Stop resting the sore joint. Start moving it the right amount.
A stiff joint gets stiffer the less you use it, and the muscles holding it weaken within weeks. Tell Vinys what makes your joints worse and how they feel today, and in a few minutes you're following a gentle 20-minute video session that works the joint without pushing it. 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.
“I'd been told to stay active with my knee arthritis, but everything felt risky. Vinys started smaller than I thought possible and built up from there.”
Michael T. · Knee osteoarthritis · Vinys member
The joint you've been protecting is getting weaker, not better.
You hold the doorframe while the knee decides whether it's going to bend.
Down is worse than up, and you plan your route through the house around it.
One says push through it, the next says protect it, and neither asked how your knee is today.
Osteoarthritis is not simple wear and tear that gets worse the more you use the joint. Once a joint hurts, most people use it less, the muscles around it weaken within weeks, and the joint ends up with less support and more pain. Exercise is what breaks that loop, but the amount matters: too much on a flare day and you pay for it tomorrow, too little and the loop carries on. Vinys asks how the joint feels today. Your answers guide where we start, your responses during the session guide what comes next, and it holds back only the one thing worth holding back, deep positions held under your full body weight.
The YouTube arthritis routine you just tried
Same routine for every one of its million viewers
- Same depth of squat whatever your knee says today
- You decide what to skip, mid-pain
- Someone else's pace
- If it flares you, back to YouTube, search again
Your Vinys session
Starts from what makes your joints worse
- Asks what makes your joints worse and how they feel today, and leaves out the deep loaded positions
- Put in the right order and amount for how you feel today
- Guided every movement, on video, at home
- A gentler version of every movement, one tap away
- A flare day gets a lighter session, not a week off
The difference is not more exercise. It's the right amount for today.
Tell us what today feels like. Then press play.
Tell Vinys what sets it off
What makes your joint pain 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 an arthritis session can draw on:
From people who'd stopped hoping.
“I'd been told to stay active with my knee arthritis, but everything felt risky. Vinys started smaller than I thought possible and built up from there.”
“My hands and wrists rule out half of normal yoga. Every session I get has already thought about that, so I don't have to.”
“This is the first practice that seems to understand what my hips will and won't forgive.”
“Twenty years of a bad back taught me to fear exercise. This is the first practice that seems to understand what my back will and won't forgive.”
“After my back surgery I was terrified of moving again. Vinys filtered out what I couldn't do and slowly rebuilt my confidence.”
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 my joints worse before?
Some ache during and shortly after moving is normal with osteoarthritis and is not damage. Pain that is still raised the next day means the amount was too much, not that moving was wrong. Vinys asks how the joint feels today before choosing anything, keeps the deep loaded positions out, and gives every movement a gentler version, so you're never asked to push through pain.
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.
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 joint won't get stronger by waiting.
Tell Vinys what makes your joints worse and how they feel today. Your first guided session is built from those answers, 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.