About Us
Join us
We offer a range of classes at different times throughout the week.
Individual attention with the enriched atmosphere of a small group class in an Air-conditioned Pilates Studio
The Studio
A neat air-conditioned studio for small group classes or one-on-one personal training sessions. We are not a super-gym; we are a dedicated Pilates Studio teaching Matwork Pilates by qualified, experienced, rehabilitation specialists and personal trainers.
BYO mat, towel, water and resistance bands. Flex bands are sold at a very reasonable price if you don’t have them.
We use other equipment that can make your Pilates session that much more special. For Example, Swiss balls can result in an amazing flexibility session or a downright dirty strength session!
Your trainer is an experienced practicing Pilates devotee since 1998 and teaching Pilates since 2016.
Dr Mindy Thorpe
Hailing originally from PNG, Mindy’s working life spans careers in Nursing, Industrial Advocacy, Academia, Qld Government WHS Inspector and Auditor, and finally Consultant and Auditor in WHS, Quality and Environment Compliance and Management. Her school years saw her working for her father at the Skyline Drive-in and, then later in Australia at KFC and a chicken farm collecting eggs and shovelling chook poo on alternate weekends. Mindy started her nursing career at age 18 yrs.
Back surgery at the age of 21 years, forced a change in career from nursing and Mindy went back to school and then University and while working full time, undertook her Bachelor of Business, then post graduate qualifications in Management, and in 2000 gained a PhD in Government while lecturing and writing subjects for undergraduate and post graduate courses for several Universities in NSW and Queensland.
Mindy was introduced to Pilates in 2003 after changes in work and lifestyle started to impact on her back again. She was smitten with it after one class, especially having no pain and feeling so much more flexible than she had for years!
Mindy found that the Pilates that she was doing for exercise for the long term back issues and later hip issues, became something more – it also gave her balance to the often stressful and negative compliance based environment that she worked in. Mindy gained her accreditation as a Pilates Instructor with Studio Pilates International in 2016 and started classes on Bribie Island, opening a dedicated Pilates Studio, and later in 2018 gained her accreditation as a Personal Trainer (Cert IV). Then COVID – 19 hit! Everything for so many of us changed. Mindy had to shut down her Pilates Studio on Bribie Island and the WHS Consultancy dried up overnight. Mindy was lucky to become employee for the first time in over 20 years working in Maryborough and living in beautiful Hervey Bay.
One year later and Barefoot Pilates Studio opened in Hervey Bay in 2021 – Mindy needed that balance in her life from her Pilates and resigned from full time work in health and safety to focus on everything Pilates.