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Ryan Botha

Ryan has lived his life through movement, most notably as a local and international professional football player. From the age of 18 Ryan has played in multiple Premier League teams in South Africa, UK, Finland and Turkey. His career highlights include winning player of the month in the Finnish Premier League, playing six UEFA cup games and winning goal of the season in the South African Premier League. Ryan has also worked as a photographic model, appearing on multiple Men’s Health covers and in numerous other mainstream magazines. Ryan has subsequently run and managed his own gym, PointBreak, which has successfully operated for the last six years.

Qualifications

  • ISSA Qualified PT
  • ISSA Qualified Kettlebell Trainer
  • UEFA Level B Football Coach
  • Olympic Weight lifting
  • Sports, Specific Training
  • Injury prevention Specialists
  • Training in different environments
  • Sports Nutrition

Movement Journey

Ryan’s movement story comes with some dark chapters, the first of which was during his professional football career when he endured a potentially career-ending knee injury at 23 years old during his time playing in the Turkish Premier League. He blew out his posterior cruciate ligament in his right knee during training and four weeks later his knee gave out entirely during a match in Istanbul. Up until then, Ryan had relied on his raw talent and natural strength which had carried him through most injuries, but this one proved to be the tipping point. He went into a deep depression and his parents advised him to either stop playing and start studying or to get back onto the field and address his body issues with more care. And so his fitness journey began. He slowly built up his physio and mobility, while paying attention to his eating and overall diet. Ryan wasn’t the player he used to be, but through applying the correct level of movement and care, he was able to play for another eight years professionally, which was a victory in itself. Another victory emerged for Ryan, which rapidly became his new passion – the love for health and fitness, which transformed his career and took him in a new direction – Ryan the gym owner. Together with a partner, Ryan launched PointBreak gym in Cape Town, which ran successfully for six years and catered for a host of clientele by offering a range of training options. In the midst of this new career path, Ryan found himself in a perilous situation. He was witness to a man falling three stories off a balcony and compelled to assist, Ryan jumped off to get to the victim’s aid. In the process he unfortunately broke and dislocated his left ankle, but also managed to stabilise the victim and, ultimately, save his life. The doctor who treated Ryan in hospital was convinced that his years of training and movement had saved Ryan from a shattered spine and potential death. His new passion for movement had in effect saved his life. Ryan’s story of movement runs deep and he’s seen the benefits of hard work and consistency. As a trainer he brings passion, commitment and hard work, with no short cuts – he is the ultimate movement warrior.

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Maegan Ryan

Maegan discovered her passion for health and fitness as a high school athlete specialising in high jump and javelin. After studying in the field she started working as a personal trainer to help others become healthier versions of themselves. An opportunity to work abroad on cruise ships as a personal trainer turned out to be the beginning of an amazing adventure connecting and training people from all over the world. Now back home she's applying her experience and knowledge to advance her career as a personal trainer and a lifestyle coach.

Qualifications

  • ITEC Personal Training ( 3 years)
  • National Certificate NQF level 5
  • ITEC Group Fitness Instruction, Diploma
  • ITEC Sports Massage , Diploma
  • ITEC Nutrition
  • TEC Training in TRX, Pilates, Spin classes and Yoga

Movement Journey

After working as a personal trainer on cruise ships for three years focusing on the well-being of others across the world, she returned home to focus on her community. Health and fitness has always been her passion, and now that she's found a movement suited to her skills, motivation and determination, she's never been more excited to train an even bigger online audience.

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Kirsten Johnson

Kirsten is an Exercise Science Specialist. She initially had a five-year professional career as a ballerina & contemporary dancer in both the USA (Texas Ballet Theater) and Cape Town (Cape Town City Ballet). She represented South Africa internationally from a very young age as both a dancer and rhythmic gymnast. She grew up in a family where movement was one of the biggest parts of daily life and not much thought went into staying fit thanks to her natural love for keeping active. After dancing for years with scoliosis (curvature of the spine), Kirsten made the tough decision to end her career by listening to her body, and stepped back from the ballet stage. This took her in a new direction on her fitness journey after studying Exercise Science & Sports Massage, which is now her passion and full-time career. Kirsten is a huge advocate of movement, having spent most of her early life expressing herself through the art of dance movement and now applies this in her daily life in maintaining a level of strength, flexibility, power, and endurance that she developed over the years while dancing. During the course of 2019 she also started to explore the benefits of a plant-based diet and hasn't looked back. She is a passionate ambassador for helping people develop a healthy and sustainable lifestyle, that applies intention to every aspect of one's life.

Qualifications

  • Higher Certificate in Exercise Science
  • Specialised Personal Trainer
  • Sports Massage Therapy Certified
  • Olympic Weight lifting
  • Sports, Specific Training
  • Injury prevention Specialists
  • Training in different environments
  • Sports Nutrition

Movement Journey

Kirsten strongly believes that you’ll never change your life until you change something you do daily. Moving your body each day is a form of self love and an investment to your health. After all, being healthy is your body’s retirement annuity. This couldn't be more true for Kirsten as she was told that ballet saved her back, which has given her so much gratitude that from a young age she has been strengthening the muscles supporting her spine. Movement has literally saved her body!

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Kannan Gaind

Kannan played semi-professional rugby in the UK, as well as working as a recruiter in the telecommunications industry. He was then offered a role in the family business in Cape Town and continued to play rugby for some local clubs. He then moved back to the UK to start a digital marketing agency, but missed the Cape Town life and returned three years later. He now continues to work as an executive recruiter primarily head hunting talent at a senior management and C-Suite level.

Movement Journey

Having retired from top-level rugby two years ago due to too many concussions, he desperately tried to find a replacement for the buzz that the game had brought him. He found that exercising and bodyweight movement gave him the chance to not only keep up his fitness, but also gave him the opportunity to build and maintain a healthy lifestyle.

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Gabriella Davids

Gabriella is a full-time lifestyle model and aspiring fashion designer who is passionate about living a holistic lifestyle. Her day-to-day lifestyle is about exercising, keeping active and eating well, as well as her practice of meditation and feeding her mind with positivity. She is also actively practicing how to be a positive influence to those around her, while exploring her creative side by designing and manufacturing beautiful bespoke fashion for women.

Movement Journey

There was a time in her life where she had no direction and struggled to control her mind and emotions, which lead to poor eating decisions. She then decided to start cycling which allowed her to go on exciting adventures, giving her a fun way to exercise in a natural environment. She's not yet at her goal weight, but firmly believes that she's on the right track as she's now happier, lighter, healthier and more confident to lead a life with passion and embody a healthier lifestyle.

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Ashwill Lewis

Ash is a 33 year old Chartered Accountant, working in Corporate Finance at a large multination company and is based in Cape Town, South Africa. His corporate worklife places intense demands on his schedule, where working out and keeping active helps create balance for his body and mind. He’s been involved in sport and keeping active throughout his formative years, so remaining healthy has always been an important component of Ash’s life.

Movement Journey

Ash’s movement journey has evolved over the last few years, in prioritising the best exercise workout possible for the short time he has available in his schedule. He’s transitioned to high energy/intensity workouts which bring motivation, enjoyment and results. This is where The Movement Empire has seamlessly blended in with his lifestyle and training requirements, thanks to their workouts, which are explosive, under an hour, delivering the exact experience and outcomes that he needs for a full body exercise regime.

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Brie Zetler

Brie is a mother of two beautiful girls and prior to motherhood had a career as a gemologist grading diamonds. Exercise initially didn't play much of a role in her life and after two pregnancies she recognised that she desperately wanted to get her pre-pregnancy body back. She also found that working out not only got her into better shape, but also boosted her mental health which had taken strain after suffering from post-natal depression. She subsequently found a heathy balance between running, interval training and most importantly her love for yoga that keeps her grounded and exercises both her body and mind. She's also been a fan of interval training classes that have boosted her love to keep moving!

Movement Journey

Brie has recognised that the longer she's been a parent, the more she's come to believe physical health is vital for her role of being a mother, which is intrinsically linked to her emotional and spiritual wellbeing. This has culminated in acknowledging that her health is a gift to herself. Her busy day to day life has taken a new direction with the introduction of The Movement Empire which is now an active element in her weekly routine.

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Jeannine Wagner

Jeannine has always enjoyed dancing, which originally started with ballet before moving onto modern dance. This led into overall fitness as a teenager when the aerobic's craze was at its peak. She then joined her sister's gym as an aerobics instructor in her final year at school, complete with headbands, leg warmers and hi-tops! Her career has mostly been as an executive assistant, creating order out of chaos and has balanced this with being the mother of her 10-year-old daughter, which comes with a unique range of exercise of its own!

Movement Journey

Jeannine's first taste of truly enjoying movement came during the aerobics craze, where moving to music invoked such good feelings, which translated even further onto the dance floor! With a slender frame she's needed to train to keep her muscle tone and to maintain her posture. Having reached her 50's, exercise and keeping her shape has become more challenging, but the benefit of feeling stronger and having more energy has never been more important in staying as healthy as possible. She jumped at the chance of joining The Movement Empire and has benefitted greatly from Ryan, Kirsten and Maegan's training sessions. Ironically her fitness journey has come full circle from aerobics in the 80's to working out once again with The Movement Empire.

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Thina Hako

Thina is a 25 year old working as a motion designer in Cape Town. He’s led an active lifestyle from an early age, including riding bikes or doing the daily 40 minute march home from school every day. He’d always push himself, in the continuous search for self-improvement, which meant turning a walk home into a run, why go slow when you can go fast and save time for other things!. Later on he took up downhill skateboarding, which again pushed his boundaries and emphasised the need for control over his body, particularly in extreme speed situations. Unsurprisingly the sport left Thina with many scars, which he sees as not only reminders of the falls, but more importantly that he’s had the courage to get up and ride on, literally and figuratively – although it might have been wiser to wear knee/elbow guards in hindsight!. Office work life is when his active life started tapering off as a result of long hours at a computer. After two years of sedentary life, Thina put an end to this and joined a gym, primarily to change his looks, but then found a deeper meaning in pushing himself and getting his strength back and enjoying the fulfilment of competing with himself again.

Movement Journey

Thina started his fitness journey in 2019 after doing his first pull up at the gym. His strength started improving with weight training, which he then supplemented with body weight training at home. This played a key part in not only building his strength, but getting to understand how to control all aspects of his body, but also drive up his fitness. The Movement Empire has given him confidence to improve, little by little and not hold back wherever he finds himself, either at the gym, at home or life overall. In Thina’s opinion Movement is key to a full life, humans are made to move – if we don’t we crumble and lose our mental and physical edge. Training might be tough sometimes, but he’s at his happiest in the steamy mist of a session and he knows that his future self will be grateful for the work done now. The more you move, the further you’ll go in life!.

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Rahma Robertson

Rahma is involved in the film industry within the art department where she works as a props buyer and set dresser. Her role is an active and physical one with days spent on her feet, whilst moving props and furniture around in order to appropriately position for camera.

Movement Journey

Rahma 's fitness journey started in 2012 when she ran her first half marathon, which led to her becoming hooked on running. Unfortunately this caused multiple injuries and as a result she realised the importance of strength training. She then started mixing up her training regime, incorporating weight and strength training which has helped her to stay injury free and also assisted with her film production work.

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Dino Perotti

Dino is a 47 year old Capetonian who originally started his career as a successful fashion model and then transitioned to a head booker at some of the city's most reputable agencies. He subsequently went on to start his own men's fashion range, all locally designed and manufactured. His entrepreneurial prowess didn't end there and he's recently created his own online deli, which sources quality produce from his roots in Italy, as well as locally produced goods.

Movement Journey

Having been a model at the beginning of his career, appearance and exercise was always a key factor in presenting himself. Luckily, Dino was active from an early age, having played schoolboy rugby for his province, so his thirst for exercise continued as he matured. However at the age of 30 after experiencing continuous back issues, Dino’s body fell into a downward spiral. His training took a knock, as well as his energy levels and mental state. His exercise routine was mainly weight-based training, however continuous body issues affected his strength and he slowly had to change the way he trained. He consulted multiple specialists to try find the catalyst for his pain. It has been a long 16 year journey. He has had to work through his pain, building up a high pain threshold to avoid the depression that came when not being able to exercise consistently. With time comes wisdom, and he started transitioning into different styles of exercises where he could still challenge his body but without too much distress. Finally, he found functional bodyweight movement within The Movement Empire, using correct movements and form, with emphasis on quality over quantity. His body has transformed and he has found a life-changing balance of eating and training correctly, whilst strengthening the areas needed to master his back pain. The simple benefits of movement within The Movement Empire have kept him mentally stable and physically fit, and has revolutionised his training regime.

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Sfiso Dlomo

Sfiso is an entrepreneur at heart, most of this stemming from the range of family businesses that he’s been involved with from an early age. He’s complemented his natural business acumen by studying finance & economics at university, which led him to work at Investec Bank within its Asset Management and Investment Client Group divisions. Between the corporate world and his involvement within this family businesses he spent multiple years playing professional basketball locally and abroad. Sfiso embodies the passionate pursuit of movement in multiple forms and formats.

Movement Journey

Sfisio realised early on how important movement is from being introduced into sport at a very young age. This lead to living an active lifestyle and learning many associated life skills and lessons. This played out specifically in high school, through his efforts in basketball and trying to achieve his goal of earning a scholarship to play basketball in the USA and one day play basketball professionally. With the time and dedication put into developing his skills, perfecting his craft & chasing his dreams the routine and discipline he gained from this, naturally flowed into all spheres of life: schooling, social life, relationships, work and personal life. Through the use of movement he was able to translate this into living a full and holistic lifestyle, and looking back he doesn’t think there was ever any other way. Something as simple as having control over your body taught him what it takes to gain that same control over the rest of his life. Sfiso is a born mover!

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