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'Move well to BE well' APT celebrates every human, we all need heal-thy movement, human connection & deep understanding of ourselves. What do you need?

Looking for care, connection and community? You are in the right place. APT was founded 14 years ago - initially as a mobile Personal Training Business for the first 6 years. Andrea then branched out into Studio based Small Group Classes and in 2020 created and began developing her live online + recordings flexible program. Today in 2023 APT offers a versatile opportunity for anyone anywhere to co

nnect and create their own recipe for happy, healthy movement and join the friendly APT Community - either face to face or online. One on One & Small Groups in 3 Richmond Studio Spaces or live online + recordings, mean that you can find and create what suits you and YOUR life even when you are travelling or away from home. What do you want? If you know - great - if you are not sure - APT will help you find that clarity & support you. Once this is clear - you will ignite your curiosity to play, explore and learn so much more! APT programs include:
*Mobility Matters (exclusive & created by APT - no floor work or kneeling)
www.aptandpilates.com/mobilitymatters
*Mindfulness on the mat
*Functional training for life
*Pilates
*MOTR magic
*BODYART
*Anatomy in Motion
*Wellness Coaching
*One on One Assisted PNF Stretching

An APT Session or class will build and improve mobility, bodystrength, alignment, flexibility & fitness from where you are NOW - starting with the powerful connection of mind and body. APT specialises in unique balanced challenging & nurturing mindful movement & functional fitness, adaptable to everyone. Drawn from over 30 years experience as a professional classical ballet dancer and theatre production and 15 years as a Personal Trainer, Pilates Instructor, Mobility Specialist, BODYART Master Trainer & Educator/Presenter. There will be some creative flair & fun (usually with music) in Andrea’s sessions, but always with a mission & clear intention to educate, inspire and empower you.

‘Move well to be well’

Brilliant personalised APT support and back up. https://linktr.ee/AndreaGazeAPT

25/04/2026

Happy Birthday to the one and only - thank you for BE-ing you! 🙏🏼🤗🙋🏻‍♀️♥️🇦🇺🦘✨

24/04/2026

APT meets you where you are ✨

Term 2 has begun - new nourishing, nutritious movement menu:
Mindful Monday, EXPRESS 30, BODYART, Functional-Pilates & BREATH Sessions. One on one Personalised Training & PNF Assisted Stretching.

No more missing out—our movement & breath programs are designed to fit your life, not the other way around. Specializing in the privilege of ageing well.

Choose what works for you:
✅In-studio (3 Richmond locations)
✅Live online (interactive & connected)
✅Included recordings with online bookings (24/7 flexibility)

☯️ The new BODYART H.E.A.L program has officially launched—and you can still join. APT Community are loving it !

‘That was DIFFERENT! Great but different. A lot to work with and for.’

Casual sessions are available, or step into the Ultimate Habits for Life program, with the freedom to book week by week.

Your body, your breath, your pace. No excuses—just opportunities to move well to BE well. 🌿😊💃🏽🙏🏼🥰✨

21/04/2026

A special invitation awaits you to experience the first of our new Term 2 BODYART training H.E.A.L program. Think BODYART Basic joins the magic of InZentive Breath to create
H uman
E ducation for
A lignment &
L ongevity

📅 Wed 22 April 6.15pm
📍Studio 1
Investment $15
🎟️ Book on link in bio
https://aptbookings.as.me/BAIntro1

APT enters it’s 11th year of BODYART training and turns 18 on 8 May.

Proud Australian BODYART Master Trainer - also longest standing Facilitator & Hirer

👣💃🏽🎶☯️🧘🏽‍♀️🙏🏼😊♥️ Intuitive essential movement. 5 Energy elements to strengthen, release and rebalance, with new awareness. A mind, body & spirit complete experience.

BYO Mat, water and a jacket or blanket if cool for the relaxation.

Learn more & bookings on link in bio 🔗

No experience required - just curiosity & a desire to enjoy a more vibrant life 😄

16/04/2026

Did you know APT has the Bite Size & Wise FREE library of 100 movement snacks?

This is a growing resource created by APT - to assist, educate, inspire & empower anyone who wants to start & continue to nourish their body, mind & spirit.

The 100th snack is a classic strength, mobility & agility for longevity tabata.

1. Parallel squats
2. Squat to plank
3. Sumo squats
4. Step back lunges
5. Side lunge - progress
6. Side lunge - progress
7. Side lunge, getting into the ground, plank prone, side plank to prone, squat & stand combo (or repeat 6.)
8. as per 7. other side

The full FREE library is on the link in bio & on the APT website.
You will find everything from: Strengthwork with weights, bodystrength, mobility, cardio, balance, multi-directional essential movement, Pilates mat, breathing, stretching & releasing. Most snacks are just 4 minutes!

You are welcome.

Let’s go 💪🏼💃🏽☯️🧘🏽‍♀️🌀🙏🏼😊

Love my big dense - makes my Zoom room into an instant Gym Studio space ✔️

15/04/2026

We live in a world of ageist attitudes. I am 65 & refuse to be dragged into the sad sack ‘getting old’ dialogue.

Of course we are not the same as our 20’s or 30’s... BUT so much of HOW we age is attitude & pro-active awareness & action.

APT has curated & created movement that enables & embodies moving well to BE well in life. An acceptance of ourselves - a caring support from within - knowing we CAN challenge and nurture ourselves with the right tools and self understanding.

Research is proving we can actually improve our brain & health as we age - if we focus on kind movement - that enables joy! Never punishing ourselves or using movement as a torture tool.

THIS is the APT message of 18 years... your most powerful longevity opportunity is moving & breathing - will you explore more or simply swipe?

Curious? Try BODYART new T2 H.E.A.L program starting next week.

🎟️I have created a special Intro Invitation Session to the first BODYART of T2 at Studio 1 Wed 22 April at 6.15pm 🔗 in comments - just $15.

🆓 Did you know APT has free resources available to encourage you to move & breath to improve your life & how you feel? 🔗 in on website 😄

😊 In our 11th year at Richmond Neighbourhood Centre - join a welcoming friendly community in a gorgeous space 🙋🏻‍♀️💃🏽☯️♥️

11/04/2026

Term 2 starts in a week - do you have a movement plan for Autumn into Winter?
Reconsider working out at home, save time & fuel!
Aches & pains? Tightness? Lack of energy? Movement is the answer!
See comments for APT unique programs:
1. Grandma agility training
2. Daily life mobility & strength
3. Falls prevention
4. Body, brain & breath training
5. Challenge & nurture balance training
6. Physical therapy injury prevention training
7. Creative movement with music training
8. Pilates mat training
9. Movement for healthy ageing
10. Deep relaxation & breathwork

06/04/2026

I have been listening to some fascinating podcasts discussing AI lately . . . yes I am very curious about AI & I have always had a love/hate relationship with technology.

My generation have probably seen the most advancement & change across our lives than any other in history so far.

Born in 1960 - I can remember life with literally no technology, a telephone plugged into the wall with a dial for the numbers, black & white TV becoming color in a heavy cumbersome box that sat in the family room, drying my hair in front of a bar heater, walking myself to the local ballet school (only picked up by my parents if it was dark)

Fast forward to 2026 age 65 . . . the futuristic sci-fi stuff we read about is real life! My head spins as new tech continues to run our lives - AI is getting smarter & smarter & no doubt it has & will do more - cure some chronic disease & health issues. My mind boggles at what is already possible but not yet in the mainstream.

All this said . . . call me old school or old fashioned - I’ll happily take it. Nothing can EVER replace human to human interaction. For that I am grateful & extremely fortunate. I chose a professional ballet career very early in my life - perfecting a craft that is about live performance & connecting/touching other humans with the magic world of dance, music and live theatre. Yep it’s been enhanced by tech (I became a Stage Manager after my ballet career & worked on incredible shows like Phantom of the Opera - really leaned into tech effects etc)

I have adored working with incredible humans both on & off stage, been married twice, have 2 adult sons with lovely partners & a grandaughter I love so much it almost hurts.

Now working in the health, fitness & well-being biz for 18 years - a solo independent woman - I know a huge aspect of our health is not just good nutrition, movement & sleep - it’s human connection & healthy interaction.

I began my APT biz partly as a single Mum survival. But being totally honest, it was also to create my own human connections & a feeling of helping other humans. I was doing a lot of admin, which was lonely - tragic family losses amplified this.

Thoughts?

04/04/2026

T1 is done!

Exciting news the 100th Bite Size & Wise Movement Snack has landed in the FREE library!

4 min Essential strength & mobility tabata for longevity.

You guessed it - getting on and off the ground, building bodystrength & moving in different directions for mobility & balance.

Find the FREE Bite Size & Wise library on my website or the all things APT link in comments ⬇️

Have a great Easter 🐣🐰😊🙋🏻‍♀️♥️

28/03/2026

✨BODYART training – 60 min experience – 5 perfectly paced TCM energy elements – Earth – Wood – Fire – Metal – Water.

Barefoot on the mat, connecting to your internal self, radiating out to a warmth you create. Enjoying a special community group energy, people all over the globe connect into and crave.

♥️ BODYART is generous, kind and full of love.

☯️ Yin and Yang balance, breath focus – incorporating physical therapy, injury prevention, strengthwork, myofascial training, deepWork (cardio dance energy), stability and release with deep relaxation.

🙋🏻‍♀️💃🏽 As a passionate BODYART Master Trainer for Australia - celebrating 10 years in 2025 – I offer several sessions every week – 2 live online, a Wed 6.15pm session at Studio 1 and a fortnightly private group of 2-8 people at Phoenix Studio .richmond on Fridays at 9.15am.

Seeking pro-active people to join our - to move & breath with self acceptance and love - to take response-ability for ageing well & quality of life for longevity.

Term 2 - from Mon 20 April to Fri 26 June (10 weeks) Both in studio & live online with recording access included.

It’s a global phenomenon led by & & incredible master trainers around the world.

✨🆓✨Check out the FREE BODYART experience on my website. All info/bookings on link in bio 🔗

24/03/2026

Ever noticed with social media, the quick fix messages & trends get pushed in your face - while other info & balance drops away. With few second grabs we are fed - even if it’s of value - rarely can the full picture be conveyed.

18 years in the health, wellbeing & fitness industry with my own biz, I see this over & over. The risk is people JUST do that thing & don’t look at the bigger picture. When it comes to peri-menopause, menopause and post menopause - strength training is getting a big push. However having lived all stages & trained a multitude of women mainly 45 - 70’s, strength training is only PART of the well-being longevity puzzle.

Consistency & balance of movement training are the true hero’s here:
💃🏽Mobility
💪🏼Strength - body & weights
☯️Proprioception
😊Stability
✨Multi-directional movement
🥊Cardio/huffy puffy
🤸🏽‍♀️Agility
🧘🏽‍♀️Release - relaxation

You CAN literally incorporate it all in a 30 minute session!

APT has created the perfect accessible recipe - EXPRESS 30.

I started this during lockdowns in 2020. My community wanted a time effective shorter workout & then get on with their day.

A mood lifter, strengthener, mobilizer, connecter with some stretch/release to finish. The movement snack concept worked with this - I started creating several snacks in all movement varieties for life each term. Then the session would use about 5-6 of them in various combos - to keep people literally on their toes - sharpening their memory & focus 🧠✨

Many of the 99 APT Bite Size & Wise short videos in the FREE library are from EXPRESS 30 live sessions. 4 minute snacks. 🔗 in bio.

Every Tuesday 6.30am live EXPRESS 30 online. My participants roll out of bed, grab a chair, mat & dumbells & off we go. I can see each person, cue & correct as I teach. The session recording is edited & emailed after & available to use all week.

I NEVER feel like it & neither do my clients - but we glow after & feel so ready to take on the day. So we keep showing up consistently. This is the golden 🔑

We/I grumble - but 30 mins changes the day ahead immeasurably AND Movementation investment delivers huge returns now & for our futures 💪🏼😄

T2 from 20/4

22/03/2026

APT T2 Earlybird finishes Mon 23 March 8pm
Got aches? Got pains? Feeling cranky? Curated quality sustainable safe movement via APT is your answer. From home (I can still see you) in Studio face to face or a combination of both using methods that are beneficial, enjoyable and fun with a delightful friendly community. Join me in T2 starting 20 April for 10 weeks 🙋🏻‍♀️😊♥️

20/03/2026

Wow! Term 1 Week 8 comes to a close with our last BREATH Session for the term.

🌀 2 BREATH Sessions planned for T2 at Phoenix 🐦‍🔥 Bridge Road, Richmond

🌀Fri 15 May 9.15am

🌀Fri 26 June 9.15am

You can join one or both . . . no fitness or experience required. Explore the power of your breath:

✨re-program

✨release trauma

✨refresh

✨step onto your own new pathway

NB. Not on booking system - please DM me as I am collecting names/interest now. Spots are filling 2-8 people only

🚨Term 2 Earlybird finishes in 2 days on 23/3.

Andrea 🙋🏻‍♀️😊♥️

Address

Richmond, VIC
3121

Telephone

+61412585181

Website

https://www.aptandpilates.com/, https://linktr.ee/AndreaGazeAPT

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APT - Personalised Training, Pilates & BODYART, Mobility Matters. #themindfulmovement1 #mobilitymatters

Embrace APT’s Personalised Training and Small Groups. Building body strength, mobility, alignment and flexibility through the joy of movement and the empowering connection of mind, body and spirit. Learn how your awareness and joining the dots, can improve everything you do in life. APT specialises in unique and challenging functional movement, adaptable to everyone, drawn from many years of professional experience as a classical ballet dancer and 13 years as a Personal Trainer, Pilates Instructor and bodyART Master Trainer. APT is learning and studying all the time, Anatomy in Motion is one of the methods we use and intergrate. Looking to re-centre and balance the structure and posture, to optimise the way the body was designed to move and function.

New Weekly Schedule for 2021 is now available on the website ! www.aptandpilates.com/timetable

Studio & Online Sessions include: One on One Personalised Sessions, bodyART (Australian Master Trainer) Functional Fitness for Life (Circuit & Pilates Mat) Mobility Matters, Mindful Mondays, Express 30.

Assisted Stretching (not available after 23 March due to Covid-19 Restrictions)