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.
स्थिर सुखम् आसनम्
sthira sukham āsanam — Yoga Sutra 2.46
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.
Tap where it hurts.
Front and back, side by side. This is what Sthira Me builds for you — every day, based on how you actually feel.
Tap a zone on the body — front or back — to see what session Sthira Me would build for you.
Phone Neck Fix
8 min · No equipmentShoulder Reset
6 min · No equipmentChest Opener
8 min · No equipmentCore Stability
10 min · No equipmentHip Flexor Release
10 min · No equipmentQuad Release
8 min · No equipmentPosture Reset
6 min · No equipmentFeet & Ankle Reset
5 min · No equipmentFull Body Flow
20 min · No equipmentUpper Body Release
8 min · No equipmentSpine Mobiliser
8 min · No equipmentLower Back Reset
10 min · No equipmentGlute Activation
10 min · Optional bandHamstring Release
8 min · No equipmentLower Leg Reset
8 min · No equipmentThe 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.
Seven practices, one practice.
Built to meet you where you are — whether that's a desk chair, a mat, a bedroom, or a gym floor.
v1.0 ships at launch — the four movement pillars. v1.1 follows within weeks with the quiet pair. v1.2 unlocks Hypnosis for adults later in year one.
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v1.0
Mobility
Loosen tight joints, free up everyday range. Short, gentle sessions you can do between meetings.
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v1.0
Yoga
Quiet flows, slow holds. Less about the pose, more about the attention.
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v1.0
Strength
Simple, unhurried strength work that fits the equipment you actually have. No beast mode.
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v1.2 · 18+
Hypnosis
Evidence-led guided hypnosis for sleep, anxiety and focus. Adults only.
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v1.0
Breath
Calm the system. A handful of drills, taught properly, that you'll reach for all week.
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v1.1
Meditation
Guided practices for the in-between moments. Not a lifestyle — a tool.
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v1.1
Sleep
Wind-downs that actually wind you down. For the phone-in-hand generation.
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 seven old practices — mobility, yoga, strength, breath, meditation, sleep, hypnosis — 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 your first three shares stack three rewards: the printable 5-Day Desk Reset guide, the full in-browser practice library — Breathing, Mobility, Wind Down, Runner's Reset — then a 30-day founder trial when we ship on the App Store.
Join the waitlistJust the essentials — your 5-Day Desk Reset, anything you unlock by sharing, and one email when we're ready. Unsubscribe in one click.