Vanta Athletic Club

Yoga & Mobility Lead

Priya Raut

Trained first as a physiotherapist, then as a yoga teacher, and built the mobility programme that keeps half this club training through their forties.

Background

How they coach

Priya spent six years in outpatient rehabilitation before she taught a single class, and it shows in how she coaches. She is far more interested in why your hip will not rotate than in whether the shape looks correct from the front of the room.

She runs the mobility screening that every new member goes through, works directly with members returning from injury, and is the person coaches send someone to when a squat will not fix itself with cueing alone. Her Sunday restorative class has a waitlist most weeks.

She is also the reason the club has a rule about not loading a position you cannot yet own unloaded.

Flexibility is not the goal. Control at the end of the range is the goal, and that has to be earned.

Specialisms

Mobility assessment97%
Return from injury94%
Yoga instruction93%
Breath & recovery work88%

Qualifications

Credentials

  • Bachelor of Physiotherapy, Mumbai
  • 500-hour registered yoga teacher
  • FRC mobility specialist
  • Certified in movement screening & assessment
  • Nine years in clinical rehabilitation
Priya Raut coaching on the club floor

On the timetable

Classes they lead

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