Joanna is the owner and manager of JP Pilates. A keen dancer throughout her childhood, this love of movement has continued into her adult life, when she discovered Pilates and fell in love with this form of exercise. Having shunned the corporate life, Joanna is excited to work for herself and hopes that others will find Pilates as beneficial as she has, both for their physical and mental wellbeing. With an appreciation of how some work can be very sedentary, and the loneliness you can sometimes feel if working from home, Joanna values the benefit of an hour's structured exercise class in a social environment, and how this can help achieve a work-life balance. 

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Joanna completed her Reformer teacher training with APPI (The Australian Physiotherapy & Pilates Institute) in 2026. APPI is the only Pilates curriculum in the world to be fully designed, taught and developed by physiotherapists, with their teaching focusing on why a particular exercise is relevant for a particular person. Joanna follows the APPI approach in structuring her classes and always tries to explain the purpose of each exercise in a way that is easy to understand, as a non-physio herself, she knows how confusing physio talk can be!

Penelope is a joint owner of JP Pilates. Having enjoyed attending mat Pilates classes for many years, she appreciates the value of regular exercise throughout one's life. You may see Penelope attending classes as she believes in Joseph's Pilates' quote:

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 “We retire too early and we die too young. Our prime of life should be in the 70’s and old age should not come until we are almost 100.”

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Penelope believes movement, exercise and your mental approach to wellbeing keeps you young and it is never too late to learn something new, as she started Reformer Pilates after she retired. 

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