Katrina Edwards
Pilates and Performance Conditioning Specialist | Educator | Industry Leader
Katrina Edwards is a highly regarded Pilates and movement conditioning specialist with more than two decades of experience working with elite athletes, dancers, and performing artists. Her expertise bridges performance enhancement, injury prevention, and rehabilitation across professional sport and the performing arts.
Currently, Katrina is the Pilates Specialist Coach for the South Sydney Rabbitohs (NRL), where she delivers targeted interventions for injury rehabilitation and performance optimisation in collaboration with club physiotherapists. She also currently serves as Pilates Conditioning & Rehab Consultant for Australian Socceroos players, and External Conditioning Consultant to NAISDA Dance College, where she is leading a comprehensive review of conditioning programs for elite Indigenous dance students, aligning best practice with long-term performance sustainability, and career longevity.
Katrina’s previous roles span some of the nation’s most respected high-performance environments. She spent seven years as Conditioning and Rehabilitation Specialist at The Australian Ballet School, where she developed the Injury Prevention Program and collaborated within a multidisciplinary health team to foster resilience and longevity in young dancers. Her dance conditioning programs have also been adopted internationally, including by the Royal Canadian Ballet.
Katrina’s extensive AFL and A-League portfolio includes consultancy roles with the Western Bulldogs, Essendon, Western United, and Melbourne City Football Clubs, delivering Pilates-based mobility, stability, and rehabilitation programs that became integral components of their high-performance frameworks. She has also worked with the Victorian Institute of Sport’s Elite Gymnastics Squad, designing conditioning programs that supported strength, mobility, and injury prevention for elite female gymnasts, and as Pilates Coach for Cirque Du Soleil touring company Melbourne seasons.
Beyond her elite coaching work, Katrina is the Founder and Director of Aligned for Life Pilates Studios and National Pilates Training, a government-accredited Registered Training Organisation that has educated thousands of instructors in Australia and Japan since 2006.
A former classical ballet dancer and musical theatre performer, Katrina first discovered Pilates more than 30 years ago as rehabilitation following a stage injury—a moment that shaped her lifelong commitment to movement for health and performance. Today, she continues to champion the integration of mind-body conditioning and evidence-based practice to build strength, resilience, and performance excellence in every client, from elite athletes to everyday movers.