Meet the Team
Let us guide you towards a balanced, pain-free life. Welcome to holistic healing and happiness.
Health is not just the absence of disease, but a state of physical, mental, and social well-being.
Our team of dedicated trainers are specialized
in injury rehabilitation, restoring joint mobility,
enhancing overall health & well-being.
Principal Instructor and Studio Owner
Anneke Pettenburger
Movement Specialist
Trifocus & BASI Pilates Mat & Equipment
Clinical Pilates & Joint Rehabilitation
Pre & Post Natal Pilates
Synergy Yoga Breath, Posture & Healing
Power Yoga, Animal Locomotion & Mobility
Neuro-Training Kinesiology Muscle Testing
Touch For Health Kinesiology Muscle Testing
Dorn Skeletal Alignment Method/Breuss Massage, Anatomy,Physiology & Exercise Science
Postural Restoration Institute Functional Breathing
Move mind body and soul.
Anneke has a rich history in movement education.
Her mission is to empower humanity to take ownership of their wellbeing and healing to empower themselves to thrive.
A love for Pilates and a debilitating whiplash injury led her to do her first comprehensive Pilates Mat & Equipment teacher certification in 2010. Following by The Performance Matrix with Mark Comerford identifying muscle imbalances and compensatory patterns resulting in injuries.
She completed her BASI Pro-Bridge Pilates in 2014 with a specialisation in Pre and Post Natal and later Clinical Pilates through Clinical Solutions & Debbie Creamer Physiotherapy.
She qualified as a Touch for Health, Neuro-training and Emotional Kinesiologist supplemented by Dorn Method gentle skeletal alignment and Breuss Massage.
She continues to study in order to better understand the human body and mind in healing and thriving with an interest in the knee, shoulder , back and hip joints, working from the inside out to bring about wellbeing. Her most recent studies through the postural restoration institute includes a deep dive into human biomechanics and adaptive compensations resulting in pain and pathology.
Principal Instructor
Liezel Kooyman Joubert
Movement Specialist
Body Control & BASI Pilates Mat & Equipment
Pilates For Pathologies & Injuries
Pre & Post Natal Pilates, Pelvic Floor & Core
Holistic Core Restore
C-Section, Hysterectomy & Abdominal Scar
Biomedicine - Nutrition and Naturopathy
Rhythmic Movement Training
Soft Tissue Therapy
Anatomy in Motion
Body Control Pilates for Kids
Liezel is originally from Cape Town, South Africa and relocated to the UK in 2006.
She trained as an accountant and after years working in finance she decided to make a career change to follow her passion for teaching pilates and movement.
Liezel trained and qualified as a matwork pilates teacher with Body Control Pilates in 2010 and in 2014 trained and completed her training with Body Arts and Science Institute (BASI) enabling her to teach the full range of pilates equipment.
Pilates for Liezel was a source of healing after a spinal injury but she soon realised the other benefits of pilates, strengthening and aims for overall balance of the body.
Liezel enjoys and is passionate about helping clients have a deeper understanding of their bodies and why they move the way they do as each person is unique. Liezel also believes in a dynamic and active approach when teaching while still relaxing the mind, thus releasing tension and stress in the body which is essential to bring about constructive healing and change in the body.
Liezel has also done further training and workshops to expand and refine her knowledge, below is a list of her qualifications and training,
Studio Instructor
Natalie Glasgow
BASI Mat & Equipment
Natalie has a rich history in the hospitality industry. During Covid she wanted to explore Pilates as a tool for health and wellbeing and did her teacher training through BASI Pilates. Natalie is knowledgeable about the human form and loves working towards your health and wellbeing
SHIFT BODY & MIND
HOW: PILATES | YOGA | KINESIOLOGY | SOFT TISSUE THERAPY
Our team of decicated trainers have years of experience to help you achieve pain free living and quality of live.
OUT INSTRUCTORS
WHERE it began. My passion for sharing movement was ignited after spending 14 years collectively in Advertising at Saatchi & Saatchi and Ogilvy South Africa, the hours were crazy, the socials legendary and self care definitely was not a high priority. It became glaringly evident that this kind of life was not sustainable and I ventured into an exploration in the field of ceramic functional art to find solace for my soul. I knew however that I needed to start taking better care of my body. Ceramics was a creative outlet but for health and wellbeing I needed to explore movement & nutrition.
WHY I felt the need to achieve greater overall balance. It was almost instinctual -
something I had known in my body growing up, spending time climbing trees and riding my bike through the gloriously sunny days, eating whole food straight from the garden and preserves from my gran's kitchen.
HOW I discovered Pilates and the beautiful canvas of sculpting the human body in 2006. I was fascinated how Pilates could change my body. I enjoyed the gymnastic and strength training aspect to this and always felt amazing after a session. The true value of this form of movement become most evident after a car accident where it was a life saver in rehabilitating debilitating whiplash. This stuff was too good not to share!
I obtained my BASI Pilates Mat and Equipment Cert in 2010 and have been teaching and learning ever since. Yoga was a natural progression to include a mindfulness practice into my movement repertoire. Synergy Hatha Yoga, Budokon Yoga and Budokon Mobility has been the two main styles of yoga I adore and love sharing due to the fluid nature of the movements and considered postures to aid in joint mobility and overall health.
THE CALLING In Studio I soon realised just having the ability to share a particular form of movement was not enough. Working with the physical and specifically muscle imbalances and injury rehabilitation lead me to the mental/neurological aspect of movement and behavioural patterns. On this road of discovery I found some answers in Metaphysics, Quantum Physics, Kineseology & Dorn Method/Breuss Massage.
More specifically the incredible healing modalities in Kinesiology ranging from Touch for Health to Neuro-Training and Emotional Kinesiology and Dorn Method skeletal alignment coupled with Breuss Massage perfectly complements my repertoire in offering clients the opportunity to be their best selves and for their minds and bodies to support them on this journey.
MY MISSION to shift bodies and minds through movement. Helping those with a thirst for life reach their full potential mentally and physically. Working with corporate and individuals on their journey to health & wellbeing.