Five Best Yoga Apps For Beginners
Yoga that is always in your pocket!
by ALI DIMOVA ★ JULY 5, 2020
Yoga is not only a perfect way to develop flexibility and balance, but it can also help you become calmer, more harmonious, and tighten and tone your whole body. If you don’t have enough time to go to a gym or yoga studio, then convenient and free mobile yoga apps will be a great solution for your workouts. We have put together a selection of amazing apps for you to get started, so put on comfortable clothes, take a yoga mat, water with a squeeze of lemon, download one of the applications on the following list, and enjoy your exercise!
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Yoga | Down Dog
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This free yoga app is perfect for beginners. It offers different types of yoga such as Vinyasa, Hatha, Yin, Restorative, and also allows you to choose different focuses like Low Back, Flexibility, and Standing Balance. This application will teach you basic movements and help develop flexibility, coordination, and improve body control. It also has an aesthetically pleasing design and an intuitive interface. Most of the routines do not repeat again. In the settings, you can choose different languages, accents, voices, music, difficulty level, length of practice, and literally everything else. The music in the app is “smart” as it adapts to the rhythm of the practice. Down Dog also has a subscription, no ads, and even a web version! The subscription is worth $7.99 per month and $49.99 per year. However, there are big discounts on New Years and other holidays, so you can subscribe for $20-30. Down Dog is available for both, IOS and Android!
Daily Yoga: Workout & Fitness
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Daily Yoga has a very convenient and stylish design, so it is very simple to navigate. The entire app is based on specific programs, such as the 30 Days Yoga Challenge or the 10 Day Expansive Flexibility. You can choose the right program for yourself according to your level of experience. Another really useful feature of Daily Yoga is that it has a community tab that contains a lot of challenges and articles. In this community tab, you can also upload your posts, comment, like, and save content from other users. The app automatically sends you regular notifications with little daily tips and helps you schedule your exercises, so it will keep you diligent and organized. The price of a subscription is $19.99 per month or $69.99 per year. Daily Yoga is available for IOS and Android as well!
Yoga Club / Unagrande
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Unagrande is the most functional yoga app ever! Here you can find many programs and videos for power, dynamic, relaxing, and strengthening yoga, as well as practices for proper breathing and meditation. The app contains workouts for various purposes such as weight loss, disease prevention, stimulation of your immune system, stress resistance, and more. There are also specialized programs that help get rid of back pain, relieve tension in the muscles, and reduce stress. The yoga practices themselves are sorted by length and different needs: flexibility, difficulty level, menstruation, and others. The app even keeps track of the amount of calories you burn after each practice. The major advantage of Unagrande is that you can see the lesson program, description, and number of poses before it even starts! Another feature that distinguishes Unagrande from other programs is that it contains vegetarian yoga recipes! The subscription is worth $8.99 per month, $39.99 for six months, and $52.99 per year. Download this app for IOS!
Asana Rebel
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Asana Rebel is not only great for yoga practices, but also for different types of workouts and nutrition plans. During registration,, the app asks about your type of nutrition (vegetarian, vegan, keto, etc.), and your reasons and goals for the program. Based on this data, the app creates a daily plan of exercising, yoga and mindfulness practices, nutrition, and even water consumption. Notifications offer motivation and help you stick to this plan by reminding you to drink water and exercise throughout the day! In addition to exercising, there is a nutrition section that contains different recipes that are simple and very delicious! Asana Rebel also offers its users special music and meditations to focus or relax. A very useful aspect is that you can connect your Apple Health to Asana Rebel (if you own an iPhone) and sync the needed data for better in-app calculations and better customization of your plan! Unfortunately, not all of the content is free. The subscription costs $31.99 for three months and $51.99 per year. Asana Rebel is available for IOS and Android.
Yoga Studio: Mind and Body
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The app Yoga Studio is great for both beginners and experts! It contains over 65 interesting lessons in yoga and meditation for different levels of difficulty and duration (from 10 to 60 minutes). Yoga Studio teaches the four most popular types of yoga: Vinyasa, Iyengar, Yin, and Nidra. All exercises are provided with detailed video instructions in HD quality and pictures of poses. In addition, users can create their own training programs from video exercise or pose blocks and sync it with their calendar. In settings, you can also customize the music or turn on the sounds of nature for complete relaxation. Yoga Studio is a free app, but you can also purchase a subscription for $1.99 per month, $4.99 for 3 months, or $19.99 annually. All users will also get a 7-Day Free Trial. In comparison to other subscriptions, Yoga Studio is the most affordable. You can download the Yoga Studio for IOS or Andriod.
Yoga is one of the most effective types of workouts that’s important to practice in the morning when your body is waking up. Oftentimes, we might lack the motivation to get up early and travel to a distant yoga studio, but with these apps, the studio is brought to you! In each of them, you can save your favorite practices, track your activity history, and customize music. In addition to applications, you can also use YouTube videos to practice yoga. There are plenty of amazing yoga teachers that share their video lessons for free!
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