Healthier lifestyles powered by Punjabi music
a.k.a bhangra
Group exercise to Punjabi music, built to genuine fitness standards
Pungra is a voluntary organisation that facilitates group exercise built around Punjabi music. We believe in growing fitness classes, designed and delivered the same way any other credible fitness format is: by qualified instructors, structured around participant health rather than audiences.
Why the name Pungra, and not "bhangra fitness"?
In 2012, founder Ravi Sandhu came across a video of an instructor teaching a [supposedly] "bhangra workout" using the wrong music entirely, with movement that didn't match it — an honest mistake, born of nobody ever explaining the basics properly.
Ravi imagined what he'd teach that instructor first, if he ever got the chance: not a dance move, but how to say the word, bhangra, correctly.
That became the whole reason Pungra exists as its own name — a fitness format inspired by Punjabi-style movement, designed to the standard expected in fitness centres.
What you can expect from a class:
- A structured warm-up, main session, and cool-down, led by a certified instructor
- No expectation that you become a good dancer — the class exists for your health, not a performance. We're not preparing for Punjab's Got Talent with Simondeep Cowell
- All fitness levels can join, as modifications are demonstrated
- No costume, no special footwear beyond supportive trainers, no experience needed, and beards and turbans are optional
