Prenatal Yoga | Down Dog

I had a lot of nausea during my 1st trimester of pregnancy, and it felt like I was constantly tired. It made it hard for me to keep my usual exercise habits. In my 2nd trimester I felt better but my motivation has taken a hit! I tried in person prenatal yoga for a few weeks, which was great for building some community and a foundation in the differences between regular and prenatal yoga. But in my area in person prenatal yoga classes have been hard to find and unreliable (cancelled often)—my guess is because of the remaining impacts of the pandemic. A friend who’s expecting a baby around the same time as me recommended down dog and let me know about their prenatal offering. I finally tried it and loved it. I slightly prefer in person yoga but the challenges finding reliable classes meant I wasn’t really doing yoga as often as I wanted. With down dog I’m doing high quality yoga way more often, because I can do it whenever I want and customize the length of each session to my time and motivation level. Exercise has been hard for me during pregnancy, so this app has been a life saver!

I started using the prenatal yoga app for the free trial period. I’ve been burning through “free trials” on a ton of apps during my pregnancy tbh. Finally got to this one and I seriously love the app so much! The workouts are highly customizable for your experience, desired intensity, music choice, workout length, etc etc. I haven’t downloaded any particular workouts to repeat but that seems to be an option, I particularly enjoy that there’s a new practice for me each time I log in. It keeps me super engaged and I really look forward to working out. Good ol pandemic time threw a couple curve balls my way and I reached out to them for support... short version is I’m just so grateful for this app and the people behind it. It’s a great product, they clearly care about the people using it, and it’s definitely designed with real peoples use in mind with all of the customization. Download it. You’ll love it! I’m definitely going to keep this past the trial period, it’s well worth it.

I was an avid, daily user of the original Down Dog app for a year and a half after having my third baby. When I got pregnant with number four, I was way too sick to do anything for a few months. Once I hit my second trimester I was anxious to get back to yoga, but I found that with all my pregnancy-related ailments I was making so many adjustments and was feeling discouraged that I could do only about 30% of the practice offered. Yoga suddenly took so much mental effort and left me frustrated rather than fulfilled. I’m now in my third trimester (34 weeks) and I seriously nearly cried with joy when I got the email that this app had been released. I hate that I can’t do advanced yoga right now, and that I feel like a 70-yr-old extremely-out-of-shape woman, but this app has made my life so much better! It’s hard to not be where I was, but it is so much better than not being able to do anything. I deal with severe SPD, SI joint pain, extreme heartburn, and pelvic floor issues, so the fact that I can customize my practice to accommodate those things (and many more) is so so so helpful. My only complaint is that I can’t select more than one area to focus on, but after doing a few practices in each category I’m sure I’ll be able to do my own adapting as necessary as I learn what poses trigger certain pains, etc. and I’ll be able to avoid certain moves with confidence. I’m sad I’m so far along in my pregnancy, because I wish I’d had this resource for the entirety of it! thank you thank you thank you for this app! The fact that it’s free is mind-blowing. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️