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Show HN: A simple, free yoga practice app for everyone

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Re: Show HN: A simple, free yoga practice app for everyone

#21
I'm very yoga curious but the woo that often creeps in is a real turn off.

For example, the first session I looked at sent me to https://youtu.be/s2NQhpFGIOg and at the one minute mark it tells me that a yoga mat (preferably made of cotton) is important because it prevents earthing of the energy that gets generated in the process.

Re: Show HN: A simple, free yoga practice app for everyone

#22

I'm very yoga curious but the woo that often creeps in is a real turn off. For example, the first session I looked at sent me to https://youtu.be/s2NQhpFGIOg and at the one minute mark it tells me that a yoga mat (preferably made of cotton) is important because it prevents earthing of the energy that gets generated in the process.

You might enjoy DDP Yoga - https://youtu.be/aB5ys1zsz-o - it's yoga from the professional wrestlers perspective.

Re: Show HN: A simple, free yoga practice app for everyone

#23

I'm very yoga curious but the woo that often creeps in is a real turn off. For example, the first session I looked at sent me to https://youtu.be/s2NQhpFGIOg and at the one minute mark it tells me that a yoga mat (preferably made of cotton) is important because it prevents earthing of the energy that gets generated in the process.

You might enjoy DDP Yoga - https://youtu.be/aB5ys1zsz-o - it's yoga from the professional wrestlers perspective.

I whole heartedly second this recommendation. This is from Diamond Dallas Page (I believe that was his wrestling name, I'm no fan of Pro Wrestling, I'm afraid) who had major compression of multiple spinal discs, almost unusable shoulders, hip issues and knees that were destroyed. He started yoga exercises without the "woo woo" and has brought a lot of the functionality back to his body.

He has gone on to rehabilitate multiple people and document it. It's really a fascinating story. Kudos!

Re: Show HN: A simple, free yoga practice app for everyone

#24
post #6

Rather 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…

This is tricky because practices aren't just random sets of poses. I don't know much about yoga sequencing - maybe you could generate a reasonable set of rules as to how to combine poses but it doesn't feel trivial to me. Also 'beginner' is hard to define - familiarity with poses is independent of the progression within them which one can achieve!

Re: Show HN: A simple, free yoga practice app for everyone

#25

I'm very yoga curious but the woo that often creeps in is a real turn off. For example, the first session I looked at sent me to https://youtu.be/s2NQhpFGIOg and at the one minute mark it tells me that a yoga mat (preferably made of cotton) is important because it prevents earthing of the energy that gets generated in the process.

You might enjoy DDP Yoga - https://youtu.be/aB5ys1zsz-o - it's yoga from the professional wrestlers perspective.

Wow this guy got me pumped. I used to do P90X last decade, but as my body’s getting older and my eating habits and motivation are not what they used to be, I need a bit of a change. This guy has that “it” factor that just makes you want to get up and move (like Tony used to inspire, too).

Thanks for that link.

Re: Show HN: A simple, free yoga practice app for everyone

#28
post #27

Some vocabulary info would help. As a beginner, words like "hatha" and "ashtanga" mean nothing, so hard to select.

As a 15+ year Yogi (who practices regularly, well at least until C19!) I've never heard of these either!

According to Wikipedia:

  * Hatha is seems to be a branch of Yoga (Hatha apparently means "force")
  * Ashtanga is another type of Yoga brought to the modern world by Sri K. Pattabhi Jois and involves synchronizing breath with a series of positions.
Interesting ... I'll have to look into them!

Re: Show HN: A simple, free yoga practice app for everyone

#29
Since you are both positioning this for true beginners AND surfacing YouTube videos which offer varying degrees of teaching skill, level of spirituality, focus on anatomy, etc. I recommend adding a prominent disclaimer about variability of classes, encouraging shopping around. I'd hate for people to try a class that wasn't a fit, and judge the whole practice of yoga. I think a great onboarding would suggest 3 very different classes.
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