A place to keep your practice.
A loving relationship with practice starts with clarity. Getting good data on yourself is notoriously hard — especially when most of our record-keeping apps are tied into weird consumerist algos. No thanks. Instead, try out a simple method of tending to your mind-body organism as a little garden. And this is your digital garden. All it takes is a ledger, and you can turn your labor into leisure.
Tending to your practice should be a joy, not feel like management.
The pile.
If you’ve been doing Ashtanga for any length of time, you have a pile. Photos of poses you can almost do. Notes from a workshop three years ago. A count card from an ATG you scribbled on. Most of it lives in your phone’s camera roll and gets lost. Some of it lives in a Notion document you opened twice. The rest is on Instagram, where the algorithm decided what was worth keeping and the rest is gone.
Leverage technology to get more from practice. More practice, less pile.
The Ledger = Leisure. Leisure’s not labor.
Scrapbook
The photos and the postures and the props that finally clicked. Private or shared to the shala feed — your call. The feed is just other practitioners, no influencers, no ads.
Nudge
Three numbers — exertion, attitude, motivation. Five emoji. Three taps. It comes when you said it should come, on the channel you picked. You can ignore it. It doesn’t care.
Journal
Private. The things you’d write anyway, except now they live somewhere your future self can find them. Notes from your Nudge replies land here automatically.
A busy week might be all five-second Nudges. A slow Sunday might be a long Journal entry. The garden doesn’t care which.
What you get.
Three ways in. Pick what fits.
Library
$5.50/monthEverything. The digital garden, fully open.
- Scrapbook, Nudge, Journal — all three
- 20+ courses (Foundations, Functional Ashtanga, Advanced Practice)
- Movement, Breathing, and Motive bots
- The full Tech Support archive
- Yoga Club shala feed (read + react)
Yoga Club Distance
$39/month or $390/yearEverything in the library, plus the live room.
- Live classes — the cyber shala, open room
- Drop in, do your work, log off when you’re done
- Post directly to the Yoga Club shala feed
- Drop in at the WDC shala if you’re nearby
- No personal adjustments — this is community practice, not coaching
Live Coaching
$100/month or $999/yearOne-on-one with Michael. This one stands on its own.
- Direct video sessions on a recurring cadence
- Personalized 6-week plans you can revise as you go
- Async messaging between sessions
- Mobility, breath, motivation, sequencing — whatever your practice actually needs
- Or try a single $150 session first
Why pay anything.
You can find videos for free. They’re easy to find. Some of them are even good.
What you pay for here is that the place where you keep your practice isn’t owned by Meta, isn’t trying to sell you anything, isn’t going to be discontinued because the parent company pivoted. It’s what a domain renewal feels like, except for the record of your practice instead of for a website.
You can join, put a photo in, and never come back. Or you can come back every day. The thing will be there either way. It’s a digital garden — small, quiet, useful, yours.