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Restorative classes in LA

54 studios offer restorative across Los Angeles, choose by feel, not by spreadsheet.

54 studios found

Restorative yoga is the slow lane. Instead of flowing from pose to pose, you settle into just a few shapes and stay there (often for five minutes or more), fully propped up by bolsters, blankets, and blocks. The props hold you, so your muscles can let go and your mind can quiet down.

The feel is unhurried and calm. Lights are usually low, the room is quiet, and there’s nothing to keep up with. If you’ve ever finished a busy week wishing you could just lie down and be held by the floor, that’s the experience a restorative class is built around.

It suits almost everyone, and it’s a gentle place to begin if you’re brand new to yoga. It also makes a good counterweight to faster, sweatier practices, a day of rest between the harder ones. If you have any injuries or health concerns, it’s a good idea to talk with a qualified professional before you start.

A first-class tip: dress warm and bring layers. You cool down quickly when you hold still, so socks and a sweater will keep you comfortable enough to actually relax. Arrive a few minutes early to gather your props and get cozy before things begin.

In Los Angeles, restorative is still a smaller niche than the high-energy styles. One spot to look at is Boheme Yoga in Downtown LA, which shows up among the studios offering a gentler, quieter side of practice. Browse the full studios directory to see more of what’s near you, or explore other styles if you’d like to mix in something more active.

Open Venice, Venice Featured Meditation
Venice

Open Venice

4.5(100)

Open Venice is the physical studio of Open, a meditation and breathwork app that brings mindfulness and wellness into everyday life. The studio offers a curated mix of movement and relaxation classes, including Flow, Align, Tone, Power Tone, Breath + Sound and Restore, with sessions throughout the day. Guests can also book 30-minute Hot + Cold sauna sessions. Mats, sweat towels and eye masks are provided, creating a welcoming space to move, recharge and unwind.

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Veda Yoga Culver City, Culver City Hot yoga
Culver City

Veda Yoga Culver City

4.9(225)

A welcoming two-room studio with infrared heat, sculpt classes and immersion/teacher-training programs. Its own site and booking system call it Veda Yoga Venice, since it is on Venice Boulevard, but it is in Culver City; the second Veda room is on La Cienega.

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Yoga Nest Venice, Venice Sound bath
Venice

Yoga Nest Venice

4.9(65)

An eclectic, light-filled studio known for candlelit yin, soundbaths and a magical community feel.

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shefayoga Venice, Venice Sculpt
Venice

shefayoga Venice

4.8(184)

A beautiful Main Street studio with dharma-rich flows, sculpt, breathwork and reiki offerings.

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Hot yoga
Downtown LA

Boheme Yoga

4.5(52)

A tidy DTLA studio with hot classes, live-music sessions and restorative practice in the Historic Core.

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Glendale

3 Wellness Home

Not yet rated

A women-only wellness studio on Central Avenue running small-group classes (reformer Pilates, stretching and yoga), alongside EMS body-sculpt treatments and one-to-one sessions. The sculpt and Pilates side is clearly the draw; yoga is one item on a broader menu. The studio does not publish its street number on its own site, so the suite here comes from its booking listing.

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Black Dog Yoga, Studio City Flow
Studio City

Black Dog Yoga

Not yet rated

A long-running Studio City room on Moorpark, and one of the Valley's easier studios to walk into cold. The beginner classes are genuinely for beginners rather than a slower flow. Vinyasa across levels with restorative on the schedule, plus workshops and teacher training. Street-level, with the name on the awning so you cannot miss it.

FlowAll levelsBeginner-friendlyRestorativeTeacher trainingCommunity
CAMP LA, Santa Monica Flow
Santa Monica

CAMP LA

Not yet rated

A fitness campus rather than a yoga studio: three studios on one Lincoln Boulevard site, for strength circuits, heated mat Pilates and yoga, opened in 2021 and part of CAMP, which also runs a campus in Tampa. The yoga room runs an all-levels Flow most days, a 75-minute Flow at weekends, Power Flow and Chill, and a gentler Restore; heated classes sit at about 88 to 92°F, and Restore runs at reduced heat. Park in the lot at 2723 Lincoln (in from Lincoln, out on Hill Street) or in the second lot across the street; a mat rents for $3.

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Center For Yoga, Hancock Park Flow
Hancock Park

Center For Yoga

Not yet rated

The studio calls itself the longest continuously operating yoga room in Los Angeles, founded in 1967 and on Larchmont since 1969, in a 1925 building that was a Masonic temple and then a dance school. Nine formats run off one schedule, from a foundational level-one class and Iyengar through vinyasa, infrared hot flow, power sculpt, pilates and restorative.

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CEREMNY, Marina del Rey Sound bath
Marina del Rey

CEREMNY

Not yet rated

A first-floor Washington Blvd space that runs soul yoga and sound baths alongside somatic workshops, breathwork and a 200-hour teacher training. The schedule leans slow and guided rather than back-to-back drop-ins, and monthly immersive workshops are the centre of it, worth checking the calendar before you plan a first visit.

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Child's Pose Studio, Mid-City Flow
Mid-City

Child's Pose Studio

Not yet rated

A neighborhood studio on La Cienega that set out to strip the cost and intimidation out of yoga: the site says you need no special mat, no new outfit and no Sanskrit. Flow, yin-yang, sculpt, restore, prenatal and mat Pilates classes run every day of the week, though Friday has a single midday class, and props are free. There is no parking lot, only street parking, and the kids classes the studio was founded on are currently paused.

FlowSculptRestorativeYinPrenatalPilatesAll levelsBeginner-friendly
Embody Through Yoga, Woodland Hills Flow
Woodland Hills

Embody Through Yoga

Not yet rated

A small studio tucked into the ground floor of an apartment building on Oxnard, built explicitly around not being intimidating: vinyasa, a gentle flow, restorative and a prenatal class, all pitched at every level. Every class ends with a sound bath in savasana, and there is a longer hour-long sound bath weekly. Warm floors, a brew-your-own-tea bar, and an intro week of unlimited classes for $30.

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Equinox Burbank, Burbank Flow
Burbank

Equinox Burbank

Not yet rated

A full-service gym rather than a yoga studio, listed because the group-fitness schedule carries a real yoga programme (vinyasa and restorative alongside Pilates and barre), taught by staff teachers in a dedicated studio. Membership-based, so this is somewhere you join rather than drop into, and the yoga is one wing of a much bigger building.

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Garden of Yoga, Woodland Hills Slow flow
Woodland Hills

Garden of Yoga

Not yet rated

A small, deliberately unglamorous studio on a residential street off Ventura, running mindful, gentle, restorative and mixed-level classes with an emphasis on working around injuries and chronic pain rather than pushing through them. Every class is offered live online as well as in the room, there is a pranayama and meditation class on the schedule, and sound baths run monthly. The draw is hands-on alignment feedback in a room small enough for the teacher to actually see you.

Slow flowRestorativeBeginner-friendlyAll levelsMeditationBreathworkSound bathLivestreamTraditional
Redondo Beach

Harmony Yoga

Not yet rated

A long-established Redondo Beach studio further up North Pacific Coast Highway, and the one in this cluster with the deepest off-mat offering: livestream and on-demand libraries, private and studio events, a kids yoga programme and a teacher training with dated upcoming cohorts rather than a vague waiting list.

FlowRestorativeLivestreamTeacher trainingAll levelsCommunity
Highland Park Yoga, Highland Park Restorative
Highland Park

Highland Park Yoga

Not yet rated

A neighbourhood studio on York Blvd that calls itself one and means it: a bright, plain front room, restorative teacher training, and evening sound baths billed as workshops rather than classes.

RestorativeSound bathBeginner-friendlyTeacher trainingCommunity
Torrance

Kefi Yoga

Not yet rated

Kefi is a Greek word for joy and passion that, the studio says, has no direct English translation, and the studio was built out of it: founder Angeliki Papadakis started teaching her brother through the pandemic shutdown, when the corporate studios closed and their teachers and students scattered. It grew from there into two studios on Crenshaw Boulevard in Torrance running 8 to 13 classes a day, including heated Hot Fusion, and the LA Times has written it up.

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Laughing Frog Yoga, West LA Flow
West LA

Laughing Frog Yoga

Not yet rated

A second-floor studio on Santa Monica Boulevard that takes the practice seriously and itself not very. All levels are genuinely welcome and the beginner classes are a real entry point rather than a slower flow. Goat yoga and puppy yoga turn up on the calendar, as do hikes, bike rides and beach days, and there are outdoor classes at Marine Park in Santa Monica.

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La Canada Flintridge

Lila Yoga Studio

Not yet rated

A little further along Foothill from Yoga Rebel, and pitched at the traditional end: a genuine Ashtanga class sits on the same timetable as vinyasa, gentle flow, Yin, Yoga Nidra and a Restore and Sound class, with targeted hips-and-hamstrings and shoulders mobility sessions for people working around a specific restriction. Lila Strength and Hatha Power cover the harder end.

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My Yoga Canyon Country, Canyon Country Flow
Canyon Country

My Yoga Canyon Country

Not yet rated

A neighbourhood studio on Sierra Highway with a deep bench of teachers for its size, the site lists a dozen, plus subs. All-levels classes, private sessions, workshops, trainings and retreats, and the kind of place where the schedule is built around who is actually in the community rather than a franchise template.

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Northridge

North Valley Aikikai

Not yet rated

Primarily an aikido dojo rather than a yoga studio, near Cal State Northridge, and worth listing for the four mind-body classes on its weekly schedule: Yin Yoga on Thursday evenings, Restorative Yoga on Sunday mornings, and mat Pilates twice a week. Everything else on the timetable is aikido, weapons and iaido. It is a mat room in a martial-arts hall, not a boutique studio, and the yoga is a small corner of what happens there, but it is open to the public and priced like a dojo.

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One Down Dog Eagle Rock, Eagle Rock Flow
Eagle Rock

One Down Dog Eagle Rock

Not yet rated

A high-ceilinged Colorado Blvd room with exposed beams and a wall of props, the biggest of the three One Down Dog studios, and the one whose schedule leans hardest on slow flow and restorative.

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Hollywood

One Down Dog East Hollywood

Not yet rated

The East Hollywood room, on the stretch of Hollywood Blvd east of the tourist end. Same class pass and the same unfussy vinyasa-and-restorative timetable as the other two.

FlowYinRestorativeBeginner-friendlyCommunity
Echo Park

One Down Dog Echo Park

Not yet rated

The Angeleno Heights end of Glendale Blvd, and the One Down Dog room that runs the 90-minute sound baths, crystal bowls, gongs and chimes, ticketed separately from the class pass. The regular timetable is vinyasa, yin and restorative.

FlowYinRestorativeSound bathBeginner-friendlyCommunity
Altadena

practiceALTADENA

Not yet rated

A room-temperature studio on Lake Avenue whose sessions are named rather than graded, flow, rest, a half-and-half flow-then-rest, an alignment workshop class, a philosophy-and-drills class called yoke, and a seated pranayama and meditation sit. All are open to every level and mats and props are free to borrow. Pricing is a two-tier sliding scale, Phoenix or Patron, that the studio asks you to choose by financial capacity after the fire, with a lower supported rate on marked sessions and community rates for students, teachers, essential workers and veterans on request. The studio publishes its post-fire remediation in detail: full attic and HVAC remediation, walls sanded and resealed, donated replacement mats and props, a continuously running air-quality monitor, and classes cancelled if readings are unsafe. Contact is by email; there is no phone line.

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Prema Yoga, Granada Hills Flow
Granada Hills

Prema Yoga

Not yet rated

Prema means love, and the Granada Hills studio leans on that: small classes, hands-on teachers, and options offered pose by pose rather than a single shape everyone is expected to hit. The calendar runs well past the mat (kirtan evenings, an Ashtanga primary series intensive, a yoga-Reiki-and-chakras workshop, sound healing), and there are teacher trainings and a livestream-only membership. Thirty days unlimited for $69 if you have never been.

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Long Beach

Ra Yoga Long Beach

Not yet rated

The only Los Angeles County room of a mostly Orange County chain, in the Long Beach Exchange (LBX) centre by the airport rather than near the water. Heated and unheated classes across a full daily schedule, with teacher training, workshops and retreats run under the studio's own Ra University banner.

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Red Diamond Yoga Washington, Mar Vista Flow
Mar Vista

Red Diamond Yoga Washington

Not yet rated

The second Red Diamond room, on Washington Boulevard, running the same mix as the Palms studio (vinyasa flow, restorative, traditional practice and meditation), with an infrared sauna attached. Teacher trainings, breathwork trainings, workshops and community adventures round it out. Long opening hours: most days from 7am to 8pm, short on Saturdays.

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Rise Mindful Healing, Newhall Flow
Newhall

Rise Mindful Healing

Not yet rated

A Main Street studio that frames everything around nervous-system regulation rather than fitness, the schedule splits into mindful movement (vinyasa, hatha, mat pilates) and restorative practices (yin, breathwork, sound baths). Massage, red light therapy and an infrared sauna sit alongside the classes, so a visit can be a class, a treatment or both.

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Sherman Oaks

Rising Lotus Yoga

Not yet rated

A twenty-year-old independent studio upstairs on Magnolia, with a dedicated new-student track rather than a general beginners' class. A real front door if you have never practised. Alongside the schedule it runs functional strength training, private coaching, teacher training, workshops and retreats, and streams classes on demand.

FlowAll levelsBeginner-friendlyRestorativeTeacher trainingLivestreamCommunity
Sol Seek Yoga The Loft, Manhattan Beach Flow
Manhattan Beach

Sol Seek Yoga The Loft

Not yet rated

The original Manhattan Beach room, formerly the Yoga Loft, on Ocean Drive a short walk from the pier. A full ocean-view studio where the light and the sound of the surf are genuinely part of the class. Small group sizes, flow, Yin and restorative across all levels, with Ayurveda treatments in the same space. Parking is the catch in summer; the Metlox structure on Manhattan Beach Blvd is the fallback.

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Soul Play Yoga, Culver City Flow
Culver City

Soul Play Yoga

Not yet rated

A community studio on Washington Blvd that sets out to have something for everyone in the room, beginners' classes, chair yoga, pre- and post-natal, kids' classes and a programme for older adults alongside the vinyasa, yin and sculpt schedule. Several restorative and yin classes pair the practice with reiki, breathwork or aromatherapy.

FlowYinRestorativeBeginner-friendlyInclusive
Spiritual Flow Studio, Woodland Hills Pilates
Woodland Hills

Spiritual Flow Studio

Not yet rated

A mother-and-daughter studio on Ventura that runs three things at once: reformer Pilates, heated mat Pilates and sculpt, and a yoga-and-sound track spanning vinyasa, detox power flow, yin, restorative and sound bath meditation. The heat is infrared and varies by class rather than being one hot room (roughly 96–100°F for mat Pilates and sculpt, 80°F on the reformers), with LED red-light therapy in the evening sessions. Reiki is offered one-to-one alongside the class schedule.

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Spiritual Heart Yoga Center, Montrose Traditional
Montrose

Spiritual Heart Yoga Center

Not yet rated

A neighbourhood studio on Honolulu Avenue in Montrose, built on Hatha: the schedule runs from a traditional Hatha class through Hatha Flow, a Gentle Flow that is explicitly open to prenatal students, Gentle Yin and a half-flow half-restorative Flow and Release. Advance booking is required and walk-ins are not taken. Unlimited members also get an on-demand library of over a hundred videos, and there is a small boutique attached, open Sundays.

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Studio Om, University Park Restorative
University Park

Studio Om

Not yet rated

A volunteer-run 501(c)(3) lounge studio in University Park, built around four evening sessions a week instead of a daily timetable: After-Work Reset on Tuesday, Deep Sleep Reset with a sound bath on Wednesday, Social Reset with a community dinner on Thursday, and Slow Reset with restorative practice and kirtan on Sunday. The yoga is gentle and beginner-friendly, sessions are $20, and booking ahead is required because groups are capped at about 10 to 12.

RestorativeSound bathMeditationPhilosophyCommunityBeginner-friendly
Palos Verdes Estates

The Greenhouse Yoga Collective

Not yet rated

The only Palos Verdes studio in the directory, up on Palos Verdes Drive West above the coast. Founded in 2020 by Christie Havey Smith with a collective of South Bay teachers, running classes and workshops alongside one-to-one sessions, with single classes, packages and monthly subscriptions all offered rather than a membership-only door.

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The Mindry, Malibu Meditation
Malibu

The Mindry

Not yet rated

A meditation-first wellness centre off Cross Creek Road that describes itself as a sanctuary more than a studio, cushions before mats. The in-studio schedule mixes meditation and yoga, with private sessions, body and energy work, workshops and trainings alongside, plus an on-demand library if you would rather practise at home. There is a shop attached selling incense, oils and singing bowls.

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South LA

The Tree Yoga Cooperative

Not yet rated

A worker-owned cooperative in South LA, which is rare enough in this directory to be the headline; it is currently owned and stewarded by Jana Johnson, Jennifer Alvarez and Rita Ortiz Contreras. Pay-what-you-can pricing from $5 keeps classes open, and there is a 200-hour teacher training, a Bali retreat and a wellness partnership programme alongside the regular schedule.

FlowRestorativeDonation-basedAffordableInclusiveTeacher trainingAll levelsCommunity
The Wild Plum, San Fernando Hot yoga
San Fernando

The Wild Plum

Not yet rated

A holistic spa and yoga center on North Maclay Avenue in San Fernando, opened in 2018 by sisters Alexandra and Daniela Del Gaudio, with a scholarship that gives a monthly unlimited membership to students in financial need. Most of the 20 weekly classes are heated, the hot vinyasa up to 105°F with added humidity, alongside yin, Pilates fusion, a Sunday evening candlelight restorative and a Saturday kids class. The spa side runs facials, massage, private reiki, sound healing and an infrared sauna by appointment. New students get a month of unlimited yoga for $59, and parking is on the surrounding residential streets.

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Woodland Hills

The Yoga Center

Not yet rated

A small studio that began in its founders' backyard as The Garden Yoga Center and moved indoors on Topanga Canyon, still pitched at a plainer, more grounded version of the practice. Classes sit alongside massage, private and semi-private yoga, and women's wellness services, and there is an unlimited intro week for $35. The website is sparse. The live booking calendar is the only place the schedule appears.

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Mid-City

Veda Yoga La Cienega

Not yet rated

The second room of Veda Yoga Center, the non-profit that has run on Venice Boulevard in Culver City since 2014, this one upstairs on South La Cienega. Same footing: classes from beginner to advanced taught in the Vedic tradition the name comes from, and complimentary lifetime memberships for veterans, military, firefighters and law enforcement.

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Yoga Bliss, Westchester Flow
Westchester

Yoga Bliss

Not yet rated

A boutique room on Manchester Avenue near Sepulveda, running vinyasa flow, yin and restorative for all levels. The room is warmed to about 80°F (enough to loosen you off, well short of a hot studio), and the calendar carries full and new moon sound baths, ceremonies and teacher training alongside the regular schedule. Free parking on Manchester or in the lot behind the building; booking runs through MindBody.

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Hollywood

Yoga Box Hollywood

Not yet rated

The first Los Angeles room of a chain that grew up elsewhere, on Cole Ave just off Santa Monica Blvd. Hot, vinyasa, power and restorative run through the day on an app-booked schedule, and first-timers get three free classes. A generous trial by LA standards, and enough to tell whether the heat suits you.

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Hancock Park

Yoga Box La Brea

Not yet rated

Yoga Box's second Los Angeles studio, on South La Brea a few blocks north of Beverly. The class menu is the same as the Hollywood room (hot, vinyasa, power and restorative), in a newer space, and the same three-class trial applies.

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Beverly Grove

Yoga by Joe K

Not yet rated

The studio Joe K opened on West 5th Street after more than a decade teaching in LA, first at Modo Yoga LA from 2011 and then at Urban 728 Yoga, which he founded in 2016. Classes are vinyasa and power flows set to music in an infrared-heated room at 90 to 95°F, with a Saturday sculpt class, a Thursday evening yin restorative and a 90-minute signature class on Sunday mornings. A drop-in is $45 and new students get a week for $40; the $199 monthly membership adds red light therapy, a cold plunge and an outdoor shower. A 200-hour teacher training starts in February 2027.

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North Hollywood

Yoga NoHo Center

Not yet rated

A long-running Vineland Avenue studio running two tracks side by side (far-infrared heated classes and traditional non-heated ones), seven days a week, all of them built on a Hatha foundation the studio is explicit about. Sound baths, workshops and 200-hour and Yin teacher trainings fill out the calendar, and an on-demand video library covers the days you cannot get there. Contact is by email only; there is no phone line.

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Yoga Rebel Studio, La Canada Flintridge Flow
La Canada Flintridge

Yoga Rebel Studio

Not yet rated

Boutique strength, yoga and recovery on Foothill Boulevard, running 20-plus classes a week across three tracks, dynamic vinyasa and candlelit slow flows on the yoga side, plus strength, mat Pilates and mobility work, and sound bath meditations on the events calendar. Classes cap at twelve students, which is the reason to come: at that size a teacher can actually watch you.

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YogaSix Culver City, Culver City Power
Culver City

YogaSix Culver City

Not yet rated

A Culver City location of the YogaSix chain, running power sculpt, restore, hot yoga and a sound bath format on its weekly schedule.

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Long Beach

YogaSix Long Beach

Not yet rated

On Pacific Coast Highway about a quarter mile from West Coast Sweat, which makes this corner of Long Beach an easy place to try two very different rooms in a week. The YogaSix menu is the chain's usual six, graded by intensity and labelled plainly, which is the appeal if you are new enough that a studio's private vocabulary is a barrier.

PowerSculptRestorativeHot yogaSlow flowBeginner-friendly
Porter Ranch

YogaSix Porter Ranch

Not yet rated

The north-Valley branch of the chain, in the Vineyards centre off Rinaldi. Same six-class menu as every other YogaSix (a slow flow, a restorative, a hot one, a power class, a weighted sculpt and a mobility class), each labelled by intensity, so you can pick without having to decode a studio's private vocabulary. That predictability is the whole point if you are new.

PowerSculptRestorativeHot yogaSlow flowBeginner-friendly
Redondo Beach

YogaSix Redondo Beach

Not yet rated

On North Pacific Coast Highway, about half a mile from the pier. The chain's six class types graded by intensity, which makes it a low-risk first studio: you can read the schedule and know what you are walking into without having practised before.

PowerSculptRestorativeHot yogaSlow flowBeginner-friendly
Torrance

YogaSix Rolling Hills

Not yet rated

Named for Rolling Hills but actually in Torrance, on Rolling Hills Road near the Palos Verdes edge. Standard YogaSix menu of six class types graded by intensity, from a slow restorative through a hot one, a power class and a weighted sculpt, each labelled so you can pick without guessing.

PowerSculptRestorativeHot yogaSlow flowBeginner-friendly
Stevenson Ranch

YogaSix Stevenson Ranch

Not yet rated

The Santa Clarita Valley branch of the chain, out on The Old Road. The menu is the same six class types graded by intensity (restorative through hot and sculpt), which makes it a reasonable first studio if you have never booked a class before and do not want to guess what you are walking into.

PowerSculptRestorativeHot yogaBeginner-friendly
Studio City

YogaSix Studio City

Not yet rated

The Ventura Boulevard branch of the chain, running the standard YogaSix menu (a slow restorative class, a hot one, a power class and a weighted sculpt), with the classes labelled by intensity so you can pick without guessing. Predictable in the way a chain is, which is the appeal if you are new.

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Frequently asked questions

What is restorative yoga?

It's a slow, gentle style where you hold a small number of supported poses for several minutes each. Bolsters, blankets, and blocks do the work of holding you up, so your body can settle and your mind can quiet. There's almost no effort and no flowing between poses.

Who is restorative yoga good for?

Just about anyone, it's especially welcoming if you're new to yoga, want a low-key wind-down, or simply need to slow down. Because it's so gentle and well-supported, many people find it an easy place to start. If you have any health concerns, it's wise to check with a qualified professional before beginning.

What should I bring to a restorative class?

Comfortable, warm layers, you cool down when you stay still, so socks and a sweater help. Studios usually provide bolsters, blankets, and blocks, but it's worth asking ahead. Mostly, bring a willingness to stay put and rest.

Is restorative yoga a workout?

Not in the usual sense. You won't build up a sweat or move quickly. The point is to release tension and rest deeply rather than to push hard, so it pairs nicely with a more active style on other days.