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Cued, not scheduled.
The app waits until you've been seated a while, then nudges. No 9 a.m. alerts, no streak guilt — just the right moment, quietly.
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Erectly · A daily practice
A quiet ten minutes a day — for posture, breath, and the kind of ease you forgot your body was supposed to have.
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The modern hunch
Eight hours hunched over a keyboard. Four more head-down on a phone. Your spine has been quietly compensating since your first laptop — and the body remembers what the body practices. Erectly is the daily ten-minute counter-weight, designed for the people who build the screens that did this to us.
Ten minutes
Three short practices spaced through the day. No streaks, no badges, no reminder-of-shame at 9 a.m. Just a quiet amber dot when you've been seated too long, and the posture you used to have, slowly, returning.
4–6
hours / day
Average phone time
60°
forward tilt
Typical glance angle
60 lb
on C7
Effective load
Three regions. Three exercises.
01C1 — C7
Head, back over shoulders.
Thirty seconds. The skull lifts off the spine.
The exercise
Crown Thread · 30 s
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The case for being upright
Modeled on Reilly, Tyrrell & Troup (Chronobiology Int'l 1984, diurnal stature variation ≈1%) and Hayden et al. (Cochrane 2021, exercise therapy for chronic LBP).
How the ten minutes works
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Ten minutes. Always.
Three short practices a day add up to ten minutes. Never more. If it takes longer, the prescription is wrong — not you.
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Breath-linked.
Every session paces to a four-count inhale and six-count exhale. The nervous system settles alongside the vertebrae.
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Quiet progress.
A small amber dot each day. No leaderboards, no badges. Two months in, photos of you start to look different.
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Anywhere, no setup.
At a desk, in a hotel room, the back of an Uber. No mat, no equipment, no change of clothes — every practice fits the body you arrived in.
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A free sample
A few of the nudges Erectly sends. No streak-shaming, no emoji storms. One sentence, one prompt, done.
iOS lock screen Live Activity Dynamic Island Android Material
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ERECTLYGood morning.
Ten minutes, before the phone wins. Tap to begin.
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ERECTLY · LIVECrown Thread
Lift the crown. Let the jaw go.
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ERECTLY7-day streak.
Your cervical spine thanks you.
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Erectly· 30mStill there?
Thirty seconds. Crown Thread. The rest of your day runs smoother.
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Quietly recommended
A few places that wrote things.
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Notes from users
Not a wow.
A quiet oh, there it is.
“Two weeks in, my neck stopped asking for my attention. I hadn't realized how loud it had been.”
Marcus T.Software engineer · Austin“The sessions are short enough that I actually do them. That is the whole trick.”
Priya K.Physical therapist · Brooklyn“I open it in the morning, before coffee. By week three I noticed I was taller in photos.”
Sofia L.Product designer · London“Unfussy, patient, and somehow exactly what I needed at 43.”
Dan R.Architect · Denver
If you're curious
Erectly is quietly
on your phone.
Everything — the practice, the progress, the specifics — lives in the app. Download it, open it once, and decide for yourself.