Who We Are

Welcome to Studio High Street. Here at the Studio you will find movement classes to provide the opportunity for an ongoing varied program, for continued results that you can feel and see.

Kelly Barrs

Pilates & Yoga Instructor

Kelly is a dedicated pilates instructor who discovered pilates in a quest to add more strength to her long standing yoga practice. Seeing incredible results in her strength, energy levels and mood, pilates quickly became her favourite movement practice!

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Kelly is a dedicated pilates instructor who discovered pilates in a quest to add more strength to her long standing yoga practice. Seeing incredible results in her strength, energy levels and mood, pilates quickly became her favourite movement practice! She is passionate about sharing this with others, ultimately helping them to achieve their well-being and fitness goals. She strives to create a supportive, empowering and fun environment in her classes where people can explore and enjoy movement.

When not teaching or practicing, you can find her learning to surf on the northern beaches, in the kitchen creating nutritious meals, or taking a cat nap with Jasper her rescue kitty.

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Justine Cooper

Senior Pilates Instructor, Personal Trainer

With over 20 years of experience in the fitness industry, Justine Cooper has been dedicated to helping people from all walks of life achieve their health and wellness goals. After earning her Bachelor of Human Movement, she began sharing her passion for exercise, transforming countless lives through fun, engaging, and effective fitness routines.

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With over 20 years of experience in the fitness industry, Justine Cooper has been dedicated to helping people from all walks of life achieve their health and wellness goals. After earning her Bachelor of Human Movement, she began sharing her passion for exercise, transforming countless lives through fun, engaging, and effective fitness routines.

Specializing in group fitness, Justine’s mission is to make movement enjoyable and accessible to everyone. She inspires her clients to incorporate exercise into their daily lives, enhancing fitness, flexibility, injury prevention, and overall health. For Justine, exercise isn’t just a necessity—it’s a reward for your body.

Her expertise spans a wide range of disciplines, including the dynamic POUND – Rockout. Workout, Pilates (both Mat and Reformer), Revive, Restore and Align (a mixture of gentle movements, mindful stretches and breathing exercises) aquarobics, circuit training (HIIT), body weight strength, cardio dance and boxing. Drawing on her extensive knowledge and experience, Justine delivers tailored, high-quality workouts that energize and empower her clients.

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Ruth Edington

Senior Pilates Rehab Specialist

Ruth’s biggest belief is that everybody should have access to affordable quality training for rehab, prehab, and bio-mechanical understanding of their body.

Ruth started Personal Training and teaching Pilates 19 years ago and has been studying, learning and teaching ever since.

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Ruth’s biggest belief is that everybody should have access to affordable quality training for rehab, prehab, and bio-mechanical understanding of their body.

She carries this through to all her teaching be it Dance, Pilates or Yoga and Fitness.
As someone who spent her life performing for a living she often could not afford proper rehabilitation and support and this meant she was working around injuries that could have been fixed. She wanted to stop that happening to other people.
Ruth started Personal Training and teaching Pilates 19 years ago and has been studying, learning and teaching ever since.

Her loves are Dance (and teaches Tango !), Anatomy and Bio-mechanics and her mission in life is to learn all she can and pass on that knowledge, to help people understand the way their body works, to minimise pain and to improve quality of movement at every level of ability.

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Alex Collins

Senior Pilates Instructor

With a background in Classical Ballet with Queensland Ballet, Alex decided to fully embrace her passion for Pilates after seven years of being a devotee. In 2012 she studied and trained to become a Pilates Instructor. Alex also continues with involvement in teaching and performing adult dance.

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With a background in Classical Ballet with Queensland Ballet, Alex decided to fully embrace her passion for Pilates after seven years of being a devotee. In 2012 she studied and trained to become a Pilates Instructor. Alex also continues with involvement in teaching and performing adult dance.

Being the proud mother of four boys, she understands the pressures of busy lives and the importance of striving to achieve a balanced approach. She believes Pilates is beneficial for both mind and body and helps to maintain this balance. Her focus is on technique, strength and flexibility in a welcoming environment.

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Olivia Hammerschmidt

Senior Pilates & Yoga Instructor, Owner

Hi, and thanks for stopping by! I’m Olivia, the creator of Studio High Street and you’ll find me here in the Studio teaching a range of our classes. I believe in constantly evolving the status quo and am satisfied only when the studio can meet and exceed our clients’ expectations for achieving their goals. If you have any feedback or requests, please feel free to contact me.

 

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Hi, and thanks for stopping by! I’m Olivia, creator of Studio High Street. You’ll find me in the Studio teaching a range of our classes, and managing our day to day operations. I’m always open to feedback, requests and suggestions from clients about our offerings, so please feel free to contact me!

Having endured a broken collarbone from a skateboarding fall at 21, and an arthroscopy and meniscus repair ten years later, I am no stranger to injuries and their ensuing imbalances. For my own injury rehab, I came to experience that the body needs to change up its regimen in order to continue seeing results and avoiding a plateau.

I particularly love the benefits of pilates for the body as there is the ability for such a diverse workout, which other modalities don’t offer. Pilates also targets the small muscles of the body which are often overlooked in more typical fitness environments – and the results speak for themselves.

Prior to Studio High Street, I was working with physios and chiros running small group classes to help clients with ease of movement, increasing their strength, mobility and fitness.

Outside of the studio, I enjoy cooking up storms, anything coffee related and all things cheese!

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Sophie Kennedy

Pilates Instructor

Sophie has been practicing pilates since 2017, when sports injuries led her to the method as a form of rehab. She spent 8 months completing her Mat and Reformer certifications with PITC. She is currently completing her Diploma of Pilates Instruction with Polestar, and will be returning to uni next year to study Clinical Exercise Physiology.

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Sophie has been practicing pilates since 2017, when sports injuries led her to the method as a form of rehab. She completed her Mat and Reformer certifications with PITC. She is currently completing her Diploma of Pilates Instruction with Polestar, and will be returning to uni next year to study Clinical Exercise Physiology. Sophie believes that pilates is for everyone with the right attention and modifications, and that everyone can benefit from a pilates practice! Nothing is more rewarding for Sophie than watching a client progress and get stronger with every session.

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Sandra Reid

Senior Pilates Instructor

Sandra has had a long interest in fitness with the last 10 years specifically devoted to Pilates and its positive impact on general wellbeing.

She has been a keen triathlon competitor for many years and has competed in many events including the Hawaiian Ironman World Championship 4 times.

Over the years, Sandra has worked as a Personal Trainer and helped many clients in a diverse number of countries achieve their fitness goals, ranging from weight loss and increased strength to improvement in aerobic fitness.

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Sandra has had a long interest in fitness with the last 10 years specifically devoted to Pilates and its positive impact on general wellbeing.

She has been a keen triathlon competitor for many years and has competed in many events including the Hawaiian Ironman World Championship 4 times.

Over the years, Sandra has worked as a Personal Trainer and helped many clients in a diverse number of countries achieve their fitness goals, ranging from weight loss and increased strength to improvement in aerobic fitness.

Sandra discovered Pilates after having a hamstring injury while living in Japan and it has now become a daily regime as part of her training. Since then she has received three Pilates Mat Certifications and more recently the internationally recognised Polestar Pilates Studio & Rehabilitation Practitioner qualification.

In 2019 Sandra was in a bad cycling accident which resulted in surgery. After learning to walk again she used pilates to completely rehabilitate and is back competing in triathlons once again.

Through her personal experience Sandra is familiar with what it takes to remain active as you age. She understands the benefits of pilates for all agegroups for enhancement of posture,injury prevention, core strength and mobility of joints.

She has experience working with a range of clients ranging from athletes for injury prevention to more mature clients with joint and mobility issues.

Sandra enjoys ocean swimming, cycling, running, skiing and scuba diving. Other more relaxing activities include going to the beach, drinking good wine and reading a good book.

Her mantra is “Stay active Stay young”.

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Sue VercoeSue Vercoe
09:20 16 Sep 23
Really enjoy this small, clean pilates studio, conveniently located near Harris Farm on High St and above Dose coffee shop. It’a not exactly local to me but I make the trip specifically to do Ruth’s classes. I’ve got some particular issues and she’s fantastic at tailoring things to my needs and guiding my long-term rehab.
Georgie AntawGeorgie Antaw
23:50 14 Sep 23
I am so happy to have found Studio High Street Pilates. Olivia is an amazing instructor who truly cares and delivers! The studio is very friendly and welcoming. The classes are small in size, allowing for individual needs to be tailored. I definitely recommend Studio Pilates, and I guarantee you will see results!
Lee Choon CheeLee Choon Chee
10:14 14 Sep 23
I have been going to Pilates Reformer classes at Studio High Street for close to two years. Ruth is very knowledgeable as she explained what the exercises were accomplishing. I have benefitted from her expertise and she motivated me to continue training. Olivia has set up a warm and beautiful studio. Everyone is so friendly and welcoming. I recommend this place to anyone who is contemplating taking up pilates!
Kelly FordeKelly Forde
02:37 14 Sep 23
Great supportive small group studio environment, have been amazed to see results so quickly! My posture improved after only a few sessions and am feeling stronger by the day!
Vanessa StephenVanessa Stephen
23:13 13 Sep 23
Fantastic local studio with a great variety of classes.Always feel better after a class here. Small classes, nice people, a few laughs and a good workout.Olivia and her team always manage to tailor the exercises to suit each person’s needs.
Anne MawaAnne Mawa
10:19 13 Sep 23
I joined this studio six months ago and absolutely love it. Small varied classes and Olivia and Ruth are great instructors who are attentive to each individual. A very welcoming relaxed environment. A very good find! I would recommend this studio to anyone considering Pilates.
Arleen CrichtonArleen Crichton
12:07 03 Aug 23
Olivia from Studio High Street is truly wonderful. I have only had a handful of classes here so far but she has made me feel so comfortable. The reformer pilates is such a good workout targeting legs, arms, abs, glutes & more! Today I did a remedial yoga class and by the end it truly felt like I had just left a massage room. Such deep stretches, all just felt so good for my body.Would highly recommend to anyone!
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