Private yoga, mindful movement and intelligent strength training designed around the way you live.
Eight members to a class. Four progressive levels. One teacher who knows your history.
Most training asks you to override the body. We ask you to read it. A session here begins with what your shoulders did all week, where your breath stops short, which hip has quietly stopped rotating — and only then decides what the hour should hold.
The result is unhurried but rarely easy. Strength work is loaded properly. Holds are long. What changes is that every repetition has a reason you can name, and the practice keeps returning something to the rest of your life.
Every format shares the same syllabus. What changes is the load, the tempo and how much of the hour belongs to you alone.
The grammar of the practice. Standing shapes, hip and shoulder mechanics, and the breath that holds them together — taught slowly enough that the alignment becomes yours rather than borrowed.
Loaded end-range work, tempo control and unilateral strength. Kettlebells and bodyweight progressions that make range usable rather than decorative, then return it to the mat.
Nasal breathing, CO₂ tolerance and long supported holds. A session for the nervous system after heavy training weeks, in low light, with nothing asked of you but attention.
One teacher, one body, one plan. Movement screening, a written progression and fortnightly reassessment — for injuries, competition seasons, or a practice that has quietly stalled.
Balance, tempo and end-range strength are the same discipline seen from three angles. Hold a shape you cannot cheat and the body stops negotiating — that is where the work actually begins.
Mats, blocks, bolsters, straps and load are all provided and maintained, so nothing arrives with you but a change of clothes. The equipment is chosen once, bought well, and replaced before it wears.
Places are released a fortnight ahead. Members hold their slot for the season; everyone else joins from the waiting list.
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Anjali Rao began in Mysore, spent six years in the ashtanga system, and then did something most teachers of her generation did not: she went and studied load. A functional range conditioning certification, four years assisting a sports physiotherapist in Pune, and a strength coaching qualification later, she came back to the mat with a different question — not whether a shape could be reached, but whether it could be owned.
She founded Elite Fitness in 2019 to teach the two things together. Her classes still open with breath and close with stillness; in between there is tempo work, unilateral loading and end-range holds that would not look out of place in a rehabilitation clinic. She caps every group at eight so she can see all of them, and she writes every private plan by hand.
“I would rather you hold one shape honestly than move through forty of them politely.”
I arrived after two years of a lower-back problem nobody could name. Anjali spent the first session watching me walk and lift, then wrote a plan I could actually keep. Eighteen months on, I train five days a week and I have stopped bracing for the next flare-up.
Start with a private assessment and receive a practice plan tailored to your body, experience and goals.
Ninety minutes, no obligation, NPR 3,500 — credited in full against your first month if you join.
