Joanne Sutton

Hi, I'm Joanne, bestselling author and founder and director of JS Mind Body Pilates Online. I'm passionate about equipping you with the Pilates skills you need to become pain-free, move with ease, and live your best life possible.

For 2 decades now it's been incredibly rewarding for me to assist so many people who are dealing with pain and injury, to successfully transform their lives with Pilates.

Movement is life and when we have lost our ability to move we become dependent on others for our very survival. It's become widely accepted in our culture that old age means pain, lack of mobility and poor quality of life. I reject this false belief, as so many debilitating conditions are entirely preventable with the individualised Pilates training I provide. It's my mission to empower as many people as possible to take control of their own health and fitness through Pilates so they can live a high-quality, healthy life well into their retirement years.

In 2002 I discovered the power of Pilates myself while recovering from a severe bout of glandular fever (mononucleosis). After being bedridden for 6 weeks with the initial illness, I was left with chronic fatigue syndrome which made running my dance school enormously challenging. Teaching dance to children from 3 -18 years 6 days per week is a high-energy activity and I was literally only getting out of bed to work and then it was back to sleep. Not knowing what the future held was a very daunting feeling. Pilates gave me back my life as I could safely and effectively rebuild my health & fitness and sessions were tailored to my varying energy levels at each session. I became stronger and fitter than ever before and experienced life-changing results. Seeing the possibilities that Pilates provides, I knew I had to become a Pilates teacher so I could help other people to take control of their own health & fitness as I did. In 2004 I graduated from the University of Technology Sydney with a Graduate Certificate in the Pilates Method . For the next 4 years, I taught at the Pilates Centre Mosman, one of Sydney’s leading studios where I completed the majority of my Supervised Clinical hours as a student and on completion in 2004, was offered a permanent position as part of their team. In 2005 I established my own fully equipped, highly personalised boutique studio, ‘Joanne Sutton Pilates’, in Five Dock. In 2018 I launched JS Mind Body Pilates Online, my online Pilates studio which is a library of on-demand videos specifically designed for people who want to prevent or recover from pain and injury. Since March 2020 when Covid-19 hit I' started teaching virtually 1 on 1 via Skype. It was so successful and my clients achieved such incredible results now 4 years on I'm still teaching virtually.