Get Flexy And Tone Up At Brisbane’s Best Pilates Studios
Get moving, baby!
Comprising a blend of flexibility, strength, and breathwork techniques, Pilates is the ultimate all-in-one workout for gentle yet effective full-body conditioning, strengthening, and mindfulness.
If you’re looking for a low-impact, results-focussed exercise to supplement your boxing sessions or group fitness classes, then pilates is for you; this mind-body form of fitness has quickly become a solid staple in the exercise regimes of celebs and fitness fanatics across the globe.
While it may look graceful and somewhat relaxing, don’t be fooled. We guarantee that just one session on the mat or machine will have muscles feeling the burn that you never knew you had, all while enhancing your mind-body connection.
To help you find your newest fitness obsession, we’ve rounded up the ultimate list of where to go for the best Pilates in Brisbane – from mat to reformer – to get you flexing, bending, and pumping your way into tip-top mind and body shape in 2023.
By the way, we consider everyone in this list the best of the best! To make finding your next favourite that much easier, we’ve ordered the list alphabetically by suburb and also have filtering tabs for your convenience. Did we miss someone from the list? Let us know here!
SOBA
Aiming for abs in 2023? Become stronger inside and out when you book a Pilates class at SOBA. Designed to strengthen your upper and lower abs, glutes, lower back, and hips, their mat Pilates class is suitable for all levels of fitness, no matter what results you’re chasing. You’ll become addicted to the endorphins you experience at SOBA – a light-filled and open boutique space on Montague Road. With a top-notch attention to detail and a strong community feel, achieving your fitness goals is an enjoyable and rewarding journey here. New to SOBA? You’ll receive fourteen days of free barre, yoga, and Pilates classes!
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Inna Essence
Underwood
Allow your stress and worry to melt away with a visit to Inna Essence: the home of holistic wellness. Here, they offer a range of Pilates, yoga, barre, boxilates, and dance classes within their beautiful studio space to help awaken awareness within the body. An inclusive sanctuary where all visitors feel welcomed, Inna Essence is for those looking for physical and emotional support. With a teaching philosophy that is based on compassion and relationship, their instructors will guide you on a journey of thoughtfulness and wellbeing. No matter whether you’re trying Pilates for the first time or have been practising for years, you can be sure this team is invested in supporting you through every session. In addition to their group classes, Inna Essence offers mental health counselling, massage, and osteopathy services.
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Keep Moving Pilates
Newmarket
Bend, stretch, and flex your way to a stronger, more mindful you at Keep Moving Pilates. Suitable for a wide range of abilities, their Pilates classes offer a range of health and wellbeing benefits. From beginner reformer to advanced, jumpboard reformer, mat, and mat core classes, you can explore the exercises you love in a warm and welcoming environment, starting with a free intro reformer class to help you get a feel for the experience! Whether your aim is to strengthen your body, improve your flexibility, or become more energised, you’ll love the way Keep Moving Pilates’ classes make you feel!
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KX Pilates
Multiple locations
Whether you’re ready to give Pilates a red hot go in 2023 or bend and flex on the reg, chances are you’ve heard of Pilates studio powerhouse, KX Pilates. With more than 95 studios across Australia, KX is known and loved for this modern approach to the workout. Using reformer beds to maximise your workout, you’ll experience progression, exercise variety, and the addictive endorphin kick after every session. Our bodies are made to move, and KX is dedicated to show you how across their classes (beginner, intermediate, and advanced), to help you build your way to a stronger, happier self. From improved posture and flexibility to strength, balance, and body awareness, you’ll love the KX experience as much as the results!
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Pilates Emporium
Bardon, Samford
Is 2023 the year you become a reformer Pilates convert? Loved and adored by millions around the world, reformer Pilates is an all-over-body workout that’s low impact and suitable for all ages, abilities, and fitness levels, and no one offers a better class than Pilates Emporium. Specialising in reformer, their two studios are home to the most experienced instructors who are here to give you their full attention and care throughout every workout. Keeping their class sizes small, this allows for a more personalised approach, and their nurturing and friendly environment will ensure you come back time and time again. With a range of membership options and class packs (including their 5 for $75 Introductory Offer), starting your Pilates journey is an addiction you’ll welcome thanks to Pilates Emporium!
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STRONG Pilates
Multiple locations
Take it from us, you’ve never experienced a Pilates class like a STRONG Pilates class before. Combining the best of both worlds – high intensity and low impact – achieve a well-rounded exercise regime that targets every part of you! Experience a full body burn with their high-intensity cardio STRONG Body workout, strengthen and lengthen in their dynamic Pilates class, or test your endurance and push your mental and physical limits in their STRONG Sweat sessions. Whichever movement you favour, you’ll love their innovative training concepts and instructor-assist technology that helps give you visual cues as you sweat. Best of all, STRONG Pilates offers a 10-day intro offer for $50, so you can get a taste of STRONG before taking the plunge!
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TotalFusion
Multiple locations
Set positive intentions and reach your goals with a rejuvenating reformer or Fusion Pilates session at TotalFusion’s state-of-the-art studios. With five unique spaces across Brisbane, a visit to their Newstead, Chermside, Morningside, Mount Gravatt, or Springfield locations offer a much-needed opportunity to sculpt and stretch. Each class will grant you access to an incredibly knowledgeable and passionate TotalFusion trainer, who’ll help you elongate, tone, and strengthen muscles you didn’t even know you had. Syncing your breath and movement to unlock your full potential, sweat it out in their heated rooms, feel the burn with a tailored reformer class, or pulse away the stress of the day on the mats. Either way, you’ll be rewarded with a cool towel and a strong community feel that will welcome you back again and again!
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Studio Pilates
Multiple locations
Get moving and feel the burn with Studio Pilates, who’ll ensure you love the workout just as much as the results. With a focus on isolating muscle groups, improving strength and flexibility, and breathing all in the one session, you’ll leave feeling rejuvenated and inspired to carry on your fitness journey. No matter what your fitness level, Pilates is a low impact but high intensity workout you’ll love for all the right reasons! Every Studio Pilates class is progress based, meaning you can challenge your own limitations, and with classes seven days a week, morning through to evening, there’s bound to be a class time to suit your schedule. Grab an introductory offer (6 classes for $60) to see what all the fuss is about! You’ll find us stretching and flexing at the Hawthorne, Coorparoo, and East Brisbane (Kangaroo Point) studios, but with more than 20 locations in and around Brissy, you’re bound to find *the one* for you.
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