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Yamuna Body Rolling™ is a revolutionary approach to health and fitness using balls designed exclusively for this practice.

Yamuna Body Rolling works the way a hands-on practitioner works -only using a ball. The ball replaces hands as it moves on muscles to stretch them, dislodge tension and discomfort, increase blood flow, and promote healing.
 

Classes, including a 15-minute foot therapy class, are ongoing at the T’Dance Studio.

For more information, consult the official Yamuna Body Rolling website.

Yamuna Foot Wakers: Where most people begin when rebuilding healthy, flexible and strong feet, Yamuna Foot Wakers are specially-designed to stimulate the bottom of the foot, increasing circulation.  You'll actually feel the blood moving upward, energizing the rest of your body when you use these little knobby miracle workers on your tired, aching feet.  With Yamuna Foot Wakers, it's super easy to add foot fitness to your dailly routine.  Use them while sitting at your desk, watching television or just relaxing.  Do the routines while standing for more intensity.
Yamuna Foot Savers: YAMUNA Foot Savers provide for deeper work that releases the effects of impact from the bone.  YAMUNA Foot Savers actually reeducate feet.  They can improve your gait, align your feet muscles and improve muscle tone as well as stimulate reflexology points, strengthen arches, increase range of motion and stimulate and elongate the muscles of the calves, thighs, hips and lower back.  Working intensively with YAMUNA Foot Savers, you can rehabilitate foot problems and literally work your body all the way to your head.

As a fitness practice, YBR enables everybody to achieve the level of fitness they want.  People can also use it as a self-therapy to free up physical restrictions, prevent and heal injuries, and experience a new level of ease and well being in body and mind.  YBR will enhance performance in any exercise, sport, or fitness program.  And it creates a leaner, balanced, well-aligned body.

A New Type Of Stretching

YBR actually represents a new type of stretching:  not static, not ballistic, nor active isolated stretching.  In these forms of stretching, it's mostly the body of the muslce that does the stretch, while the tendons often pull toward the bone.

By contrast, YBR stretching is weight bearing, and it works the muscle's entire length-including the tendons.  It starts by stimulating bone.  Then the ball slides into the muscle's origin, leading the entire muscle to elongate out toward its insertion.

Other Benefits

Yamuna Body Rolling (YBR) is a completely original fitness and therapy practice that combines healing, wellness, in injury prevention in a single, simple workout.  YBR heals body problems at the same time that it helps you get in shape.  YBR offers all these benefits:

• Tones and elongates muscles
• Improves alignment
• Increases circulation
• Develops and maintains core strength
• Stimulates nerve roots
• Increases metabolism
• Relaxes the nervous system
• Expands the lungs and deepens breathing
• Increases body awareness

Body Rolling grew out of a therapy system called Yamuna Body Logic (YBL), a hands-on technique that Yamuna Zake created over 20 years ago.  In treating people with Body Logic, she exerted traction on muscle by using one elbow to apply pressure at the point where a muscle began and the other hand to pull the muscle in the direction of its natural movement, toward its insertion.  Once it was elongated the muscle could take its full length, decompressing bones, joints, and nerves and restoring full function.