Our story.
A quieter kind of movement app.
Sthira is Sanskrit for steady. It appears in Patanjali's old line sthira sukham asanam — the posture should be steady, and at ease. Not harder. Not longer. Steady, and at ease.
That phrase is eighteen hundred years old and it still reads like the antidote to everything fitness tech has become. Push. Crush. Close the rings. Extend the streak. Don't break the chain. It works, for a while, for some people. And then it breaks the very people who needed a practice most.
Sthira Me is the app built for the people on the other side of that curve. Forty and beyond. Desk-bound. Phone-in-hand. Quietly injured from sitting. Quietly anxious. Tired of being shouted at by apps that don't know their name.
Three things we refuse to do.
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We don't shout.
No hype voice-overs, no flaming-streak notifications, no "don't lose your progress" guilt-ware. The Ink player is designed to be quiet. So is every cue inside it.
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We don't pretend pain is weakness.
Every session filters against your caution zones and any conditions you've told us about. Sharp pain is a stop signal, and the app signposts NHS 111 and Samaritans where those stop signals matter most.
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We don't sell your data.
No third-party ad SDKs. Analytics are behaviour, never body data. UK GDPR, straightforwardly. You can export or wipe everything, any day.
What we spent the time on.
A pillar grid that doesn't treat your body like a leaderboard. A colour language that means something — Sunset for Mobility, Teal for Breath, Plum for Meditation — so every surface in the app tells you what you're about to do before you read a word.
A deterministic session builder that chooses the same exercises on the same day for the same inputs, so you learn the practice, not the app. A daily check-in that takes one tap. A review prompt that fires every three months, not every morning.
Ninety-seven exercises, each tagged by body region, risk tier, and an easier variant, because the point isn't to do the hard thing — it's to do the right thing.
What ships, and when.
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Mobility, Yoga, Strength, Breath.
The four movement pillars. Daily check-in, pillar picker, Ink player, 90-day review nudge, seven-day trial.
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Meditation and Sleep.
Short guided meditations for the in-between moments, and wind-downs that actually wind you down.
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Hypnosis, for adults.
Evidence-led guided hypnosis for sleep, anxiety, and focus. Adults only. Opt in, not by default.
Come along for the quiet bit.
The waitlist is where the earliest members land. No spam. One email when we're ready. Founder pricing, locked in.
Join the waitlist