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Kynd Studios Edge Hill
A permanent memorial

The Edge Hill
Era.

Edge Hill, Cairns  ✦  2021 — April 2026
A letter from Claudia

Edge Hill was my first baby. Long before there was a second studio, long before there were babies of the human kind — there was a little space in Edge Hill that became something I never could have planned.

I opened the doors in 2021 with an idea, a belief, and a community I hadn't yet met. I didn't know then that 3,021 people would walk through those doors. I didn't know they would become some of my closest friends, my greatest teachers, and the reason I kept showing up.

Edge Hill is where I learned what Kynd actually was. Not a studio. A movement of people. A place where bodies healed, relationships formed, babies were announced, grief was held, and the ordinary Tuesday became something people looked forward to.

Closing this studio is genuinely one of the hardest things I've done. The lease ended. The timing aligned. Stratford is thriving and needs all of me. But none of that makes it simple — because nothing that matters ever is.

This page is here so we never forget where it all began. The creak of the floorboards. The afternoon light. The way that room held us all.

Thank you, Edge Hill. Thank you for starting us.

With so much love,
Claudia x
2021 Year Edge Hill
opened its doors
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with us
★4.96 Google rating across
758 reviews
5 Years of classes,
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How it happened

The story of
Edge Hill.

2019
Before it was Kynd
Barre & Co. — the seed
In September 2019, Claudia founded Barre & Co. at the Tanks Arts Centre. A timetable. A community. A beautiful space for people moving for the joy of it. Cairns had never had anything quite like it.
2020
Everything changes
COVID. She codes the website herself.
The world stopped. Claudia didn't. She coded the website herself, moved everything online, taught seventeen classes a week, and offered free classes to people who had lost their income. During lockdown she completed 125+ hours of advanced yoga philosophy study — and found the name. Kynd.
2021
The beginning
Kynd Studios opens in Edge Hill
When restrictions eased, Claudia went all in. Kynd opened in Edge Hill — yoga, Pilates, barre, breathwork and meditation under one roof. A space built on clear values: intelligent movement, real community, exceptional teachers, music that mattered.
2022
The school begins
Teacher training launches & a baby arrives
The 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training launches — bringing teacher education to Cairns for the first time. Claudia teaches through her first pregnancy. The community holds her through every season of that year.
2023
A newborn in the studio
Baby in the carrier. Breastfeeding between classes.
Baby in the carrier during training sessions. Breastfeeding between classes. Grandparents, Jack, and the Kynd Angels holding the baby while Claudia taught. Mums & Bubs Carrier Classes launched — because of course they did.
2024
The fork in the road
Expand or stay the same. She chose expand.
The Kynd Walk launched. Community milestones celebrated. A full rebrand and trademark. The Edge Hill expansion wasn't going to happen — but then Stratford appeared. With an 18-month-old in tow, Claudia and Jack began building a studio from scratch. The Reformer Teacher Training launched.
2025
Expansion
Stratford opens its doors
The Stratford studio opened officially — Reformer Pilates, Mat Pilates, Yoga, Sculpt, Breathwork and Meditation under one purpose-built roof. More teacher trainings. More teachers. More community. The biggest, most ambitious version of Kynd yet.
2026
The end of an era
Edge Hill closes — April 2026
After five years, the Edge Hill lease ends. All classes move to Stratford — Claudia's own hometown suburb. The studio that started it all closes its doors. Not with sadness alone, but with deep gratitude. Everything Kynd is was born here.
🌿

Kynd lives on
at Stratford.

Edge Hill started us. Stratford is carrying us forward. The community, the teachers, the classes, the kyndness — all of it lives on at 96 Magazine Street, Cairns. Come find us there.

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