A Harvard Medical School report highlights yoga’s multifaceted benefits, such as enhancing “inner awareness” by focusing on the body’s current capabilities, according to the Manchester Evening News. It also fosters breathing techniques and mental and physical resilience.

Studies they reference indicate yoga aids in managing weight and maintaining fitness, noting: “Researchers discovered that individuals who practiced yoga for at least 30 minutes weekly for a minimum of four years gained less weight in middle adulthood.”

The Yoga-Go app features various functions, including customized yoga and stretching plans tailored to users’ age, fitness level, and objectives.

The British Heart Foundation points out that multiple studies have shown yoga’s beneficial effects on cardiovascular health risk factors, helping to lower blood pressure in those with hypertension while also decreasing elevated blood sugar levels. Thus, while using the app, users can select specific goals like weight loss, improved mobility, enhanced flexibility, or stress management, and receive a tailored program potentially comprising chair yoga, wall pilates, or somatic yoga.

The fitness regimen doesn’t need to take up a considerable amount of people’s time as choices span from seven minutes all the way to 30 minutes. The application also features voice guidance, diary tracking and soothing visuals for users.

Should this programme not meet everyone’s requirements, other alternatives are available including Down Dog, which allows users to choose their duration, difficulty, aim, narrator and music before creating a personalised yoga session each time.

Another choice is Glo, an online yoga, meditation and pilates platform serving all skill levels.

Individuals who have utilised Yoga-Go have shared their opinions about the programme on Trustpilot.

One pensioner remarked: “Yoga -Go is a game changer to my exercise routine. In the past, I’ve walked as much as five miles a day and ate moderately, yet still never had a way to tone the body. I never valued yoga to be something helpful. Now at 69, I’m walking, eating carefully, and giving Yoga-Go a sincere effort. In my short trial, I regained core balance, realignment in my posture, as well as a better sense for meditation.

“I love doing workouts in the comfort of my own home, at whatever time works for me. Yoga-Go also allowed me to adjust the difficulty ‘up’ as I became more comfortable with the routines,” another user explained.

However, some people found it wasn’t right for them. One reviewer said: “Some poses were too hard, even at medium level. I love chair yoga. You need more interaction with audience, as an example, five alternate poses for the hard poses.”

Another user remarked: “Wonderful instruction based at my pace and skill. Makes it so anyone can do this. I enjoyed the demonstrator and the narrator. The gradual increase is a boost to my expectation that I will be able to perform the tasks. I always feel better after I am finished.”

The Yoga-Go app provides different programmes and workouts.

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