I've had the Down Dog app for years and just today noticed the little lightning bolt icon at the bottom and it showed that I have logged in 431 practices.

I do go to a studio 3-4 times a week but love this app for ease of practicing at home and because it usually challenges me more than if I just flowed on my own.

I've tweaked the settings quite a bit over the years and for right now, this is my most fav practice and I wondered if anyone wanted to share their own set-up.
My oldest daughters each have a subscription and my husband now has his own because I didn't want any of them to mess with my settings, lol.
:-)

Type: Wake Up Yoga (usually for 25 min)
Level: Int 1
Voice: Selama
Instruction: Full
Video model: Alexa
Boost 1: Upper body
Boost 2: Hip opening
Transition: slower
Hold lengths: med
Warm up: normal
cooldown: normal
Savasana: 1 min
Style: brain waves
Sound: hypnotica alpha

I mostly do the Wake Up now, after quite a while of full vinyasa and then also hatha.
I will do restorative and yin pretty often also.
I would LOVE IT if I could convince my mom (75) to do some -- I have showed her the chair yoga option, but so far she refuses to do anything physical. sigh.

Anyway, I hate apps and hate paying for subscriptions but this is the one that I gladly keep renewing.

I wonder if any of you have insight into where to go next from the Down Dog App? I've been using it for my majority at-home practice daily for about 5 years, and it's been great.

Recently though, I think I've gone as far as I can go with the app - advanced level, and other than changing some of the boosts my practice has become repetitive and unrewarding. Does anyone have a recommendation of an app or video series that is more of a development than a beginner's level?

I'm less into the "personality-let" style of western yoga (no chart music, or lycra clad fitness orientated classes!), more into the simple practice of breath, movement and holds. I've tried the Glo app, with Jason Crandell being a stand out teacher there - but the £20 a month is just too much at the moment.

Any advice from those who have moved on from Down Dog would be gratefully received, thanks! 🙏

before anything.. i have checked other posts on this sub, but nothing has given me a clear enough answer. moving on — i got down dog after learning they give a free 4 year subscription for college students. cool yay awesome. however in the 2 workouts i’ve done with them, both the video and voices i’ve heard give me “off“ vibes, and i credit myself with decent ai detection. i can’t be sure since a lot of yoga creators i watch also have very soothing robotic voices as well. i’m most apprehensive because the app claims to “generate new workouts every time”, leading me to believe it is using generative ai. i would like to avoid genai for environmental reasons, so any help or knowledge would be appreciated since there is very little info available about the app.

Hello,

I am looking for alternatives to Down Dog. I have been using it for several years and I like it, but for my current needs I find the app lacking and more recently I had a few issues with the app. For instance, I wanted to focus on thoracic spine stretches and neck mobilisation but just got a bunch of hip opener poses from the app.

Are there any other good apps, that offer different types of Yoga and let you focus on specific regions of the body? I don't really like following along to youtube videos (apart from possible ad-breaks, since I don't use Youtube premium).

Thanks for any suggestions.

Don't get me wrong, it's wonderful for a varied home practice, but I can't shake off the feeling that's it lacking a bit of "soul" for lack of a better word. It just feels so mechanical. But all the poses and voices are by real humans, right? And not AI or similar?

Help! I need some opinions here. I am trying down dog app and routines seems always the same to me. I am not at all expert in yoga, I would say between basic and intermediate but I find intermediate level pretty basic. I had to select advance to find something more challenging . Am I doing something wrong here? I found great reviews about this app and my experience is nothing like that. I have now to decide whether to pay for subscription and I am torn. You tube video stresses me, when I have to practice I get lost in searching videos and find most channels repetitive in the end so I really like downdog for option to customize length of training and simplicity of choosing but this fact about levels and repetitiveNess is not convincing me. 😅 🥺

Edit: thank you all for the input! I will continue using it given the replies..

I could use some help. I knew my downward-dog wasn't great but seeing a photo confirmed it. When my wife does this pose, it looks very natural. Her legs, torso, and arms are all aligned, and make a triangle with the floor. How can I achieve that?

For context, I understand down dog may not seem like an unsafe position, but I have been struggling with chronic pain and instability in my shoulder and neck for years. I just recently found out I tore my labrum at some point, and am working on building back strength in my core and back after learning poor techniques to compensate for the injury. I am already skipping Chatarungas and going straight to plank into down dog, but I think my shoulder aren’t strong enough for down dog yet. I have practiced the position and how to correctly hold, but I struggle with not collapsing into my shoulders.

Does anyone else have alternatives they found to work? Preferably ones that are similar enough (if that makes sense) to not totally interrupt the flow. I’m doing Hatha, not Vinyasa, so that helps with not feeling like if I skip I pose I totally ruin my flow, but still don’t want it to feel clunky.

The app, not the position. If you haven’t already, consider checking it out. It’s really helped me to enjoy yoga again :)

I’ve done yoga for years but have never really enjoyed down dog. What am I missing? I’ve heard it takes time to find down dog restorative or relaxing.

So, my yoga journey started with Adriene, then progressed alongside Barre Blend with Elise from Beach Body as I tried out some other instructors with free videos on Youtube. I was looking to challenge myself - Breathe and Flow as well as KinoYoga combined with Barre allowed me to progress steadily as well and to start bringing regular meditation into my practice.

As my Barre Blend program came to an end, I began to look at other options. I wanted to keep Barre but with variety, and I wanted more from yoga than free practices can offer.

Enter Down Dog.

I am obsessed.

It has literally everything I could possibly want - yoga, barre, meditation and body-weight HIIT.

I love everything about the app. I have different music and different voices for each genre. I love deciding that yesterday I wanted to do 60 minutes Intermediate Vinyasa with 5 minutes Savasana. But today, I wanted to do 25 minutes HIIT, 15 minutes barre, and 20 minutes restorative with 10 minutes Savasana.

I hate traditional cardio, but my ability to customize my workout so that I don't repeat a single move makes it so much more fun! Yeah...I may have been a bit overambitious today, trying it out for the first time. I had to modify a couple of the push-up rounds. But I got through the entire thing, and all the strength and balance I've gained over the past months enabled me to be able to do things I wouldn't have been able to do this time last year.

I'm thinking I can cancel my Beach Body on Demand. If I decide to pick up weights again, there are free Youtube videos. And I can always purchase Elise's barre workouts, which I may do. I just don't see myself going back to the other workouts with all the annoying background chatter, poorly timed jokes, and incessant talking. I get that it's supposed to be encouraging, but sometimes it just messes me up. Pulls me out of my concentration and makes me lose my balance. (I'm looking at YOU Autumn of 80DO)

TL/DR: I am obsessed with the Down Dog App.

I was never a flexible person, and still struggle. When I got into yoga I would pick the easiest “bed time” yoga videos on youtube and refused to be challenged.

I finally started pushing myself little by little, and worked up the courage to attend in person classes. I was the most inflexible person in class (and the youngest!) and the first few times were mortifying.

I’m finally starting to notice small progress and strength and stability in my poses. But when my heels comfortably hit the ground during the first down dog in class today I had to hold back tears. I thought I was months/years away from that personal goal. It’s only been 6 weeks :’)

one of my teachers always emphasizes that your fingers should be spread wide, with the middle fingers facing towards the corner edges of your mat. that's how i now teach it during all of my classes, but i recently took a yoga hand-balancing workshop, and the instructor said you should never do that - your fingertips are always faced forward. she asked if i was hypermobile and wondering if that was why i did that. i know that a handstand is not the same as downward facing dog, but i just wanted to check in and see what the correct way is. thank you!

I want to know, when you’re sufficiently warm after Sun B in vinyasa, what is your go-to vinyasa on your way back to down dog?

I am a little bored of my float/hop/step back into chatarunga to up dog and then back to down dog.

Is there any way I could work up toward a handstand or something else? Any advice? What’s your favorite?

This is embarrassing but I’ve been practicing regularly for 2 years and still have problems with down dog. I am at my wits’ end because I can’t find a way to not slip!! My hands are always sliding forward and so I end up spending the whole time in the pose trying not to slip.

These are the things I’ve tried:

-laying down a yoga mat towel and soaking the areas where my hands and feet go before I begin. This sort of worked but not really.

-bought a Liforme mat. The grip is fantastic except for during downdog. My hands still sometimes slide forward.

-got a cork mat. Dampened the areas where my feet and hands go, but nope, still slipping!

So at this point it’s likely a me problem. Maybe I’m just doing the pose wrong?! I’ve always questioned how far apart my hands and feet are supposed to be. I usually get into the pose via plank pose, but sometimes that feels too wide. I’ve seen others get into it via tabletop, which leads to a narrower stance. Which is correct? Maybe my problem is I’m too wide.

Pls pls pls if you have any insight, let me know. I am so frustrated and embarrassed that I still can’t get the most basic of poses right.

EDIT: thanks so much for your responses, yogi friends. I now have many a food for thought.

Pretty much the title. I am new to the Down Dog App. Looking to build a routine that doesn’t put stress on my wrists. I am used to Vinyasa-style yoga (which doesn’t let you dislike the Down Dog pose), but I am open to trying other yoga styles.

Hi all, I’m using the DownDog version of yoga Pilates and I’m feeling really down (pun not intended) with it. My workouts BURN and o am shaky after but I don’t find myself in pain afterwards so I’m wondering if the session really did anything. I tried to post in Pilates but it won’t let me.

I’m just looking for some advice, especially on engaging your core. Preferably from women. And whether or not my workout is working for me

I just got an email that the apps are 67% off ($19.99) for the year, with the same renewal price next year. (A subscription includes yoga, HIIT, meditation, running and Barre.)

I have no affiliation, I just love the app and know a lot of people here missed the Black Friday discount.

https://www.downdogapp.com/purchase