Moving mountains
within.
Taking on something you once thought, or had been told, was beyond you.
La Ultra – The High began in Ladakh in 2010 as a 222-kilometre race across two of the highest motorable passes in the world. It was never only about extreme distance. Today that same philosophy runs three live online programmes, led by Dr. Rajat Chauhan, for people whose mountain is a first 10K, a body that feels unfamiliar, or simply beginning again.
Three starting lines.
Different people, different distances, the same way of working. Each one states plainly whether it is taking registrations right now.
Your La Ultra.
Not about running an ultramarathon. About taking on the distance, goal or journey that currently feels beyond you.
For one person that is a first 10K. For another, a half marathon. For someone else, a full marathon. It may also mean returning to running after years away, learning to run without repeatedly getting injured, or finally becoming consistent enough to enjoy the process. The distance changes. The process of becoming ready does not.
YLU also happens to stand for Why Love You? Because if you do not, who will?
A first 10K, or a happier one. Building a base that holds, at an effort you can sustain and enjoy.
Twenty-one kilometres prepared for properly. Long-run progression, strength and recovery that hold up.
The marathon, approached honestly. Suitability depends on your existing base, and we will say so plainly.
MoveMint Women.
Most women already know they need to move more. The difficulty is rarely a lack of information. It is knowing where to begin.
Understanding what is safe when there is pain. Finding a plan that bends around fatigue, poor sleep, perimenopause, menopause, work, family and an unpredictable life. And learning how to return without guilt when consistency slips. You do not need to arrive fit, flexible or confident.
First Steps.
Not ready to commit to twelve weeks? A single standalone evening: where to begin, what is safe when there is pain, and a place to ask the questions that have been holding you back. Fully adjusted against the 12-week fee if you later join.
Not a plan handed to you.
Every programme here is live, taught, and adjusted as it runs. None of them is a spreadsheet, a video library, or a promise that your body will behave. The distances differ. The method does not.
Two live sessions every week
One guided movement or strength session, adapted for different starting points. One conversational session with Dr. Rajat Chauhan on a single theme in depth, where your questions are welcome.
Built to survive real life
Work, travel, illness, family and fatigue will interrupt you. Plans are reviewed and adjusted when they do. Adapting the plan is not failing the plan. It is part of learning how to train.
Understanding, not instructions
Pain, pacing, breathing, recovery, sleep, fear of injury. The purpose is not merely to tell you what to do, but to help you understand why, so you can make your own decisions afterwards.
A cohort, not an app
You begin alongside people facing many of the same doubts, interruptions and small victories. You do not need to be the fittest or fastest in the group. You need to begin honestly and keep returning.
Dr. Rajat Chauhan
A sports and exercise medicine physician and medical osteopath with over 25 years of clinical experience, a runner of more than four decades, an author and an educator. He has worked with people ranging from complete beginners to elite athletes.
He founded La Ultra – The High in Ladakh in 2010 and organised it for eleven editions. His work brings together movement, strength, pain, breathing, recovery, health and the psychology of staying with a difficult journey. The focus is never the painful knee, but the person who has the knee.
"Your story is your own. But you do not have to live it alone."
More about La Ultra →Fair questions.
If yours is not here, write to us. We would rather talk you out of the wrong programme than into the right-sounding one.
info@laultra.inNo. Every programme begins from where you are, including from very little activity or a long break. You only need to be willing to begin honestly.
Life interrupts. Sessions can be watched later, and missed weeks are not replaced with punishment. Returning after a gap is a skill the programmes deliberately teach.
Yes. All sessions are live online, so you can join from anywhere. Times are given in IST and are chosen to suit people with work and family around them.
That is precisely what the questionnaires ask about. Pain is not something to push through silently here. It is information, and it shapes how your plan is built.
If your goal is a running distance, that is Your La Ultra. If it is strength, confidence and consistency as a woman beginning again, that is MoveMint Women. If you are unsure, First Steps is the smallest way in.
Yes. All three take payment at registration. Your La Ultra also asks for a questionnaire, which is what we use to place you on the right pathway before the cohort begins.