Shirley Boerssen

Founder/Owner of Core Connect 
​Director of Low Pressure Fitness South Africa.

I am a health and wellness enthusiast. I believe our strength, power, health and wellness lies within finding a balanced thread of connectedness within our mind, body and soul. I work with movement based on Pilates, personal training and fitness, Low Pressure Fitness/Hypopressives and other breathing techniques, massage therapy and nutrition. My early studies and background in Psychology gives me a sense to connect with my clients empathetically. These mediums form the basis of my approach when working with clients to assist them in their journey of being and becoming the best version of themselves.

I have been working with movement and fitness since 2011, predominantly with a Pilates based approach. I love working with specialised groups with more of a retraining and rehabilitative angle. I have personally continued training during two pregnancies and retrained my core after two cesareans. After my second pregnancy and c-section I have developed diastasis (separation of the six pack muscles) and other pelvic floor related problems due to the diastasis. In 2015 I was introduced to Low Pressure Fitness which really just offered the best retraining for my core, pelvic floor, posture and breathing. I found myself on a plane to Barcelona in 2016 to get training in the technique and ever since then I have used this as part of my training methods and programs I use with my own clients. As the acting director of Low Pressure Fitness in South Africa my goal is sharing this revolutionary way of core, postural and breathe training. I work with women of all shapes and sizes, athletes, pre and post natals, menopausal women, young and old, children and men. 

I find inspiration from nature, like minded colleagues and clients, my family, my husband and my two children. I listen to my own body, health and wellness and I suppose, I am very much tuned into my own body. This awareness and continual search for solutions to personal health related issues (also from those around me) tickles my interest, motivates me in my daily life and keeps me updated with relevant research and new ideas in this ever changing field.

My main goal for Core Connect is to educate the general public on core health, how to connect to this most central part of their existence, to stand taller, breathe fuller and move well.
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