Motion Studios

Motion Studios Movement for every body. Our clients range from all ages, backgrounds and physical abilities.
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A boutique wellness collective offering
GYROTONIC® • GYROKINESIS®
Yoga • Strength • Sound Therapy
Private Sessions | Small Groups | Classes | Teacher Training We take a holistic approach to help:
• Improve strength & movement
• Increase energy
• Relax tight muscles, stiff joints & relieve pain
• Improve back suppleness & relieve pain
• Enable injury rehabilitation & prevention
• Improve posture & confidence

Build the body now. Spend it next summer.The days are getting shorter. The water’s getting cooler. The kayaks are headin...
09/16/2026

Build the body now. Spend it next summer.

The days are getting shorter. The water’s getting cooler. The kayaks are heading back to the racks.

But your body doesn’t have to go into storage.

Spend the off-season building the rotation, mobility, balance and strength that summer on the water demands. GYROTONIC® Exercise helps prepare your body to paddle, sail, swim and move with more freedom—and less recovery afterward.

Nine months from now, the Northern Neck opens back up.

Show up ready.

Beginner: for anyone who's never touched a Tower. No experience, no pressure.
📅Tuesdays | 5:30 to 6:30pm with Sam Van Saun
📅Thursdays | 11:30am to 12:30pm with Susan Johnson
📅Fridays | 11am to noon with Sam Van Saun

Advanced Beginner: once the fundamentals feel familiar and you're ready for more range and complexity.
📅Thursdays | 1 to 2pm with Sam Van Saun

SPACE IS LIMITED. Sign up at bit.ly/beginnergyro 📲 Registration in advance is required.

Train like the best, safely. Elite athletes and professional dancers have always known about GYROTONIC® Exercise. It's h...
09/14/2026

Train like the best, safely.

Elite athletes and professional dancers have always known about GYROTONIC® Exercise. It's how they stay articulate, powerful, and injury-free in bodies pushed to the edge.

What's less known: the same method scales to every client who walks through your door.

The Pre-Training and Foundation Course teaches the granularity—how to see and refine movement at the smallest level—and the finesse to build toward high performance without ever sacrificing safety or efficiency.

Train yourself that way. Train your clients that way.

Motion Studios—the largest facility in Virginia offering GYROTONIC® Exercise—is hosting the Pre-Training and Foundation Course this fall in the Northern Neck. Bring your clientele to the level the pros have been working at for decades.

LEARN MORE: bit.ly/TeacherTraining-Fall2026 📲

Contact us directly with any questions. We are happy to help guide you every step of the way.

It started with a dancer who couldn't dance...Juliu Horvath was a principal dancer with the Romanian National Ballet by ...
09/11/2026

It started with a dancer who couldn't dance...

Juliu Horvath was a principal dancer with the Romanian National Ballet by 21. After defecting in 1970, he eventually made his way to New York, then back to the stage—dancing with the New York City Opera, Radio City Music Hall and Houston Ballet.

Then he ruptured his Achilles tendon, and it was over.

What came next wasn’t a comeback. It was a search.

Horvath moved to St. Thomas and spent years immersed in yoga and movement, exploring how the body could heal and rebuild. That work eventually became GYROTONIC® Exercise.

That’s the origin of this method—not a fitness trend or marketing plan, but a world-class dancer forced to rebuild his own body from the inside out.

Motion Studios is the largest facility in Virginia offering GYROTONIC® Exercise. Come experience the method for yourself. Visit MotionStudiosVA.com to sign up!📲

The word vinyasa is Sanskrit. Vi—in a special way. Nyasa—to place.It’s the deliberate arrangement of things: breath plac...
09/10/2026

The word vinyasa is Sanskrit. Vi—in a special way. Nyasa—to place.

It’s the deliberate arrangement of things: breath placed with movement, one shape preparing the body for the next.

Krishnamacharya, the teacher much of modern yoga traces back to, believed the transitions between postures mattered as much as the postures themselves. Get into the shape and then breathe? No. Breathe the whole way through, and let the shape arrive.

GYROKINESIS® Movement shares that same conviction. Its sequences are rhythmic and continuous—spirals, waves and arcs—with movement paired to breath.

Nathan Martin’s Saturday class is where the two meet. A Master Trainer in both GYROTONIC® and GYROKINESIS® Exercise, Nathan blends Vinyasa Yoga with the three-dimensional movement of the GYROKINESIS® method.

Intentional movement. Constant breath. Nothing to keep up with. All levels. All bodies.

Props are available at the studio but bring your own mat if you have one.

📅Saturdays
⏰9am to 10am
📍Middlesex Family YMCA | 11487 General Puller Highway in Hartfield

AND

📅Saturdays
⏰11am to noon
📍Northern Neck YMCA | 39 William B. Graham Court in Kilmarnock
💰Both locations are FREE for YMCA members | $15 day pass for non-members
We hope to see you there!

Low impact is where it starts, not where it ends. Most low-impact exercise is designed to stay low impact. Gentle, safe ...
09/09/2026

Low impact is where it starts, not where it ends.

Most low-impact exercise is designed to stay low impact. Gentle, safe and—if we're honest—sometimes a bit of a holding pattern.

GYROTONIC® Exercise treats low impact as a starting line.

You begin supported by the equipment, learning how the spine rotates, the hips articulate and the breath organizes movement. Then the challenge builds—more load, speed and coordination. Eventually, you're jumping, springing and absorbing force because your body has been prepared for it, one layer at a time.

That's what builds resilience. Not avoiding impact. Being ready for it.

Start wherever you are. Beginner GYROTONIC® classes, three times a week:
📅Tuesdays | 5:30 to 6:30pm with Sam Van Saun
📅Thursdays | 11:30am to 12:30pm with Susan Johnson
📅Fridays | 11am to noon with Sam Van Saun

Then you can move up to Advanced Beginner:
📅Thursdays | 1 to 2pm with Sam Van Saun

👉Reserve your spot today, SPACE IS LIMITED. Sign up at bit.ly/BeginnerGyro 📲
Registration in advance is required.

Rest is where the power comes from.We treat the brain like a muscle that only grows under load. More input, more tasks, ...
09/08/2026

Rest is where the power comes from.

We treat the brain like a muscle that only grows under load. More input, more tasks, more hours.

But a brain that never rests doesn't get sharper. It gets foggier.

Creativity, clarity, comprehension—the things we want more of—show up after the mind has been allowed to go quiet. That's when it consolidates, reorganizes, and makes the connections it couldn't make while it was busy.

The singing bowls give it that quiet. There's nothing to follow, nothing to solve, nothing to hold onto. Sixty minutes of true idle time for the part of you that's been running nonstop.

Come in full. Leave with room to think.

Join Esther Heideman every Saturday from 5 to 6pm for Tibetan Singing Bowls at Motion Studios. Sign up at bit.ly/SoundTherapy-MotionStudios 📲

Prefer a more personal setting? Weekday bowl sessions are available by appointment. Book your private or duet session directly with Esther—text or call 917-553-0824.

Hands on, in motion🌀Every manual therapy discipline has one thing in common: the client is still. Lying on a table. Hold...
09/07/2026

Hands on, in motion🌀

Every manual therapy discipline has one thing in common: the client is still. Lying on a table. Holding a position. Waiting.

GYROTONIC® Exercise is the only methodology that teaches you to put your hands on a client while they're moving—continuously, rhythmically, through full circular patterns—and shape that movement from the inside.

It's part touch, part timing, part instinct. And it can't be learned from a manual. It's passed from teacher to trainee, hands on hands, in the room.

That room, this fall, is Motion Studios in the Northern Neck.

The Pre-Training and Foundation Course is where this craft begins. Come learn the art.

LEARN MORE: bit.ly/TeacherTraining-Fall2026 📲

Contact us directly with any questions. We are happy to help guide you every step of the way.

One hour, nothing invasive.No needles. No supplements. No screens. No effort.You lie on the floor for an hour and let so...
09/04/2026

One hour, nothing invasive.

No needles. No supplements. No screens. No effort.

You lie on the floor for an hour and let sound do the work.

Sustained, overlapping tones reach the brainstem before the thinking mind has a chance to interfere. The body reads them as safe and responds on its own: breath lengthens, heart rate settles, the nervous system shifts out of alert and into repair.
That shift is where neurological, mental, and emotional health actually get tended—not by pushing harder, but by finally letting the system stand down.

One hour. Nothing invasive. Everything downstream of it benefits.

Saturdays, 5 to 6pm, with world-renowned classical singer Esther Heideman leading our Tibetan Singing Bowl class. Sign up at bit.ly/SoundTherapy-MotionStudios 📲

Prefer a more personal setting? Weekday bowl sessions are available by appointment. Book your private or duet session directly with Esther—text or call 917-553-0824.

Beyond Strengthen and Stretch...Strengthen the muscle. Stretch the joint. Repeat.That's the model most of us were traine...
09/03/2026

Beyond Strengthen and Stretch...

Strengthen the muscle. Stretch the joint. Repeat.

That's the model most of us were trained on, and it works—up to a point. It treats the body as a set of parts, each one loaded or lengthened in a straight line.
The body doesn't move in straight lines.

GYROTONIC® Exercise works the way the body is actually built: circular, spiraling, three-dimensional, and continuous. Strength and mobility aren't separate goals worked in separate sets. They happen in the same motion, at the same time, connected through the spine.

Once you've felt the difference, it's hard to go back to thinking in pieces.

This fall, Motion Studios in the Northern Neck—the largest facility in Virginia offering GYROTONIC® Exercise—hosts its Pre-Training and Foundation Course.

LEARN MORE: bit.ly/TeacherTraining-Fall2026 📲

Contact us directly with any questions. We are happy to help guide you every step of the way.

SEPTEMBER at Motion Studios🍂
09/01/2026

SEPTEMBER at Motion Studios🍂

Address

15 E. Church Street
Kilmarnock, VA
22482

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 6pm
Tuesday 8am - 6pm
Wednesday 8am - 6pm
Thursday 8am - 6pm
Friday 8am - 3pm

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