Features

Everything HYP Yoga offers — from the freely accessible classical texts to AI-powered study tools. A complete guide to the platform and its membership tiers.

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389
HYP Verses
196
Yoga Sūtras
172
Glossary Terms

Every verse and sūtra includes the original Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script, IAST transliteration, and English translation. The glossary covers etymology, usage context, and cross-references to related verses and sūtras.

Membership Tiers

Public
No account needed
Read-only access to the complete texts.
  • Hatha Yoga Pradīpikā — all 4 chapters, every verse
  • Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtras — all 4 Pādas, every sūtra
  • Changelog — follow the platform’s development
Starter
Free account — no credit card required
Read, study, and journal with the complete texts and AI Companions.
  • Complete HYP and Yoga Sūtras — all 389 verses and 196 sūtras (Sanskrit, IAST, English)
  • QuickTerms & Glossary — inline definitions and 172 cross-referenced terms
  • Sangha — Social Journal — markdown, tags, quote blocks, public/private toggle
  • Sparkmarks & Sparklights — emoji study marks and color-highlighting
  • Profile — your place in the sangha
  • Share — image cards and links to Threads, Facebook, or clipboard
  • Listen — audio on every text page
  • Export — journal entries and Sparkmarks
  • SwamiGPT & DharmaGPT — 10 messages per day
  • Font Accessibility — 15 typefaces including Atkinson Hyperlegible and Lexend
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Aspirant
$5/month or $55/year
Go deeper with Smart Journal, powered by TapasAI.
  • Voice Sparks — save verse, sūtra, and term audio to journal reflections
  • Unlimited AI Companions — SwamiGPT & DharmaGPT with no daily limit
  • TapasAI — persistent AI journal companion (25 msgs/day)
  • Reflect with TapasAI — personalized prompts grounded in your entries
  • Daily Verse Reflection — a contemplation seed for your practice, each day
  • Temporal Lenses — Smṛti, Sthiti, Saṅkalpa reflection modes
  • Hero Images — add images to your journal reflections
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Teacher
$10/month or $110/year
The complete experience. AI Sparks illuminate your texts from 22 wisdom traditions.
  • AI Sparks in Text — scholarly annotations from 22 source traditions on every verse and sūtra
  • AI Sparks in Glossary — Topical Guide and Tension Analysis on every term
  • AI Sparks in Journal — 5 annotation types on your reflections
  • Link AI Sparks — discover threads between texts and your saved annotations
  • Record & Transcribe — 20-second audio reflections with AI transcription
  • TapasAI — GPT-4o model, 75 msgs/day
  • Preview access — test new features before they launch
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AI Companions

Three AI companions, each offering a different lens on the yoga tradition. Available from dedicated study pages, the Sparkbar on every verse, sūtra, and glossary term page, or by highlighting text and asking directly. Responses stream in real-time.

SwamiGPT

SwamiGPT

Ancient Wisdom Keeper Free

Calm, precise, occasionally gruff — deeply grounded in tradition. Cites specific verses, breaks down Sanskrit, and traces connections across the entire yoga canon.

  • Verse-by-verse interpretation with Sanskrit analysis
  • Cross-text connections across the yoga canon
  • Commentary comparison across lineages
  • The subtle body: chakras, nāḍīs, kuṇḍalinī
Explore SwamiGPT →
DharmaGPT

DharmaGPT

Modern Yoga Teacher Free

Warm, encouraging, and informed by real teachers. Bridges classical texts and contemporary practice with relatable metaphors and practical wisdom drawn from 100+ podcast episodes.

  • Āsana sequencing, prāṇāyāma, and daily practice
  • Alignment cues and modifications for different bodies
  • Nutrition, lifestyle, and sustainability
  • Yoga philosophy applied to modern challenges
Explore DharmaGPT →
TapasAI

TapasAI

Journal Companion Aspirant+

Like talking to a wiser, future version of yourself. TapasAI learns your voice, tracks your growth patterns, and reflects your own words back with added depth. Every conversation is remembered — the more you journal, the more it sounds like you.

  • Learns your language and reflects it back with added wisdom
  • Tracks themes, patterns, and growth arcs across entries
  • Connects your reflections to the classical yoga texts
  • Persistent conversations that build across sessions
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Shared Foundation

All three companions are trained on the Hatha Yoga Pradīpikā, Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtras (Satchidananda & Vivekananda commentaries), the Bhagavad Gītā, Upaniṣads, Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Light on Yoga, and Autobiography of a Yogi. SwamiGPT goes deeper into the Gheraṇḍa Saṃhitā and Śiva Saṃhitā. DharmaGPT draws from the DharmaTalk podcast archive and teaching materials. TapasAI adds your journal entries, Sparkmarks, and practice history as context.

Starter members get 10 SwamiGPT/DharmaGPT messages per day. Aspirant and Teacher members have unlimited access. TapasAI is available to Aspirant+ members (25 messages/day Aspirant, 75/day for Teacher with GPT-4o). On first use, a consent notice explains that conversations are processed by third-party AI providers and links to their privacy policies.

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AI Sparks

AI Sparks illuminate connections you might miss — between your verse and the Upaniṣads, between a Sanskrit root and its echoes across traditions, between your own words and the classical texts. The core principle: AI guides, never ghostwrites. AI Sparks are nudges for self-inquiry. The practitioner always does the writing.

AI Sparks appear across HYP Yoga — on journal entries, verse and sūtra pages, and glossary term pages. Each context has its own annotation types. Annotations can be saved, restored on future visits, and exported as PDF or markdown. Explore AI Sparks →
Journal AI Sparks
Teacher

When you write a reflection, AI Sparks illuminate five types of meaningful connections within your entry. Each annotation invites deeper self-inquiry without telling you what to think — you remain the author of your practice story.

Connection Insight Question Personal Source
Text AI Sparks
Teacher

On every verse and sūtra page, AI Sparks draw from 22 source traditions across 7 groups to surface scholarly annotations — intertextual connections, Sanskrit etymologies, commentary perspectives, and bridges to modern practice.

Intertextual Sanskrit Lineage Teaching
Upaniṣads Bhagavad Gītā Sāṅkhya Theravāda Mahāyāna Vajrayāna Desert Fathers Christian Mysticism Contemplative LDS Scriptures Rūmī Ibn ʿArabī Sufi Poetry Kabbalah Hasidic Wisdom Mussar Lao Tzŭ Chuang Tzŭ Stoicism Neoplatonism Jainism Sikhism
Term AI Sparks
Teacher

Glossary terms come alive through source-grounded analysis, rooted in 2,294 real passages from 23 yoga texts.

Topical Guide — maps every verse, sūtra, and source where a term appears Tension Analysis — where scholars converge and diverge on meaning
Link AI Sparks
Teacher

Finds thematic threads between the text you’re studying and AI Sparks annotations saved across your journal entries. Returns connections, a synthesis, and a new reflection prompt.

The Sparkbar

The Sparkbar is the interactive study layer on every verse, sūtra, glossary term, and journal entry page. Three pillars organize your tools: Study (your marks on the texts), Reflect (AI companions and journal), and Illuminate (AI-powered annotations). Explore all study tools →

Study
Starter (Free)
Your personal marks on the texts. The flame represents agni — energy, devotion, and effort made visible. Everything in this pillar comes from you, not from AI.
SparkmarksStarter
Mark verses, sūtras, and glossary terms with emoji — 50+ emoji across 7 categories, max 3 per item.
SparklightsStarter
Color-highlight text passages in six Sparklight colors. Your highlights persist across sessions.
Karma SparksStarter
Appreciate others’ reflections with a heart. A quiet signal of resonance between practitioners.
ShareStarter
Share verses, sūtras, and reflections as image cards or links to Threads, Facebook, or clipboard.
ExportStarter
Take your practice with you. Export Sparkmarks, Sparklights, and journal entries as PDF or markdown — your data is always yours.
ListenStarter
Audio recitations of HYP verses, Yoga Sūtras, and glossary pronunciations. Press play and follow along.
Sangha — Social JournalStarter
Follow practitioners whose reflections resonate. Subscribe to journals, view public entries on profiles, and build a community of serious students.
Reflect
Starter – Aspirant
Your journal, your voice, your AI companions. The water droplet represents tapas flowing into practice — persistent, adaptive, personal.
Smart JournalStarter
Compose reflections with markdown, verse/sūtra quote blocks, tags, and public/private toggle. Link any text to your entry.
SwamiGPTStarter (10/day)
Ancient Wisdom Keeper. Precise, grounded, occasionally gruff. Verse interpretation, Sanskrit analysis, and commentary traditions.
DharmaGPTStarter (10/day)
Modern Yoga Teacher. Warm, practical, scholarly but approachable. Sequencing, prāṇāyāma, and bringing ancient wisdom into daily practice.
TapasAIAspirant
Persistent AI journal companion. Remembers every conversation, reads your journal, and grows with your practice. 25 msgs/day (75 with Teacher + GPT-4o).
Temporal LensesAspirant
Three lenses on one reflection — Smṛti (past), Sthiti (present), Saṅkalpa (future). Each generates personalized prompts grounded in your entries.
Voice SparksAspirant+
Save verse, sūtra, and term audio to journal reflections. At Teacher, record 20-second audio reflections directly in your browser, with AI transcription.
Illuminate
Teacher
AI-powered annotations that surface connections across 22 wisdom traditions, your own journal, and the scholarly commentary record. Full details above ↑
Text & Journal AI SparksTeacher
Scholarly annotations on verses, sūtras, and your own journal entries. 4 annotation types on texts, 5 on entries.
Term AI SparksTeacher
Topical Guide and Tension Analysis on every glossary term, grounded in 2,294 passages from 23 texts.
Link AI SparksTeacher
Threads between the text you’re studying and annotations saved across your journal.
Voice SparksTeacher
Record 20-second audio reflections on journal entries with AI transcription.

TapasAI & Smart Journal

TapasAI is a persistent AI journal companion that learns your voice, tracks your growth, and reflects your own words back with added wisdom. Every session builds on the last — like reopening a journal, not starting fresh. Meet TapasAI →

TapasAI
Aspirant+
Like a wiser, future version of you. Warm but unflinching, direct but compassionate. TapasAI reads your journal, remembers your conversations, and connects your lived experience to the classical yoga texts.
Adaptive Voice
Learns your language and concerns over time through 6 signal layers — journal entries, Sparkmarks, reading patterns, and more.
Persistent Memory
Conversations carry forward. TapasAI remembers what you discussed last week and picks up where you left off.
Textual Connections
Draws on the HYP, Yoga Sūtras, Bhagavad Gītā, Upaniṣads, and 147 training sources to ground every exchange.
Whole-Life Growth
Yoga is the root — but TapasAI helps with career, relationships, creativity, and life decisions, always connecting back to practice.
Temporal Lenses
Aspirant+
Three lenses on one reflection. View your journal entries through time — past, present, and what’s forming ahead. Each lens generates personalized prompts grounded in what you’ve written.
Smṛti — Memory. What you’ve carried. Past entries, struggles, and achievements.
Sthiti — Steadiness. What’s alive right now in your practice.
Saṅkalpa — Resolve. Intentions, plans, and the practitioner you’re becoming.
Smart Journal Features
Reflect with TapasAI (Aspirant+) — personalized reflection prompts on verse, sūtra, and term pages, grounded in your journal entries.
Daily Verse Reflection (Aspirant+) — a contemplation seed on the journal page, rotating daily through texts you haven’t journaled about.
Voice Sparks (Aspirant+) — save audio to journal reflections. Teacher adds 20-second recording with AI transcription.
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The Texts

Hatha Yoga Pradīpikā

4 chapters, 389 verses. Chapter 1: Āsana (67 verses), Chapter 2: Prāṇāyāma (78 verses), Chapter 3: Mudrā & Bandha (130 verses), Chapter 4: Samādhi (114 verses). Verse audio available for Aspirant+ members.

Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtras

4 Pādas, 196 sūtras. Pāda 1: Samādhi (51 sūtras), Pāda 2: Sādhana (55 sūtras), Pāda 3: Vibhūti (56 sūtras), Pāda 4: Kaivalya (34 sūtras).

Glossary

172 Sanskrit terms with etymology, usage context, and cross-references to related verses and sūtras. Requires a free account.

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Privacy & Security

HYP Yoga collects no analytics, sets no tracking cookies, and serves no ads. All fonts are self-hosted — no requests to Google or other third-party font services. The platform uses only strictly necessary storage: authentication session, draft autosave, and consent acknowledgments.

AI Companion conversations are processed by OpenAI and Anthropic. A consent notice is shown on first use. Journal AI features (AI Sparks, Generate Prompt, Link Sparks) are processed by Anthropic. Social sharing features connect to Meta platforms (Facebook, Threads) via share dialogs — no data is sent until you explicitly share.

Self-service account deletion is available in account settings, with the option to export your data first. The full privacy policy and terms of service are always available.