A boutique movement and wellness studio in Newcastle, NSW
Infuse Health is a boutique movement and wellness studio in Newcastle, located at 4/10 William Street, Adamstown. Our members are mostly adults in their forties, fifties, sixties, and beyond, training to move well and stay strong across a long life. Our members arrive by many routes. Some come back to training after a long break. Some come because intensity-driven training has stopped suiting them, and they're looking for something that builds the whole system — strength, range of movement, balance, coordination, capacity — rather than chasing intensity or personal records. Some come looking for structure to support an active life. Others arrive in response to a specific trigger: a DEXA result, a physio referral, a shoulder that's been limiting training, a GP who mentioned bone density or sarcopenia. The studio is small. Classes are small. Coaching contact is high. Programming is built around the physiology of the people in front of us. We offer a range of class types — functional strength, Iyengar and other yoga traditions, Pilates, striking, and mindfulness — each taught by practitioners qualified specifically in what they teach.
The studio opened in 2017. The thinking has held steady since: train for capacity rather than appearance, programme intelligently rather than hard, and provide individualised support and coaching within the class environment making sure each person is working at the right level for their body.
How the studio came to be
Infuse Health was founded in 2017 by Josh and Rachael, a husband-and-wife team. The early studio was built around two practices they cared deeply about: Iyengar yoga, and movement work in the lineage of Ido Portal. That foundation — classical yoga taught with rigour, and movement as a serious discipline rather than a workout — is part of why the studio still feels the way it does.
Like many small business owners, Josh and Rachael came out of the COVID years needing a change, and in 2023 they chose to step away. The studio passed to Emmanuel (Manny) Fraser, whose principles aligned with the studio's foundations. Over the time since, Manny has steadily broadened the offering — adding strength programming, Pilates, the Bone Defence program, and other classes — while keeping the original disciplines intact and well-taught. Iyengar yoga at Infuse Health is still taught in the classical tradition. Movement & Strength still draws on the movement-discipline heritage the studio was built on.
The trading entity is Manny's Fitness Pty Ltd, trading as Infuse Health.
How we think about training
Five ideas underpin everything we programme.
Train for capacity, not for intensity
The point of a session is what it builds, not what it costs. We programme around qualities that matter for the next twenty or thirty years — strength, joint range, balance, breath capacity, attentional steadiness, the ability to recover well — rather than around how hard a class felt on the day. A session can be hard. Hard isn't the goal.
Coached, not supervised
There is a difference between a coach watching you and a coach observing, adjusting, and progressing you. Our classes are sized so that observation is actually possible. Cues are specific. Where load is involved, it's selected for the individual. If something needs to change mid-session, it changes.
Coherence over time
Classes are programmed with a through-line. A Movement & Strength block has a six-week focus and a clear progression arc. Iyengar carries thematic arcs across longer periods, in keeping with the tradition. Even mindfulness practice runs a coherent thread from session to session. Across the studio, what unites the disciplines is that a class is a session within a programme — not a stand-alone workout, asana sequence, or sit that resets every week.
Disciplines that complement each other
Yoga, Pilates, Movement & Strength, Bone Defence, mindfulness, and our other classes are taught at Infuse Health as complementary practices. They serve the body and mind in different ways, and the studio is built on the idea that they are better as a set than as a single discipline pursued in isolation. A member taking a Movement & Strength class on Tuesday and an Iyengar class on Thursday is doing something coherent — building strength and the joint range to use it well, the steadiness to apply it under load, and the breath capacity to keep going.
Specificity over generalism
Each teacher is qualified specifically in what they teach. The yoga teachers are yoga teachers. The strength coaches are strength coaches. The Pilates teachers are Pilates teachers. No one is trying to cover everything. Breadth lives across the team; depth lives within each practitioner's lane.
What this builds
Training at Infuse Health is meant to leave members capable in their bodies, in ways that show up well outside the studio. Across the disciplines we teach, the qualities we programme for include:
- Joints, ligaments and connective tissue that hold up to the demands of life — a weekend in the garden, lifting a child, sitting at a desk for hours, picking up something heavy without thinking about it.
- Strength through range — the ability to produce force not only in textbook positions but in the awkward, off-axis, real-life ones where most injuries happen.
- Suppleness through the soft tissues — the kind of openness in the fascia and joints that lets the body move freely rather than feel braced.
- A regulated nervous system — the ability to step into stress and out of it deliberately, through breath, attention, and practice. Some members come for this directly; others discover it as a side-effect of the practices they've chosen.
- Skill, in members who want it — a pull-up, a pistol squat, a controlled handstand, a clean Iyengar inversion. Earned, not chased.
- Capacity that compounds — the work of one block, one term, one year building on the last, so a member training here for five or ten years has a body genuinely different from when they started.
These outcomes don't all come from any single class. They come from training across the studio over time, in a combination that suits the person.
What we offer
Classes run seven days a week. The studio's offering is built around a few core programs and a set of complementary disciplines, each on its own timetable rhythm.
Want to see when the classes run? The full timetable is here. Want to talk to someone before you book? You can book a free fifteen-minute Q&A call from our home page.
Julie Thiele — Iyengar yoga. Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher and remedial massage therapist. Julie brings a hands-on understanding of how the body actually carries tension to the precision of an Iyengar class.
Candace Schreiner — Iyengar yoga. Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher and registered art therapist. Candace teaches with a careful eye for what each body in the room is doing differently, and a quiet steadiness that members notice.
Aleks Ivetic — Iyengar yoga. Qualified Yoga Therapist, with over a thousand hours of yoga teacher training, meditation teacher training, and more than twenty years of personal practice — almost a decade of it in Iyengar. Aleks brings the depth that comes from a long, serious practice of her own.
Hannah Perkins — Yin yoga. Qualified Yoga Therapist, myofascial release practitioner, and craniosacral therapist. Hannah's classes are unhurried and precise, with the kind of attention to the body's connective tissues that comes from working with it in three different modalities.
Nicole Pereira — Pilates. Bachelor of Exercise Science and Master of Physiotherapy. Nicole approaches Pilates as a tool for injury management and recovery, and her sessions reflect that — clinically grounded, deliberately progressed, useful for the bodies in front of her.
Meg Linton — Movement & Strength, Longevity and Flow Yoga. Certified group fitness and personal trainer, author, and movement coach with twenty years' experience. Meg has been coaching long enough to know that the same exercise lands differently for different bodies, and her classes show it.
Lindsay Burns — Movement & Strength and Longevity. Certified group fitness instructor and personal trainer, certified yoga instructor, breathwork practitioner, and movement coach. Lindsay coaches strength with a yoga teacher's eye for breath and a movement coach's eye for how the body sequences a pattern.
Sara Nelson — Studio Manager and Movement for Mummas. Certified yoga teacher, Iyengar teacher, experienced movement coach, and a mum herself. Sara teaches Mummas from the inside — she's done the recovery she's coaching others through.
Emmanuel (Manny) Fraser — Owner and Head Strength Coach. Manny's coaching is shaped by close to a decade of his own training — strong, muscle-building work — and by the lessons that came out of training too heavy with too little attention to the supporting structures around the big lifts. A shoulder injury changed how he programmes for himself and the people he coaches. He coaches Movement & Strength, Longevity, Bone Defence, and one-on-one personal training.
The full timetable shows which teacher is on for any given class. If you'd like to know a teacher's background before you book, the studio is happy to tell you on the phone — that's part of what the first conversation with a new member is for.
Practical information
Where we are
4/10 William Street, Adamstown NSW 2289. Adamstown sits between Newcastle's inner suburbs and Charlestown, around ten minutes from the Newcastle CBD. There is on-site and on-street parking available.
When we are open
The studio is generally open during class times. Hours vary by day:
- Monday to Thursday — 6am to 7pm
- Friday — 6am to 5:30pm
- Saturday — 7am to 11am
- Sunday — 4pm to 7pm
These are class-time hours, so the studio is open in the windows when classes are running rather than continuously through the day. The full timetable shows exactly when each class is on.
Reception isn't staffed every hour the studio is open. If you need to speak to someone — to ask about classes, book in for the first time, or sort out anything else — email or phone is the most reliable way to reach us. We'll get back to you the same day in most cases.
How to start
Most new members start with our 4-Week Introductory Membership. It includes unlimited classes for four weeks at a fixed price, with no lock-in and no automatic charge at the end. At week four, one of our team will have a brief conversation with you about whether continuing makes sense.
You don't need to talk to us before you start. The intro membership is set up to be booked online — pick a class on the timetable that suits you, and turn up. If that's the way you'd rather begin, start your 4-week intro through our home page.
If you'd rather have a conversation first, you can. We offer a free fifteen-minute Q&A call for anyone wanting to ask questions before booking — useful if you're working with an injury, returning after a long break, or unsure whether the studio is the right fit. You can book a call on our home page.
During your 4-Week Introductory Membership, you also have access to a free thirty-minute consult. Different members use it for different things — setting goals, planning which classes to prioritise, working through how to train around an injury, or just talking through where to focus first.