Faculty

Owner and director of Armature and Armature Education, Stephanie took up power lifting at the ripe age of 40, gymnastics at 42 and olympic lifting at 44 and loves both Strength Training and Pilates in all its many forms. Formerly an instructor trainer for Stott Pilates, Breathe Education, the APMA Diploma and now NPT, she loves encouraging instructors to look at Pilates through a wider prism than just the Pilates modality itself. She is fully certified through five different Pilates schools, has a Cert IV in training and assessment and Principal Trainer status with the PAA. She recently authored six Pilates continuing education courses for Australian Fitness Network (including Pilates for Strength Training) and FitPro (UK) and presents regularly at Filex and national Pilates conferences.

Stephanie designs and curates Armature Education’s workshops.

Virginia is both a Pilates and Strength fiend. She has been into movement her whole life, training full time in dance for many years.
She teaches across both Armature Reformer and Armature Strength and is known for her creative incorporation of strength principles into her reformer classes. She has a genius grasp of both strength programming and group reformer flow to deliver masterful, challenging and truly fun classes. She trained through Breathe Education and holds a Cert IV in Fitness from AIF.

When not thinking or training Pilates and/or Strength, she runs a large family business with her husband. She has three children – none so far have caught the Pilates bug, but she is still trying to infect them!

Brooke is Armature’s Manager, Armature Education’s manager and general amazing all-rounder. When not teaching across all the Armature venues, she is pumping out the social media, organising studio logistics, supporting instructors and wrangling Stephanie to get her work done.

Brooke is the behind-the-scenes of Armature Education and a huge champion of continued education for Pilates instructors. As an instructor herself, she thrives on face to face learning environments to inspire and freshen her teaching. She has experienced and contributed to the development of every Armature Education workshop and masterclass.