several components into one machine.Subsequently the Jumping Stretching board was made into a separate unit. The latest version utilizes sliding discs on tracks, a jumping baseboard that adjusts to simulate the position of real jumping, and parallel bars for assisted traction, balance and airborne leg work.Using the same Gyrotonic principles learned in the foundation course, the choreography coupled with the geometry of the positions compels the user to move from “center strength”. Moving deeper into joints and connecting slow and dynamic movements while weight bearing not only builds super strength, but also squeezes out impurities from the deepest level.

The Jumping exercises and their preliminaries are ideal for developing perfect alignment in the legs and build endurance for aerobic work. Although the Jumping Stretching board program takes us to the next level of strength and flexibility, it also contains rehabilitative exercises for the pelvis, knees, feet, shoulders, and hips.

The pre-training will focus on helping students to understand and practice the first level of exercises

The teacher training will deepen that experience as well as add new exercises and different approaches for teaching.

After completing the Sliding board Teacher Training each student will be able to incorporate the Jumping Stretching board into a workout in conjunction with the tower handle unit or create a workout from start to finish using only the Jumping Stretching Board.

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