Prenatal Yoga | Down Dog 4+

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.

Started using this app since my 20th week when i finally felt better and was up for exercising. I felt immediately better, had better range of motions, basically feeling almost myself again physically. I found the boost setting, while theoretically good, somewhat a hit-and-miss. I wish there’s a straightforward setting to just not include certain poses in my practice. Also as far as i cam tell, there isnt any real difference between poses in second and third trimester. There are poses i could do in second trimester but def cant now that im 30 weeks+. Which links back to my previous points about not being able to exclude certain poses. Overall, i still love this app. Thanks for making it really well!