Anneke Kruger
Anneke is a comprehensive Pilates teacher (NCPT) and Slings Myofascial Training® Practitioner. She also has qualifications for designing Pre- and postnatal programmes, Ashtanga Yoga, Yoga Nidra, and is a certified Buff Bones® instructor.
As an Educator for Anatomy Trains and Swiss based art of motion® Academy, Anneke lectures and hosts Anatomy Trains in Motion and Slings Myofascial training courses.
She originally trained as a Pilates Teacher in London with Body Control Pilates® in 2009 but has continued her education with a variety of teachers and schools in Europe, the United States, Australia and South Africa. From 2017-2020, she was a program ambassador for the New York Functional Anatomy for Movement and Injuries (FAMI) workshop (Hosted by the Kane School/Kinected).
Anneke feels passionate about the benefits of conscious movement and how this directly influences our quality of life and overall well-being. She has a special interest in injury prevention and rehabilitation and worked at a busy London Sports Medicine clinic alongside a team of medical practitioners until moving to Cape Town, South Africa, in 2021. She now runs a boutique movement studio in Bloubergstrand and continues to host retreats and teach workshops, and courses internationally.
Bianca Schulz
Bianca Carmen is a multi-faceted movement specialist from South Africa. A yoga teacher with a background as a professional dancer, choreographer, and performing artist, movement is woven into her DNA.
Fascinated by human anatomy and psychology, she creates offerings that uncover deeper layers of the mind-body connection, using the body as a gateway to understanding the mind. Through physical exploration, we gain insight into the mental.
Her teachings cultivate a space for expression—a place to explore creativity, curiosity, and self-discovery. She invites each individual to embrace their unique bio-individuality, allowing the body to become the instrument.
Bryan Mac
Bryan’s work is rooted in our powerful intention to help people break free from the limitations of their own minds and step into a life they once thought impossible. Through this unique blend of relationship yoga, frequency work, mirror sessions, and transformational guidance, we create the space for profound “ah ha!” moments – those flashes of clarity that shift everything. Here, transformation isn’t a distance dream. It’s the natural result of showing up, exploring what’s holding you back, and discovering the freedom that was within you all along.
Carla Armour
Carla Armour styles herself as a ‘Whole-life Activation Coach’, being a Pilates Teacher, Retreat Leader, Artist and Curator, who has been involved in the Health & Fitness Industry for over 4 decades. She uses her Comprehensive Pilates Conscious Movement Education Training done in 2003 and mentorship from Renee Watson as her entry point when guiding her clients through deep engagement into self-discovery, and healing to confident well-being.
A native of Dominica in the Caribbean, Carla lives between Dominica and England. Her ‘7D Core Calibration Method’ is an embodied Pilates Principles-based approach that combines techniques from Somatic and Classical Pilates, Neurophysiology, Mindfulness and ‘held trauma release’ protocols. During her workshops and classes, Carla takes participants through sequences of breath-directed movements that ground them to their deep core, stimulate internal regulation, and release held trauma and blocks.
At CMC 2026, Carla will lead two informative and transformative experiences: her Core Calibration Workshop and the invigorating “Ride the Recoil” extended Reformer session, both designed to ground, energise, and unlock the body’s full potential while sharing her technique that other teachers can incorporate in their work.
Christy Smith
Christy worked professionally as a Ballet Dancer between 1996 and 2007, and then served as Ballet Mistress to Cape Town City Ballet until mid-2008. She completed her comprehensive Pilates Teacher Training through Conscious Movement Education in 2007 and affiliated with the PMA (USA) in 2008. As well as teaching regular Pilates classes, she teamed up with Elize Van Zyl’s physiotherapy practice, focusing on injury rehabilitation, especially in dancers.
Over the years, she has worked with folks ranging in age from 8 to 91, from casual movers to professional athletes and dancers. She finds fascia fascinating, and so has furthered her education in this regard, doing workshops in Lynotherapy, Anatomy Trains in Motion, and the Franklin Method. As well as shorter Franklin Method workshops and webinars, she completed the more comprehensive Fascia Trainer courses for the Lower Back and Pelvis in 2021 and Shoulders, Neck and Face in 2022, and is now qualified by the Franklin Method Institute in Switzerland to offer those workshops.
Christy LOVES to explore the rich and interesting possibilities of the body – particularly in terms of movement patterns and integrated muscle-and-fascia behaviour, recognising that the body as a whole is involved in all movement in one way or another, and that no two bodies are the same. She loves the fact that we never stop learning, and often takes much away from a workshop she presents, thanks to the insights of the participants!
Colette de Vries
Internationally accredited by the Pilates Method Alliance, Colette de Vries is a highly experienced Pilates educator, studio owner, and movement specialist with over 20 years of teaching. Founder of Pilates for Life in Paarl, she has inspired clients worldwide and is dedicated to training the next generation of instructors.
Gyde von Wlassak
Gyde is a physiotherapist and coach with over 25 years of experience, specialising in holistic approaches to healing. What has always driven her work is a deep curiosity about one central question:
How can we reconnect a highly adaptive, fast-evolving mind with a body that still speaks the language of ancient survival when stressed?
Gyde’s work involves regulating the autonomic nervous system through manual treatment, coaching methods, and bodywork like breath work and fascia movements. Since 2008, she has built a practice that integrates these elements with neurobiological principles, including EMDR-inspired and brain-based coaching methods. A training in clinical Psycho-Neuro-Immunology connects all parts.
She focuses on helping people recognise and understand the patterns they are caught in, reconnecting them with essential human needs such as safety, shelter and connection. Gyde believes that understanding a person’s individual story is key to developing tailored, effective interventions through bodywork, coaching, meditation and somatic therapy.
At the core of her approach is a strong interest in restoring coherence between the fast-adapting mind and the body’s ancient, binary survival mechanisms, a dynamic especially relevant in today’s complex and often stressful world. Gyde’s path is inspired by neuroscience, evolutionary biology and ancient philosophies and is deeply connected to her own ongoing personal and professional journey.
Jane Koffman
Jane’s career in Group Exercise began at 4yrs young, beside her Mother in a community centre, participating in Jane Fonda-inspired classes. By the time she was 13, she was invited to lead Aerobic lessons in PhzEd. She achieved Provincial Colours in Athletics, Swimming, Gymnastics and has also delighted in many kinds of dance. While completing her Art Studies, she was asked to become an Aerobic Instructor at her favourite gym. Jane passed with an A aggregate in her final Varsity year, majoring in Illustration, studying a Degree in Graphic Design. During this time, she also completed her certification as a Group Exercise Instructor.
She’s loved teaching Pilates passionately, both locally and abroad, for 21yrs. At 23, Jane studied Basic Mat Pilates in England, and at 34, Jane completed her Comprehensive Pilates Course. This included Pilates Intermediate Mat, Pilates Cadillac, Reformer & Chair and Pilates during Pregnancy.
Jane has also been the Cape Pilates Master Trainer and Mentor at Virgin Active from 2020 – 2023. Jane now has her own Personal Training company called Pilates with Love. She works as a Freelance Pilates, Aqua and Body Conditioning Group Trainer.
Kerry Marais
Kerry has been practicing Yoga for more than 15 years and continues to be dedicated to an Ashtanga mysore practice. It’s her love for Yoga and its transformative power that inspired her to complete her teacher training in 2013. Yoga taught Kerry to embrace life and to be more present, allowing her to find a deeper connection to self. It is this passion that she wishes to share with others.
Leila Sadien
Dr. Leila Sadien is an Integrative Medical Doctor and Medicine Woman whose work bridges modern science with ancient healing traditions. With nearly two decades of medical practice, she has dedicated her path to guiding individuals into deeper alignment with their soul, their bodies, and the living intelligence of Spirit.
Her work weaves together shamanic medicine, breathwork, and spiritual mentorship, creating spaces where transformation becomes possible on every level – physical, emotional, and spiritual. Known for her ability to enter deep states of attunement, she supports people in uncovering their unique medicine, reclaiming their power, and embodying wholeness with grace and impeccability.
As the founder of the Multisensory Medicine Woman School, Dr. Sadien trains and initiates women worldwide into pathways of intuitive mastery, sacred leadership, and authentic embodiment. She is passionate about building a new paradigm of medicine rooted in presence, integrity, and the remembrance of our interconnectedness with all of life.
At her core, she is devoted to midwifing a new world – one where beauty, truth, and soul-aligned living guide how we heal, create, and lead.
Louise Knoop
Louise Knoop is a South African-born adult educator (AdvDip ACET, UCT).
With over 20 years at the forefront of pilates education in Southern Africa, Louise advocates for inclusivity, personal power and a coming home to the physical self.
Louise’s career took on its current holistic status after healing her own chronic inflammation and knee pain following agonising years of trial, ignorance and error. This experience informs Louise’s principle of marginal gains to improve longer-term health and capability in any environment via her private somatic health and movement coaching, group facilitation and education platform.
Montana Davies-Phippen
Montana (or Monty!) started practising yoga in London many years ago. She eventually went from enjoying a Sunday evening class to following her teacher to India, where she realised the practice extended far beyond the physical. She has since spent 2024 travelling in Asia, from meditating with monks to exploring Taoist temples, culminating her learning with a yoga teacher training with the Yoga NewVision school in Bali.
Monty is fascinated by how the ancient practice of yoga can help us in our modern lives. A keen student of yogic philosophy, she gives her infinite gratitude to her teachers for passing down their knowledge. Her classes are both traditional and transformative, blending Eastern philosophy with alignment-focused movement to explore new modes of consciousness. Across her practices, expect a mix of mindfulness, meditation, and music, all designed to take the mind to new places.
Nicole Sherwin
Nicole Sherwin is the founder of Eco Diva Natural and a lifelong believer in the healing power of nature. Her journey into clean, superfood skincare didn’t begin in a lab, but through a deeply personal mission to heal her own skin. After years of struggling with breakouts, sensitivity and dehydrated skin —and finding conventional treatments only made things worse—Nicole turned inward, and toward nature, for answers.
What she discovered changed everything: when skin is fed with the right nutrients—bio-identical, plant-based superfoods—it responds with balance, radiance, and vitality. This revelation became the seed from which Eco Diva Natural was born.
Nicole’s passion extends beyond skincare. She’s devoted to the bigger picture of wellness—from gut health to emotional resilience—believing that true beauty is born from within. Her work is infused with education, science-backed formulations, and a commitment to sustainability, drawing from the latest research in epigenetics, skin biology, and natural healing.
Her philosophy is simple: when we nourish our skin with what it truly needs, it thrives. And when we do it kindly—with ethically made, sustainably sourced ingredients—we all glow a little brighter.
Rachel Maurice
Rachel Maurice is a Canadian Medical Doctor who worked as an Anesthesiologist for 20 years in Canada. She left the practice of conventional medicine in pursuit of helping people heal from the root causes of disease rather than only treating symptoms.
With almost 30 years of experience in the western medical system, she realised the holes and gaps in mainstream medicine and changed the course of her learning. She has gathered together the skills that have been most beneficial for her and created a toolbox from which she draws based on your needs.
You will thus get the benefit of her years of education and experience in conventional medicine, as well as the extensive research and experiential learning of alternative approaches, including: Applied Quantum Biology, Holographic Memory Resolution ( a unique trauma release method ), Self Sabotage Mindset Coaching, Breathwork and Medical Intuition.
Rachel has most recently become involved with a revolutionary technology, and she is witnessing transformations in health like nothing she has ever seen in her 30 years in the conventional medical system. The best part is that it uses your own light to enhance your body’s innate healing wisdom.
Renee Watson
Renee has always been fascinated by the wisdom of the human body… as shown in her dance background, nutrition and movement studies. She has been teaching Pilates since 1997, and over the years, her teaching has evolved to integrate Yoga, breath work, anatomy understanding, fascial release, mindfulness, well-being and flow. Renee brings all these elements into her sessions in order to provide a unique experience for each person. As co-founder of The Source, Renee has had the privilege of presenting Pilates and Yoga teacher trainings around the world, offering retreats on an eco-island in Malawi, and working with international clientele inthe Maldives. She is forever grateful to have found this beautiful studio space in Bishopscourt and looks forward to welcoming you to this upcoming event.
Russell Cummings
A professional dancer for over 20 years, Russell has an extensive career both locally and internationally that has taken him around the world performing and teaching. Qualified in both ballet and modern dance forms, Russell was actively involved in the teaching of dance in Cape Town from 2001 until 2010. While dancing, Russell completed his Pilates certification in 2004 under Renee Watson and is also BASI certified.
Samantha Hozack
Sam’s first yoga class more than 30 years ago had her feeling all her own frustration and impatience! Now looking back at her younger self, she realises just how mentally and emotionally inflexible she was. Sam’s practice has been a deeply personal journey of self-discovery, guided by the rich sensorial experience of breath, and her wish is to share that with others as they unroll their own profound journey on the mat.
Saretha Olivier
Coming from a professional ballet background, I was introduced to Pilates through my dance training. I joined the CAPAB ballet company in 1995. For many years after my professional dance career ended, I did personal training and aerobics, which I studied through ETA. I did my Pilates training through Reneé Watson on mat and equipment in 2003 and started working full-time as a Pilates instructor as well as lecturing on courses. In 2009, I moved to Pretoria and opened my own studio. I have always loved Cape Town and always wanted to come home! After being away for 15years, I decided to come home with my 2 daughters! Pilates and dance conditioning are my passions, but I enjoy working with people in general and doing what I love every day!
Shannon Lilley
Bend Pilates was born from a need to help individuals in Port Elizabeth (re-)gain their health, mobility, and strength. Shannon Lilley, founder of Bend Pilates, has been offering Pilates to adults of all ages and ranges of fitness and physical ability for going on approximately 14 years. Continuously learning and communicating with other wellness professionals, Bend Pilates grew into Bend Wellness Centre.
Theo Botha
Theo Botha exemplifies passion for Pilates, especially teaching Pilates. Having taught hundreds of students locally and internationally, Theo’s ability to connect with students and impart her vast knowledge and execution in a way that students can relate to, learn from and enjoy has made her a sought-after teacher trainer on the international stage of Pilates.
Theo’s background and experience started under the guidance and mentorship of Rael Isacowitz, founder and director of BASI Pilates. Theo’s teaching career spans the globe, having taught on almost every continent. Her nurturing nature brings depth, compassion and inspiration to any aspiring Pilates instructor. Building a successful career from humble beginnings has given Theo insight into what it takes to start, develop and work as a Pilates teacher.
She shares her experiences unconditionally. “I see myself as a bridge, a gateway for aspiring Pilates enthusiasts to embark on a journey to personal growth, excellence and empowerment. There is no bigger gift than making a difference in someone else’s life and at the same time loving every minute of doing it.”
Join Theo as she guides you in gaining a skill that allows you to change the lives of others.