Pilates in Perth

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.

The reformer Pilates studio of Ellenbrook Physiotherapy, trading as Sana, with small-group reformer and mat classes alongside yoga, barre and strength circuits, and programs written by physiotherapists. New clients start with a free orientation reformer class. There is a gym and a wholefoods café on site, and members get discounted physio and massage. Prices aren't published online.

One of two Empower studios — the other is in Bellevue — founded in 2020 by exercise physiologist Ciara Parry. Reformer, mat and barre classes run seven days, including stretch-led Restore, high-intensity Sweat and a 55-plus Silver Swans timetable. New clients start with an intro package, such as $59 for two weeks unlimited, and a casual class is $38. A weekday-morning crèche costs $6 a child.

A Hardy Street studio running barre alongside reformer and matwork, which is less common than it sounds — most Perth barre classes sit in gyms rather than Pilates studios. The studio is explicit that no dance background is expected; its own test is whether you can hold a barre. Yoga and private sessions run on the same timetable.

Four studios across the western suburbs and the city — Shenton Park, Cottesloe, White Gum Valley and Barrack Street — running reformer and floor Pilates across eight class styles, with over two hundred classes a week between them and one membership covering the lot. The intro is four weeks unlimited for $190.

A Matlock Street studio with an unusually wide timetable for a Pilates address — reformer classes and studio sessions share the building with an infrared sauna, an Inside Flow yoga class, kinesiology and a mobility and balance class. A second location runs on Angelo Street in South Perth. Useful if you would rather book one place for several different things.

Two studios south of the river — Entrance Road in Coogee and Hammond Road in Cockburn Central — with the broadest Pilates timetable in the area: barre, clinical, reformer, mat, trampoline reformer, pregnancy and post-natal classes, plus TRX and boxilates. Classes run mornings, evenings and weekends. A two-week beginners' trial is $59, and a fifteen-minute phone consult is free.

Revolution Pilates & GYROTONIC Studio is an equipment-based studio on Carr Place in Leederville, directed by Neil Nabbefeld. New clients start with at least two 60-minute private sessions before moving to semi-private sessions of no more than four people per instructor, each on an individual program. The studio also runs GYROTONIC and GYROKINESIS sessions, group floor classes and fitBABES, a pre- and postnatal Pilates program. Studio sessions run weekday mornings and evenings and Saturday mornings.

A Como studio founded by Maddie, a qualified physiotherapist and Pilates instructor, running reformer, aerial, mat and barre classes. The physio background shows in the programming — classes are built with technique and joint positioning in mind rather than pace for its own sake.

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 North Fremantle studio whose timetable runs from power yoga and sculpt Pilates down to yin, restorative, and a yoga nidra class held inside live crystal-bowl sound healing — the guided yogic-sleep practice done properly, lying down, with the room resonating. Drop-ins $32, memberships from $39 a week.

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.

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.