"Lastics is a great way to prepare your body for any kind of movement. Within one class I saw a huge improvement in my flexibility, as well as my balance and control. This truly works wonders!"
Marina Micalizzi
Billy Elliot on Broadway
“I found muscles that I never felt before and was much more limber than usual afterwards."
Randy Foye
Los Angeles Clippers, NBA
"Lastics has been completely new and rewarding experience for the Joffrey Academy students. It has helped them think about using their muscles in different ways in ballet class as it incorporates exercises that both stretch and strengthen muscles. "
Anna Reznik
Academy Artistic Director, Joffrey Chicago
“It’s definitely a different approach to stretching that works. It released the gripping I’d been feeling in my lower and middle back.”
Andrew Feldman
M.D., Chief of Sports Medicine, St. Vincent's Medical Center, Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, New York Medical College and New York Rangers Head Team Physician
Lastics is a technique born directly from the world of dance that releases tension, increases flexibility and stimulates circulation by teaching people how to move their bodies in ways that stretch and elongate muscles from both ends simultaneously.
Stretching effectively means being able to isolate the ends of a muscle and then learning how to move the body to gently pull them in opposite directions. Unlike techniques that use something or someone to stretch muscles, Lastics is a technique that trains the body how to move and stretch itself, which is a core principle in dance.
Everything you need to stretch in a safe and meaningful way lies within the body. By learning how to articulate the hips and spine, and then using the arms, legs and head as natural weights, Lastics teaches people how to stretch their muscles from end-to-end, making them longer, stronger, more supple and healthy.
The Benefits of Lastics:
- Lengthens muscles and strengthens the body
- Makes unconscious parts of the body conscious
- Increases body awareness and control
- Develops a visceral connection to the body
- It feels good
- Relieves tightness and tension
- Improves posture
- Uses intricately small movements to generate a maximum stretch
The Benefits of Stretching:
- Reduces the chance of injury
- Relieves tightness in muscles
- Combats the aging process
- Reduces muscle fatigue
- Enhances athletic performance
- Promotes relaxation
- Releases stress
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Increases blood flow to the muscles
