Meet the team
Each Healthy Living Team Member Is Fully Invested In Helping You Meet Your Holistic Challenges & Smash Your Exercise Goals!
History
The roots and history of Pilates exercise modality combined with it’s transforming results inspired our founder, Shakera Ghoor, to be more than a practitioner. After studying and training up to a professional level, Shakera launched the Fitness Fusion studio, and inspired by the success stories achieved with clients, she has continued to grow the brand into new spaces.
our team
Shakera Ghoor
I love working with all my clients with their diverse goals. I tailor their challenges to their goals and share in their joy as their physical health, mental health and quality of life improve. It has to be the most rewarding job anybody could ask for, apart from being a doting mother to my two children. The most rewarding outcome that I see in clients is the increased confidence, increased mobility and profound increase in their quality of life.
Expect to work hard! Shakera believes when you set aside your hour for training, you need to make it count. her workouts are fun, challenging, focused, and purposeful making you want to come back for more!
Training:
- Owner and founder of Fitness Fusion
- Teaching since 2008
- Diploma in Exercise Science – ETA Qualified
- Conscious movement education – comprehensive training in Pilates with conscious movement education
- BASI mentorship program – BASI Pilates Education Academy
- 200 hours, yoga teacher training – Living Yoga
- Aerial yoga training – Living Yoga
- First aid level 2
- Pilates suspension method – PSM USA
- Pilates through pregnancy conscious movement education
Health Offerings From Shakera:
- Healthy living advice
- Holistic training programs
- Pilates classes
- Private training
- Aerial yoga
- HITT classes
- BARRE classes
- Personal training
- Seniors Pilates
- Pre and post natal Pilates
- Fitness challenges
Naomi Olivier
“I teach strong, focused sessions; working on breath, flow, and form. You will be Challenged throughout but will leave feeling like a new person. I believe that by strengthening small minor muscles we achieve the best out of your major muscles.”
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Training:
- Pilates instructor for nine years
- Comprehensive instructor training – BASI
- Pilates Suspension method instructor – PSM USA
- STRONG Nation (Strong By Zumba) Instructor
- First Aid L1
- Human Resource Management N5
Health Offerings From Naomi:
- Healthy living advice
- Holistic training programs
- Pilates classes and private training
- Pilates reformers
- Seniors pilates
- HITT classes
- Personal training
- Pre and post natal pilates
Nadine Francis
I enjoy working with clients at all levels and supporting each individual in reaching their full potential and strength. Teaching Pilates is hugely rewarding as I see people progress and their quality of life dramatically improves. – health, happiness and confidence. My ethos is “Quality Before Quantity”, it’s an approach that should permeate our entire lives!
Training:
- Certified – Trifocus Fitness Academy
- Pilates instructor for six years
- Rehabilitation pilates
- Beginner to advanced Pilates instruction
Health Offerings From Nadine:
- Pilates classes
- Private Training
- Seniors Pilates
- Preggie Pilates
- Kids Pilates
Ayesha Sindhi
“I am passionate about movement, fitness, and the aesthetic benefits that fitness has on your form. My goal is to deliver high-quality, challenging workouts focusing on the sweaty, sweet combination of form, flow, and fun. I teach the STOTT method – a modern approach to Pilates that leaves you with a holistic mind-body experience. “
Training:
- Started teaching since 2021I
- Intensive and Advanced Mat work
- Reformer
- Total Barre
- Pre- and Post- Natal Training
- Ayesha did all her training at The Movement Lab in Cape Town
Health offerings from Ayesha:
- Barre
- Pilates mat
- Pilates equipment
Dani Moss
My belief in holistic health has driven my selection of training courses such as Pilates and Booty Barre training. Barre training is a fun, energetic, exercise methodology that combines dance, Pilates, and yoga. This make fitness challenges fun while giving my clients super-toned, defined and chiselled bodies! Watching my client’s positive self-awareness and mobility grow is such an uplifting experience. As their muscles lengthen and strengthen so do their lives and relationships.
Training:
- Training a variety of classes since 2015
- Comprehensive instructor certification – BASI
- Pilates Through Pregnancy and Beyond certification – BASI
- Booty Barre Course in 2017, developed by Tracey Mallet.
Health offerings from Dani:
- Pilates classes
- Private Training
- Barre classes
- Pre and post natal pilates (Preggie Pilates)
We also have a guest trainers who you will see at the Fitness Fusion Studio in Houghton. Say hi to Manini, Kerry and Sara when you see them!