Jill Carlucci Restorative Fitness

10/31/2025

Happy Halloween from Restorative Fitness!

08/15/2025

For those of you who know my new direction - read this! When you know, you know 😉

Light therapy has been around for thousands of years, but, over the last few decades, red light therapy (or RLT) has emerged as one of the most exciting of the light therapies, and a health therapy with the power to help preserve youthfulness, both inside and out. Besides tamping down rapid-ager inf...

12/02/2024

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10/10/2024

Come join me for upgraded equipment private sessions, GyroKinesis and Low Pressure Fitness small group instruction. Classes start next week! Sign up online at www.jillcarlucci.com

08/20/2024

Restorative Fitness is getting an upgrade...stay tuned for details!

07/31/2024

We made it to day 31! Standing Eagle is about connecting the breath with movement to open the chest and lungs, grounding the legs by having a strong connection in the back and inner line, and finding an open front of the pelvis by wrapping through the glute muscles. Fly!

07/30/2024

Figure 8's are one of the most prevalent movements in Gyrotonic. They can be done is so many ways, seated, standing, with the arms, legs, center...you name it. This is just one variation using sliding discs to simulate the handle unit.

07/29/2024

While Chest Pelvic Lift isn't technically from an Upper Body Opening series, it is one of my very favorite ways to use the body weight to both stregthen and open the upper body (and also the lower body!). Consider this exercise a full body opening instead just the upper body.

07/28/2024

The tower version of Standing Splits makes your leg *almost* weightless so that you can find space in your back to get your longest line. When taken to the floor your leg weighs SO much more, but you have already found the space with the tower's help so here is your chance to practice finding it without help.

07/27/2024

On the tower the psoas is activated by pulling weight towards you. Taken to the floor you can focus on opening the psoas, activating the back leg line by pressing the heel into the floor. Do you feel a difference?