Yogi Class Builder

Yoga instructors plan classes the way they always have: a notebook, a stack of screenshots, and a memory of what worked last month. That works for one weekly class. It falls apart the moment an instructor is teaching twelve classes a week across three studios, each with different levels, different props, and different time blocks. Sequencing is the real craft, and it was being done in the least reliable medium available. Existing apps solved the wrong half of the problem. They offered pose libraries and video content, but almost none of them respected how a teacher actually builds a class: warm up, build, peak, counter, close. Instructors were forced to translate a physical, rhythmic process into flat lists. Studios had no consistent format to review or approve plans, and substitute teachers inherited nothing usable. The result was preparation time creeping past an hour per class, uneven quality across a studio roster, and a body of intellectual property that lived only in a personal notebook.

We started with the sequence, not the pose. Interviews with working instructors surfaced a shared mental model built around arcs and transitions rather than isolated postures, so the builder was designed around a timeline that shows how a class breathes over sixty or seventy five minutes. Poses drag into position, durations adjust inline, and the arc of the class stays visible the entire time. Peak-pose logic suggests preparatory and counter postures, so a teacher can move fast without losing anatomical sense. A saved template system turns a good class into reusable structure. Instructors clone a plan, swap the peak, and adjust the level without rebuilding from scratch, which is where most of the hour used to go. Level tagging, prop notes, and cueing notes travel with each sequence, so a substitute teacher receives a plan they can actually teach rather than a list of Sanskrit names. Printable and mobile views were treated as first-class outputs, because the plan has to survive the walk from the office to the studio floor. The visual system stayed calm and legible under studio lighting: high contrast type, generous spacing, and no decorative interface noise competing with the content. Every interaction was designed for one hand on a phone between classes.