Product Description: Finding it hard to learn yoga by yourself or with a book? Or you already know some basic yoga but the more difficult poses are hard to do? Then try Let's Yoga. This game makes it so easy to learn yoga that you'll feel like you have your very own personal instructor. You can set your DS down next to you and let the vocal instructions tell you exactly what to do, or just read the subtitles. If you're confused by how to do something, you can always rotate the image on the screen 360 degrees to see all angles of the pose. The vocal instructions will even tell you when to inhale or exhale or you can look at the flower symbols on the screen. You can even combine your favorite poses to create just the right program for you. So start learning yoga today.
Supervised by Konami Sports Club, meaning you'll acquire proper knowledge and self-regulating methods while learning yoga and its poses
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - A slightly flawed gem
Personally I love this program, and I use it just about every day, but I want to point out a few frustrating oversights.
(1) The box might as well say "No Boys Allowed". There are no male avatars and many of the short routines are female-specific, like how to improve one's bustline.
(2) Ironically (from a Western sense at least), despite being a very feminine game, the instructions freely throws around indelicate terms like "anus", "constipation", and "gas." Some people could be offended.
(3) There is lots of dyslexia between what you are TOLD to do, and what the model does. For example, being told to turn your feet to the left, when the model turns to the right. In general, do what the model does.
(4) The designers have a very strange notion of what is difficult. For example "Balance Pose" is taught before "Supine Balance Pose". "Balance Pose" is a challenging one-legged pose you do while standing. "Supine Balance Pose" is a simpler version you do while lying down. Which would YOU rather learn first?
(5) The game cannot actually monitor your posture or balance, which means that it cannot correct you. I'm particularly concerned that some of the poses, when done incorrectly, can cause knee damage.
Like I said, though, I do like this product, but it's not going to be right for all people. In particular, if you are truly a yoga beginner, you would be better served by first learning the poses from a REAL instructor, then using this game to practice at home.
Rating: - Yoga where you want, when you want
I am a big fan of Let's Yoga. With my busy schedule, having the flexibility of doing yoga wherever I am and whenever I have the time is a huge motivator.
The game itself is very easy to understand. You can pick from quick Yoga lessons (anywhere from 3 minutes). You can also do yoga lessons with the "yoga master". Although you do get introduced to new yoga poses this way, the Yoga master lessons are my least favorite part of Let's Yoga. My advice is if you have some yoga basics or are familiar with several poses within this game, you should create your own workout through "My Yoga". This allows you to customize your workout depending on your flexibility and skill level.
Overall a great game. I take it with me whenever I travel.
Rating: - Great Yoga Help
I was a little critical when I researched this "Let's Yoga" game for Nintendo DS. I was thinking that it might be difficult to have this platform to handle this type of program especially for someone who has practiced yoga before, but I was pleasantly surprised. Everyone can benefit from this great tool: beginners can learn about yoga and see detailed position descriptions and advanced yogi(ni) can have the DS create random workouts in the desired length. Great tool!
Rating: - yoga ish a nice excercise<3
i kinda liked yoga before i got this game. so wen i started doing it,i luved it so much.<3nd its rly good excercise.dont let this cover trick yu if yu think dah graphics r going to be lik real life.it has very kool graphics.nd if yu worried yu might not knoe how to do it jus by dah ds saying it,yu dont need to worrie.it gives yu a figure[[a prettie girl,btw nd yu can dress dah person,kool rite?]]nd show yu how to do it,jus lik wen yu have a yoga lesson in real life.dah problem is that wen yu do yoga,yu hav to see dah ds in order to do it rite.but wen yu turn your head or move to another spot,yu might not be able to see dah ds.so yu hav to move dah ds wif yu.sumtimes its rly annoying.but overall this is a rly good game nd if yu luv yoga yu should totally get this game.believe mee.<3
Rating: - Great supplement to Wi Fit
It took the Wii Fit to finally get me re interested in Yoga. I tried a few Yoga classes when I was in college but decided to concentrate my efforts into a more hard core martial arts workout. Stupid me, I could have done both and been all the better for it. Still, after being becoming somewhat more adept at the 15 Yoga poses in Wii fit, I felt I needed more and the inexpensive Let's Yoga cart did the trick.
I love Wii Fit Yoga but Let's Yoga really adds so much more to the Yoga experience. Wii Fit is a pretty good (but small) comprehensive warm up but "Let's Yoga would be like the real class. I would imagine a typical Yoga class might cost somewhere in the range of 10 to 25 dollars for one session. Just about the cost of the Let's Yoga cart. Imagine, you could do Let's Yoga for a few weeks and become familiar with a lot of the Yoga poses. And then when you are ready for an in person classroom instructor, you will not be lost with all the poses.
The Lets Yoga instructor is also pretty good about explaining how to get into the poses. The cart even allows you to stop the session and reposition the instructor to view the pose from different angles. There is even a place in the cart that explains (and shows) all the various Yoga moves on the cart and even offers options for getting into the pose. And unlike the Wii Fit you can even design your own Yoga Workout.
An absolutely terrific exercise cart. And a must have for any traveler when you can't always rely on a gym in the hotel or nearby.
- A slightly flawed gem
- Yoga where you want, when you want
