About TheYogaWoman
What this is
TheYogaWoman is an independent, advertising-supported site built around six free yoga tools and a small museum of yoga history. No studio, teacher-training program, or wellness brand runs it or endorses it — it’s tools and reference material, nothing more.
The tools
The Yoga Calorie Calculator estimates the energy a session burns from your weight, duration, and style — hatha, vinyasa, power, ashtanga, yin, bikram, or restorative.
The Yoga Mat Size Calculator matches mat length and thickness to your height and the kind of practice you do, and flags when a wider mat makes sense.
The Meditation Timer Planner splits a sit into a settling-in phase, a core meditation, and a close, with optional interval bells.
The Yoga Practice Scheduler turns a weekly commitment into weekly minutes, total hours, and a session count over a block of weeks.
The Yoga Pose Difficulty Calculator weighs your strength, flexibility, balance, and experience to suggest a Beginner, Intermediate, or Advanced level.
The Breathing Pattern Generator paces box, 4-7-8, equal, ujjayi, or kapalabhati pranayama, with inhale, hold, and exhale counts and how many breaths fit your session.
How they work
Every tool here is arithmetic, not machine learning. You enter numbers — weight, height, minutes, a self-rating — the tool applies a fixed formula or ratio, and the result appears in your browser. Nothing you type is sent to a server or stored; the calculation runs entirely on your device.
Where the numbers come from
The calorie estimate is built on published MET (metabolic equivalent) values for yoga styles, the standard exercise-science method for estimating energy expenditure from body weight and activity type. Mat sizing follows the length and thickness conventions mat manufacturers already use. The breathing ratios — 4-7-8, box, equal, ujjayi, kapalabhati — are named, publicly documented pranayama patterns, not something invented for this site. None of it is measured on you; it’s a calculation from the figures you supply.
The museum
The Yoga & Wellness Museumis a separate, browsable collection covering asanas, styles and lineages, meditation and breath, and the props and rituals of practice. Every entry, image, and fact in it comes from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons — we compiled and organized it, we didn’t write the source material.
Straight talk about ads & advice
This site carries advertising, and that’s the entire business model — it’s how the tools stay free and how the hosting gets paid for. There’s no subscription and no premium tier.
Nothing here is medical, health, or fitness advice. Tool outputs are general estimates, not a prescription for your body. If you’re pregnant, recovering from an injury, or new to a physical practice, check with a doctor or a qualified yoga instructor before starting or changing what you do.
Questions, a broken tool, or something worth fixing? Get in touch.