Pilates Instructors

Jo is an experienced pilates instructor who is well known for her precise instruction, great cueing, and flowing choreography. Her warmth and kindness shines through as she encourages her clients to challenge their bodies.

Jo works closely with our Physiotherapists to devise a program that targets your specific issues, and safely challenges you to improve how you feel in your body - stronger, more flexible, more confident. Jo has a special knack for adding little modifications to add variety and flow.

Jo has a particular interest in helping people to age well.  She is here to help you move smoothly, and wants you to feel comfortable no matter your age, fitness or ability level. She really enjoys working one-to-one and in small groups so she can offer individual attention.

When she's not here at FLEX, you'll find her in her teaching role, training others to become pilates instructors!

Jo takes our early bird TRIO sessions, reformer SOLOs and DUOs, as well as some Pilates Matwork classes.

Jo works at FLEX Monday, Tuesday, Wednesdays, Thursday and Saturday mornings, as well as a sneaky TRIO & MAT on a Weednesday evening ;) 

Welcoming Yanny, who has joined the team at FLEX as a Pilates Instructor!

Yanny fell in love with Pilates back in 2012, and completed her Pilates Diploma with Polestar, covering Mat, Reformer and Studio comprehensively.

Yanny’s positive attitude and sunshine energy are absolutely contagious, and her wicked sense of humour makes her pilates sessions really fun, always leaving her clients smiling and wanting more.

Yanny’s background as a Group Fitness Instructor also makes her versatile, and she loves using various fitness props to challenge or assist her clients.

Yanny takes SOLO Sessions, TRIOs and MAT classes, and you can feel her experience shine through as she layers up exercises to modify or "level up" exercises for each client. Yes, she'll always offer a challenge, but she's just as skilled at offering alternatives that feel comfortable and safe for patients rehabbing injuries.

Yanny works Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday mornings, and Tuesday afternoons.

She'll also cover a few extra classes here and there for others - we just can't get enough of sunshine gal Yanny!

In her spare time she enjoys bushwalking, trailrunning, climbing/mountaineering, music and art. With a heart for reading she likes to stay up to date with science/evidence based medicine, psychology and philosophy. Experience with multiple sports-related injuries (unfortunately..) in the past gave her insight about finding the best balance between symptom management and functional recovery, and gave her a deeper level of understanding about illness beliefs/perception and the placebo/nocebo effect. She highly values education and communication as a tool to understanding our bodies needs.

Fi is an experience pilates instructor