PRIVATE PILATES STUDIO · CATERHAM
Feel more at home in your body.
Personalised reformer and equipment Pilates.
Explore how support & useful challenge can change your experience of movement.
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Build strength & confidence, understand your body & move with more ease.
Everyone starts one-to-one
Full apparatus studio
Groups capped at four
Experienced in hypermobility & persistent symptoms
01 / FEEL UNDERSTOOD
When movement feels like guesswork.
You’re thinking about how to move, rather than feeling it.
Explore sensation and support, without having to get every movement “right”.
You swing between pushing through and stopping.
Learn to recognise the difference between useful challenge and pushing through—so you have more options than all-or-nothing.
You’ve seen other practitioners and followed the advice—and you’re still looking for an approach that makes sense for your body.
Here, we take time to notice how you respond, explore what changes and build your strength, confidence and capacity from what we learn.
02 / YOUR TEACHER
Hi, I’m Ali.
What changes when you start to notice?
I’m a comprehensively trained Pilates teacher and hypermobility practitioner—and I live in a hypermobile body myself. I often work with people who are very good at pushing through, but less certain how to recognise the quieter signals their body is giving them.
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Sometimes more effort creates more gripping, bracing and disconnection. Doing a little less can make room for more control, connection and usable strength. At other times, your body needs more challenge—not less. The cool part is learning to tell the difference.
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That’s where my interests in hypermobility, persistent symptoms and nervous-system regulation meet my Pilates teaching. For me, movement is not only exercise—it’s a way of understanding ourselves better.​
Polestar Pilates Studio Instructor
Integral Movement Method (IMM) for Hypermobility Practitioner
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03 / THE APPROACH
Notice.
Understand.
Build.
Equipment Pilates uses springs to make movement clearer, more assisted or more challenging. Rather than chasing a perfect shape, we use the apparatus to explore what your body notices and how it responds.
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This is my framework in practice: notice what is happening, understand what helps, then build confidence, capacity and choice from there.
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Notice
Feel what's happening in your body, where effort is, where support changes, where tension arrives before you've consciously registered it.
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Understand
Explore how load, pace and position affect the way your body responds. Learn what genuinely helps, rather than what you've been told should help.
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Build
Develop confidence, capacity and real choice in how you move, not just in the studio, but in real life.
04 / YOUR FIRST SESSIONS
Time to explore.
A place to begin.
RECOMMENDED STARTING OPTION
Three 1:1 sessions
One session can tell us a lot. Three give us time to notice patterns, try different options, see how your body responds between sessions, and build on what works.
£230
55m per session
Use within 2 months
05 / CLIENT EXPERIENCE
Understanding.
Confidence.
More possibility.
Pain has reduced almost to zero, and I’m getting stronger doing something I love.
Lucy, Oxted
06 / ROOM TO GROW
Start one-to-one.
See what suits you next.
From there, you can continue privately, move into a duet or join a carefully matched group of up to four—when it makes sense for you.
1 - FOCUSED
1:1 Pilates
Continue with focused one-to-one attention. Move at your pace, deepen your awareness and build on what you’re learning about your body.
2 - SHARED
Duet sessions
Move alongside one other person, with individual guidance for each of you. Available once we’ve worked together one-to-one and know a duet is a good fit.
3 - SMALL GROUP
Semi-private
A maximum of four people—intentional, unhurried and still genuinely personal. Once we’ve worked together one-to-one, I’ll help you find a group where the pace and dynamic are a good fit for everyone.
07 / THE STUDIO
A private reformer and equipment Pilates studio in Caterham.
Space to work one-to-one, experiment, ask questions and move without the pressure of keeping up with a large class.
FIND ME
Harestone Valley Road, Caterham, CR3 6HQ
YOUR ARRIVAL
Parking onsite and on street. Access to studio via side gate - full address & details provided upon booking.
