Pocket Yoga Teacher Reviews

These folks designed a fine pair of Yoga applications. The drawings are simple and provide a clear picture of the asana. The voice is pleasant. The spoken instructions are well-timed, concise, clear, and instructive. I am sure I could say the same about any number of other Yoga applications.

So what brings me to this rave review of 'Pocket Yoga Teacher?' I wanted to construct a series of poses in 'Pocket Yoga Teacher,' and it balked at doing them in the order I proposed. Suspecting a bug in the program, I contacted support and got a prompt reply from support. Let me repeat that. I GOT A PROMPT REPLY FROM SUPPORT. The folks supporting the application pointed out problems with the series of asanas I had in mind and offered improvements. The problem was an operator failure (me) and they corrected it.

These folks know a lot about Yoga and programmed it into their applications. It may not be blatantly obvious, but it was there lurking beneath the surface to help me.

I am not a yoga teacher, I have taken yoga regularly before but am not very knowledgable about it.
With PocketYogaTeacher, I have been able to create practices I can do at home during quarantine with out the expertise of a yoga teacher. Of course, I make sure to stay in my lane and not choose any moves that are beyond my scope. PocketYogaTeacher suggestions really help with that.
I enjoy the included music, though I wish there were a few more choices. However, it’s hardly a deal breaker. I’m very happy with PocketYogaTeacher.
Suggestion: when expanding poses into a larger window, it’d be nice to have a bit of information on the pose, such as its benefits etc. I realise this is called yoga teacher and not student, but just hoping you include it in the future.

PocketYogaTeacher might do the trick if I was patient enough to build my practices from scratch. I think it needs to be simpler for people who like the original pocket yoga practices but just want to tweak them. For instance there are poses I love that are only available in medium or advanced levels, and others that are way beyond what I can do. I was hoping to use this teacher app to add some poses to the 30 minute practices I use every day.

Please just add templates for us! I want to be able to take the 30 minute beginner poses and add to them from ocean, desert and mountain, without having to build them entirely from scratch. You can still have it able to build them from scratch but templates would be nice. Or options for entire sets of moves like sun salutations. I don’t want to have to add all the elements of sun salutations I just want to tap a button and have it add them in for me. Maybe ask how many times I want it to repeat. This would make this my favorite app ever. Without this I’ll probably never use it... too tedious.

Pocket Yoga Builder has a good library of poses and allows adding your own. I really appreciate the new ability to change the pose direction. The program allows creating loops for repetitive sequences such as Sun Salutations and allows setting time to hold poses specified as number of breathes or seconds.
I really appreciate the latest release which adds prompts to shift sides, prep poses such as prepare for wheel, and adding the spoken pose names for poses that previously missing.
One distracting problem is not all poses have spoken names, such as Easy Pose , and a bell tone rings. I prefer to listen to instructions, wihout looking at my display during my practice, but th bell requires ckecking the screen to see the pose.

This is a decent app, and is helped by the fact that it is not subscription based.

I can see where they were going with this; when one uses PocketYogaTeacher with a smart TV to ‘mirror’ one’s screen, the screen doing the mirroring will only show the ‘preview,’ being the lady in the selected environment. You can not show a scrollable version of one’s sequences on a monitor, which would be most useful for helping teach in a home/online setup, for example. It would be nice to be able to just have plain mirroring, too, for group collaboration.

PocketYogaTeacher would be much improved by giving options of what can be shown on a mirrored screen and a choice of background color, to help protect eyes.

I love PocketYogaTeacher. Easy to use. Hardest part is figuring out your own yoga sequences but you get the hang of it pretty quickly. I only wish you could send your practice in a form that can be used on other devices like I prefer to create the practice on my computer then stand it ready made to be used on my phone.

As much as I enjoy Pocket Yoga Teacher I have some frustrations. Most of all my trouble getting PocketYogaTeacher to connect to the associated music I dutifully paid for and downloaded. Tried both iTunes and an Apple Music subscription specifically to get this to work. Worked for some tracks initially on one device and now not at all. If PY Teacher support would respond to my online query that would help my happiness level.

Once the above is solved I’d only like to add a feature to log the training like the regular Pocket Yoga app has. Preferably one that logs my practices across both the apps. That seems logical to me and after 1.5 years using Pocket Yoga I’ve found that log is good motivation. Now I write down my PY Teacher practices in a separate log. 🙁

Thanks for an otherwise great app.
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Best practice builder app I have ever experienced. Not only can you control all aspects of each practice session you design, you can also print them out to give to your classes, and play a them on your iPad as you instruct. No more cheat sheets to bother with.

Outstanding product for all teachers and experienced users alike. Great app for anyone who would like to make up new practices as they venture forth.

Definitely a 5 STAR rating is deserved.

I would have given it five stars but I wish it had more poses. It makes sequencing so much easier and i love all the Easter eggs like adding your own music, changing the background during your practice, etc. I have already recommended it to my fellow teacher friends!!

Perfect for my Yoga Practice program for my exam!! Will be great for future classes as well. Simple to use, added the available blank pose for the few poses not in the list. Worth every penny!!

I’m a yoga instructor and PocketYogaTeacher makes building flows so effortless . I only wish that the yoga teacher app was also available on Apple Watch so that during my class I could be able to check the time of each asana on my wrist as effortlessly as I can as the Pocket Yoga app . Thank you!

As a yoga instructor, I found PocketYogaTeacher to be inadequate for two reasons:

1.) The library of poses is really quite limited - app developers should not only offer primary poses, but their many variations, and they ought to be searchable by name (in both English and Sanskrit), which leads me to the next major issue...

2.) PocketYogaTeacher is in desperate need of a "Search" field. In my experience, searching poses within PocketYogaTeacher must be done manually - either by scrolling through alphabetical (English) pose names, or looking through the visual dictionary of pose tiles. While each pose is accompanied by it's Sanskrit name, the fact that there's no "Search" field means you have to scroll on, and on...to add a single pose.

Was expecting a MUCH more comprehensive experience. Would not have purchased if I had this information.

I’ve been using PocketYogaTeacher for years, and it just keeps getting better. Highly recommended!

As a yoga teacher, I love pocket yoga. I can create my own yoga classes at any level and for any timeframe. This is a must have app for everyone, it’s practical and very easy to use.

Pretty easy to create a routine. Good library of poses. Only suggestion would be that it is hard to see which leg is forward or back on the cartoon character. A little better shading would take care of that.

Hello,

PocketYogaTeacher is ok, but there are simple poses that are missing such as body rotations (Sufi grind) and standing side bends. Cat/cow should be one option, not separate. Sanskrit names are very important to include. I also can’t figure out how to name the poses at all? Please consider what I mentioned above, I’d really appreciate it!

Purchased regular Yoga app, didn't know it doesn't have custom pose workout. Teacher version has custom workout build feature but lacks apple watch app. Please add it.

And it keeps getting better. Thank you for all the new poses recently added and the new Community features!

I agree with another user that adding templates would be a great asset to PocketYogaTeacher. It’s extremely time consuming for some of us to create a nice sequence if we’ve never done it before. I adore the Pocket Yoga app and I would love this one more if it was a bit more novice friendly

I downloaded PocketYogaTeacher hoping it would help me as a beginning YT to formulate meaningful sequencing. Not only are the poses not labeled, but they are extremely difficult to see. The timing is strange and the suggested poses don’t necessarily make sense (why would you go straight from mountain to an arm balance??). I am going to be requesting a refund as I have absolutely no time to waste on figuring this out.

This is the only app worthy of spending $10. Considering it’s much cheaper than all of the other subscription yoga apps, it’s a winner for me. Great for all spans of knowledge of yoga practice; you can access a community of teachers that create workouts you can download. Also, when crating workouts, they are very customizable with breath counts, timers, adding music, repeats and holds for poses. They have a TON of moves available with very soothing and helpful voice guiding (optional). Using PocketYogaTeacher on the iPad is much better than the phone because it’ll give you pose names and descriptions for each. My favorite feature when creating workouts is the Suggestions tab that gives you options for next poses based on the previous pose. This can be very helpful to someone with little knowledge of yoga flow especially vinyasa. I’ve already recommended this to all of my yogi friends! My only complaint is that it doesn’t have a watch app yet🤞🏼

PocketYogaTeacher does what it purports, and does it well enough. However building workouts from scratch is daunting. Templates would make a big difference to the overall usability of PocketYogaTeacher .