Fitness & movement in Perth

A Bulwer Street practice running its Pilates on the clinic side of the line: a one-to-one session with a physiotherapist comes before any class, and classes are then capped at three people so nobody is working unwatched. Reformer, mat and a mums-and-bubs class run on the same timetable. Classes are $70, or $65 each in a six-class pack.

A Hobart Street studio that splits its Pilates by how closely you are watched rather than by how hard it is — clinical sessions cap at three, reformer classes at six, both fifty minutes. An assessment comes first either way. Women's health, pregnancy and postnatal physiotherapy run from the same rooms, and the studio states its clinical sessions are claimable through health funds.

A boxing gym on Wittenoom Street that separates learning the craft from being hit. Boxing Basics is a beginners' class in technique with no contact, and the partner drills that follow rule out contact to the head; sparring is a separate club you opt into by invitation. Classes run forty to fifty minutes, with a strength session in the same timetable.

Nutrition and body-composition coaching built around training rather than separate from it. Clients are reassessed fortnightly, and the coaching covers habits and mindset alongside the numbers. Programmes run in person in Perth or entirely online, and the team states a preference for working around a client's existing lifestyle rather than replacing it.

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.

A West Leederville training and recovery room where the cold plunge and infrared sauna sit alongside the gym floor rather than in a separate wellness space. Compression boots, red light and shock wave therapy are on the same menu as pilates and yoga classes, which makes it more of an athlete's setup than a spa. Open from 6.30am on weekdays and Saturday mornings, closed Sundays.

The Broadway room of a two-site wellness studio, built around equipment rather than treatment beds: an infrared sauna, a Cocoon infrared pod, a salt cabin for halotherapy, LED facial light, oxygen and hydrogen therapy, and lymphatic roller massage. There is also a heated RedFit sauna studio running yoga, pilates, cycle and weights classes in the warm. Sister site in Rockingham; each books on its own number.

The spa inside COMO The Treasury on Cathedral Avenue, open to day visitors as well as hotel guests: four treatment rooms (one a double), a 20-metre heated indoor pool, sauna and a wellness lounge, and a rooftop fitness centre. Massage and holistic treatments with COMO Shambhala's own products, private yoga and pilates, and wellness packages. Open 10am to 6pm every day; bookings through the spa's online portal.

Frieda runs yin and vinyasa classes in Claremont and Cottesloe and takes the practice into the bush: yoga hikes — 'yikes' — such as a four-kilometre walk at Bells Rapids followed by a slow-flow class and afternoon tea, and a hike to the Golden View lookout above Mundaring Weir, forty-five minutes east of the city. Longer retreats run in Balingup and overseas. Private one-to-one classes and corporate yoga and pilates round out the calendar.

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.