About

 

The mission of QiBounding® is to offer everybody support to achieve optimum health and well being
QiBounding®

QiBounding® combines the benefits of Rebounding with awareness of body, breath and spirit. Grounded in the concept that the body possesses innate knowing of perfect health, QiBounding® focuses on a loving relationship with the body. Safe and simple, QiBounding® offers the ideal conditions in which the body can find its own way to optimum health.


Sylvia Dreiser Farnsworth
Movement Educator and Creator of QiBounding®

Speaker, writer, body/mind coach and movement educator Sylvia Dreiser Farnsworth created this innovative method of Rebounding in 2003. Sylvia's teachings are based on years of experience with the following systems:

 

  • The Alexander Technique® – Sylvia has been a teacher of this education to a healthy use of the body since 1983 and is one of its first teachers in Germany. In 2003 and 2004, Sylvia was member of the board of directors of the SLVAT (Society of teachers of the Alexander Technique in Switzerland).
  • Dynamic Rebounding® – Certified in Switzerland in this world-class technique, Sylvia worked closely with founders Ingrid Luginbühl and Birgit Buschmann.
  • Bones For Life® – Sylvia enjoyed the great gift of personal training from founder Ruthy Alon.
  • Spiraldynamik® – Sylvia studied Spiral Dynamic movement and therapy in Switzerland with co-founder Christian Heel, author of the movement bible, Movement Systems.
  • Core Process Psychotherapy®   – Sylvia is one of a handful of practitioners personally trained by Maura Sills, founder of Core Process Psychotherapy and the Karuna Institute (UK).

 

Having lived for many years in different European countries, Sylvia is teaching in English, German and French.


Today, Sylvia lives most of the year in Naples, Florida, and teaches all over the US. Besides of personal training and classes, she also offers a QiBounding instructor training for health practitioners and movement educators.

The story of rebounders in the US

In the 1980s NASA incorporated this form of exercise and performed scientific studies that proved the high efficiency of this form of exercise.

The original trampoline from which the mini trampoline is derived was constructed  using a very large mat and large springs to hold the mat.  The first generation of mini trampoline or “Rebounder” as we call it today, was spring based. It was more or less hard in bounce. Currently the most widely known spring based Rebounders are Urban, Needak, ReboundAir, and Cellerziser.


For some time now a new generation of Rebounder is being offered on the market, no longer based on springs but on high elastic bungee bands. Like the spring based Rebounders, these springfree Rebounders differ in quality from brand to brand - and not all of them can be recommended - see our 12 step Rebounder test.  


 

Springfree Rebounders are currently built by the companies Bellicon and by JumpSport. Springless Rebounders offer users the benefits of efficient and joyful Rebounding.

The  smooth bounce allows people who, due to their physical condition cannot or should not bounce on a hard spring based Rebounder, to enjoy the benefits of Rebound exercise.    At the same time the smooth bounce bungee Rebounder style delivers a higher efficiency of workout, which is ideal for anyone with muscle toning as a goal.

 

In 2005 Sylvia Dreiser Farnsworth moved from Switzerland to the US. Besides of teaching the innovative rebounding method "QiBounding", Sylvia and her team also tested all quality rebounders on the US market and created the quality label "QiBounder". At the moment, only the spring free rebounders from bellicon and from JumpSport reach that high quality level.

 

Owning a top quality QiBounder is like owning a mini gym for the whole family. When utilizing the correct training method, such as the one QiBounding offers, you can literally train each muscle of your body in a safe and joyful way.

 

For anyone with a busy schedule these cutting edge bungee band Rebounders offer an amazingly efficient workout in a fraction of the time you would need to exercise in a gym or go running. Three minutes of intense Rebounding is equivalent to ten minutes of jogging!