5 Yoga Apps for Windows Phone Users to keep you fit and healthy

Lakshmi Rajan — Sat, 20 Jun 2015 08:13:32 +0000

With 21st June being celebrated as the International Yoga day, the practitioners and enthusiasts across the world and especially in India are preparing for the inaugural year to celebrate, India’s biggest cultural export to world, a 5,000-year-old physical, mental and spiritual practice that can keep you fit and healthy. For those who want to practice and take note of various Yoga asanas or postures, there are various apps available on Smartphones to aid you. Though, it is is always best and adviceable to practice Yoga under a qualified teacher, the apps can come as a reference. Here we list 5 yoga apps for Windows Phone.

Yoga [Free]

This App has a 10 minute, 30 minute and a 60 minute Yoga workout and also guides you to Pranayam (breathing technique) WP Store

Yogasanas [Free]

This app has been designed with WP in mind, allowing user to pin to the home screen their favourite yoga postures. Apart from the various Yogasanas, one can also browse the mix radio and select the relaxing music to play along when you do Yoga. Also for stressed out conditions, a speech recognition game is available to add a bit of fun.

Baba Ramdev Yoga [Free]

The name synonymous with contemporary Yoga. This app lists videos of Baba Ramdev’s yoga teachings. It includes Pranayam, various aasanas and special yoga postures to reduce fat and yogic exercises beneficial for various ailments. WP Store

Facial Yoga [Free]

This one sounds interesting. The app offers simple facial yogic exercises to work out your facial muscles to give you a younger look. It includes more tha 85 exercises to tone up muscles of face and neck.

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Pregnancy care (Prenatal yoga) [Free]

Certain yoga exercises can enhance your well-being during pregnancy period for both mother and the child. The app lists comprehensive app for prenatal yoga, fitness, relaxation and care. Prenatal Yoga is a great way to prepare you for birthing process as well as enjoy pregnancy term. It is advisable, to refer to your doctor before engaging in any sort of exercises during pregnancy period. WP Store Windows Phone store also includes more yoga apps that you can browse through. So stay smart, work out smart, stay healthy, let’s pledge to gift ourselves a healthy lifestyle this International Yoga Day. ]]>

Lenovo India launches Yoga 500 – 14" display, i7 processor, 1TB storage

Lakshmi Rajan — Tue, 09 Jun 2015 11:13:55 +0000

Along side Yoga 300, the most affordable in the Yoga series, Lenovo India also launched the Yoga 500 for those seeking good performance, mobility and convenience of the convertibles. The Windows 8.1 laptop convertible offers four different modes: laptop, tablet, tent, or stand and is priced at Rs. 71,490. It will be available from exclusive Lenovo stores across India and online at the company’s own thedotstore.com The Yoga 500 sports a 14-inch full-HD (1080×1920 pixels) IPS multi-touch display. It is powered by fifth generation 64-bit Intel Core i7-5500U processor (2 cores, 4 threads, 2.4GHz base clock, up to 3GHz burst, 4MB cache) combined with 8GB of DDR3L RAM and Intel integrated graphics along with the Nvidia GeForce 920M (N16V-GM) GPU. There is a 720p HD camera with array mic. . The connectivity features of the laptop include Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, USB 2.0, USB 3.0, HDMI, and a headphone and mic combo jack For audio experience there are two 1.5W speakers with Dolby audio technology to enhance it. There are no optical disc drive. It weighs 1.8 kilograms and is 9.25mm in thickness. There is a 3 cell 45W battery which the company claims will run the machine up to 6 hours. It will be available in Black and White colour variants.]]>

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