Great, easy to understand yoga and meditation
Honestly, I always hated yoga, but recently I read a book called “The Body Keeps the Score” (great book if you want to understand your own/someone else’s trauma and how yo begin recovering from it) and decided to give yoga another chance.
I downloaded the Asana Rebel app and have been blown away by how well the introduction classes (in both yoga & meditation) explain things, and keep the learning process feeling positive and also interesting. Thanks Asana team for making me excited to progress through my yoga journey!
I downloaded the Asana Rebel app and have been blown away by how well the introduction classes (in both yoga & meditation) explain things, and keep the learning process feeling positive and also interesting. Thanks Asana team for making me excited to progress through my yoga journey!
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Response from developer
Great to hear you are enjoying the app! Thank you so much for your support.😀👌
Sped up, weird yoga
This app is great if you like rushing through poses as fast as possible, and that’s about it. Yes you’ll get stronger. But this isn’t yoga. Yes all the positions are there, but this is NOT yoga. I’ve been several different kinds of doing yoga across different studios with different instructors for over 10 years and this app is NOT any of that. This app is purely and solely for a sped up version of “yoga” for strength building and is not meditative or relaxing at all, which even intense yoga workouts are supposed to have an element of. Even the “loosen hips” yoga class doesn’t settle into any stretches or movements for longer than 5 seconds (tops), and settling in in es exactly what’s needed for yoga to be effective in the way that it’s intended. This program is exactly what it looked like to me at the outset but I tried to give it a chance: it’s a white, capitalist interpretation of something and ruins it, just white capitalist interpretations of things ruin everything. Yes you will get strong, so if that’s all you want go for it. But this is not yoga.
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Suits me perfectly
I am only a newbie. Tried yoga various times in the last 10 years but never stuck to it, found getting to a class too hard to keep within my busy life and schedule.
I tried AS a few years ago, didn’t stick to it. But two years later, decided to give it another go. I absolutely love it! The workouts works up a sweat if you push yourself. I was totally uncoordinated when I started but after a few goes, I find it gets easier and it has had a positive effect on my body, especially my flexibility.
I do Pilates reformer a couple of times a week, but im finding AS workouts has the same affect in half the time. Most importantly it’s building my confidence, im losing weight, and my lower back pain is getting better & I feel stronger and more lean. Thanks Asana Rebel 👍
I tried AS a few years ago, didn’t stick to it. But two years later, decided to give it another go. I absolutely love it! The workouts works up a sweat if you push yourself. I was totally uncoordinated when I started but after a few goes, I find it gets easier and it has had a positive effect on my body, especially my flexibility.
I do Pilates reformer a couple of times a week, but im finding AS workouts has the same affect in half the time. Most importantly it’s building my confidence, im losing weight, and my lower back pain is getting better & I feel stronger and more lean. Thanks Asana Rebel 👍
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Response from developer
Great to hear you are enjoying the app! Thank you so much for your support.😀👌
I would LOVE it except for one feature…
This app is pretty incredible. It has everything, from all levels of workouts, to different lengths of workouts, weight, water, and step tracking, recipe recommendations, health education, and a pretty solid attempt at gamification that should bring you back every day to workout. Why the low review? Because at literally the end of every workout, no matter how long/short/easy/hard it is, there is a prompt to DO ANOTHER ONE, and you can’t turn it off. And there isn’t a way to leave developer feedback on the app, which is the only reason I’m leaving a review. It feels incredibly body shaming and like you’re not doing enough, when one of the selling features of the app is “you don’t have to do very much every day”. And if you’re trying to build yourself up to just doing something, it’s incredibly discouraging, which makes me not recommend it to other people. I’m begging you - please give me a way to turn this off. It’s not helping the way you think it is. Make it optional.
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Technical issues keep this from being awesome
I primarily use this app for the workouts. I have only had it for two weeks and it can be super frustrating at times. I love the idea of challenges only it is set up that you can’t do the 2nd or 3rd workout without doing the one before. I get it. It makes sense EXCEPT when you do the 1st workout but it never registers you as completing it so you can never progress and actually do the other workouts. If the developer just let us have access to any of the workouts in the series this wouldn’t be an issue or fix the issue!! And yes, I keep this app updated hoping this gets fixed. I have workout from and the gym for over 25 years. I still go to the gym but love having the option to do something from home when my time is more constrained. I love doing yoga so this seemed perfect. The workouts I have tried are good and I like that I can stack shorter ones on to the longer ones if I want a little more time working out. PLEASE PLEASE have your developer fix the issue on recognizing you completed the workout (it happens not just on the challenge ones) or do away with not being able to access all the workouts in the challenges.
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Disappointed in some key user experience items
I recently purchased a subscription to lower my stress and to encourage myself to do yoga at home since the weather is turning colder.
The app has a lot of great content and is easy to navigate, but my main issues are in settings and program progress. When I set up my account on the app I assumed I could change my settings (beginner level, dietary needs,etc.) as far as I can see there isn’t anywhere to update this. Additionally, because I set it to beginner the beginner videos show on my feed. So, I decided to go ahead and get through them (in case I had something to learn and to get them off of my feed). Yesterday I completed 2 of the 8, but it didn’t show any of this progress on the home feed screen. I had hoped that maybe upon the next day it would reset and realize those had been completed, but it didn’t… really hoping this is something that can be fixed/updated.
The app has a lot of great content and is easy to navigate, but my main issues are in settings and program progress. When I set up my account on the app I assumed I could change my settings (beginner level, dietary needs,etc.) as far as I can see there isn’t anywhere to update this. Additionally, because I set it to beginner the beginner videos show on my feed. So, I decided to go ahead and get through them (in case I had something to learn and to get them off of my feed). Yesterday I completed 2 of the 8, but it didn’t show any of this progress on the home feed screen. I had hoped that maybe upon the next day it would reset and realize those had been completed, but it didn’t… really hoping this is something that can be fixed/updated.
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It’s good… it’s just so hard to navigate!
I downloaded Asana Rebel and immediately signed up for the premium version. I wanted to add yoga to my weekly workouts to help with muscle toning as well as helping with wellbeing, and in the main, I don’t regret it. But I feel like I constantly have to add everything to my favourites because if I don’t I might never be able to find a workout that appears on my ‘Today’ feed. I spent 15 mins yesterday looking for an upper arm workout that appeared on my Today feed and didn’t add to favourites.
I was also disappointed by the number of recipes and the lack of meat and fish options. I have adapted a few to add meat and they’ve been very well received at home! I’d love to see more options and more options for different meals too, like healthy protein-filled breakfasts for example.
I was also disappointed by the number of recipes and the lack of meat and fish options. I have adapted a few to add meat and they’ve been very well received at home! I’d love to see more options and more options for different meals too, like healthy protein-filled breakfasts for example.
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Response from developer
We really appreciate the constructive feedback! Our team is constantly looking for ways to improve the app. We'll be sure to pass it on to the right people.
Workouts are great, but some things could be tweaked...
Workouts are great! They get you sweating in a short amount of time, they incorporate different kinds of exercises with yoga and that’s really cool, but the music played during the workouts is not my thing. It’s too pop/up-beat cycling/pilates class type music. Since it’s yoga, I’m used to more zen/chill music in the background. Also, I feel like the explanations from the instructors (2/3 of the instructors whose videos I’ve completed) are a vague and I have to go back and look at my phone (kind of difficult at times). I’ve listened to the focus music and the selection is extremely limited and repetitive. The most important part of this app are the workouts, definitely a hit, spot on, love them, but most other things need a lot of work. I haven’t used the sleep tab or the meditations tab, so I can’t fairly review those. Thanks!
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Videos often don’t play properly
Starts off ok but then freezes. Have to completely restart the app for it to play. Otherwise, the app is good. Good content and easy to manage. Would like a preview of today’s lesson but other than that good.
Response from developer
We are sorry that you are having trouble with the app. Can you send an email with more details to support@asanarebel.com? For easier communication, we recommend using the help center on our asanarebel.com website. Looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Look forward to it
I love this program. I especially like the challenges and sets of workouts because I’m doing in the morning I just want to click on the next days workout and do it without much thought. Some other reviewers said there used to be more programs for long term success that were more effective, I would love that and thought that, from the ads, thats the way asana would be. I hope that is also done, that both the old and new ways are both available.
My favorite flows are the ones by Jonah. I wish there was a feature to search by teacher, that’s one other improvement I would make to the app. I LOVE the feature where at the end of a workout there’s an option to do another one, it really encourages me to do that, and because I’m feeling so good after the workout I just did, its easy to do just a little bit more. This is the first time I’ve done any workout/yoga program where I truly look forward to doing it every day, and at the end I’m like “its already done?”, also that I don’t even have to psych myself up and “just do it”. Even the hard ones are a pleasure to do.
My favorite flows are the ones by Jonah. I wish there was a feature to search by teacher, that’s one other improvement I would make to the app. I LOVE the feature where at the end of a workout there’s an option to do another one, it really encourages me to do that, and because I’m feeling so good after the workout I just did, its easy to do just a little bit more. This is the first time I’ve done any workout/yoga program where I truly look forward to doing it every day, and at the end I’m like “its already done?”, also that I don’t even have to psych myself up and “just do it”. Even the hard ones are a pleasure to do.
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