When done with this tutorial, if you have YogiAssistant installed on your device, you can return to it using the following link: YogiAssistant.
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| Poses and Sequences |
YogiAssistant is just that, an assistant to the Yoga instructor. There is no way to replace good, personal instruction. Yoga requires the instructor to be knowledgeable of the art as well as the student. Choosing poses for a student is a one-on-one process of evaluation, observation, and even update and modification. The yoga instructor and student should be able to work through this process with as few impediments as possible. That is where YogiAssistant comes in. Once the yoga instructor has determined an approach suitable for a particular student, s/he can share that approach with the student. The form the sharing takes is in the usual form of pose sequences, but in YogiAssistant that may be sequences or practices. And once created, the sequences and practices can be reused and reshared. When you share a sequence or practice you are providing the student with more than just stick figures; the practice or sequence you provide will have associated with it all of the pose, sequence, or practice information from the library and from what the instructor deemed necessary/appropriate.
The application is divided into several types of views:
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that opens a view that describes the
application and has a button that will launch the Arbor-Studios home page in Safari. It will not return when done, so you will have to
relaunch YogiAssistant if you select this button.
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that opens a view that shows the features
that can be used to control the application. It is also used to load practices and sequences from those being transmitted by Bluetooth.
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Several items of note exist on the Preferences view. First, in the upper left hand of the title bar there is a 'Done' button. Selecting this button will return you to the Home view/screen. The remainder of the items in the view relate to preferences you can set in the application. They are:
. Poses are immutable, in that they are not editable, but when they are composed into sequences their
duration and order can be modified.
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In the upper left portion of the title bar you will find a 'Done' button. Selecting this button will return to the Pose Group view. The remainder of this view is a table of the poses in this pose group. The pose group selected will be shown in the title bar in case you forget which one you selected on the Pose Group view.
Each pose will be shown with an accompanying stick figure and name.
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There are several items of note in the Poses view. First, as with most views in the app, there is a 'Done' button in the upper left of the title bar. Then there is the pose name, in English, the pose name in Sanskrit, an image of the pose, a description of how to get into the pose, and any notes associated with the pose.
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portion of the screen presents a table of the currently available sequences. Some of these are provided with the application, while
others are created by you. Any of these can be selected to see a detail view of the sequence.On the upper right hand side of the title bar is an 'Edit' button which will enable you to delete sequences you have created. You will not be able to delete those provided with the application.
On the upper left hand side of the title bar is an 'Add' button which will enable you to create a new sequence.
The remainder of the view is a table listing the known sequences.
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The table shown is a listing of all of the poses in the pose library. Since the pose library comprises over 100 poses you might chose to search for a pose to add. You can type a name (English or Sanskrit) or you can select a pose group and type the group name. The resulting table will allow you to choose the pose(s) you want more easily.
You can select multiple poses at a time. When the table is first shown no poses are selected. That is, they have an unselected icon
on the far left. When you select a pose to include the icon on the left will change to the selected icon
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When you are done selecting poses to include then hitting the 'Select Poses' button will display the New Sequence view.
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Most important on the New Sequence view is that you must provide a sequence name. Otherwise the 'Save' and 'Share' buttons will not be enabled.
Also on this page will be the table of selected poses. Now you can edit the pose durations to suit the sequence you are creating.
If the poses aren't in the correct order, you can select the 'Edit' button on the upper right and the mode will change to a reorder mode. Now you can drag the poses into the correct order.
Once a name is provided the 'Save' and 'Share' buttons will be enabled. When you select 'Save' the information associated with the new sequence will be written into the application defaults and it will appear on the Sequences main view the next time you display it.
If you select the 'Share' button, the same information will be transmitted to iPhones or iPads close by using Bluetooth. In order for the transfer to take place Bluetooth must be turned on on both devices.
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main portion of the screen presents a table of the currently available practices. Some of these are provided with the
application, while others are created by you. Any of these can be selected to see a detail view of the practice.On the upper left is an 'Edit' button which will enable you to delete practices you have created. You will not be able to delete those provided with the application.
On the upper left is an 'Add' button which will enable you to create a new practice.
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