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Active Women

About Active Women

Active Women, founded by Danielle, is dedicated in helping women integrate health and fitness into their lives. Active Women especially focuses on pre- and postnatal fitness. Other specializations include weight loss, strength training and functional fitness. 

Having a one-year-old daughter herself motivated Danielle to help other moms and moms-to-be to stay healthy and strong during this special phase of their life. She wants you to experience the strength that comes from fitness, both mentally and physically, through personalized fitness coaching. Danielle’s aim is for you to feel amazing about yourself and to make well being, balance and positive mindset a priority.

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Danielle van der Leest

Danielle van der Leest

Having two girls, 4 and 2 years old, motivated Danielle to help other moms and moms-to-be to stay healthy and strong during this special phase of their lives. She wants you to experience the strength that comes from fitness, both mentally and physically, through personalized fitness coaching. Danielle’s aim is for you to feel amazing about yourself and to make well-being, balance and a positive mindset a priority.


Danielle is an ACE-qualified personal trainer, and among her certifications are GGS Pre- and Postnatal & Menopause Coaching, FIT Singapore Women’s Fitness Specialist, ACE Pre- and Postnatal Fitness, and Julie Wiebe Piston Science. With her knowledge, experience and skills, she helps women bridge the gap between where they are right now and where they want to be.


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Ati Md Yusoff

Ati has always been active. Since young, she’s been doing track and field, played netball and loved Zumba. Although active, her weight has been up and down. After her third child, Ati tried to go back to her pre-pregnancy weight but found it difficult. Eventually, she started going to the gym but felt at a loss of where to start. 

This is when she started to learn more about weight training and high-intensity training. Soon, friends started to approach Ati requesting for her to train with them. As a result of the joy she received from training with her friends, she decided to attain her personal training certificate. 

Ati notices a lot of ladies have difficulty with low confidence and don’t dare to go to the gym alone. In this she found her passion; helping women to be more active and healthy and at the same time, building their confidence.

Emily 

Emily is an ISSA Certified Fitness Trainer and Nutrition Coach, as well as an AFPA Certified Prenatal and Postnatal Fitness Trainer.

She was an avid yoga and barre practitioner until she discovered her interest in strength training.

Having gone through a fitness transformation herself, she understands the challenges one faces in the process. She is passionate about sharing her knowledge and experience with those who wish to embark on similar journeys.

After working with several new moms clients, she decided to take up pre- and post-natal training certification to help women get back into fitness and wellness.

Sashini

After working in the corporate field for over 10 years, Sashini developed a passion for helping women in their fitness journey when she started to conduct dance fitness classes at her workplace for beneficiaries and volunteers.

Sashini is an ISSA-certified personal trainer and has qualifications in pre- and postnatal and menopause GGS. She is experienced in strength training, yoga and zumba!

“I have always been very active and energetic. I love dancing, exercising and outdoor activities. I strongly believe due to the combination of exercises I did, such as yoga, pilates, strength training, swimming and walking, I had a relatively easy pregnancy. Postpartum, I had more difficulty losing my pregnancy weight, though. It took me one year to lose 15kg. This experience helped me to connect even better with fellow mamas, help them to have realistic healthy fitness goals and support them throughout their journey.”

Anna Teh

Anna's 15-year journey as a Perinatal Yoga and fitness Coach with Mother & Child Singapore has given her vast hands-on experience helping Mothers with their health and fitness worldwide. She mentors mothers throughout their pregnancy and post-recovery, ensuring they are well cared for. A lot goes into preparing for Birth and Recovery, and Anna has 15 years of experience and knowledge to help mothers comprehensively in all their needs. Most importantly, this is the time for mothers to truly activate their feminine energy to have the opportunity to nurture themselves and their growing babies.

Anna's strong background and belief in an Integrative/Holistic Lifestyle to enhance one's Wellbeing is her driving force into exploring discoveries into a mother's well-being, health and fitness beyond what we can imagine possible. Her Perinatal guns (as she calls them) are her signature/tailored-made Pelvic Floor Rehabilitation Exercises that promote birth recovery and strengthen muscles and prolapse issues. Diastasis Recti Reintegration is another specialty, comprising comprehensive research on Alternative Medicine Therapy, Hypopressive Core techniques, Yoga Therapy, Core and Pelvic Floor Stability and more. All of these make a powerful formula for an effective Diastasis Recti recovery.

What Customers Say

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"I have been training with Danielle for 6 months now. What I admire most about Danielle is her passion and commitment towards her work and health and fitness. Her approach is always focused on what works for the individual and on fitness solutions that are holistic, sustainable and long-lasting.

If you are looking to train with someone who can modify your approach to fitness and strength training for the better, as well as help you achieve your health goals, then you don't have to seek further!"

Monica Mulhotra
Personal Training client

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"Like most women I had an important family event coming up and my first thought was I need to lose weight. I had been going to the gym on a regular basis, working out on my own but found myself stuck in a routine of doing the same workout.

As part of my journey to lose weight, Danielle has helped me reignite that enjoyment and motivation to workout. I have found our personal training sessions to be well thought out, varied and interesting. Danielle has introduced me to different types of exercises as well as how to use a variety of gym equipment which has given me more confidence when working out on my own.

I have been training with Danielle for nearly a year and she has kept me motivated and helped me achieve my initial goal of losing weight (ongoing goal) and more importantly keeping it off. Danielle has also helped me discover a new love for strength training and changed my perspective that strong women can be sexy too!"

Agnes Lila
Personal Training client