Physical therapy
Make room for movement between visits.
Give patients who are ready for independent practice a way to explore flexibility and balance alongside the exercises and guidance you provide.
Down Dog for Healthcare Providers
Bring movement into your patients' everyday lives
Offer your patients Down Dog through your practice. Guided yoga and stretching they can make part of their day, with your guidance on when and how to get started.
Trusted by the world's leading health and care providers
Meet Down Dog
A new practice every time.
Loved by millions.
Down Dog lets you create customized yoga, pilates and meditation practices. Choose your level, time, focus area, and get a new practice every time you use the app!
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Practices completed
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Everything in one place. Yoga, Pilates, HIIT, meditation, and barre, from beginner to advanced.
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Personal down to the playlist. Choose the pace, instructor's voice, and music, boost the areas you want to work on, and like or dislike specific poses.
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Ready at home or on the go. Practice on iOS, Android, or the web, with offline downloads on mobile.
Beyond the appointment
You guide their care.
Give them more ways to keep moving.
From everyday mobility to life after rehab, offer patients a guided practice they can return to at home.
Sports medicine
Include mobility in the training week.
Offer active patients yoga and stretching they can fit around their sport, with options for lower-intensity days and the areas you recommend they focus on.
Orthopedic centers
Help patients keep moving after care.
For patients cleared for independent exercise, offer a way to build a regular movement routine beyond their course of treatment.
Osteopathic practices
Bring movement into everyday wellbeing.
Complement your conversations about staying active with access to guided practices patients can choose by length, level, and focus.
Chiropractic care
Give mobility a place in the daily routine.
Offer a guided way to explore stretching and body awareness at home, within the activity guidance you give each patient.
Athletic rehabilitation
Make movement part of recovery days.
For athletes ready to resume independent practice, offer yoga and stretching to complement the return-to-activity plan you set together.
Backed by published research
Movement, studied in everyday life.
Take a closer look at the research behind Down Dog's apps, including a trial with 288 healthcare workers. Explore the findings as you consider guided movement for your patients.
Reducing burnout
In a randomized trial of 288 healthcare workers, 12 weeks with Down Dog's apps reduced depressive symptoms and burnout — less cynicism and less emotional exhaustion — while also reducing sick days.
Reducing depression
The COPE trial randomized community adults to at-home yoga and HIIT programs with our apps. Every active group saw significant reductions in depressive symptoms compared with waitlist controls.
Improved wellbeing
A follow-up analysis found the apps improved wellbeing — including flourishing and resilience — with the strongest gains for people who practiced both Yoga and HIIT.
How it works
Offer patient access with a link or QR code.
We'll create a signup link and a custom Down Dog QR code for your practice, so patients can activate their access in a few simple steps.
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Tell us about your practice.
Send your practice name, website, and work email. Our team will review your application.
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Introduce Down Dog to suitable patients.
Share your link in patient communications or offer a QR code at your practice, with your guidance on suitable activity.
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Patients activate their access.
Patients sign up through your link, then choose their practice length, level, and focus in line with your advice.
Available through your care team
Make time
to move.
Ask your provider about getting started.Example patient handout. Your practice gets its own signup link and QR code.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
Who is this program for?
Physical therapy and physiotherapy practices, sports medicine providers, orthopedic centers, osteopathic practices, chiropractors, and rehabilitation teams that want to offer Down Dog to their patients, including athletes in their care.
Does Down Dog replace a treatment or rehabilitation plan?
No. Down Dog is a general yoga and fitness app, not a clinical treatment program. You decide which patients are ready to use it and what activities are appropriate. Patients should follow your advice and any movement restrictions.
How do patients get access?
We'll provide a dedicated signup link and QR code for your practice. Patients follow the link to activate their access and can use Down Dog on iOS, Android, or the web.
Do patients need yoga experience?
No yoga experience is required. Patients can choose beginner-level practices and shorter sessions. Your care team should help them decide whether Down Dog is appropriate and how to start.
What if my practice doesn't have a website or a work email address?
We can only approve applications that include your practice's website and an email address at your practice's own domain. That's how we confirm the practice is real and that you work there, so applications without them, or from personal email domains such as Gmail, can't be approved.
Can we offer this across multiple locations?
Yes. Apply on behalf of your practice and we'll discuss a partnership that works across your organization.
Let's team up
Bring Down Dog
to your patients.
Introduce your practice. Our team will review your details and follow up by email about a partnership for your patients.
Tell us about your practice
All fields are required. Use your practice email address; Gmail and other personal email domains aren't accepted.