Yoga, Powered by Cave Motion™
Yoga is here in Ride Cave, powered by Cave Motion™. Guided sessions built for cyclists, runners and rowers: a 3D figure shows every pose and move, and a calm voice leads your breath.
Yoga is here, powered by Cave Motion™. Pick Yoga in the sport switcher and you get guided sessions built for endurance athletes: a 3D figure shows every pose and every move between them, a calm voice leads your breath, and each session is set somewhere new in the world. All you need is a mat.
It is free for everyone, on every platform Ride Cave runs on. No machine to connect; a heart rate strap is optional.
Why yoga, and why here
Riders, runners and rowers already have a place for every hard session. The quiet ones tend to get skipped, because they mean finding a class or a video that fits. Yoga in Ride Cave sits next to the rest of your training: open it, choose a session for the day you are having, and press start.
Follow your breath
Every session plays out on a 3D figure powered by Cave Motion™, the technology behind every 3D experience in Ride Cave, in your own character's colours. The hard part of animating yoga is the moves between poses, so those are shown too, and you never have to look up and guess what comes next.
A calm British voice names each pose, cues your breath and says which side. It is an AI-generated voice and it cannot see your form. A small card shows the breath you are on and the pose coming next. Holds are counted in breaths, so you can choose a Slower, Standard or Faster pace, or nudge it mid session, and the session stretches or shortens to match.
A different place every session
Each session is set at a real place, drawn in the same world as Ride Cave's routes: a Norwegian fjord, a meadow in the Dolomites, or the empty infield of a famous velodrome. Ride Cave welcomes you when you arrive, then the session begins.
120 poses, every one explained
The Poses page holds the whole library, by family and by level. Open any pose to watch it move, turn the figure to see it from any side, and read how to get in, the cues that matter, the common faults and another way to do it.
Switch to Muscles and the figure shows what a pose works in solid colour and what it stretches in hatching. We also want to be straight with you about the evidence. Every pose guide shows what its claims rest on. Where a study exists, you can read it. Most poses have no study of their own, and where a claim rests on anatomy or on what teachers do, the guide says so.
Sessions for the day you are having
Start with 21 curated sessions, from a 2 minute Sun Salutation to a 94 minute practice: before a ride, after a ride, rest days, evenings, strength and balance, and flow, from Beginner to Intermediate. Browse them here.
Goat Yoga
Want company? Turn on Goat Yoga when you set up a pose or a session, and a young goat wanders behind your mat. When you hold a pose with your back to the sky, like Tabletop or Plank, it trots over and hops on, then steps down before the pose ends. Pick its coat: cream, brown and white, or charcoal. It is an animation, there for fun: it adds no weight and no load.
Type your own
Write a session line by line in Turbo Builder, the way you would say it: 5b warrior 2, each side, sun a. English or Sanskrit names both work. Ride Cave works out the moves between your poses and offers advice on the order. Or say what the session is for, your level and how long you have, and it composes one for you to edit. Cave Crew members can also describe a session to Atlas and let it write the session.
One training picture
Every yoga session counts in your training load next to your rides, rows, runs and lifts: from your heart rate when you wear a strap, or from the effort you rate at the end. Sessions upload to Strava as yoga, and yoga you record elsewhere imports as yoga.
Not yet for yoga
| Feature | Where it stands |
|---|---|
| Auto Train and Training Plans | They do not plan yoga sessions yet. Your sessions still count toward the fitness and fatigue they plan around, and you can schedule sessions on the calendar yourself. |
| Practising together | Group yoga sessions are still to come. |
| Sending a session to Garmin or Intervals.icu | A yoga session is written in poses and breaths, and those workout formats have no field for either. |
Before you start
Yoga carries a risk of injury. Move within what feels right, stop if anything hurts, and check with a doctor first if you are new to exercise, pregnant or have a medical condition. Advanced poses can cause serious injury without preparation; learn them in person first.
Get started
Open Ride Cave, switch to Yoga, and pick a session, or start with Sun Salutation A if you only have 2 minutes. Read more on the Yoga page, and tell us how your first session goes.
