Fitness & movement in Northern Suburbs

ATI Martial Arts runs its headquarters from an air-conditioned, matted centre on Beach Road, Malaga, with a cafe and viewing area. Adult classes cover Taekwondo, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, kickboxing and Boxing Fit, plus women's self-defence and private lessons. Children start from age three in Little Dragons, then move into kids Taekwondo and BJJ, with teen kickboxing and boxing from 12. Classes run 30 to 60 minutes, Monday to Saturday, and a free trial is offered.

A martial arts school teaching tai chi and qigong alongside kung fu for more than twenty years, with academies in Balcatta and Fremantle. The tai chi and qigong streams sit at the wellness end of the practice — slow-form work for balance, breath and focus, for adults and children.

Competitive Boxing & Fitness is a boxing and group training gym on Finance Place, Malaga. Boxing runs at three levels, from all-levels drills and bag or pad rounds to partner work and an invite-only fight team, plus junior boxing for ages 10 to 14. Box n Burn, Punch & HIIT and LIFT strength sessions round out the timetable. It opens weekday mornings and afternoons and weekend mornings, and new members can take two weeks unlimited for $49.

Crystal Ballroom is a ballroom and social dance studio on Marshall Road, Malaga, led by principals Richard and Julie Morrissey. Adults learn waltz, cha-cha, slow rhythm and other social dances in an eight-week Wednesday evening course from 7pm, followed by a social dance until 9.30pm, for $120. People can come solo or with a partner. Kids classes run Saturday mornings at $15 a week, and private lessons, competition coaching and wedding dance packages are also offered.

Flying High Aerial Arts Studios is a pole dance and flexibility studio on Westchester Road, Malaga, that has been teaching in Perth for more than ten years. Small classes run from beginner pole, covering spins, poses and climbs, through intermediate and advanced levels, alongside flexibility and conditioning sessions. No experience is needed and new students start each week. Class times vary with the timetable, and new students can take two weeks of unlimited classes for $88.

Nollamara Tennis Club runs social pickleball three times a week on its outdoor courts. Visitors pay a $10 fee, paddles are supplied, and newcomers get a short introduction before playing with rotating partners.

Brazilian jiu jitsu, capoeira and Muay Thai taught in Malaga, with a second room in Ellenbrook, by instructors the centre says are qualified at international level. Capoeira is the uncommon one here — the Brazilian art that sits between martial art, dance and music, and it runs for adults as well as children. A FIFO programme is scheduled around swings rather than weeks.

A Craigie-based pickleball coach and equipment retailer running social sessions and private lessons in Perth's northern suburbs.

A reformer Pilates studio in the Horizon Building on Brighton Road, a short walk from Scarborough Beach, run since 2010 by accredited exercise physiologist and Pilates instructor Teresa Holmes. Group reformer classes on Allegro 2 reformers are capped at 12 people, alongside private and semi-private sessions, clinical Pilates, exercise physiology and physiotherapy. A casual class is $39 and a one-to-one session $95. Open Monday to Friday from 6am, with shorter weekend morning hours.

A Wangara academy running since 1987, with Zen Do Kai, Muay Thai, Brazilian jiu jitsu, boxing and MMA on one adult timetable from sixteen years up. The studio is unusually direct about what walking in cold feels like — its own wording is that beginners find structure, patience, and a community that remembers what it felt like to start from nothing. A two-week unlimited intro pass is $29.

A small studio in Connolly run by Louise Jennings, combining personal training with health and lifestyle coaching. Group fitness is capped at six, and one-on-one work runs alongside family sessions, post-pregnancy training and teen programmes. The coaching side covers menopause, weight management and lifestyle planning; a 75-minute lifestyle consultation takes in a nutrition plan, an exercise programme and goal setting. Group sessions are $21.50 and lifestyle plans $99, both published on the site.

Studio Fortè is a reformer Pilates studio in a unit on Carson Road, Malaga, run by owner Emma. The timetable mixes all-levels Reformer Forte Fusion and a reformer-and-mat Dynamic Fusion class with intermediate options, Forte Sculpt Reformer and Intermediate Reformer Fusion, which the studio says are not for newcomers or during pregnancy. A casual class is $38, weekly memberships start at $45 for two visits, and new members can try five classes for $65. Classes are booked online.

The Dungeon Boxing is a boxing gym in a Camboon Road unit in Malaga, coaching in the Cuban school of boxing. One-hour adult classes run Monday to Saturday, with beginners, all-levels and women's sessions, and invite-only intermediate and advanced training. Juniors and youth aged 6 to 16 have their own classes. A casual adult class is $25, weekly passes start at $29 for two classes, and personal training is $100 a session by appointment.

A family-owned reformer Pilates studio on Delage Street in Joondalup, with more than 20 years in the Pilates industry and over 60 in-studio classes a week. Alongside group reformer classes it offers private Pilates, pregnancy Pilates, a Pilates programme for people over 50, stretch therapy and remedial massage. A single group reformer session is $39, a 10-pack $330, and a drop-in private session $110.

A reformer, mat and barre Pilates studio on Mercer Lane in Joondalup, set up with a focus on keeping Pilates affordable. Classes are pitched at all fitness levels, with instructors offering modifications, and are booked through the Momence app. A casual mat class is $20 and a casual reformer class $26, with 10-class packs and no-lock-in weekly memberships from $18 a week. Grip socks are required for all classes.

Mandy Francisty runs day retreats around Perth and weekend retreats further afield — the next in Pemberton — built from slow-flow and restorative yoga, yoga nidra, meditation, breathwork, journaling and a vegan, gluten-free lunch, each day on a different theme. Based in Two Rocks, where there is venue hire, a sauna and ice bath and weekly yoga, she is a yoga and pilates teacher, breathwork practitioner, NLP and EFT therapist and personal trainer, and takes private bookings for hens, birthdays and teams.

An Innaloo practice on Ellen Stirling Boulevard running reformer classes and a gym floor alongside the physiotherapy rooms, with an infrared sauna on site. A standing over-fifties strength class runs under its own name rather than being folded into the general timetable. HICAPS is on site, so health fund claims are processed at the desk.

Recwell is a contrast therapy and recovery centre in Wangara with hot and cold pools, a steam room, a campfire sauna, a compression boot lounge and Reformer Pilates. Contrast sessions run 60 minutes and include the pools, sauna and steam room, booked as casual sessions, packs or week-to-week memberships from $49 a week for two sessions. Remedial massage and physiotherapy run on site through outside providers. Open weekdays 5.30am to 8pm and weekends 7am to 4pm.

A Scarborough studio pairing small-group reformer Pilates — six reformers, never more — with a proper recovery wing: full-spectrum infrared sauna, commercial ice baths and structured contrast therapy. A $59 two-week unlimited intro pass covers the Pilates side.

Scarborough's hot-room specialist: Bikram hot yoga, Sumit's hot vinyasa flow, hot core Pilates and a yin class to balance the heat, fifteen minutes up the coast from the city. Fourteen days unlimited for $39 lets newcomers try the lot before committing.

A yoga and Pilates studio on Scarborough Beach Road, upstairs from Jetts Gym with entry from the car park. It runs more than 60 classes a week across yoga, mat and reformer Pilates, breathwork, meditation and sound bath sessions, plus family-friendly yoga classes. A casual yoga class is $29 and a casual reformer class is $37, with class packs, weekly memberships and intro passes also available. Bookings are made through Mindbody.