The quiet strength you have been looking for.
Steady. Supple. Present.
Seven practices, one app, tuned to the body you have today — not the one you had ten years ago.
Launching on iOS. UK-first. Ages 4 to 75. No shouty coaches.
Your body keeps the score.
You’re not imagining it. The pain in your neck, the tightness in your hips, the sleep that won’t quite come. Most of us have been told to push past them. We’d like to suggest something quieter.
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1 in 3
UK desk workers report daily neck or back pain — most commonly neck, shoulders, and lower back.
HSE workplace musculoskeletal disorders, ongoing surveillance.
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12 hours
of daily seated time is now typical for British adults — enough to measurably shorten hip flexors inside three months.
Public Health England activity guidelines.
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+15 kg
of effective load lands on the neck at 30° of forward head tilt — the everyday cost of “phone neck”.
Hansraj, Surgical Technology International.
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< 1 min
of physiological-sigh breathing produces a measurable drop in state anxiety. The quickest lever you own.
Balban et al., Stanford, Cell Reports Medicine 2023.
Sthira Me starts here — with the body you actually have today.
Sthira — steady, without strain.
The old yoga phrase sthira sukham asanam asks a practice to be two things at once: steady, and at ease. Not harder. Not longer. Just honest about what the body is asking for today, and then giving it exactly that.
Most fitness apps push. Sthira Me steps back. It asks where you hurt, what you want to feel, and how much time you really have — then builds a session that fits, picks the right voice, and gets out of the way. One practice, on the mat, at the desk, in bed. For every age and every corner of your life.
How it works.
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Tell us where you are.
Age band, caution zones, any conditions. Two minutes, in plain English. You can change your mind any day.
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Tell us what you want to feel.
Calm, energy, sleep, focus — pick what matters. The pillars you'll see first are the ones that serve what you said.
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Practice.
Five to twenty minutes, shaped to your space. Voice cues in an Ink player that stays out of your way.
The home screen does the worrying for you.
Today's focus, a pillar picker matched to how you said you wanted to feel, and a quiet Begin button. That's it.
Four starter programmes.
Pick the one that matches the life you're trying to live. Each is free during the waitlist window.
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5 days · 6 min
Desk Reset — Breathing
For the 1 in 3 UK desk workers reporting daily neck or back pain.
Short breath drills to un-clench the shoulders, between meetings.
Start the reset → -
5 days · 8 min
Desk Reset — Mobility
Undo a morning of chair-time in less than ten minutes.
Hip openers, thoracic twists, neck decompression. Chair optional.
Loosen up → -
7 nights · 10 min
Wind Down
For the phone-in-hand generation that can't put the day down.
Slow breath, body scan and a dimming Ink player built for bedside.
Sleep easier → -
5 days · 12 min
Runner's Reset
What to do on the days you don't run, so the next run hurts less.
Calf, hip flexor and mid-back work — the three places runners neglect.
Cool down →
Why gentle actually works.
Four ideas from the research literature we keep coming back to.
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1 in 3
UK desk workers report musculoskeletal pain on any given day — most commonly neck, shoulders, lower back.
HSE workplace musculoskeletal disorders report, ongoing surveillance.
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12 hours
is a typical adult's daily seated time — enough to measurably shorten hip flexors inside three months.
Public Health England activity guidelines; Brigham Young University hip flexor cohort.
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+15 kg
of effective load on the neck at 30° forward head tilt — the everyday cost of "phone neck".
Hansraj, Surgical Technology International, cervical spine loading model.
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<1 min
of physiological-sigh breathing produces a measurable drop in state anxiety. The quickest lever you own.
Balban et al., Stanford Medicine, Cell Reports Medicine 2023.
Why I'm building this.
I'm forty-something, desk-bound, and spent ten years being quietly defeated by apps that wanted me to crush it at 6am. My body never wanted crushing. It wanted a little, every day, kindly done.
Sthira Me is the app I couldn't find. It takes the old practices — mobility, yoga, strength, breath, meditation, sleep — and puts them on one quiet shelf, with one quiet voice, that listens before it speaks.
It's built in the UK, for long lives and ordinary days. It will never shout at you. It will never guilt you about a streak. And it will never pretend that pain is weakness.
— Alpesh, founder
The waitlist is where the story starts.
Join early and you'll get the four starter programmes free at launch, and a say in what we build next.
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