Evolved Pilates

17/12/2025

Confidence doesn’t come from more cues or more choreography.
It comes from clarity.
Mentoring supports Pilates teachers — and studios — to teach with steadiness, depth, and intention.
Apply by 5 January 2025
Julia Frankish

https://evolvedpilates.com.au/2025/12/15/finding-your-teaching-voice-why-mentoring-matters/

07/08/2025

Hip Hip Hooray - A workshop for Pilates Teachers. Offered at 3 locations
Evolved Pilates, Sanctuary on Peninsula and Geelong Pilates Studio

Book at https://evolvedpilates.com.au/evolved-plus-workshops/

09/02/2024

We are hiring at Evolved Pilates!

We need a curious and Diploma (or equivalent) qualified teacher from any training provider to join our studio. We have been operating for 10 years, and have awesome clients and a great team of teachers.

There are some existing classes and an opportunity to grow some new sessions too. Our studio classes have 1:4 ratio and we work in studio setting with mixed apparatus.

Training, mentoring and support will be provided as well as ongoing professional development and workshops.

If this interests you, please get in touch!

If you know anyone you think would be a great fit, please tag them or pass along. We so appreciate your help finding a new teacher to join our fantastic team.

12/12/2023

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It's nearly that time of the year again! Our calendars are filling up with end of year celebrations, concerts and catch ups. Throughout this period, we will be running classes as normal, and we encourage you to be consistent with your classes and enjoy prioritising your self and wellbeing. Our fina...

12/12/2022

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We will be closed over Christmas and New Years from 12pm Saturday 24th December and will reopen on Thursday 5th January for classes starting at 4:30pm.  Please let us know if you're going to be away so we can plan our schedule accordingly. We will cancel and condense classes as required and we app...

17/10/2022

Pilates Workshops for Teachers

Evolved Plus was born out of a desire to share knowledge and to connect with like-minded people. We want to build community, encourage curiosity and be reinvigorated by learning. Come on the journey with us!

3 workshops to pique your curiosity and feed your appetite for learning. You can dip your toes in and try one, or choose all three for the full experience.

To book, visit evolvedpilates.com.au or email julia@evolvedpilates.com.au

Hip Hip Hooray
Cuing for optimal hip strength and control
Hips are mobile joints with a clever muscular system to support and enable movement. This workshop will explore strategies for releasing and strengthening the hip, as well as cuing and repertoire for happy, healthy hips.
After years of struggling with her own hip pain, and helping numerous clients with hip complaints, Julia has a special interest in active hip relaxation and specific strengthening. This workshop will include verbal, tactile and visual cues to help you problem solve issues, critically reason your exercise selection and achieve the best outcomes for you and your clients.
Saturday 22 October 12-2pm
Investment: $120 for 1 workshop or $300 for all 3

Spring It On!
Designed by Ellie Herman, the Springboard is an incredibly versatile piece of Pilates apparatus.
During this repertoire based workshop we will explore creative ways to use springboards to challenge your balance, spark your curiosity and get you moving!
Friday 4 November 1-3pm
Investment: $120 for 1 workshop or $300 for all 3

Beautifully Basic Matwork
The place where it all begins… but arguably, the most difficult of all.
During this 2 hour workshop we will strip things back to the most basic of exercises and explore the simplicity of matwork. Using language, imagery, breath and touch to enhance your practice and lay the foundation for greater movement to come.

Friday 18 November 1-3pm
Investment: $120 for 1 workshop or $300 for all 3

Book via MindBody https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/asp/main_enroll.asp?fl=true&tabID=8

About Julia
Julia Frankish is the owner and Director of Evolved Pilates. She opened the studio in 2014 after having taught for a decade in other studios around Melbourne.
Through her experiences with dance training, Julia was introduced to Pilates as a way to strengthen her body, and help hold it together. This ignited a lifelong love of the method and its intelligent movement principles. She attained her Pilates certification in 2005 and has been teaching ever since!
Julia particularly enjoys educating people that are looking to become Pilates teachers, and providing further education for existing teachers. Her philosophy is that Pilates is for everybody – for all ages and body types, and an excellent tool in both acute injury repair and for increasing strength and injury prevention. She is particularly interested in hip and pelvis mechanics, low back pain and dance conditioning. Her approach is personable and educational. Pilates teaches the integration of body and mind, and this, combined with precision and control are consistent themes throughout her classes.
When she is not at the studio either teaching classes or running the business, Julia loves to spend time with her partner Louis and their two children Camille and Emmanuel riding bikes and exploring the Merri Creek. She is also a keen baker and loves cooking and decorating cakes and desserts.

02/06/2022

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13/12/2021

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Holiday closure We will be closed from Saturday 25th December to Monday 3 January 2022 inclusive. Our first day of classes in the New Year will be Tuesday 4th January. Please let us know if you're going to be away so we can plan our schedule accordingly. We will cancel and condense classes as requi...

06/12/2021

Support local and spend your Love Local Card with us! has launched the Love Local Card – a new initiative to support the retail, hospitality, health, fitness and beauty businesses that make Darebin a great place to live, work and play.

Eligible community members are getting pre-paid Love Local Cards worth $30 and $50 to spend at hundreds of local independent businesses like ours, that are registered to take part in the program. It’s part of Council’s ongoing effort to help the Darebin community and economy through the COVID-19 pandemic.

We’re accepting Love Local Cards from now until 31 May 2022. For more information visit Darebin.vic.gov.au/lovelocalcard

09/11/2021

What is a SpringBoard? And what happens during a class?

Looking for a workout that combines strength, flexibility, balance and co-ordination? Interested in a new workout or challenge to add to your Pilates practice?

Look no further – our 5 week Springboard course is due to launch Saturday 20 November!

First things first though, what is a springboard??

The springboard as its name suggests, is a plywood board that is securely attached to the wall, complete with springs; like what you would see on a trapeze table or on a reformer. The springs attach to the board via eyelets, all at different levels to be able to give you differing lengths and tensions together with handles, foot straps and a roll back bar.

The Springboard was designed by Ellie Herman.

The beauty of the springs on Pilates’ equipment, is that they add resistance and allow for movements designed to specifically target muscle groups and joints. The height of attachment and the position you hold the spring in with your arms and legs, allows for an enormous number of exercises to be performed including many you’d be familiar with from other Pilates exercises.

The springboard eyebolts are numbered, and the springs are colored coded, making it very easy for us to give you instructions in a group class of where to put the spring, and which spring to use with which foot loop or handle. A huge advantage in using the springboard, as opposed to other equipment, like the reformer, is that your limbs work independently, due to each limb to having its own spring. This allows us to focus on balancing both sides of the body while challenging symmetry. It also makes it a lot of fun, and the exercise opportunities are limitless!

The other key difference, is that much of the work that we’ll do is in an open chain position, meaning your limbs are working through space, rather than pressing onto a solid surface like the reformer foot bar or carriage. This decrease in stability, makes many familiar exercises far more challenging. The springboard is also a terrific tool for integrating upright movement patterns and challenging your balance!

If you’re interested in coming to try out the springboards, to see how they work and how they feel for your body, register for our short course evolvedpilates.com.au/short-courses
Classes are suitable for all levels, however, are not for you if you’re struggling with a serious injury or are pregnant.

07/11/2021

Have a read about our thoughts on why women need to keep lifting weights.

Our bone density starts to decline from the age of 30. As estrogen falls in women during peri and post menopause, this causes a further decrease in bone density. Without adequate load and challenge to our tissues and bones we then put ourselves at serious risk of injury and illness as we age. Research suggests that in Australia, approx 50% of women over 60 years, will have at least one fracture due to low bone density and osteoporosis.

Muscle mass also declines by 1% per year from the age of 30, and this decline accelerates after 40. Without resistance training, our body is likely to suffer from sarcopenia or muscle wasting, a chronic disease of the elderly that causes loss of muscle mobility and function. It is estimated that without any resistance training, by the age of 70, over half of our muscle mass is lost. This loss of strength and mobility increases our risk of falls and injuries and can have a huge impact on our quality of life.

The key to maintaining an independent, healthy active life is resistance training…..this means lifting heavy weights! With more muscle mass, our bones and joints are protected, and our metabolism is more easily maintained.

To read the full article visit https://evolvedpilates.com.au/2021/10/14/strength-training-for-women/

We are running a 5 week strength program starting mid November. Visit evolvedpilates.com.au/sort-courses to read more and to book

04/11/2021

Attention new mums!
We are running a 5 week mums and bubs class from mid November. Here's something written by Jane, a mum of three kids and the teacher of this class.

The Fourth Trimester

So here you are, home with your beautiful bundle of joy, exhausted but living on cloud nine. You have made it through the pregnancy, the birth, the first feed, the first nappy change and everything else in between! You’ve been to see you doctor, who has given the all clear for getting back into exercise… great, but what does that even look like in this postnatal body? You feel like you have lost every gain you made before pregnancy and even while doing your pre-natal classes. You feel weak and frankly a little torn apart – so what to do now? Yep, you guessed it – Pilates! ☺

But before you jump onto the reformer, there are a few things to remember… You have pretty much just had major surgery (whether it was a vaginal birth or c-section), and your body has gone through so much to bring this beautiful little person into the world. It is not a time to be putting pressure on yourself to ‘bounce back’. Be gentle, be kind and go slow. Come in for your first session ready to move again, ready to focus on yourself again (even if just for an hour) and understanding that it may take time, but we will get you there (wherever ‘there’ is for you).

Treat your 4th trimester as a time for your body to recover, rest and reset. Some mums will return to their pre pregnancy exercise routine sooner than others, some may feel their body wants to move differently to before, some may be happy to just have a quiet hour to themselves to reset – there is no right or wrong, everything is normal and welcome here.

Read the full article by clicking the link below
https://evolvedpilates.com.au/2021/10/14/the-forth-trimester/