About YogaClassPlan, Jarrett MacKay & Martijn Spronk

December 2007 my wife and I packed our bags and left beautiful, but rainy Vancouver Canada and moved to sunny, less stressful Mexico. I have been here ever since and loving every moment!

Before the big move though, I worked in a downtown Vancouver office for almost nine years. The company I speak of specializes in educating people how to build a business on the Internet and also develops software applications to help manage online businesses. The experience I had in the latter eventually lent a large hand to the development of yoga class plan software.

When the time came for me to depart this company I took all the customer service management and software development experience I had and used it towards the creation of a powerful, but extremely user friendly and intuitive tool designed specifically for yoga teachers.

I have been hooked on yoga ever since my wife convinced me to take one of her classes. I still remember the experience like it was yesterday... wow, what an eye opener it was.

Today, I have many yoga teacher friends and they all fascinate me. Their outlook on life and attitude is just so refreshing. It's one of the reasons both Martijn and I chose to develop a software program for this industry. We had lots of ideas for many different industries, but none compared to the interest and passion we have for yoga.

Yoga Class Plan is our baby. Martijn and I worked on it for more than two years before releasing to the public in August of 2008. Both of us had full time demanding jobs and we we’re only a two man team so it was slow moving, but we never relented... we were just so sure Yoga Class Plan would help teachers, new and experienced alike.

Martijn built YCP on the latest technology available. He actually insisted on rewriting the software from scratch on two different occasions. He would explain the new coding standards would make it even easier and quicker for our customers to use. How do you argue with that? I could not be happier with the quality and care that has been put into this tool.

Although the inspiration for YCP originally came from my wife, in the last three years over 1400 yoga teachers have contributed to the final result. On our home page, I explain in detail how the idea transformed into what it is today, a yoga class plan management tool for teachers.

Learn about all the features and benefits this yoga software offers.

I was born and raised in the Netherlands, however in 1997 I moved to Vancouver, Canada to spread my wings and start my career in web and software development.

A few years ago, I started taking yoga classes, and this is how I got to meet Jarrett and his wife. We eventually came up with the concept for the Yoga Classplan application.

I've been working in web development now for over 10 years, and enjoy every bit of it. That's also why, when Jarrett and me first came up with this idea, I was eager to be able to finally create something directly for the people who would be using it, instead of simple being part of a large and corporate process as would be the case in my day-job.

Being a perfectionist when it comes to my work, it did mean having to occasionally take a few steps back and doing things over again, but in the best way possible. However since I have a passion for both yoga as well as for web development, the late nights and early mornings have been an enjoyable journey to what I hope will show in the completed product.

I'm eager to hear back from users in order to continue making this application better and better as it grows, since it's meant to do what you - the user - decides it should do.