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Assembling the story
Uttarakhand's first movement academy
Who we are, what ST8 means, the founders and coaches behind the floor, and the space we built for it. Looking for prices? See memberships.
ST8 Fitness is a next-generation movement academy built to redefine how fitness is understood, taught, and experienced in India. Based in Dehradun, we proudly stand as Uttarakhand's first dedicated academy to integrate Parkour, Calisthenics, Gymnastics, Aerial Yoga, Yoga and Mat Pilates under one roof.
Our approach moves beyond conventional gyms and machine-based workouts, focusing instead on movement as a life skill. At ST8, fitness is not about isolated exercises — it is about how the body moves, adapts, and performs as a whole. Whether you are a child discovering movement, an adult rediscovering fitness, or an athlete sharpening performance, ST8 meets you where you are and helps you move forward.
02 · What does ST8 mean?
The state of movement the human body is meant to be in. Running, jumping, climbing, hanging, balancing, rolling — every discipline we teach keeps the body in constant, purposeful motion.
A symbol of limitless potential. Continuous growth, no fixed ceilings, lifelong movement and learning — unleashing your full physical and mental potential.
03 · Our philosophy
Modern lifestyles have parked us — in chairs, behind screens, inside comfort zones. At ST8 Fitness, we believe the human body is designed to run, jump, climb, hang, balance, roll, and adapt. Unpark Yourself is our call to reconnect with these natural abilities through safe, structured, and progression-based training.
Every ST8 programme is built around five things:
04 · Why ST8 is different
Every session follows a structured progression designed by our Head Coach. No rushing, no shortcuts. You earn each skill when you're ready for it — and it stays with you for life.
Crash mats, spring flooring, controlled batch sizes, and trained coaches at every level. Progression is readiness-based, never calendar-based — no member attempts a skill before they've built the foundation for it.
From 3-year-old Little Movers to 50+ adults, everyone trains in age-appropriate, level-based batches — never thrown into a class that's too advanced or too easy.
ST8 is a movement community built on discipline, respect, consistency, and growth. Members don't just train here. They belong here.
05 · The founders
Two founders with complementary strengths — one rooted in vision, systems, and brand building; the other in elite movement and coaching excellence.
Co-Founder · Director · Brand & Business Development
Shivang Khanna is a practicing advocate before the Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court of India — and the founder-mind behind ST8. His journey into movement began as a student on this very floor, and his own transformation showed him two things at once: what structured training can do for a person, and how completely unstructured India's movement-fitness market was. No progression standards. No safety frameworks. No accountability. No brand a parent could hand their child to with complete confidence.
ST8 is his answer: an unorganised market, organised. Shivang has built ST8 the way institutions are built — a codified curriculum and safety framework, a structured assessment and progression system for every single member, a proprietary technology backbone that puts each family's entire journey on an app, and a premium brand designed to outlast trends. At ST8, he leads business development and expansion strategy, brand identity and storytelling, operations and systems, and community outreach and school programmes.
Fitness brands shouldn’t just sell workouts — they should build ecosystems.
Co-Founder · Head Coach · Movement Specialist
Surya Prakash has lived Parkour, Gymnastics, and Calisthenics since 2007 — nearly two decades in movement — and has been coaching professionally since 2016, personally training more than 3,000 students across every age group. He is a core member of Team Leonine, one of India's pioneering parkour collectives that helped shape the early parkour ecosystem in the country.
Before ST8 was born, Surya founded and ran the Dehradun Parkour Academy — the only parkour academy in Uttarakhand. In 2020, he served as Senior Vice President of the Parkour Freerunning Federation of India and General Secretary of the Uttarakhand Parkour Association. He has represented Indian Parkour on global platforms, including being featured in a Netflix international series — exposure that brought world-class performance environments, safety protocols, and elite training standards back home to Dehradun.
At ST8, Surya designs all technical training frameworks, leads the Parkour, Gymnastics, Calisthenics, and advanced movement programmes, and personally oversees safety, progressions, and skill mastery. He hand-picks every coach on the floor and personally curates the training patterns they deliver, so that every batch, at every level, trains to the same uncompromising standard.
Strong fundamentals first — progress only when ready.
Fitness should build independence, not dependency. Shivang contributes vision, structure, scalability, and brand leadership. Surya contributes technical mastery, coaching depth, and athlete credibility. Together, they are building ST8 as a movement academy, a community, a long-term fitness brand, and a platform for expansion across India.
Mission: to create a new standard of fitness in India by promoting movement literacy, skill-based training, and lifelong physical confidence. Vision: to build India's most trusted movement-based fitness brand — empowering people to stay in motion and unleash their infinite potential.
06 · Our coaches
Every ST8 coach is certified and trained inside our system before they lead a class — each discipline with its own dedicated specialists, never one generalist stretched thin. Competitive batches are led by national-level gymnasts.
Head Coach · Movement SpecialistParkour Coach · Team LeonineGymnastics Coach · National-levelCalisthenics Coach · Levers & HoldsAerial & Mind-Body InstructorYoga InstructorMat Pilates InstructorKids Movement CoachRoles and credentials shown — individual names withheld per ST8's communication policy. At ST8, age never defines the training pattern: every programme is built around the member's stage, level, and readiness, whether they are 3 or 53.
07 · The floor
Spring flooring, crash mats, vault boxes, rigs, rings and aerial silks — a purpose-built movement floor in the heart of Dehradun.
08 · Life at ST8
Every Saturday · Game day
Competition isn't an annual event — it's a weekly habit.
Every Saturday is Competition Day. Members test their skills against the clock, the course, and each other — with live leaderboards on the ST8 app. Select Sundays add workshops, showcases and open competitions.
Our competitive batch travels to district, state, national and international events. And high-performers across every batch earn a shot at the big stage:
You don't just train. You perform.
ST8 Camps · Every month
09 · The ST8 app
Every ST8 membership comes with the ST8 app — your child's entire journey in your pocket. Track attendance, view progress assessments every two months, watch skills get unlocked in the ST8 Movement Library, manage renewals and payments, and never miss an update.
Written by your coach, approved by our Head Coach.
Coming Up → Working On It → Unlocked.
Receipts, renewals and your wallet — all in one place.
Class schedules, holiday notices and camp announcements.
