Getting Started in Pilates
What to Expect as a Beginner
From your very first contact — whether by phone or email — we take the time to listen and learn about you. Understanding your story, your goals, and your needs helps us place you in the most suitable session to start your Pilates journey.
You’ll complete a health survey so we can gain deeper insight into your body and any special considerations. From there, your instructor will guide you through a personalised assessment. This is where we get to know not just your body, but also how you move, what you need, and how we can best support you. Together, we then create a program designed specifically for you.
Every step of the way, you’ll be fully supported. We don’t just teach exercises — we help you understand why they’re beneficial, and how they can bring you closer to your personal goals. We also take the time to show you how to safely and confidently use our studio equipment, so you feel informed, empowered, and ready to make the most of every session.
Pilates Classes
A moment in time when you need to listen to your body.
Learn from a committed, qualified teacher who takes the time to guide you through safe Pilates exercises.
What is an Initial Consultation?
Prior to all studio sessions, the first step is to participate in an Initial Consultation session. This instructor-lead assessment will provide you with your own unique program, as well as provide the ideal environment for teaching fundamental exercises for each person.
Initial Consultations provide a fantastic opportunity to be educated about your body and movement, your tailored program, as well as ensure the safety aspects of using the equipment is understood.
All group-based Studio sessions, Mat and Reformer classes generally run in blocks, aligned to Queensland school terms.
What is Pilates?
Joseph Pilates was ahead of the times when he created a movement methodology that we know as Pilates. Originally named ‘Contrology’, Joe states that “Contrology is a complete co-ordination of body, mind and spirit… you first purposefully acquire complete control of your own body and then through proper repetition of its exercises acquire a natural rhythm and co-ordination…”
We understand it nowadays to be a low impact, specialised movement system used to improve physical strength, flexibility & posture. While a lot of people associate Pilates as only ‘core strengthening’, when taught correctly, it goes far beyond this notion and does as Joe intended: to make a difference in the health and wellbeing of people’s lives through movement.
Specialised Knowledge & Expertise
- Breathing – which can challenge, assist, release and energise the body
- Centring – is an intrinsic connectedness. All work is to come from control over core stabilisers. Knowing how to work from the inside out.
- Control – movements are executed with focus, flow, precision and energy
- Concentration – as to what & how to create movement. Being able to refine, intensify & make more efficient. To reduce what is inessential.
- Flowing – movement is to create continuous control
- Precision – is to be exact, particular and correct. To have the intention and ability to create efficient.
Additional contemporary principles:
- Alignment – balancing the mind and body though movement
- Commitment – consistency and dedication to making the change and progression
With a well-qualified instructor, your Pilates experience will integrate these in each and every session.