Thanks for making this! I might not be the target of this, but it’d nice to be able to select from videos longer than an hour. I see ashtanga as a filter option and primary series is going to take at least 90 minutes to get through (sometimes 2 hours depending on who you’re practicing with and how they count).
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#12Thank you! I was just hoping for something exactly like this, as a super new beginner.
I hope you get into it, and if you do, you should consider going to some classes. Doing it by yourself in front of a screen is good, but nothing beats the environment of a class with others. It's hard to describe, since you don't really interact with everyone, but there's a certain energy you get - you can stretch a bit farther and relax a bit more deeply. Plus, you may think you're doing things correctly, but a good…
That is very good advice, thank you. I have anxiety issues, so being able to prep on the terminology and basics actually does give me the incentive to go out to a real class. Which is something I've always wanted to do, but haven't been up to before. It's very difficult for me to productively receive instruction from somebody when I know absolutely nothing about the topic -- it's probably some sort of weird childhood conditioning thing.
At any rate, yes. Your advice is very good :)
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#13I have suffered from back problems for many years and the only thing that has really, genuinely helped is Yoga. I built this little app to help remove one more barrier to me practicing everyday.
Tell us more about how you got better.
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#14Rather than collate yoga videos with differing levels of accuracy relative to search (the search I just did was pretty inaccurate), why not have some gifs of poses and generate the practice by linking these poses together to mix something based on the user’s chosen level of difficulty, style, and goals? For my example, I chose “Advanced” and two of the three videos were labelled “Beginner”. The third I did a quick vi…
That's the approach that the Down Dog yoga app seems to take. They had an instructor go through all the poses and transitions, and they can then run all sorts of different classes by combining them in different ways. They do it pretty seamlessly, but i have to imagine a lot of planning went into it.
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#15Rather than collate yoga videos with differing levels of accuracy relative to search (the search I just did was pretty inaccurate), why not have some gifs of poses and generate the practice by linking these poses together to mix something based on the user’s chosen level of difficulty, style, and goals? For my example, I chose “Advanced” and two of the three videos were labelled “Beginner”. The third I did a quick vi…
Yes, but also include spoken (audible) instructions.
It's not always easy to look at a screen while in yoga positions.
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#16This is exactly what I was looking for!
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#17Rather than collate yoga videos with differing levels of accuracy relative to search (the search I just did was pretty inaccurate), why not have some gifs of poses and generate the practice by linking these poses together to mix something based on the user’s chosen level of difficulty, style, and goals? For my example, I chose “Advanced” and two of the three videos were labelled “Beginner”. The third I did a quick vi…
That's the approach that the Down Dog yoga app seems to take. They had an instructor go through all the poses and transitions, and they can then run all sorts of different classes by combining them in different ways. They do it pretty seamlessly, but i have to imagine a lot of planning went into it.
Thanks I will check it out
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#18Rather than collate yoga videos with differing levels of accuracy relative to search (the search I just did was pretty inaccurate), why not have some gifs of poses and generate the practice by linking these poses together to mix something based on the user’s chosen level of difficulty, style, and goals? For my example, I chose “Advanced” and two of the three videos were labelled “Beginner”. The third I did a quick vi…
That's the approach that the Down Dog yoga app seems to take. They had an instructor go through all the poses and transitions, and they can then run all sorts of different classes by combining them in different ways. They do it pretty seamlessly, but i have to imagine a lot of planning went into it.
Interesting I'll check this out. I had a similar idea that you would basically catalog everything and then have instructors put in classes. And as you grew more and more class you could start to find repetitions that instructors use and eventually be able to randomly generate classes with well known sequences.
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#19I had my yoga teacher ex design a simple routine for me that addressed my specific biomech issues (cycling and sitting). I videoed her walking me through it and watched it enough times to get it down.
I highly recommend getting a tailored routine. The sheer numbers of people with yoga teaching credentials make it pretty easy to find one.
My question is: Where is an AR app for yoga/PT/TaiChi/etc? I thought it would come with the Kinect, but that died on the vine. Now that Apple is all about AR and health, it should be in the pipeline - right?
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#20Youtube search for Sivananda yoga. All the breathing / poses are effectively the same and it is very simple traditional yoga that has been practiced for a very long time.
Anyone can do it and there are different variations of different amounts of time. I personally skip the headstand stuff because I worry about hurting my neck, but the rest of it is very non-stressful on your body, but quite effective.