Roseann Baker

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In this class, we’ll explore breath as a guide for movement—spiraling, undulating, and expanding the spine in rhythm with inhalation and exhalation. Through three-dimensional breathing and eccentric activation, we’ll cultivate strength through length, creating a spine that feels both lifted and f...

In this class, through movements unique to the GYROKINESIS® Method, we’ll explore the relationship between the sacrum and the skull, and how aligning these two ends of the spine allows the whole system to harmonize. As we work with breath and gentle traction, we’ll encourage decompression through...

In this class, we’ll explore creating vertebral freedom—releasing fascial restrictions while inviting space between each vertebra. Through mindful movement and eccentric elongation, we’ll stimulate hydration in the discs and surrounding fascia, restoring the spine’s natural buoyancy. Whether you’...

In this class, we explore the power of contrast in the body to build dynamic spinal strength and support. Through fluid movements and breath, we engage deep core muscles—like the psoas, diaphragm, and pelvic floor—while creating length and release in the surrounding tissues. By balancing tension ...

This class awakens the spine from head to tail by releasing tension and creating mobility. By synchronizing breath with movement, we hydrate the intervertebral discs and free the vertebrae from restriction. This practice restores fluidity and balance, improves flexibility, and invites a sense of ...

As we complete our exploration of the Heart we turn our attention to the balance between strength and softness. The heart embodies both—capable of powerful resilience while also needing fluidity and receptivity. In movement, we mirror this duality: grounded yet expansive, stable yet open, strong ...

This class awakens fresh energy in the body. Spiraling, side bending, and wave-like spinal motions stimulate circulation, open energetic pathways, and invite a sense of renewal and rejuvenation, leaving you feeling refreshed and uplifted.

This class emphasizes chest-opening movements, breath awareness, and gentle spinal motions to encourage circulation, vitality, and emotional openness. By expanding through the heart center, we create feelings of connection, balance, and ease in the body and mind.

A regular GYROKINESIS® practice helps regulate the nervous system through gentle, rhythmic movements and conscious breathing. This stimulates the parasympathetic system, reducing heart rate and cortisol levels while promoting mindfulness and the body’s natural healing response. Over time, it ease...

Recently, I was reminded by a dear friend of the symbolism of the evergreen. Evergreens have been used to celebrate and honor this season long before the arrival of the Christmas tree. Pagans would place evergreen branches or Yule trees indoors as a way to bring life into the darkness of winter.
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The first time I was guided through a dry-brushing experience was so enlivening. Afterwards, I felt my skin buzzing like bubbles in champagne and sensed deeper out into the space surrounding me. Then we danced this buzzing body through GYROKINESIS® movement sequences and the journey was subtlety ...

I’m in a process of understanding the fascia in my body as a fluid-jelly network that extends from the surface of my skin to the nucleus of my cells, weaving different structures into a connective net. Our fascia is responsive to our activities and it reflects the patterns or habits of our postur...

“For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.” — Rudyard Kipling

When we feel like we don’t have control over our environment, it's easy to become overwhelmed, anxious, and frustrated. In these moments, it's crucial to pause and tune in to how we're reactin...

The metaphor of the harvest season beautifully encapsulates the concept of letting go. We see it in the way trees gracefully shed their leaves. Just as trees relinquish their vibrant foliage in preparation for winter, we can embrace the art of letting go—of old habits, burdens, and emotional bagg...

This 20-min GYROKINESIS® Flow helps release the tension at the end of a long day. Throughout the class we relax the shoulders and low back, breathe to regulate the nervous system, and finish with a floor sequence to relieve low back tension.

This 20-minute GYROKINESIS® Spinal Motions sequence focuses on fluid, rhythmic movements designed to open up and mobilize the spine. This sequence guides you through gentle waves of flexion, extension, lateral bending, and spiraling, helping to release tension, improve mobility, and enhance body ...

One of the most effective ways to feel rooted, powerful, and stable is to strengthen the legs.

As you walk, the ankle, knee and hip function together as a system to reduce impact on the pelvis and spine. But when your legs are not strong enough, your spine takes the brunt of this impact. This en...

The average human head weighs about 10 pounds when held upright. This load puts more and more strain on the neck and spine with every inch you move your head forward. Unfortunately, many of us do exactly that when we’re working on the computer or texting.

Join me in dissolving the added tension ...

How are you activating your glutes to decompress your spine?

Your gluteal muscles are the most superficial muscles of the posterior hip and thigh. They consist of three major parts — gluteus maximus, gluteus medius and gluteus minimus. While your glute max is vital for more explosive activities ...

The Seed Center represents the deepest felt place in the body. It’s comprised of both the root and sacral chakras and for most, is their center of gravity. Quite literally, the seed is the center!

Just as the engine drives the car, the Seed Center drives the body. When we generate movement from ...

For a tree’s branches to grow upward and outward it’s roots must form a solid foundation. The tree creates strength by expanding in two directions at the same time. Much like the tree, we too can find strength in creating opposing forces in the body.

Our power comes from testing these opposing f...

Many people tend to associate building physical strength with pumping iron at the gym. But there are other ways to achieve strength that go beyond simply increasing muscle mass. With our bodies comprised of mostly water, there is an innate fluidity that allows us to tap into a deep well of power....

The cervical spine is the uppermost section of the vertebral column, specifically, your neck. It consists of seven vertebrae starting from the base of the skull down to the thoracic spine. It has a few important roles such as supporting the weight of our heavy heads. It’s also the protector of th...

“The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.” - Leonardo da Vinci

We ask a lot of these stunning structures at the end of our legs. They allow us to walk, stand, balance and run — to name a few of our daily demands. The health of our feet affects the alignment of the ankles...

This practice begins quietly and slowly. It begins through listening more closely to the body, heart and soul. As you awaken the subtleties of the body, you begin to feel your most inner self. Your lungs breathe. Your heart beats. You can sense your breath animate your movement, your movement ani...

The act of rocking has many benefits. For starters, it releases endorphins which help boost your mood and reduce stress. It can move you into a state of calm and ease by engaging your parasympathetic nervous system. Another benefit of rocking is that it stimulates your vestibular system. Physical...

GYROKINESIS® Format 1. This class begins seated, moving through all the spinal motions and into the seated/standing leg sequences.

"The ultimate aim is to be at home in one's body, to be at one with the nature of one's self, and to experience exercise as a creative and delightful experience."

— Juliu Horvath

Celebrate yourselves with me in a joyful jubilee of movement. We’ll honor our bodies with the gift of vitality and sense into our own vibrancy and aliveness. This class will start slow and progress into a GYROKINESIS® dance party!

Our ribs are long, curved bones that surround the chest and connect to the spine. The three-dimensional basket-like structure is the home and protector of our heart and lungs. Because of this, the rib cage can be affected by our emotions and stress in the form of bracing or holding patterns in th...

Narrowing the pelvis is the most unique and foundational principles of the GYROKINESIS® Method and the entire GYROTONIC EXPANSION SYSTEM®. It employs the concept of decompressing the spine, pelvis and joints. Understanding this process increases the range of motion, joint stability, and deep inte...

Breathing is not something we have to think about doing all the time. The process is instinctive and automatic. It’s driven by the most primitive part of our brains — the brainstem. And more precisely, by a smaller area of the brainstem called the medulla oblongata. This area regulates respiratio...

Life force energy is the essence of life that flows through all living things. In Eastern practices it is known as Prana or Qi. I understand life force to feel like an ultimate vibrational force that connects me to nature, humanity, and the earth. And it is during these winter days and colder tem...

We sit A LOT these days. All of our sitting contributes to low back pain and tightens the muscles in our back body chain. Even the legs and feet can be affected by all of our sitting.

Let’s move in a way to counter the sitting patterns that manifest in our bodies. Let’s implement new modes of s...

“‘Is the spring coming’ he said. ‘What is it like?’…’It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine, and things pushing up and working under the earth…”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

For me, spring feels like the perfect time to embrace the energy of the s...

A fundamental belief in Taoism is there are two natural, opposing, and complementary energies in the universe: Yang, which is masculine, and Yin, which is feminine. These opposing forces are in a state of dynamic equilibrium and mutually reinforce one another.

Yin energy characteristics includ...

Opening to Change for me feels like the openness to possibility. A reminder to stay soft and not force the outcome. I have found in times of transition, there are three periods — an Ending, Time of Uncertainty, and the New Beginning. As challenging as transition can be with the ups and the downs,...

The Root energy center is situated at the very base of the spine—deep in the pelvic floor and perineum—in the center of the body. The Sacral energy center is in the lower abdomen above the pubic bone and in front of the sacrum. In this GYROKINESIS® practice we identify this place as the Seed Cent...

Movement balances by enabling you to cultivate more energy. Movement heals by stimulating our bones to grow, detoxifying our system, increasing healthy digestion and elimination, and enabling all systems in the body to function better. It can also lift our mood, clear our mind and reconnect us to...

The heart’s function in our body’s system is not only an organ that moves our blood. It’s also a source of wisdom, spiritual insight, thought, and emotion. Science is only beginning to understand the effects of electromagnetic fields produced by the heart. Additionally, there is evidence that the...

How are you activating your glutes to decompress your spine?

Your gluteal muscles are the most superficial muscles of the posterior hip and thigh. They consist of three major parts — gluteus maximus, gluteus medius and gluteus minimus. While your glute max is vital for more explosive activities ...

Life can feel like a pendulum constantly swinging between light and dark, ups and downs, and where even an inhale and exhale are challenging. A place where we have a never-ending list of “to-dos” and deadlines. But if we only live in this space of constant effort, there is no celebration and joy....

As some of you may know, I practice cold-plunging into the cool waters of the Pacific Ocean. Meeting the waves and leaning into the cold are physically and mentally challenging; it’s a true mind/body experience. The hours leading up to the ocean plunge are filled with anticipation knowing the cel...

The abdominals not only contain the organs by regulating internal abdominal pressure. They, together with your back muscles, are essential to the body’s stability and balance. Most importantly, your abdominals strengthen and protect your spine.

The dynamic exercises from the GYROKINESIS® Method ...

Breathing techniques help to connect the mind and body. They also activate creative energy and calm the nervous system.

Breath work comes in a wide variety of forms, each with its own particular benefits. Long, deep breathing helps the body relax and regulates emotions. Alternate nostril breathi...

The average human head weighs about 10 pounds when held upright. This load puts more and more strain on the neck and spine with every inch you move your head forward. Unfortunately, many of us do exactly that when we’re working on the computer or texting. This class focuses on eliminating the add...

The benefits of practicing gratitude are endless. By giving ourselves a moment to notice and reflect upon the things we’re thankful for, we cultivate positive thinking, sleep better, express more compassion toward ourselves and others, and even strengthen our immune systems.

This class is designed to mobilize & strengthen the thoracic spine while restoring function to the diaphragm and calming the nervous system.

One of the most effective ways to feel rooted, powerful, and stable is to strengthen the legs.

As you walk, the ankle, knee and hip function together as a system to reduce impact on the pelvis and spine. But when your legs are not strong enough, your spine takes the brunt of this impact. This en...