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Reserve your mat
Browse the week and take a spot. We cap every class at fourteen, so you can actually breathe and every pup can actually reach you.
Move your body, free your mind
Sixty unhurried minutes on the mat, shared with our resident pack of red toy poodles. Small rooms, warm light, and the softest hour of your week.
We built this studio on a simple belief — that an hour of movement should feel like a privilege, not an obligation. Every class is small, every pup is ours, and nobody is here to perform.
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Repeat
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We teach yoga, and we raise poodles. Most importantly, we protect the hour — no phones, no mirrors, no rows of thirty. Just a warm room, a teacher who knows your name, and eight small dogs who have never once respected the edge of a mat.
The studio
Every pup in this room lives here, trains here, and answers to absolutely no one.
Eight red toy poodles, raised in the studio and socialised from eight weeks. Low-shedding coats, unhurried temperaments, and a genuine talent for finding the one person in the room who needed them most.
A practice that flows with your week, not over it.
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Meet the pack
Arrive, roll out your mat, and say hello to whoever is on rota that morning. They are vaccinated, temperament-tested, and have no concept of personal space.
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Flow together
Your teacher leads the practice while the pups do entirely as they please. Leave lighter than you arrived, and covered in a small amount of apricot fur.
Weekly sessions
This week’s classes.
Monday–Thursday · 7:00 AM
Sunrise Flow
60 min
Monday & Wednesday · 11:00 AM
Parents & Little Ones
45 min
Tuesday & Thursday · 11:00 AM
Gentle Mornings
60 min
Monday & Wednesday · 4:00 PM
After the Bell
45 min
Tuesday & Thursday · 4:00 PM
Open Practice
60 min
Friday · 4:30 PM
Friday Wind-Down
75 min
Saturday · 10:30 AM
Slow Saturday
75 min
Sunday · 4:00 PM
Sunday Reset
90 min
More classes await.
Studio residents
Meet the pups.
Eight red toy poodles, all raised in the studio. Each one works a single class a day, and sleeps through the rest.
Puppy Girl
Red toy poodle · 4 mo
Puppy Girl
The youngest on the rota and entirely aware of the advantage that gives her. Arrives at your mat mid-flow, sits down, and waits to be acknowledged.
Patience: none
Doggie Boy
Red toy poodle · 5 mo
Doggie Boy
Takes the whole thing very seriously right up until he doesn’t. Has never once made it through a full sun salutation without joining in.
Focus: four minutes
Rosie
Red toy poodle · 2 yr
Rosie
The steady one. Picks a person at the top of class, stays with them for the whole hour, and leaves without any ceremony at all.
Loyalty: absolute
Big Girl
Red toy poodle · 3 yr
Big Girl
Runs the room, in her own opinion. Supervises from the front of the studio and only comes down once somebody reaches savasana.
Rank: senior
Little Girl
Red toy poodle · 6 mo
Little Girl
Small, quick, and permanently mid-idea. Will find the one gap in your Warrior II and occupy it before you have finished the breath.
Speed: unreasonable
Little Boy
Red toy poodle · 6 mo
Little Boy
Attaches himself to whoever is quietest in the room. Excellent at child’s pose, largely because it is the nearest thing to lying down.
Volume: low
Little Baby
Red toy poodle · 3 mo
Little Baby
The smallest of the pack and carried more often than not. Sleeps through most of the practice on somebody’s folded blanket.
Naps per class: two
Mandy
Red toy poodle · 4 yr
Mandy
The one who has seen it all. Holds a better downward dog than anyone in the room and is entirely aware of how good it is.
Pose level: eliteWhat they’re saying
Love notes from the mat.
Don’t take our word for it. Here’s what happens when a real practice meets eight very small poodles.
“Changed my entire morning routine — I wake up genuinely excited for class now.”
“Fourteen people, one teacher, eight poodles. I have never felt less like a number.”
“The energy in this room is infectious. Pure, uncomplicated, unserious joy.”
“Best standing appointment in my calendar. Absolutely transformative, and very furry.”
“I have tried every studio in the city. Nothing else comes close to this room.”
“An hour where my brain finally stops. That alone is worth the membership.”
Membership
Every class, every week, one monthly rate.
Three monthly rates, all of them unlimited. Pick the one that fits and we will set it up by hand, the same way every mat in this room is booked.
Full membership
$99.99 per month
The standard rate, and the one most of the room is on.
- Unlimited classes, seven days a week
- Every member perk included
- Nothing to prove at sign-up
Student
$39.99 per month
The same membership, at the reduced student rate.
- Unlimited classes, seven days a week
- Every member perk included
- Valid student ID at sign-up
Senior
$49.99 per month
The same membership, at the reduced senior rate.
- Unlimited classes, seven days a week
- Every member perk included
- Senior rate applied at sign-up
Before you commit
Your first day pass is on us.
One class, no charge and no membership, so you can meet the room and the pack before you decide anything.
Membership perks
What comes with it.
- A mat of your own Yours from the day you join, kept on the rack with your name on it so there is nothing to carry across town.
- The smoothie bar Included with every membership. Order on your way in and it is waiting by the time you have rolled your mat back up.
- The studio bottle An insulated bottle with the mark on it, refilled at the bar whenever you are in the building.
- Member pop-ups Evenings that never reach the public timetable: seasonal socials, guest teachers, and the occasional hour with the whole pack.
- First look at the week Members see the timetable before it opens to everyone else, which matters rather a lot in a room that holds fourteen.
- A rate on the whole room A reduced price on private hire, for the birthdays and team days you would rather not share with strangers.
Private hire
The whole studio, yours.
Close the doors and bring your own people. One room, fourteen mats, the full pack, and nothing else on the schedule for the hour.
- Exclusive use The room comes off the timetable for your hour. No class before yours, none after it, and nobody in the room you did not invite.
- Up to fourteen mats Priced per room rather than per head, so the size of your group is yours to decide rather than ours to charge for.
- A teacher of your own One of ours leads the session and sets the pace around whoever is actually on the mats that morning.
- The full resident pack All eight poodles, settled into the room before you arrive and with you for the whole session.
Sixty or seventy-five minutes, priced per room and arranged directly. Tell us the date and roughly how many are coming, and we’ll come back with what is possible.
Get in touch
Say hello.
Questions about a class, private bookings, or just want to know which pups are on rota this week? We’d love to hear from you.
- hello@downwarddog.ca We reply within one business day
- (416) 555-0142 Weekdays, 9am–6pm
- 128 Birchwood Ave Toronto, ON M6J 1L9
We’re friendly, we promise.