Long COVID movement that paces before anything else.
With long COVID the cost of doing more can land two days later, and the standard advice to build back up ignores that. Tell Vinys what sets off your crashes and how today feels, and in a few minutes you're following a gentle guided video session sized to today, breath-led and lying down if that's what today allows. First session free.
Built with physiotherapists and with Lee Albert, NMT
This is the session, not a class. One guide, one movement at a time, a gentler version always one tap away.
“On crash days I assumed movement was off the table. Vinys gives me something my body can actually do that day, even if it's just breathing on the floor.”
Rina S. · Long COVID · Vinys member
Your body sends the bill two days later.
You did the shop, the calls, the stairs, and two days later you can't get off the sofa.
Nothing is happening, and yet you're dizzy, hot and looking for somewhere to sit.
You tried. The plan added a little each week, whatever the week had been like, and the week won.
Long COVID is not one thing. For some people it's breathlessness and lost fitness that rebuild gradually. For many it's a body that punishes effort a day or two later, out of proportion to what was done, and for those people a plan that adds more each week is the thing that causes the harm. The question that decides everything is what happens after you do more, and that's the first thing Vinys asks, every day. Your answers guide where we start. Your responses during the session guide what comes next.
The YouTube routine you just tried
Same session for every one of its million viewers
- Same routine whatever this week has been like
- You decide what to skip, while already foggy
- Adds a little each week, on its schedule
- If it crashes you, back to YouTube, search again
Your Vinys session
Starts from what sets off your crashes
- Asks what sets off your crashes and how today feels before choosing a single movement
- Movements that don't fit your answers are left out before you start, including standing work on a dizzy day
- Put in the right order and amount for today, breath-led and lying down when that's all there is
- Guided every movement, on video, at home, with no class to keep up with
- A gentler version one tap away, and a bad week gets smaller sessions without you having to change anything
The difference is not more exercise. It's pacing before progress.
Tell us what today feels like. Then press play.
Tell Vinys what sets it off
What makes your energy worse, and how it feels right now. A few taps, no typing.
Vinys builds your session
Movements that don't fit your answers are left out. What's left is put in the right order and amount for today.
Follow the video at home
Around 20 minutes. No equipment. Chair or mat. A gentler version of every movement is one tap away.
Not a preview. A complete session for today.
Real movements from the Vinys library, chosen from your answers. Four of the movements a long COVID session can draw on, on a day that has room for them:
From people who'd stopped hoping.
“On crash days I assumed movement was off the table. Vinys gives me something my body can actually do that day, even if it's just breathing on the floor.”
“Everything else asked for more than I had. Vinys is the only practice that asks what I have first, and builds from that.”
“Some days standing feels impossible. On those days the practice changes instead of pretending they don't happen.”
“I've had fibromyalgia for six years. This is the first thing I've actually stuck with for more than two weeks. It knows when I'm having a bad day.”
“I arrived exhausted and over-responsible. The practice never asks me to perform.”
Built with physiotherapists and with Lee Albert, NMT, neuromuscular therapist, creator of Integrated Positional Therapy, host of the PBS series Three Steps to Pain Free Living, and author of the best-selling Live Pain Free. Where yoga meets physiotherapy: the library is clinically authored and every session is graded, so it behaves like rehab, not like a class you have to keep up with. The research behind this
The four things people ask first.
What if exercise has made it worse before?
With long COVID that usually means the plan added more than your body agreed to, and the bill arrived later. Vinys asks what sets off your crashes and how today feels before choosing anything, never increases your session because time has passed, and can keep the whole thing to breathing on the floor. You're never asked to push through.
I can't get down to the floor.
Tell us. Every movement has a chair or wall version, and your session is built only from positions you mark as fine. If today is a lying-down day, lying down is fine, and it spares you the up-and-down that can set off dizziness.
Do I need yoga experience?
No. It's guided movement, not a class to keep up with. One guide, one movement at a time, at a calm pace.
What does it cost, and what happens after?
Your first session is free. Card only if you start a trial. Afterwards you see the price and decide. Nothing is charged unless you choose to continue.
Your next session should be paced to today, not to a calendar.
Tell Vinys what sets off your crashes and how today feels. Your first guided session is built from those answers, sized to the day you're actually having, and you press play in a few minutes.
This is the session, not a class. One guide, one movement at a time, a gentler version always one tap away.