Gyrokinesis was invented by a Romanian man named Juliu Hovarth.
He was the principle dancer for the Romanian National Ballet Company at the age of 21. Then he moved to the USA to seek asylum where he danced in New York, and eventually for the Houston Ballet. However, he ended up rupturing his Achilles tendon, along with many other injuries from his dance career, including herniated vertebrae discs.
He forced to take a break from dance, and began to partake in regular yoga practice and meditation, where he began to discover deeper, profound energetic experiences.
So he took the next six years off to live in a one-room hut that he built himself on the mountains of St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands, where he to explore these experiences and the connection of the mind and body in movement. This allowed him to gain new insights into movement and healing, and he began to create his own unique exercise method.
He brought this exercise methods back to New York in the 80's and called it "Yoga for Dancers". However, he ended up creating a studio and gaining a wide variety of clientele beyond just dancers, and created a class format that almost any person could perform, regardless of age or state of health.
There is where 'the GYROKINESIS® Method' came from..
Juliu continued to develop and refine the method, and ended up designing world-renowned Gyrotonic equipment that is a system of pulleys that offers functional reference points for movement and deeper openings of the body. This is called GYROTONIC®.
Today he continues to refine and develop the methods and equipment and teaches trainers internationally.
He is always developing a more common sense approach to health and wellbeing, as he puts it, in a "seriously un-serious way".
There are now over 7800 trainers in 52 countries around the world.
Resource: https://www.gyrotonic.com/juliu_horvath.aspx