The Private Loft by Living Room Soho - Dionisou 65

Angeliki Karamina
Founder and Director of Living Room SoHo & The Private Loft
Professional Ballet Dancer, BA in Physical Education and Sports Science
Certified GYROTONIC® and GYROKINESIS® Instructor

She studied GYROKINESIS® under master trainer Young-Ah Kim and GYROTONIC® under Specialized Master Trainer Erika Hassan. She began practicing these methods while pursuing her dance training at New York City’s Peridance Capezio Center in 2008. After twenty-plus years of dancing and dance-related injuries, Angeliki found herself unable to continue performing professionally—a crisis which, compounded by the loss of her father Ioannis Karaminas, left her searching for answers and desperate for healing. She was enormously grateful to discover the deeply transformative and empowering practices of both GYROTONIC® and GYROKINESIS®. The spiraling movements and intentional breathing of these techniques invited her to create a new relationship with her body, a new recognition of her spirit and a new definition of her worth.

Born Athens, Greece and raised in the United States, she holds a bachelor’s degree in Physical Education and Sports Science, with a specialization in the History of Ancient Athletic Arts. Her areas of expertise include anatomy, physiology, physiotherapy and sports psychology, and athletic pedagogy for young children. A dancer both the Royal Academy and Vaganova ballet methods, as well as an accomplished performer of modern dance/Limón technique, she has been teaching ballet and other physical exercises for the past 17 years.

She has been certified by the best and most well-known Master Trainers in the community. She has taughtmore than 4,000 people over her teaching career and still continuing with a great love for the method.

Her thorough teaching has made her studentsfollowing her over the years.
She is well known in her industry for her detailed teaching, her specialty in Therapeutic Applications, Pre and Post Natal and the ability to make the method approachable even to people who thought they could never love exercise.

Her greatest wish and her motivation is to share the affirming and inspiring truth with others that you don’t have to be “perfect.” She seeks to help her clients relax both their bodies and their expectations of themselves, and to offer them the space to arrive at their own definition of what it means to be a valid and valuable human being.