About Women’s Health Collaborative
Women’s Health Collaborative was created to provide meaningful, continued education in the Women’s Health Pilates space. It was born from years of feedback from both instructors and clients highlighting the overwhelm, confusion, and uncertainty around exercise during pregnancy and the postnatal period.
While Pilates is widely recognised as beneficial during these stages, traditional training often overlooks the specific considerations required to teach safely and effectively.
WHC education is designed to support a new generation of health professionals who feel confident, knowledgeable, and equipped to deliver safe, evidence-informed care to pregnant and postnatal clients.
Empowering health and fitness professionals to deliver effective, beneficial, and high-quality care for women across all stages of life.
About The Founder
Claire Ryan
Women’s Health Collaborative was founded by Claire Ryan, a Women’s Health Physiotherapist, Pilates Instructor, and mother of two. Claire brings over 12 years of clinical experience, alongside a deep passion for supporting women through every stage of life.
After years of practice, she noticed the same challenges coming up again and again—confusion and overwhelm around exercise, a lack of tailored support, and a clear gap between women’s health knowledge and movement-based care.
Through her clinical work, she also saw the impact of pelvic floor dysfunction and how powerful the right kind of movement can be in helping women feel strong, supported, and in control of their bodies.
Becoming a mother herself deepened this passion even further, highlighting just how important it is for those working with women to feel knowledgeable and confident.
Women’s Health Collaborative was created to share this knowledge and support health and fitness professionals to provide high quality care for women across all stages of life.
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Claire is passionate about staying up to date with the latest evidence to deliver benchmark education for the Women’s Health Collaborative community. She has completed extensive postgraduate training in Women’s Health and combines this with her clinical experience to inform all WHC education.
This ensures every course and workshop is evidence informed, practical, and directly applicable for health and fitness professionals.
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When she’s not teaching or working clinically, Claire enjoys spending time with her husband and two young children. Staying active is important to her, and she aims to move her body daily—often combining running with Pilates for balance.
Based on the Gold Coast, she loves the beach lifestyle and, on the rare occasion, a long lunch with a cocktail. Though with two young children, those moments are few and far between—but one can dream.
Why learn with Women’s Health Collaborative?
Women’s Health Collaborative delivers evidence based education grounded in both clinical expertise and real world Pilates experience.
Our courses and workshops are intentionally designed to feel supportive, practical, and personal. We believe meaningful education happens when instructors feel encouraged, guided, and genuinely connected throughout the process — not like just another number in a course.
When you learn with WHC, you gain direct access to Claire for mentoring, guidance, and ongoing support throughout your education, helping instructors & allied health professionals confidently support women through pregnancy, postnatal recovery, and broader women’s health needs.
What our students say.
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Jasmine, Pilates Instructor
I completed the prenatal and postnatal pilates training course with Claire on the Sunshine Coast, and found the content both insightful and comprehensive across women’s health, pregnancy, and postnatal care. It’s amazing how much confidence I feel now that I have an understanding of how to safely adapt exercises for various health conditions, pregancy and beyond. I recommend doing this course for all pilates instructors seeking clarity and knowledge in their teaching.
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Dana, Exercise Physiologist
Completed the antenatal and postnatal Pilates course and couldn’t recommend it enough for those in the Pilates space! I’m an Exercise Physiologist and Claire’s way of delivering the information is easy to comprehend yet grounded in clinical evidence which is fantastic.
Learning and recapping on all things pelvic floor, pregnancy, postpartum and pain conditions.
I would absolutely recommend this course to anyone who is wanting to hone their knowledge around supporting women through the pregnancy and postpartum phase.
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Shantelle, Pilates Studio Owner
Our team gained so much valuable knowledge from Claire’s pre and postnatal workshop. It really helped clarify things for everyone and gave us peace of mind knowing we’re all aligned with the same standards and best practices.
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Lis, Pilates Instructor
I recently completed my antenatal & postnatal Pilates training with Claire & it was nothing short of an incredible experience, start to finish.
Claire was highly responsive throughout all communications and delivered the course on the day with ease.
I highly recommend Claire’s course to any instructors wanting to up skill, you will leave with confidence and clarity to use in your practice.
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Mia, Pilates Instructor
This course is an absolute must for instructors!! Such important to be able to cater to pre & post natal populations in your group or private classes and this course leaves you with the confidence to know you can.
This course had me leaving with the insight that its not so much modifications or limitations that its more mindful adjustments to keep these populations safe.
There is so much misinformation out there so having a course thats based off current evidence and created by a womens health physio means you are getting the best upskilling for your clients.
This course has ignited a passion for me in working with pre/post natal populations. I can’t thank you enough Claire!
