Jim Phillips is a Certified GYROTONIC® Trainer and holds certifications on all GYROTONIC® Specialized Equipment, comprehensive working knowledge of the original Floor Units, and studied extensively with Hilary Cartwright, co-founder with Juliu Horvath of the White Cloud Studio New York - the original GYROTONIC® studio. He is now the custodian of her Pre and Post-Operative Hip Replacement and Lower Back course information which he teaches online and in-person world-wide.
For 19 years, he has been on the faculty of American Ballet Theatre’s Summer Intensive and has been a guest teacher for ABT’s JKO Professional School teaching Yoga Narada® and Luigi's Jazz technique and style. He has assisted and worked alongside Ms. Cartwright in teaching her Yoga Narada® for visiting ballet schools, internationally, and her New York classes. He teaches Yoga Narada® world-wide to people of all ages and from all walks of life and also works with Ms. Cartwright's teachers in the teacher training apprenticeship.
He holds a B.F.A. in Musical Theatre with additional studies in Opera and Minors in Piano and Dance from Shorter College. He is a member of Actors Equity Association, the professional union for stage actors, and has appeared in classical and contemporary musical theatre, solo recital, major choral and orchestral works, and classical pas de deux
on the New York stage, in regional theatre, recital halls and cathedrals around the U.S., Europe, and has also danced with Liza Minnelli. He showed horses for over ten years in Hunt Seat, Saddle Seat, and Three-DayEventing. His knowledge and application of both Yoga Narada® and GYROTONIC® exercises combined with his sense of humor and dedicated personal attention make him a sought after teacher and coach.
He was a master trainer for The Sports Club/LA New York at Rockefeller Center and has taught for New York City Ballet, the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance, Reebok Sports Club NY, Fluid Fitness, Chelsea Movements, CLAY, The Harvard Club, Broadway Dance Center, NBC Network News Ad Sales, White Cloud Studio Amsterdam, and Bassi Brugnatelli Symposium for Opera Singers and Conductors (Italy).
His clients have included television celebrities, renown film actors, opera singers, conductors, ballet dancers from the Royal Ballet, ABT, New York City Ballet, Leipzig Ballet, Scapino Ballet, Alvin Ailey, ballet students of Gelsey Kirkland, ABT and the Dutch National Ballet School, TONY Award® winning Broadway directors, choreographers, singers, dancers, professional race car drivers, high-fashion models, equestrians, enthusiasts of golf, tennis, swimming, hockey, rowing, muay thai, Olympic weight lifting, triathlons, and more. He has worked with leaders of the legal and financial worlds, children, the elderly, pre and post-natal mothers, scoliosis sufferers, and pre and post-surgery for ruptured achilles, dislocated ankle, torn meniscus, ACL repairs, knee replacement, pre/post-op hip replacement, labral tears of the hip, shoulder impingement, frozen shoulder, dislocated shoulder, fractured shoulder, labral tears of the shoulder, bulging and herniated discs, discectomy, trigger finger, mastectomy, and TRAM flap reconstruction. He also works regularly with other GYROTONIC® instructors on their work and technique for both their teaching and personal use.
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