Personalised and high-quality Pilates programs to condition your body from head to toe.
Our studio is the ideal place for you to achieve your fitness goals while unwinding and focusing on your body. We use the full range of Pilates equipment and mat work exercises to make your workout challenging and rewarding.Our instructors are caring and qualified to the highest industry standards (PAA and APMA) . Bookings essential.
Welcome to Pilates Insight Studio
Pilates Insight Studio is a friendly and intimate studio that offers semi-private Pilates equipment sessions which are tailored to meet individual needs and levels. The sessions have a maximum of 3 participants. Our goal is to provide you with the highest quality instruction and encouragement to make your workout challenging and rewarding.
About Pilates
Pilates is a low-impact body and mind workout designed to stretch, strengthen and balance your whole body.
Pilates is suitable for men and women of all ages and fitness levels. Athletes and dancers love it, as do seniors, women during and after pregnancy, and people at various stages of physical rehabilitation.
The method encourages your mind to control your body and focuses on proper form and alignment to ensure exercises are performed safely and effectively.
Regular Pilates work will correct muscular imbalance and strengthen your core muscles, including the deep abdominal muscles, pelvic floor, gluteals and deep spinal muscles.
As a result, you will achieve a strong, toned and erect body, improve your dynamic stability and help prevent back pain and injury.
Benefits
- Change your body shape
- Develop flat abs and strong back
- Stabilize your pelvis, spine and shoulders
- Stretch tight muscles and strengthen the weak ones
- Increase muscle strength and flexibility
- Improve posture and mobility
- Create a strong and supple spine
- Relieve back pain and prevent injury
- Re-establish your pelvic floor function
- Heighten your concentration and increase body awareness
- Release stress and improve energy levels
- Look and feel your very best
About Us
Marcia is a qualified Pilates teacher and a member of the Pilates Alliance of Australasia, with over 10 years experience in the fitness industry in Australia and overseas. "I have been through rehabilitation myself due to multiple fractures in a car crash prior to my University years and also due to a disc bulge after my child’s birth. I can appreciate the frustrations and difficulties one can go through when exercising after injuries or with chronic back pain and how debilitating pain can be. So we work around the pain to restore healthy muscle patterns and make sure we adequate progression and load to achieve a happy outcome."
Working for several years as a Personal Trainer, she came across Pilates and never looked back. Her fascination for Pilates comes from the sense of achievement she witnessed while working with her clients and on her self. She defines Pilates as being an intelligent method of exercise that fully explores the potential of our bodies.
Over the years Marcia worked with a variety of people from all ages and body capabilities, and she dedicates her time to constantly learn how to make her programs safe, effective and enjoyable. She has a special interest in rehabilitation, corrective exercise and sport-specific programs.
Clients testimonials
"Marcia has been targeting my problem areas throughout a personalised programme. I can highly recommend the benefits of regular Pilates practice. I no longer have severe neck and back pain from too much time spent in front of the computer and my increased strength and fitness has meant that I enjoy more other sports such as skiing and cycling."
Susan Fairbairn
" Marcia has been my Pilates teacher for over a year. I have just returned from seven weeks overseas on a walking tour. I was the only one of the group who did not complain of aches and pains. This I attribute to regular Pilates practice and Marcia's teaching".
Anne Finloysow
" I highly recommend Marcia from Pilates Insight Studio for her professional and conscientious approach. Marcia provides a comprehensive and interesting programme of exercises suited to the individual needs of her clients".
Robin Drummond
" Pilates Insight Studio has given me a level of fitness I would never have dreamt of achieving looking back just 3 years ago. I used to be a regular at the chyro - with lower back & shoulder pain from scoliosis and a less than disciplined exercise regime. Pilates has enabled me to live my life without back pain and gives me the energy to live a much more active life."
Marg Cooney.
" I have been doing Pilates for over four years. Marcia has been absolutely outstanding in improving my technique and given me a much better understanding of how my body works. She has a wide variety of equipment in her studio which make her classes both interesting and challenging. Marcia's guidance has also helped me improve my performance at mat classes at the gym. She is a perfectionist who has a profound knowledge of how the body works and is so encouraging that I really look forward to our weekly classes. My body tells me how much better I feel as a result!"
Linka Stone
"Being a musician I spent hours as a teenager practising and performing with bad posture. This, along with carrying a weight of almost 10 kilos over my shoulders (for three hours at a time on occasion), led to many shoulder and neck problems. Through Pilates I have been able to rid myself of these reoccurring shoulder problems and strengthen my entire body.
The low impact and core focused work in Pilates allows me to continually improve my flexibility and control while still providing a work out equal to that of a weight training session.
If there is one exercise regime that I will continue with forever - it is Pilates!"
D. Matt Hunter
"I am personally not a big fan of exercises overall. It was only after I started going to Pilates Insight Studio that I found the right balance between enjoyment and exercise. It's been more than a year now that I've been going to Pilates weekly. I feel that being in a small group allows the instructor to work almost individually with each one focusing on what you need the most.
In addition, there is flexibility with the class schedule, I mean, if you can't make your regular time in a particular week, you can move it for another day or time. Finally, I have been very impressed with the results particularly with regards to my posture, which has improved significantly. I now even look forward to doing my regular exercises."
Tatiana Ratcu
QUALIFICATION DETAILSCertified by the Pilates Body Control Method in Israel.
Local training and certifications: Certificate IV in Pilates (Pilates International Centre). Certficate III in Fitness and Mat/Reformer Training ( Stott Pilates Method).
Academic background: BA Physical Education and Graduate Diploma in Physiology and Sports Training.
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