About Teejay Sogunro

Clinical Pilates Specialist | Rehab & Performance Expert

Teejay Sogunro founded The Sogunro Practice out of personal experience—and a deep understanding of how the wrongexercise can do more harm than good. After trying numerous therapies for his own injuries, he discovered the potential of Pilates—only to suffer setbacks from exercises that weren’t appropriate for his condition.

Determined to understand why, Teejay studied the science of movement, injury and recovery. Today, he specialises in applying clinical Pilates alongside targeted rehabilitation and conditioning to help clients overcome pain, recover from injury, and return to strong, confident movement—safely and effectively.

At the core of Teejay’s approach is precision. No generic routines. No rigid formulas. Every programme is tailored to your specific condition, goals, and background—whether you’re recovering from surgery, dealing with long-term pain, or aiming to improve sports performance.

His clients include health professionals, elite athletes (including former Watford FC 1st team players), and everyday people who’ve tried everything else. With a reputation for lasting results, Teejay is known for his ability to combine clinical knowledge with genuine care.

Credentials & Professional Background

• Certified Pilates Instructor – STOTT Pilates trained
• Qualified Sports Therapist – Sports Injuries & Massage
• Certified Rehab Trainer & Master Rehab Trainer
• Studied BSc Osteopathy – Middlesex University
• YMCA Qualified Fitness Professional
• Registered Practitioner – CNHC Healthcare Provider & CThA
• First Aid Trained – Onsite defibrillator available
• Ongoing CPD – 30+ hours of study annually

Personal Highlights

• Squash Champion – Nuffield Health Club O45s (2019), O55s (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025 & 2025
• National Counties Team Squash Champions – O55s ( 2023, 2024)
• England Representative – Over 60s Squash Masters Internationals (2023)
• Regularly competes at National, European & World Master Squash Championships

Teejay and his team are committed to helping people of all ages and abilities feel confident in their bodies again—whether you're a professional athlete or someone who’s never set foot in a studio before.

Move well. Live pain-free. Train for life.

Teejay is proud to say that in the years since he extensively trained, he has literally changed people’s lives. While it is well documented that the knowledge and effectiveness of Pilates instructors can vary, there are no shortcuts in Applied Pilates. Teejay’s clinical skills in applying Pilates and other rehabilitation, sports injury and performance enhancing exercises to patients’ specific needs is truly inspiring.

About Vanessa Cooper

Vanessa is a highly skilled Physiotherapist with over 26 years postgraduate experience, the greater part of which has been in outpatient musculoskeletal therapy. She has focused extensively on general orthopaedic, sports and spinal injuries (back and neck pain treatment and rehabilitation). She is registered with the HCPC (Health and Care Professions Council) and CSP (Chartered Society of Physiotherapy).

Her main area of interest has been exercise-rehabilitation with Clinical Pilates and strength exercise regimes in the gym. The education and safety of exercise post injury and during pregnancy or in the postpartum population. As a runner she has completed the Runity course and enjoys treating runners and athletes and seeing their return to the sport.

She treats a wide range of musculoskeletal injuries with a special interest in chronic pain and rehabilitation through exercise therapy. After completing the Pregnancy and Postpartum Exercise Specialist course, a large focus of her work has been the assessment and management of pregnant and postpartum women with education and exercise therapy. Teaching the importance of correct pelvic floor functioning and pressure management, prevention of diastasis and safety of exercise. In the postpartum population, which has included ladies from all ages from young to menopausal ladies, she has worked on strengthening and safe return to exercise programmes.

Vanessa is a qualified Clinical Pilates instructor. Clinical Pilates includes training individuals in a clinical environment using all Pilates equipment. It is suitable for those wanting to improve their mobility and strength, and those with injuries. These rehabilitation sessions are conducted in a private or semi-private sessions where individuals are supervised with hands-on facilitation and individualised programs. Vanessa also works with clients in a class setting, teaching Pilates reformer classes.

Physiotherapy treatments are conducted in a private setting where after a thorough assessment, the client is treated with a focus on musculoskeletal therapy and muscle activation techniques. Vanessa has operated private practices in South Africa and Australia and worked in various hospitals in the United Kingdom and South Africa.

She has worked with athletes competing in the Paralympics doing sports massage and treatment for the South African swimming and basketball teams. She has also worked with athletes in the South African Olympic squad doing sports massage and treatment for the South African Canoeing team.  She has also worked with rugby union players doing sports massage for the Gauteng Lions provincial rugby team and in rugby league doing sports massage for the South African Rugby League team competing in the Rugby League World Cup in Australia.

About Wayne Starkey

Wayne started Pilates at young age during College when he discovered that he had strong mobility issues that were stopping his ability to walk smoothly without pain and that were also affecting his passion and interest in the movement disciplines that he loves such as dance and martial arts. After searching for solutions, he discovered the Pilates Method and managed to completely reverse his own postural issues that were causing him unnecessary pain and discomfort and that were affecting his ability to enjoy life and experience the most from it.

Since then, he has gone on to study and teach Pilates full-time professionally for almost 20 years and ran a successful Pilates studio for 6 years. He has been fortunate enough to train extensively in the different Pilates methodologies and systems such as Classical, Contemporary, Fletcher and Stott Pilates from various industry professionals.

As a very experienced and dedicated teacher in both Pilates Apparatus (machine) and Mat-work Wayne loves to share his vast knowledge and experience with people from all walks of life looking to improve the quality of their lives and feel better about themselves. Over many years of teaching, he has mainly specialised in helping people with office-based jobs that want to improve their health and well-being through intelligent movement exercise and appropriate treatment protocols.Wayne has taught office-based professionals in their own work settings and also online via Zoom conferencing and additionally makes regular home visits to people across Hertfordshire with physical disability specialising in helping clients suffering from multiple sclerosis (MS). In his Pilates practice he frequently works side-by-side with other health care professionals such as Doctors, Physicians, Osteopaths and Physiotherapists to create a more complete and comprehensive approach to client rehabilitative treatments.

As a Sports Massage and Manual Therapist Wayne expertly applies a variety of rehabilitative intervention techniques with his clients in his clinical practice to treat an assortment of musculoskeletal ailments and conditions to help alleviate pain and discomfort and to improve client mobility, functionality and sports performance. The combination of restorative treatment protocols along with personalised tailored specific conditioning exercises create significant and lasting results in the clients that come to him for help and assistance.

Wayne has also trained as a Postural Alignment Specialist (P.A.S) in the Muscle-Balance-Function Development System (MBF) and The Egoscue Method and is a qualified Functional Fitness Trainer certified in: TRX Suspension training, Stick Mobility, ViPR, and MovNat (The Natural Movement Method).

Through the use of the Pilates Method in his own life Wayne is grateful to have be able to regain his own mobility so that can practice his passion which is movement based disciplines such as: Martial Arts – Dance – Circus Arts.

Wayne is a qualified Martial Arts Coach and Competition Judge for the B.C.C.M.A (British Council for Chinese Martial Arts) and has represented Great Britain several times winning multiple Gold Medals at both a National and International level. He continues to train regularly by himself and with his teammates. He has studied at the Desmond Jones School of Mime and Physical Theatre and been a dedicated dancer for over 20 years and has taught at the world famous Pineapple Dance Studios in Covent Garden. Through his own Pilates practice he been able to perform as professional Circus Artist and Fire Performer training directly with industry professionals from Cirque Du Soleil. Wayne’s Pilates classes are fun, friendly, engaging and accessible to all. He enjoys working with abroad spectrum of members of the public to help them achieve their own person fitness goals.