Briefly

About Pravilo

How is Pravilo beneficial?

  • Relieves pain and supports healing through decompression (helping conditions such as disc herniation, sciatica, or injured joints).
  • Improves flexibility and range of motion.
  • Balances the loose and tight tissues of the myofascial system and develops tensegrity.
  • Strengthens tendons, joints, fasciae, and core muscles.
  • Increases awareness of contracting and expanding forces.
  • Positively impacts emotional and mental well-being.
  • Helps release stress, depression, and somatised traumas.
  • Opens us to connect and unite with our surroundings.
  • Enables a profound experience of opening and expansion.

More about benefits…

 
 
 
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What does a Pravilo session look like?

  • For health and safety, familiarise yourself with the Guidelines, and warm up.
  • You choose the intensity and duration of your expansion to ensure comfort and enjoyment.
  • The guide listens carefully to your preferences, avoiding pain and focusing on what feels good.
  • Full lifting is not required; participants often lie partially on the ground, making sessions suitable for all ages (e.g., an 83-year-old participant featured).
 
Read the guidelines before the session
Read more about the session

 

Additional treatments often include:

  • Myofascial release massage.
  • Sound healing therapy.
Massage therapy synergised its effect with Pravilo.

 

Find Pravilo near you

List of Pravilos

Map of Pravilos

 

Which health issues can Pravilo help with?

We live in an epidemic of undesirable tension, which negatively affects nearly every part of the body. Unhealthy contraction and chronic stress are major contributing factors to many modern health issues, including high blood pressure, persistent muscle pain, digestive and sleep disturbances, headaches, increased inflammation, heart disease, stroke, libido problems, anxiety, and depression.
Stress literally undermines our entire immune system.

 

 

What does a Yoga instructor say?

 

 

 

History

 

The concept of Pravilo comes from the Cossacks. Through suspension training, they became stronger, healthier, more efficient, and better warriors. Today’s technical solutions differ slightly, e.g., by using modern pulleys and winches.

Pravilo is part of an ancient Cossack martial arts practice known today as “Systema”.

More about Pravilo’s history…   

 

Device Design

Several versions of Pravilo are currently being used. These include lifting by winches, weight balance, or fixed ropes. Construction typically involves a standalone metal or wooden frame, although some practitioners use a dedicated room with hooks attached to the ceiling or even on trees.
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Users of Pravilo

Pravilo helps sportspeople and martial artists improve flexibility and relaxation, boosting recovery and strength, especially in ligaments and tendons. It also helps dancers move more lightly, smoothly, and gracefully.

[Generally, today, Pravilo has become viral in the wellness industry in its countries of origin (Russia, Ukraine and Belarus).]

[It’s also become popular in retirement homes. By developing expanding power, practitioners can slow down the process of condensing bodies.]

Physiotherapists, chiropractors, and osteopaths can use Pravilo to decompress, relax and balance bodies. Psychotherapists can use Pravilo to help people with traumas, stress, depression, or other mental issues related to body tension.

There is an unlimited variety of options for training uses, positions and focuses- consult a Pravilo instructor for more information.

 

 

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Happy practitioners

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Relaxed practitioners

Sabio - Opening brings calmness

‘’This is so good. It's like bliss. It's really very interesting, very powerful and unexpected what I feel… I've never felt this way after any modality, and I use a lot of different modalities for therapy.
I don't know where to put it… The body is in a strange positive state, very emotional and calm at the same time. It must be something with this decompression of the joints—such interesting concepts. Because we always compress when we walk, we do anything, whatever we do, the body, bones and joints are being compressed, and we never decompress them.
It's like we are being taught not to open, but actually opening brings calmness. Wow.
I feel really relaxed… You never stretch this way the whole body; it's always parts.
It's like yoga, but yoga cannot even do this; you cannot get to this position..
Oh, that lightness, so light!
It's so different... Wow!’’

Sabio

Opening brings calmness

Yogi Lady - A few minutes on Pravilo feels like an hour of Yoga

‘’My experience of it was..., hanging on it feels kind of like after a few minutes of this if feels like an hour of yoga.
It's like an intense stretch, and then afterwards, you feel just floaty and kind of free and bouncy and just really zen.
It's really nice. It's the same I used to do a lot of yoga. It feels like after an hour of yoga, that's exactly the kind of feeling.’’

Yogi Lady

A few minutes on Pravilo feels like an hour of Yoga

Sabio - Opening brings calmness

‘’This is so good. It's like bliss. It's really very interesting, very powerful and unexpected what I feel… I've never felt this way after any modality, and I use a lot of different modalities for therapy.
I don't know where to put it… The body is in a strange positive state, very emotional and calm at the same time. It must be something with this decompression of the joints—such interesting concepts. Because we always compress when we walk, we do anything, whatever we do, the body, bones and joints are being compressed, and we never decompress them.
It's like we are being taught not to open, but actually opening brings calmness. Wow.
I feel really relaxed… You never stretch this way the whole body; it's always parts.
It's like yoga, but yoga cannot even do this; you cannot get to this position..
Oh, that lightness, so light!
It's so different... Wow!’’

Sabio

Opening brings calmness

Yogi Lady - A few minutes on Pravilo feels like an hour of Yoga

‘’My experience of it was..., hanging on it feels kind of like after a few minutes of this if feels like an hour of yoga.
It's like an intense stretch, and then afterwards, you feel just floaty and kind of free and bouncy and just really zen.
It's really nice. It's the same I used to do a lot of yoga. It feels like after an hour of yoga, that's exactly the kind of feeling.’’

Yogi Lady

A few minutes on Pravilo feels like an hour of Yoga

Ryan Jones - Dancer, Teacher of Gyrotonic method, Physiotherapist and Osteopath about Pravilo

‘’You can imagine it looks intense for your eyes to see; however, the space in the spine,  there's a lot of space, and it doesn't compress the spine at all in any way.
I think this machine can benefit, you know, dancers like myself, other bodywork practitioners, and athletes.
Also, if you had an injury in your ankles or your wrists, it would also be quite good to alleviate and create some space in the joint for that synovial fluid to release back into the rest of the body.
It's interesting this idea of expanding the body and contracting the body in order to create space in the ligaments, the fascia, and the tendons; you can give those joints in themselves.
I think modern ideas around strength are about, or maybe traditional as well, it's about contracting the body. And I feel this is very much expanding the body.
I just couldn't recommend it enough to everybody; it is light for you. You have to get yourselves on this machine...
Man, this is absolutely incredible!’’

Ryan Jones

Dancer, Teacher of Gyrotonic method, Physiotherapist and Osteopath

Mary, 83, enjoys comfort and improved circulation.

‘’My name is Mary, and I am 83.
It's a very good feeling.
That's very comfortable.
I felt like I was in a hammock.
Well, it felt very good to be stretched out, particularly when the head was extended that felt very good. And it was interesting to find quite a sore place on my arm, which I didn't know I had.
I really enjoyed having my leg raised and stretched.
It makes me feel taller, and I would probably walk better.
So, it improves things.
It feels good like things are circulating.’’

Mary

83 years old, on Pravilo

Sabio - Opening brings calmness

‘’This is so good. It's like bliss. It's really very interesting, very powerful and unexpected what I feel… I've never felt this way after any modality, and I use a lot of different modalities for therapy.
I don't know where to put it… The body is in a strange positive state, very emotional and calm at the same time. It must be something with this decompression of the joints—such interesting concepts. Because we always compress when we walk, we do anything, whatever we do, the body, bones and joints are being compressed, and we never decompress them.
It's like we are being taught not to open, but actually opening brings calmness. Wow.
I feel really relaxed… You never stretch this way the whole body; it's always parts.
It's like yoga, but yoga cannot even do this; you cannot get to this position..
Oh, that lightness, so light!
It's so different... Wow!’’

Sabio

Opening brings calmness

Yogi Lady - A few minutes on Pravilo feels like an hour of Yoga

‘’My experience of it was..., hanging on it feels kind of like after a few minutes of this if feels like an hour of yoga.
It's like an intense stretch, and then afterwards, you feel just floaty and kind of free and bouncy and just really zen.
It's really nice. It's the same I used to do a lot of yoga. It feels like after an hour of yoga, that's exactly the kind of feeling.’’

Yogi Lady

A few minutes on Pravilo feels like an hour of Yoga