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Expand Your Practice with iPhone Yoga Apps

March 15, 2010

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve accumulated a fair number of yoga apps on my iPod Touch. Though I haven’t played around with them enough to decide which ones I like best, here’s the current list of yoga apps on my iPod [links go to iTunes App Store]:

I did most of the primary series yesterday using the iPhone YogaMat app to follow along with an Ashtanga podcast I downloaded on iTunes. The app thing worked much better than I expected, especially since the full version of the YogaMat app has the primary and intermediate series sequences already programmed in. However, the YogaMat app only has poses, no instruction. The little stick figure guys are great though.

That worked so well that I decided to practice today with Yoga Journal’s iPractice app. The iPractice app has voice instruction and background music to practice with. The full version of iPractice has 15 complete classes. It’s basically Yoga Journal’s “Home Practice” section on steroids. Having some good yoga instruction on my iPod made squeezing yoga practice into a busy day away from home a cinch.

FYI: This weekend only, if you’re looking for a nice yoga app, Authentic Yoga with Deepak Chopra and Tara Stiles is on sale for 99 cents. I bought it for $2.99, so that’s a real good deal. It’s one of the best looking yoga apps I’ve seen and it has tons of great video and audio instruction. Highly recommended!

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Apple iPad Feels Like Christmas in January

January 31, 2010

Over the last few years I’ve become an unabashed Apple fanboy. It didn’t take long, but the conversion is essentially complete. On my desk at home sits a 24″ iMac, a 15″ MacBook Pro (which I’m using right now), an iPod Touch, and an iPod nano. Before this last Wednesday, about the only thing missing was an iPhone. But with this week’s iPad announcement, which I’d been waiting for like Christmas day, I now have another gadget to add to my wish list. Who knows, maybe the iPad will replace my cell phone when I move to Japan this summer. The iPhone may become a mere afterthought. Not nearly as expensive as most critics supposed, even the most expensive 3G capable version only costs $829. In terms of Apple products, that’s pretty cheap, and the base model seems like a veritable bargain at $499. The main selling point for me will be the international data plan options that should be revealed this summer. So much for brahmacharya, santosha, and aparigraha. Long live the digital lifestyle!