Dedicated pregnancy-only classes, twice a week
Tuesdays 6.20pm · Thursdays 6.15pm
A calm, sociable hour with other pregnant women at every stage … some in their first trimester, some counting down the last weeks. There’s time to chat before and after in reception, and no pressure to keep up with anyone.
Book the weeks that suits you
Prenatal classes now work like everything else on our timetable. There’s no course to enrol in and no block to commit to — book the class you can make, when you can make it.
Come casually, use a class pass, or put your classes on a Reformer membership. Pregnancy rarely runs to plan, so we’ve built the flexibility in rather than asking you to work around us.
Please note: Prenatal and Mums & Bubs classes aren’t available on our introductory passes. They’re specialist small-group classes, so they sit outside the intro offers. Casual classes, passes and memberships all apply as normal.
WHAT IT COSTS
The same as everything else we run
There is no pregnancy premium here, and no separate program fee. Prenatal Pilates & Yoga sits on our standard Reformer pricing, and Mums & Bubs on standard Studio 1 pricing — the same rates as any other class on the timetable. If you already hold a membership or a class pass, it covers these classes. There is nothing extra to buy.
Community Access rates apply to both, for holders of a Pensioner Concession Card or Health Care Card and full-time students. Private one-to-one sessions work differently — they’re appointments rather than classes, and we’ve set out how they’re priced further down this page.
New to these classes?
Your first prenatal class is $15, whatever you decide to do afterwards. It’s there so you can see the room, meet the instructor and find out whether it suits you before committing to anything.
Three ways to book
Casual $33 per class
Book the weeks you feel up to it. Nothing to commit to, nothing to track. Useful in the first trimester when you’re not yet sure how each week will go.
Class Pass from $27 per class
- 5-class pass — $150 · $30 per class · 3-month expiry
- 10-class pass — $270 · $27 per class · 6-month expiry
The 10-class pass runs for six months, which comfortably spans most of a pregnancy … and if you don’t use it all, the balance converts to Mums & Bubs credits after bub arrives.
Reformer Membership from $27 a week
Prenatal is a Reformer class, so any Reformer membership covers it … and the same membership gets you into our regular Reformer classes too, for as long as you’re comfortable attending them.
- Once a week – $27/week · 4 classes per 28 days
- Twice a week – $46/week · 8 classes per 28 days
Weekly direct debit. No lock-in contract. Pause or adjust any time — and your membership pauses automatically around your due date at no cost.
Community Access Rates: hold a Pensioner Concession Card, Health Care Card, or study full-time (3+ subjects)? You’ll get 15% off Reformer — casual classes, passes and Once & Twice memberships included. Bring your card and photo ID to reception.
Our Bump to Bub Promise
Because this season of life doesn’t run to a timetable.
There’s nothing to cancel and nothing to re-sign when you’re ready to return. See our Mums & Bubs Postnatal classes.
- Your membership pauses automatically around your due date ... at no cost, for as long as you need
- Unused pass classes convert to Mums & Bubs class credits when you're ready to come back
- Your first class back after bub arrives is on us
- No paperwork battles, no fees … just tell us your dates
Why choose our prenatal classes?
Our prenatal Pilates and yoga classes are led by Debbie and Elizabeth, both mums and experienced Pilates, Reformer and yoga instructors with over 20 years of specialised pre and post natal training between them.
Classes use pregnancy-specific exercises on both the mat and the Reformer, chosen to build strength, maintain flexibility and support comfort as your body changes. You’ll learn breathing techniques and movements you can use well beyond the studio.
Groups stay small, so nothing is one-size-fits-all … every exercise is adjusted for your trimester, your experience and how you’re feeling that particular evening.
Combined yoga, Pilates and Reformer
Sessions blend prenatal yoga and Pilates, focusing on full-body movement, safe stretching and breath work that helps ease tension, support the pelvis and hips, and maintain endurance through pregnancy.
Breathing techniques
Learn breathing methods that help you settle, focus and stay calm … useful during class, useful in the weeks ahead, and useful long after.
Expert guidance
Every class is guided by qualified instructors with specific prenatal training, so each movement suits your stage of pregnancy. We’re an AUSactive registered business and work to the AUSactive Pregnancy & Postnatal Exercise Guidelines (PDF).
Community & connection
Join a welcoming group of other expectant mothers. Our classes are a supportive place to meet others on the same journey — several friendships have started on these mats.
What women tell us they get from it
Strength & mobility
Maintain the strength and flexibility that supports you through pregnancy, with particular attention to hips, pelvis and core.
Time to settle
Mindfulness, breathing and visualisation in a calm room, guided by instructors who know pregnancy well. For many women it's the one hour in the week that belongs to them.
Everyday comfort
Gentle movement that helps with the common aches of pregnancy ... back tension, tight hips, restless legs and general stiffness.
Staying connected to your body
As your body changes week to week, regular movement is a way of staying in touch with it rather than feeling like a passenger.
A pregnancy-only room
Share this stage with other women from the Illawarra. There's time to chat before and after class in our comfortable reception area — swap experiences, tips, and make a few friends who are exactly where you are.
THE REST OF THE TIMETABLE
Can I still do my other classes?
It’s the question we’re asked most often, usually by someone who has been coming to Reformer for two years and doesn’t want to disappear for nine months. The short answer is yes, quite often — but not automatically, and not every class.
Pregnancy changes what your body is doing underneath the exercise. Ligaments soften, your centre of gravity shifts, blood volume and heart rate climb, and from the second trimester the weight of the uterus starts to matter for some positions. None of that means stop. It means the class you choose, and who is teaching it, matters more than it did in January.
So we do it deliberately. Tell us you’re pregnant, we’ll take two minutes to understand where you’re up to, and we’ll tell you honestly which classes on this week’s timetable suit you — including the ones that don’t.
| Class | While you’re pregnant |
|---|---|
| Pre Natal Pilates & Yoga | Yes — this is the one built for you. Every trimester, no clearance needed beyond your own doctor or midwife’s okay to exercise. |
| iRest Yoga Nidra Meditation | Yes, right through. The only change is how you lie — we’ll set you up side-lying or propped rather than flat on your back. Many women find these the most useful hour of their week in the third trimester. |
| Restorative Yoga | Usually yes, with props and position changes. Tell the teacher before class so your set-up is ready when you walk in. |
| Private classes (one-to-one) | Yes — and often the best answer. A single teacher, your body, no room to keep pace with. Book with one of our prenatal-trained instructors. |
| Pilates Matwork | Case by case. Mat repertoire leans on exactly the abdominal work we set aside in pregnancy, so a good deal is substituted. Workable with the right teacher, frustrating without one. |
| Reformer Foundations | Case by case, with firm limits. Spring work on your back or side is often ideal in pregnancy. Standing on a moving carriage, jumpboard work and face-down work are not. See the list below. |
| Hatha Vinyasa Yoga | Case by case, and only in a class taught by a prenatal-trained instructor. Deep twists, lying flat, inversions and balance work all need changing, which is a lot to ask of a teacher mid-flow. |
| Yin Yoga | Case by case. Long holds and end-of-range stretching ask more of already-softened ligaments, so poses get shortened and reshaped. Fine with a prenatal-trained teacher, not something to freelance. |
Three minutes, once
Step one
Tell us you’re pregnant
At the desk, by text on 0483 941 587, or in the notes when you book. It stays between you and your instructors — nothing is announced and nothing appears on your class list.
Step two
A short Pregnancy Movement Note
Two minutes on paper or on your phone: how many weeks, how you’ve been moving, anything your doctor or midwife has flagged, and whether they’re happy for you to keep exercising. We ask for that okay before you join a general class.
Step three
We match you to the timetable
You’ll get a short list of the classes that suit you right now and who’s teaching them. We check in again at each trimester, because the answer changes.
Any time
You can change your mind
Come to a class, sit part of it out, leave early, or swap back to prenatal only. Nobody will ask you to explain.
What we set aside while you’re pregnant
- Lying flat on your back for anything sustained, from the end of the first trimester. Side-lying, propped, seated or standing instead.
- Face-down work, once it stops being comfortable — which for most women is well before it stops being possible.
- Planks, hovers, sit-ups and abdominal curls. There is better core work available to you, and we’ll teach it.
- Standing on a moving reformer carriage, jumpboard work, and anything with a jump, a bounce or a sudden change of direction.
- Deep twists, inversions and end-of-range stretching. Softer ligaments make it easy to go further than your joints would like.
- Breath-holding and straining. If you can’t talk through it, it’s too hard for today.
- Getting hot. No heated rooms, plenty of water, and a spot near the airflow.
- We stop and, if it keeps happening, we point you towards a women’s health physiotherapist.
None of this is us being precious. It’s the standard set out in the AUSactive Pregnancy & Postnatal Exercise Guidelines and RANZCOG’s guidance on exercise in pregnancy, which is what our prenatal instructors are trained against.
Why we don’t just wave everyone into every class
A modification is not a plan
Being handed an alternative exercise mid-class is not the same as an hour designed for a pregnant body. One is a patch; the other is the point.
Our reformer classes hold seven
Seven is small. It still isn’t one. Where a pregnancy needs continuous eyes on it, a private session or the prenatal class will serve you far better.
The training is specific
Pregnancy and postnatal work is its own qualification, not an extension of a general one. We’d rather tell you which teacher has it than pretend it doesn’t matter.
You shouldn’t have to self-assess.
Reading a timetable and guessing which class is fine this week is a job we can do for you. That’s the whole offer.
Joining a class
No previous yoga or Pilates experience is required
Before your first class
- Please chat with your doctor or midwife about exercise during pregnancy
- Let your instructor know your trimester and anything you're managing ... this stays between you
- Arrive 10 minutes early so you can settle in and find parking
- Bring water and wear something you can move comfortably in
When a private session is the better answer
Sometimes the honest answer to “which class should I be in?” is none of them, yet. If your pregnancy is being managed closely, if you have pelvic girdle pain or a history that needs working around, if you’re training at a level a group class can’t supervise properly, or if you simply don’t want a room this month — an hour with one instructor is worth more than any class we could put you in.
It’s also the fastest way in. One session is usually enough for a prenatal-trained instructor to see how you actually move, sort out what to change, and hand you back to the timetable knowing which classes suit you. Plenty of women do one at the start of the second trimester, one more when the third arrives, and group classes in between.
How it’s booked
As an appointment, not a class
Private sessions sit outside the class passes and memberships. They’re booked and paid for separately, at a time that works for you and your instructor, and they follow our appointment & cancellation policy rather than the class timetable.
If you’re a member
Unlimited Body-Mind takes 10% off
Hold an Unlimited Body-Mind membership and private pre and postnatal sessions are 10% off the standard rate. Your membership still covers the group classes in full — the discount is on top.
What it costs
Per session, or as a short pack
$95 for a single 60-minute session, and $270 for a pack of three.
A gentle note
Our classes are movement and wellbeing practice. They are not medical care, physiotherapy or antenatal care, and they don’t replace the advice of your doctor, midwife or obstetrician. Please talk to them about exercise during your pregnancy — particularly if you have been advised to limit activity, or if you have a condition such as placenta praevia, pre-eclampsia, high blood pressure, persistent bleeding or a history of preterm labour.
Tell your instructor what they’ve told you, and we’ll shape things around it. Stop and let us know straight away if you feel faint or short of breath, get chest pain, calf pain or swelling, notice bleeding or fluid loss, feel contractions, or notice your baby moving less than usual, and contact your maternity care provider.
Questions
Can I keep coming to regular Reformer classes as well?
Often yes, and plenty of women do. Spring work lying on your side or supported on an incline suits pregnancy well — it’s strength without impact, and the carriage does a lot of the stabilising for you.
What we take out is standing work on a moving carriage, jumpboard, face-down work and flat-on-your-back work after the first trimester. What we ask for first is a quick word with us and your doctor or midwife’s okay to keep exercising. From there we’ll point you at the reformer classes taught by our prenatal-trained instructors rather than leaving you to pick.
Do I need a letter from my doctor?
Not a formal letter. We do ask that you’ve spoken to your doctor or midwife about exercising during your pregnancy and that they’re happy for you to continue, and we’ll ask you to confirm that on the Pregnancy Movement Note. If your pregnancy is being managed closely for any reason, we may ask for something in writing before you join a general class — and we’ll always tell you why.
I’m only a few weeks along and haven’t told anyone. Do I have to say something?
Please do tell your instructor, and it goes no further. It’s a note on your file that only your teachers see — not a conversation in front of the class, not an announcement, not something anyone mentions again unless you do. Early pregnancy is exactly when fatigue, nausea and dizziness show up in class, and we’d rather be watching for it than not.
Why can’t I just do any class and modify?
Because “just modify” puts the work on you, in the middle of a class, while everyone else moves on. In a mat or vinyasa class a real pregnancy adaptation changes half the sequence. Our prenatal-trained instructors can hold that in their head while teaching a room; it isn’t fair to expect it of a teacher who hasn’t done that training, and it isn’t fair to you either.
Is meditation fine at any stage?
Yes. iRest Yoga Nidra Meditation ask nothing physical of you beyond getting comfortable, and comfortable in the third trimester means side-lying with bolsters and a blanket, which we’ll have ready. A lot of women who stop everything else keep coming to these — for the sleep, for the settled nervous system, and for an hour where nothing is required of them.
I’m on a membership. Does using it on prenatal classes cost me anything?
No. Your membership covers prenatal classes at the same rate, and if you shift entirely across to prenatal and meditation for a few months, nothing changes on your account. Our Bump to Bub Promise still applies: your membership pauses automatically near your due date and your first class back is on us.
Do prenatal classes cost more than your other classes?
No. There’s no pregnancy premium and no separate program fee. Prenatal Pilates & Yoga sits on standard Reformer pricing and Mums & Bubs on standard Studio 1 pricing — the same rates as everything else on the timetable, and Community Access rates apply to both.
We’re aware that specialist pregnancy classes are often priced as a premium product. We’d rather you didn’t have to weigh up the cost of coming during the one season where the support is most useful.
Are private sessions included in my membership or class pass?
No — private one-to-one sessions are appointments rather than classes, so they’re booked and paid for separately. Your pass and membership cover the group classes in full.
If you hold an Unlimited Body-Mind membership, private pre and postnatal sessions are 10% off. Just mention it when you book — we’ll apply it at reception.
Can I try one class before I commit to anything?
Yes. If you’re new to these classes, your first prenatal class is $15. Come along, see the room, meet the instructor, and decide afterwards. There’s nothing to sign and no follow-up call.
What if my doctor says no, or my pregnancy becomes complicated?
Then that’s the answer, and we’ll follow it without debate. Tell us and we’ll pause your membership or hold your pass — no expiry pressure, no cancellation fee, no awkward conversation. When you’re cleared to move again, whether that’s next month or after the birth, we’ll pick up where you left off.
Tell us where you’re up to
Send us your weeks and what you were doing before — we’ll come back with the classes on this week’s timetable that work for you, and the ones that don’t.
Testimonials
“I cannot recommend the prenatal Pilates classes more!! I began going twice a week at only 12 weeks pregnant, and I went all the way until I was 37 weeks! The classes helped keep me mobile (and really helped my hips and back), and allowed me to get to connect with other soon-to-be mums in the area (having only moved to Wollongong recently).”
Mac D.
“Your pre-natal yoga classes helped me prepare for labour with breathing, meditation, and stretches that made a real difference. I’m grateful!” Jessica S.
Jessica S.
