Guide
How we list studios
How MyLAyoga decides which studios make the directory — community-maintained, honestly described, and never pay-to-rank.
People ask us a fair question: how does a studio end up in this directory, and who decides where it ranks? The short answer is that there’s no secret formula and no paid placement. MyLAyoga is a community-maintained guide to yoga in Los Angeles, and the listing rules are simple enough to explain in one post.
What gets a studio listed
A studio earns a spot here when it’s a real, working place to practice yoga in LA — open to the public, with a schedule you can actually show up to. That’s the whole bar. We don’t gate by size, by how polished the website looks, or by how long a studio has been around. A long-running Iyengar room and a brand-new neighborhood loft get the same treatment: a clear, honest listing.
What we won’t do is invent depth a studio doesn’t have. If a place teaches one style, we say so. If it leans hot and sweaty, or quiet and restorative, the blurb tells you that plainly so you can decide before you book.
Honest blurbs, written by humans
Every studio description is meant to help you choose, not to sell you. We write in plain English: what the room feels like, who tends to show up, which styles are on the schedule, and the kind of practitioner who’ll feel at home. No breathless adjectives, no “world-class” filler, no urgency. If a studio is a great fit for beginners, we say beginner. If it’s better suited to people who already know the shapes, we say that too.
We’d rather under-promise. A blurb that oversells a studio just sends the wrong person through the door — and that’s nobody’s idea of a good first class.
No pay-to-rank — ever
This is the part that matters most, so we’ll be blunt: studios cannot pay to be listed, and they cannot pay to rank higher. There is no sponsored tier, no “featured” upsell, no advertising that quietly reorders the page. When you browse by neighborhood or by style, the order you see reflects what’s actually there, not who wrote a check.
A directory only works if you can trust it. The moment a listing can be bought, the whole thing turns into an ad board — and Los Angeles already has plenty of those. We’re trying to build the opposite: a calm, neighborhood-first map you can rely on.
Community-maintained means you, too
Because this is maintained in the open, it’s never quite finished. Studios open, move, change their schedules, and sometimes close. We keep listings current as best we can, but the people who know a neighborhood best are the ones who practice there.
So if you spot a studio we’ve missed, a blurb that’s gone stale, or a detail that’s simply wrong, tell us. You can submit a studio or a correction in a couple of minutes — no account, no pitch, just the facts. Teachers training to open their own space can point us toward what’s coming up through teacher training, too.
That’s the entire policy: real studios, honest descriptions, no paid placement, and a directory the LA yoga community helps keep true. Curated, never crowded — and never for sale.