Pilates & Movement

23/11/2025

Are you struggling with an injury or chronic pain? Are you doing prescribed exercises at home, but not sure you are getting it right?

The benefit of a comprehensive Pilates class, is that we get to see you move, and are able to pick up any faulty patterns or imbalances that might be causing you pain. We can tailor a class specifically to your needs using the full range of Pilates equipment to assist and resist you.

Pilates and Movement has been helping people move better, from all areas of the Sunshine Coast since 2009.

Our classes are semi-private classes, so you get the personal training you need to make changes to your body. We start with a private initial session to discuss your needs, and introduce Pilates fundamentals of good breathing habits, deep core activation, and joint alignment. Our semi-private trio classes have 3 people each hour class, using all of the Pilates equipment, including the reformer, the Trapeze Table, the Wunda Chair, the Ladder Barrel & more.

Get in touch with us, if this sounds like the style of class that you need.



📸 Jasmine Connors

31/01/2025

27/04/2024

A long weekend of rest (and house chores) was much needed after a massive month of teaching and training.
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I loved every minute of the 12 day ‘Foundation Training’with Master Trainer Suzanne McCarty from .
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It was wonderful to be a student for 12 days. I felt the change in my body, and in my leg alignment & strength in particular. Thanks Suzanne for your magic!
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I look forward to being able to share the with others. Keep your eye out for more ® classes to be added to the schedule & ® private classes to come. 💛
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10/02/2024

New Saturday GYROKINESIS®️ Immersion Classes

This year, I will be offering a monthly weekend GYROKINESIS®️ Immersion Class, Saturdays 8am -10am.

A GYROKINESIS®️ class focuses on breath to open the body from the inside, along with spinal movements to decompress the spine, creating space and stronger axial alignment.
Explore how your spine connects to the lines of your arms & legs, and grounds you for greater strength.
The focus on breath and movement strengthens your vascular system without stressing your heart (the ‘cardio’ part of cardiovascular). Specific actions stimulate your vagus nerve, the longest nerve in the automatic nervous system that connects your heart, lungs and digestive tract. It assists in promoting the ‘rest and digest’ state, to help decrease stress.

Above all, a GYRKINESIS®️ class is time to gain greater awareness of your internal and external body, cleansing and strengthening as you breathe and move.

The first class starts 24th February and is a FREE introduction if you are intrigued and would like to join our monthly class.

MONTHLY 2 HOUR IMMERSION CLASS $40.00

Continuing class dates will follow; 09/03, 13/04, 11/05, tbc…

Spaces are limited. Bookings essential.

09/01/2024

Introducing the GYROTONIC®️ Pulley Tower. The original Pulley Towers were handmade by GYROKINESIS®️ & GYROTONIC®️ creator, Juliu Horvarth. Apparently many of the early trainers were given jobs hand sanding the timber. It worked with Juliu’s ethic of understanding nature, working with organic materials, and the art of slow.

We finally got an opportunity to purchase a second hand Tower - they don’t become available very often in Australia. Unfortunately this Pulley Tower went through the Lismore floods. Knowing that GYROTONIC®️ Towers are in small numbers in Australia, I mentioned the situation of this Tower to some other Trainers who were able to help remove it from the water. So it seemed fitting for us to buy and restore it, a year on.

My husband has restored the Tower beautifully. He removed every part & screw. Replaced what needed replacing, sanded and resealed the timber and put it all back together again. Safe to say, we know it very well now.
It is a beautiful partner in movement and I look forward to sharing it in further months.

05/11/2023

The more that is going on around you, and in the world at large pressing upon us (and there is a lot going on, right?!), the more necessary it is for us to consciously self-regulate, so that we are not literally pulled apart by forces outside of ourselves.

Fortunately we have some very effective leverage-points for auto-regulating the state of our nervous system that are available to us 24/7. Breath, for instance, is a direct access whereby you can consciously interact with the unconscious autonomic processes of our habitual states. These states can easily and inadvertently become entrained to external forces rather than our highest intentions for ourselves. If you notice you are feeling "off," that is half the battle!

Before laying blame for that feeling on what someone else said or did, or on the larger and very real issues facing the world in any given moment, believe for an instant that in spite of all those that, you are capable of feeling better, and are more capacitated to deal with all those things, when you have directly addressed your own internal state of affairs. Then pay attention to your breath. Feel the way that at the "bottom" of your exhale, there is a quiet moment where nothing is going on at all.

That's a brief nourishing vacation from it all during which your nervous system can adjust. Then notice that with no effort at all on your part, your lungs suddenly begin to fill with no effort at all on your part as the air, that nourishing spirit, rushes in and reshapes you and moves you. Observe that flashing pause at the top of that free-fill-up when, like at the peak of a roller coaster, you are neither going up nor down, but just taking in the expansive view afforded from that place. Then feel the air rush from you, again without effort, a model for "letting go," freed from constraints internal or otherwise. This is not a "breath exercise" but rather a process of intentional self awareness in the space of the unconscious.

When we choose to walk between the worlds like that, even for just a few cycles of breath, we can shift our state.

13/04/2023

Understand how the Pilates industry is changing with the rise of the Reformer and what we as Pilates teachers can do about it.

14/01/2023

A GYROKINESIS®️ class favourite. Upright Spiral, Side Bend, Curl. So good for opening your ribs and spine. 💛
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New GYROKINESIS®️ exercise class starting FRIDAYS 7.00am - 8.15am.
Special Introductory Series 3 classes for $50.00.
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What can you expect from a GYROKINESIS®️ class?
♾ to explore the movement potential of your spine, hips and shoulders
♾ to awaken areas you haven’t connected to in a while
♾ once you learn the principles, experience the flow of movement, a moving meditation
♾ conscious breathwork
♾ aligning your diaphragms
♾ a sense of grounding
♾ a sense of self
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Send us a message to join the Introductory Series. Booking Essential. Limited numbers.
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09/01/2023

Are you ready for a good stretch after the Christmas break??
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We are starting a new GYROKINESIS® exercise class, so now is your chance to join.
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Fridays 7.00am - 8.15am
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Discounted Introductory Series 3 classes for $50.00
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20th January, 27th January & 3rd February.
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This class tine will continue on as a regular class from the 17th February.
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Bookings essential. Only 6 per class.
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01/11/2022

We’ve been busy creating a new website! 🤓

https://www.pilatesandmovement.com.au

27/08/2022

“I dreamed I stood in silence
Beneath a shattered golden sky,
Whilst the stars rained down like tears
Blinked from a universal eye.
And in my fist I held
All that I’d truly ever owned,
Yet my fingers closed on air,
Clutching only my skin and bone.
But something in that gesture
Hinted at more than I could see,
That like my skin the air
Was just as much a part of me.
And I found that I owned nothing
For I already had it all,
I was the gold that streaked the sky
And every star still yet to fall.
It was this that I held onto
When I finally awoke,
To find the sky the brightest blue
That showed no sign it ever broke.”
~ Erin Hanson

📸 Throwback analogue photo from ‘Pasifika Seams’ Sydney Opera House 2004
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19/08/2022

Knowing and working within your own body is a lifelong journey of learning and experiencing. The ‘Art of Teaching’ is also a process that grows with experience. Sometimes the best doers, are not always the best teachers. Being compassionate & understanding of how different bodies look and move is something that you learn from working with many different people.
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I have now been teaching Pilates for 22 years, but started teaching dance to younger dancers when I was 16. Being that I have had a difficult movement journey due to having Hypermobility Spectrum Disorder, I understand that everyone has different capabilities. But I still remember when I was training as a Pilates teacher & I asked a male client to extend his legs straight into the air for the Hundred. He said, “I can’t do that”. And I was like what do you mean you can’t do that? Can’t everyone do that!?! Being very flexible myself & surrounded by flexible dancers for most of my life, I’d never experienced tight hamstrings. It was a great early learning experience for me.
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Everybody is different and that is why I continue to teach semi-private classes despite the mass move to group fitness. The semi-private class is like personal training but without the cost. Our aim is to help you know & understand your body, so that you can progress and find more strength, balance & longevity within your body & mind. YOU become capable, rather than always relying on the teacher to tell you every step. Then you can integrate & progress with more complex movements, continuing to improve coordination and proprioception.
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If you need to refine your moves and understand your body more, be it for sport, your Yoga class, Barre, group Reformer, or everyday life, we can help you improve.
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