“Don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up” – John Wagner
Liz Grantham
Our Founder
Liz has over 30 years’ experience in marketing & advertising providing innovative, integrated, thoughtful solutions for global clients like Visa, Shell and Sony Mobile, working on various projects including the Olympics.
Her love of a challenge and making BIG things happen, together with a need to manage the stress that comes along with running a business, endless deadlines, keeping clients happy, being a present and mindful mom – led her on the journey to what has become “TheOptimal.me”. This is her greatest challenge yet!
“I believe that all the hard work, experience, and endless curiosity, together with the need to not only survive but thrive as I get older, has led me to this point. The joy of finding long term solutions to feeling even better and being excited about what’s ahead is just something worth sharing … and so that’s exactly what I’ve done!”
Jannie Classen
Jannie Claassen is a transformational body coach, teacher, trainer and registered physical rehabilitation professional and your guide in all of our workouts. Functional movement is his passion and life’s work. Over the past 35 years he has worked directly with clients and travelled the world as a Reebok representative, presenter, educator, assessor and lecturer. He is a qualified Kinesiologist, a practitioner of Cranio-Sacral therapy and Visceral Manipulation and has studied Thai Massage Therapy. And at 59, he’s the perfect example of what we’d like to be when we grow up!
Phys-Ed – HED, ACE, Hons BED.
Certified in the USA by AFAA and ACSM (American College of Sports Medicine)
Simone Berzen-Levy
Simone Berzen-Levy is an experienced APA Pain Physiotherapist with a history of working in the management and treatment of chronic pain as well as in the health wellness and fitness industry. Her career as a Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist has spanned over 30 years, and she has been in Private Practice both in Johannesburg and in Perth, Australia, since 2008. She began working as part of a Multidisciplinary Chronic Pain Team in 2013 and has since established an exercise program for people living with chronic disease, still operating to date. Her expertise lies in chronic pain and chronic disease management, diabetes, Mindfulness, Group Exercise Instruction, Manual Therapy, Exercise Prescription, and fitness.
BSc Physiotherapy