Yoga, a form of exercise that integrates a system of poses and breathing techniques for physical and mental well-being, is becoming increasingly popular these days. The best part about it is that it is appropriate for all age-groups. As Mumbai-based yoga instructor Nidhi Mohan Kamal puts it, “Yoga is a way of life. The pranic deep breathing I have known to increase lung capacity and thereof the health of the heart. In performing the asanas — breathing, focus and physical effort teaches us to let go and trust ourselves. The whole process is about meditating and calming oneself.”
If you haven’t done yoga yet, it’s definitely worth a try. Following given is a list of iOS apps for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch that will make it easy for you to learn the practice, challenge you on each stage and find the right balance of yoga in your life.
YogaGlo – Yoga and Meditation classes
Practice in the comfort of your home and when you travel. Our iPhone and iPad app is free to download and with your YogaGlo membership you can access over 3,800 classes in a variety of styles, levels and durations so you can find a class that meets your needs at every stage of your life. You can also track your YogaGlo activity on Apple Watch and monitor your heart rate during each practice so you can contribute to your Activity Rings and meet your daily goals.
START A PROGRAM TO MEET YOUR WELLNESS GOALS
Commit to a specific goal to stay focused during your wellness journey. Our guided programs are designed to help you get stronger, calmer and more flexible with an easy to follow schedule and expert guidance from our teachers. You pick your schedule and your level and we'll guide you the rest of the way.
FIND & FAVORITE YOGA CLASSES
Find and favorite yoga classes you can't wait to take when you roll out your mat.
FOLLOW YOUR FAVORITE YOGA TEACHERS
Follow your favorite yoga teachers to get updates on their latest classes and new programs.
CURATED YOGA AND MEDITATION COLLECTIONS
Interested in yoga for beginners? Yoga for exercise or cross-training? Meditation for stress reduction or more restful sleep? Our curated collections are designed to help you find yoga classes for your specific interests.
EVERYONE’S YOGA
App offers curation tools that allow you to browse, search and filter the entire library of yoga and meditation classes by time, level, focus or teacher. Choose how, when and where to practice with yoga and meditation classes that meet you at your skill and interest level for a personalized experience.
YOGA ON THE GO
No connection? No problem. Download yoga classes to be viewed offline with no internet connection necessary so you can practice yoga anytime, anywhere.
TRACK YOUR ACTIVITY WITH HEALTH APP AND APPLE WATCH
Start and stop YogaGlo classes with your Apple Watch, track exercise duration, and monitor heart rate during each practice so you can contribute to you Activity Rings and meet your daily goals.
The Breathe app guides you through a series of deep breaths, and it will remind you to take time to breathe every day. Choose how long you want to breathe, then let the animation and gentle taps help you focus.
Start a session:
- Press the Digital Crown to go to the Home screen, then open the Breathe app.
- Turn the Digital Crown to set the session's length.
- Tap Start when you're ready. Remember to stay still while you breathe.
- Inhale as the animation grows, then exhale as it shrinks. Or inhale when your watch taps your wrist, then exhale when it stops.
- Breathe until the session ends and your watch taps you twice and chimes. When you're done, you can see your heart rate.
When you use the Breathe app, your watch mutes some notifications, so you can focus. If you answer a call or move too much during a session, the session ends automatically, and you won’t get credit.
When you open the Breathe app to start a new session, you can turn the Digital Crown to set the session's duration.
When you find a duration that you like, you can make it the default from your iPhone:
- Open the Apple Watch app on your iPhone and tap the My Watch tab.
- Tap Breathe, then tap Use Previous Duration.
You can also change the length of each breath:
- Open the Apple Watch app on your iPhone and tap the My Watch tab.
- Tap Breathe, then tap Breath Rate.
- Tap to change the number of breaths per minute.
- Check how often you take time to use the Breathe app
- You can track your sessions with the Health app:
- Open the Health app on your iPhone.
- Tap Mindfulness, then tap the graph to see more.
At the end of each session, you can also see how many times you've used the Breathe app that day. Breathe sessions don't show up in the Activity app on your Apple Watch or iPhone.
Asana Rebel - Yoga Inspired Fitness
Asana Rebel is the only Yoga Inspired Fitness app in the world, that is allowing the modern woman to get sexier and healthier than ever before - in the easiest, and most enjoyable way possible. Our app is driven by three things:
YOGA INSPIRED FITNESS
- Mixing together traditional yoga with interval training to:
- Give you a strong, toned body
- Increase your energy on a daily basis
- Cut down on any unwanted body fat
- Clear your mind and leave you more relaxed than ever before
YOUR COACH
- Our digital personal trainer who will:
- Help to meet your personal fitness goals
- Motivate as much as you need
- Encourage with daily new workouts
- Personalize fitness journey
INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY
- Our unique and powerful developments will:
- Make it more fun and easier to workout than ever before
- Update constantly to get you addicted to working out
- Offer you an interactive platform to deliver your fitness programs
HOW IT WORKS
By using Asana Rebel you will:
- Save time spent travelling to gyms, and following the status quo of fitness
- Have the luxury of working out, whenever you want, WHEREVER you want!
- Be motivated to do #yogaeverydamnday
- Have more money to treat yourself with, instead of spending it on traditional yoga classes or fitness centres
- Be at peace in your mind & strong in your body
Get Apple Health compatibility: report your calories burned, weight and yoga workouts (optional)
iMessage support, so you can share your completed workouts with family and friends
Zova is the simple way to track and improve your fitness. Whether you like classes or gym, bodyweight or swim, Zova combines all your workouts into a simple score so it’s easy to know how active you are, or need to be.
- Zova Score – Your Zova Score combines workouts you log, track or stream into a simple score so you know how active you are – or need to be.
- Stream Workouts – Make every second count with ten-minute workouts for any body area.
- Run & Walk Tracking – Get key stats like distance, pace, speed and calories burned, as well as an interactive map of every run or walk.
- Workout Logging – Save the sweat for your workout. Zova lets you keep track of all your workouts with effortless logging.
- Flexibility – Stretch your mind and body with our flexibility workouts that combine classic yoga poses with deep, effective stretches.
- #fitface – Take, decorate then share fun workout selfies to your Instagram or Snapchat story.
- Smart Trainer – Whether you need encouragement, guidance, or a pick-me-up workout, Zara’s always around.
- Apple Watch – Monitor your heart rate and exercise stats - right from your wrist.
- Apple Music – Work out harder, better, faster with your favorite music, thanks to our seamless Apple Music integration.
- Apple TV – Sign into Zova on your Apple TV to bring your workout to the big screen.
- Siri – Manage your workouts with Siri from your iPhone or Apple Watch.
Calm is the #1 app for mindfulness and meditation to bring more clarity, joy and peace to your daily life. Join the millions experiencing less anxiety and better sleep with our guided meditations, breathing programs and Sleep Stories. Calm is the perfect meditation app for beginners, but also includes hundreds of programs for intermediate and advanced users.
Guided meditation sessions are available in lengths of 3, 5, 10, 15, 20 or 25 minutes so you can choose the perfect length to fit with your schedule. Topics include:
- Calming Anxiety
- Managing Stress
- Deep Sleep
- Focus and Concentration
- Happiness
- Gratitude
- Self-Esteem
- Body Scan
- Loving-Kindness
- Forgiveness
- Non-judgement
- Commuting to work or school
- Walking meditation
- Calm Kids
- Daily Calm: a new 10-minute program added daily to help ease you into the day or unwind with before bed
- 20+ Sleep Stories: adult bedtime stories guaranteed to lull you to sleep
- 7 day and 21 programs for both beginner and advanced users
- Breathing exercises to relax
- Unguided timed meditation
- Open-ended meditation
- 25+ soothing nature sounds and scenes to use during meditation, yoga or to help you sleep
Track your progress with:
- Daily streaks
- Time spent meditating
The Mindfulness App: Meditation for Everyone
Start your journey to a more relaxed and healthier state of mind with The Mindfulness App. Whether you are just starting out or experienced in meditation, The Mindfulness App will help you to become more present in your daily life.
- Get Started: a five day guided practice and introduction to mindfulness.
- Timed Sessions: guided and silent meditations from 3 to 30 minutes.
- Personalized Meditation: customize your meditation with guided introduction and bells.
- Meditation Reminders and Mindful Notices: help you to be mindful throughout the day.
- Statistics: keep track of your meditation journey.
- Premium section with an additional 200+ guided meditations and courses by some of the world’s most influential teachers (available subscription or one-time purchase)
- Health App integration allows you to sync your meditation practice time.
Daily Water Free - Water Reminder and Counter
While it is not to say that the more water your drink, the healthier you will be, too much water will also hurt your health, especially for those who suffer from heart disease, hypertension, nephrosis, edema and so on, drinking a healthy amount of water and drink water in right time is vital to your health.
To majority of us, we only know that we drink ‘a lot of’ water or ‘a little’ water, we don’t know exactly how much water we drink, is that quantity suitable for us?
Daily water is the app which helps us to track the quantity of water we drink and remind us to drink water in right time.
Features:
⃠Set goal amount of daily drinking water and track it.
⃠Log amount of daily drinking water.
⃠Touch to log each drinking.
⃠Check glasses of water drunk each day.
⃠Customize volume of each glass of water.
⃠Customize how much of water you drink each time, 1/4 glass, 1/2 glass or A glass.
⃠Plan drinking schedule and it will remind you when it’s time.
⃠10 free alert sounds to choose.
⃠Histogram to show the amount of your one day’s, recent one week’s and one month’s amount of drinking water.
⃠Show amount of glasses of water you have drunk one day on the icon.
According to Mumbai based Yoga expert, Natasha Noel, "Mindfulness means living in the present moment. The mind is constantly involved in activity – swinging from the past to the future – but never staying in the present. By simply being aware of this tendency of the mind, we can actually save ourselves from getting stressed or worked up and relax the mind. Living in a hectic city, where the mind is constantly occupied, we sometimes just forget to consciously breathe.
You know, you don’t need any special equipment to focus on the breath, just take these very short breaks over the course of one’s day to focus on the breath, as a way of bringing focus, mindfulness and awareness into your life. The Breathe app on the Apple Watch, gently reminds you to breathe. And for a minute you can just pause everything around you look at the the flower blooming on an inhalation and shrinks down on the exhalation.
What I really like about the Breathe app and about any kind of technique that is accessible to people, is that they do give people who might not otherwise give meditation a try, a sense of how powerful those techniques can be. You are consciously making your mind work on something than it worrying on your past or resenting your future. (Of course you can do it more than a minute as well! Depends on what you want to take out if this). However fast paced your life may be you can take one minute to be mindful of your own health.”
So what are you waiting for? Get your yoga app the coming World Yoga Day.
