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Chronic lower back pain"I had seen three physios and a chiropractor over two years. After six sessions with Teejay I finally understood what was actually happening in my body. The assessment alone was worth every penny."
Getting here from Hemel Hempstead
One road the whole way, and free parking at the other end.
From Hemel Hempstead it is the A414 east through Leverstock Green and around St Albans, then straight down into London Colney — around eleven miles. If the A414 is slow, the M1 from junction 8 to junction 6 and across on the A405 is the alternative. Put AL2 1JG into your sat-nav and it will give you a live time for the day you are travelling. Also close by: Harpenden, Watford and London Colney.
The studio is Unit 5, Hertfordshire Business Centre on Alexander Road. Free parking directly outside with no time limit, and step-free access from the car park to the studio door.
"Being discharged means the episode is over. It does not mean the capacity is back."
Teejay Sogunro — credentialsFull credentials and background →
✓STOTT Pilates® Full Comprehensive Certified
✓STOTT Pilates® Rehabilitation Certified
✓Qualified Sports Therapist
✓Studied osteopathy — Middlesex University
✓Watford FC Rehab Pilates Sports Therapist, 2015–2018
✓England Over-60s International Squash Rep · Top 32 World Ranked 2024
✓Trigger Point Dry Needling
✓25 years professional clinical practice · Founded 2001
Why people travel from Hemel Hempstead
Physio finished. The problem did not.
Physiotherapy courses end on a schedule, not on an outcome. Plenty of people are discharged still guarding a movement, still avoiding a direction, still waiting for it to settle. Teejay works alongside your surgeon or physiotherapist rather than around them, and the assessment picks up where the discharge letter left off — what can now safely be asked of you, and in what order.
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Programme built on your assessment
Every new client starts with a £85 Movement Assessment. Your programme is specific to your body — not a generic routine applied to everyone in the room. No two clients follow the same plan, even within the same group session.
Book £85 assessment| What matters | Standard Reformer studio | Applied Pilates Hemel Hempstead |
|---|---|---|
| Apparatus | Reformer only | Full STOTT Pilates suite — 6+ apparatus ✓ |
| Group size | 10–13 clients | Maximum 7 clients ✓ |
| Programme | Fixed class — same for everyone | Built on your Movement Assessment ✓ |
| Instructor training | Reformer-only qualification | STOTT Pilates full comprehensive — 4+ years ✓ |
| Approach | Fitness and wellness | Rehabilitation-informed clinical ✓ |
| Osteolates Therapy | Not available ✕ | Integrated hands-on treatment ✓ |
| Suitable for chronic pain | Not designed for it ✕ | Specifically designed for back pain, sciatica ✓ |
| Parking | Varies ✕ | Free parking on site ✓ |
Client results
What Hemel Hempstead clients say about finishing the job.
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Post-surgery rehabilitation"Nobody else explained my movement patterns to me like that. The combination of Osteolates Therapy and the small group sessions completely transformed how I exercise."
"Diagnosed with three failed discs and worn facet joints I was told to cope or undergo spine fusion. Teejay got me on the road to recovery and I have been going almost ten years now. I'm far more active than believed possible and when I push my luck Teejay knows how to settle it down again."
Reformer Pilates Hemel Hempstead · HP1 – HP3
Eleven miles to pick up where the treatment stopped.
Hemel Hempstead is not short of Reformer studios, and a class will make you stronger. What a class cannot do is find the movement you are still quietly avoiding and rebuild it in an order your body will accept. That takes an hour of assessment first, and a programme that progresses as the guarding lets go. The drive buys the continuation, not the apparatus.
Who travels in from Hemel Hempstead
People discharged from a course of physio who were given a sheet and no idea how to progress it. People whose back pain or sciatica eased but never fully settled. People rebuilding after knee replacement or hip replacement who are walking again but not yet trusting it. Plenty arrive with shoulder and neck pain or hip and knee pain that was treated once and has been managed ever since rather than resolved.
Clients come from Hemel Hempstead town centre, Boxmoor, Leverstock Green, Adeyfield, Warners End, Grovehill, Bovingdon and Kings Langley. Distances from every town we serve are set out on the areas we cover, and neighbouring pages cover Watford, Harpenden and the other towns we serve.
Pilates classes for Hemel Hempstead: what a session involves
The first hour is the Movement Assessment. Where a course of treatment has already happened it starts from what that treatment achieved and what it did not — which range came back, which direction is still being avoided, and what the muscles around it stopped doing while the pain was there. The Movement Assessment is £85 (60 minutes, 1-to-1). From there the usual route is the Foundation Programme (£269, three 1-to-1 sessions) and then small-group apparatus classes, capped at seven people, or a 1-to-1 Reformer and apparatus course if closer supervision is wanted. For anyone looking for Pilates classes in Hemel Hempstead, the group sessions here are capped at seven and run by the same practitioner who assessed you.
Because this is a full STOTT Pilates apparatus studio — Reformers, Cadillac / Trapeze Table, Stability Chair, Ladder Barrel, Arc Barrel and Long Box — rather than a Reformer-only room, a movement can be rebuilt with the body supported long before it has to be done unaided, which is usually the step a discharge sheet skips. Osteolates Therapy handles the soft tissue side when that is what is holding progress up. Prices and memberships
Hemel Hempstead questions, answered
Around eleven miles: the A414 east through Leverstock Green and round St Albans, or the M1 from junction 8 to 6 and across on the A405 when the A414 is slow. Parking is free, right outside, with no time limit.
No. Guarding a movement for months does not make it permanent, it just means there is more to rebuild than there would have been. What changes is the starting point, not the destination — and the assessment is what establishes it.
The Movement Assessment is £85 (60 minutes, 1-to-1). After that: the Foundation Programme is £269 for three 1-to-1 sessions, single 1-to-1 sessions are £95, and a six-session 1-to-1 course is £479 — about £79 a session. Small-group apparatus classes are £32 pay-as-you-go or £299 for a 10-session block, about £30 a session. Memberships start at £129 a month. Full detail is on prices and memberships.
A class teaches one sequence to a room, and a room of people who have finished treatment all finished it at different points. Here the sequence starts from what your assessment finds is still missing, and it moves as that closes. That is what clinical Pilates is for.
That is most of what happens here. People arrive when the formal course has ended, the pain has eased and the confidence has not come back, or when they were discharged with a sheet and no idea how to progress it. After physio has the longer answer, and why recovery stalls after physio explains what usually goes wrong.
The studio runs Monday to Thursday 7:30am–7:30pm, Friday 7:30am–5:30pm and Saturday 7:30am–1:30pm. Group classes are booked through the timetable; assessments, 1-to-1 sessions and Osteolates Therapy are arranged through the enquiry form or on 07734 578959.
Reformer Pilates Hemel Hempstead clients are usually in the studio within a week of enquiring. Book your £85 Movement Assessment
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The Sogunro Practice · Applied Pilates & Osteolates Therapy
Unit 5, Hertfordshire Business Centre, Alexander Road
London Colney · St Albans · Hertfordshire · AL2 1JG · Free parking on site