Smart yoga goes mainstream
India’s YogiFi Smart Yoga Mat now pairs traditional asana with AI‑driven real‑time feedback, posture correction and integrated wellness analytics — the project has backing from the Technology Development Board. The Ministry of Ayush is also running a national reel contest for International Day of Yoga 2026, offering a ₹10,000 prize to spur creative virtual practice content. (organiser.org) (www2.fundsforngos.org)
YogiFi’s Gen 3 smart mat is listed on the company store at ₹14,999 and the product page advertises up to eight hours of continuous battery life. (yogifismart.com) The Technology Development Board’s assistance for Wellnesys Technologies is explicitly framed as financial support to commercialise the YogiFi product and scale up manufacturing and market reach under the Department of Science & Technology’s programmes. (uniindia.com) Wellnesys’s YogiFi project traces to an incubation pathway at IIT Mandi and the mat was showcased to Union ministers in a government presentation on June 21, 2024. (pib.gov.in) Company filings and business profiles list Muralidhar Somisetty as founder and CEO, with Vinod Ajjarapu, Pranav Kanuparthi and Sankar Dasiga named among the startup’s co‑founders and directors. (thecompanycheck.com) Independent coverage and product roundups have treated YogiFi as one of the few commercially available “high‑tech” yoga mats, with multiple reviews and a company press centre documenting Gen‑3 updates since late 2025. (yogajournal.com) The Ministry of AYUSH MyGov “Reel Contest on International Day of Yoga 2026” opened March 21, 2026 and closes April 20, 2026 at 17:30 IST, with the top 10 winners to be awarded Rs.10,000 each and submissions required in MP4 portrait format of roughly 60–90 seconds. (mygov.in) MyGov’s published terms confirm the contest was posted on March 21, 2026, is open to Indian citizens, and states winners will be announced via the MyGov blog with full terms and disqualification rules available in the official PDF. (static.mygov.in)
