The Minds Shaping Your Practice
Ianthe Basson & Vanessa Brito
A Meeting of Passion, Integrity, and Movement
Our business was born from a powerful encounter between two women who share an unwavering passion for quality, integrity, and the transformative power of mindful movement. We believe that movement is not just exercise — it’s an awakening, a healing, and a reconnection with our divine nature. Through discipline, awareness, and love for learning, we melt ignorance and guide each person back to their embodied potential.
Movement has always been our first language. Flow is our natural state. We both grew up immersed in sports, dance, and creative expression, and our journeys have intertwined to bring this vision to life.
A Unique Partnership, A Singular Mission
Together, we bring over 40 years of combined expertise, a lifetime of devotion to movement, and a commitment to delivering the highest level of service. Our partnership transcends borders — one from Brazil, the other from South Africa — united by a shared vision to offer authentic, traditional, research-informed Pilates and movement experiences in the Netherlands.
Our mission is to create a space where people can reconnect with their bodies, cultivate vitality, and return to the essence of what it means to live fully. We strive to promote well-being, inspire healing, and empower our community to experience life as the magical journey it is meant to be.
Ianthe Basson
Ianthe Basson (South Africa/The Netherlands).
Also born in 1980, Yante hails from South Africa, where she studied musical theater and danced professionally until a severe lumbar disc herniation led her to discover Pilates as her path to healing. Captivated by the method, she became a comprehensively trained Pilates teacher in 2004 with Renee Watson and continued lifelong education with master trainers, including second-generation teacher Marion Kessel and later a comprehensive certification with Dr. Brent Anderson and Shelly Power of Polestar Pilates. Yante also served on Polestar’s faculty before relocating to the Netherlands in 2024 with her Dutch husband.
Throughout her career, Ianthe sought a partnership that matched her passion, energy, and vision — and she found it in Vanessa. Their connection was immediate and electric, igniting a shared mission to elevate movement education and well-being.
Vanessa Brito
Vanessa Brito (Brazil/The Netherlands)
Born in Brazil in 1980, Vanessa began her career in law but soon realized her true calling was movement. She dove deep into Eastern philosophy and traveled to India many times to study Hatha Yoga, Raja Yoga, Vedanta, and the science of breath and meditation. She has vast experience teaching in The Netherlands, US and Brazil, where she has a Wellness Center, reference in the region, focused on Yoga trainings, lessons and Integrative Therapies since 2002 till the present. She expanded her knowledge of the mind-body connection through workshops with Joe Dispenza and Gregg Braden on the neuroscience of meditation. Vanessa has been trained extensively in Pilates since her 20s in Brazil. Also passionated about the science of movements, became a mentor student from Jozef Frucek and recently earning her badge from Fighting Monkeys, practiced developed by her teacher and his wife Linda Kapetanea (Rootless Root), bringing cutting-edge research on neuroplasticity, playfulness, and anti-aging movement into her teaching.
Since 2019, Vanessa has lived in the Netherlands with her family, and today, as a proud Dutch citizen, she is committed to rooting her business deeply in this beautiful country she now calls home.