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Sound bath classes in LA

39 studios offer sound bath across Los Angeles, choose by feel, not by spreadsheet.

39 studios found

A sound bath is about as restful as a practice gets. Instead of moving through poses, you lie down, settle in, and let waves of sound move over you, crystal singing bowls, gongs, chimes, sometimes a voice. There’s nothing to do and nothing to keep up with. You just listen, and let the tones carry you somewhere quiet.

The feel is the opposite of a sweaty heated class. It’s slow, spacious, and deeply still, closer to a long guided rest than a workout. Sessions usually run 45 minutes to an hour, and most of that is spent on your back with your eyes closed. Many people drift right to the edge of sleep, which is exactly the point.

It suits just about everyone, but it’s especially good for anyone who’s stressed, overstimulated, or new to all of this. If you’ve ever felt like you can’t switch your brain off, a sound bath gives it the easiest possible job: just follow the sound. It also pairs beautifully with a gentle flow earlier in the day, many studios host sound baths as standalone evening or weekend sessions.

Around Los Angeles you’ll find these sessions tucked into all kinds of spaces. Santa Monica Yoga runs beloved sound baths near the beach, and over in Venice you’ll find them at Yoga Nest Venice. Downtown, Peace Yoga Gallery holds sessions in a calm gallery setting, and up in Pasadena, One Life Yoga keeps the format warm and welcoming for first-timers.

First time? Get there a few minutes early so you can pick a spot and build a little nest, blanket, eye pillow, an extra cushion under the knees. Wear soft layers, since lying still makes you cool down. Then let go of any expectation about “doing it right.” There’s no wrong way to lie down and listen.

Browse every session by area on the neighborhoods page, or see the full list of studios offering sound baths across LA.

Santa Monica Yoga, Santa Monica All levels
Santa Monica

Santa Monica Yoga

5.0(494)

A long-running, down-to-earth studio with a strong community and evening candlelight and soundbath events.

All levelsCandlelightSound bath
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.

Sound bathCandlelit yinCommunity
Pasadena

One Life Yoga

4.9(41)

A calm, intentional studio with a variety of classes, sound baths and an on-site sauna.

All levelsSound bathSauna
Peace Yoga Gallery, Downtown LA Community
Downtown LA

Peace Yoga Gallery

4.7(58)

Part studio, part gallery and raw-vegan kitchen, a long-standing community hub in downtown.

CommunitySound bathVegan cafe
Artha Yoga and Wellness Sanctuary, West LA Sound bath
West LA

Artha Yoga and Wellness Sanctuary

Not yet rated

A membership wellness club at the West Edge plaza in West LA, combining yoga, mat pilates, HIIT, cryotherapy and sound bath sessions; non-members can also reserve a class.

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Atma Yoga and Healing Arts, Santa Monica Kundalini
Santa Monica

Atma Yoga and Healing Arts

Not yet rated

A small kundalini room a block from the beach on Bay Street, with a painted blue wave covering one wall. Kundalini yoga in the tradition's mix of movement, breath, meditation and chant, alongside gong sound sessions, private reiki healing and reiki certification training. The studio says classes run every day of the week, but it does not post class times online: its booking page covers the reiki trainings only, so call or message for the schedule before you plan a visit.

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Beach Yoga Life, Marina del Rey Outdoor
Marina del Rey

Beach Yoga Life

Not yet rated

Yoga on the sand rather than in a room: hour-long all-levels classes for $15, a shorter beach sound bath, and private sessions for groups. Classes meet at Fleet Street Beach in Marina del Rey (park near 3618 Pacific Ave), so check the booking calendar for the day and time before you go, and dress for whatever the marine layer is doing.

OutdoorBeachSound bathAll levelsPrivate sessions
Calming Spot, Santa Monica Sound bath
Santa Monica

Calming Spot

Not yet rated

Two rooms, one of them outdoors: a dark candlelit studio on 6th Street for 50-minute sound baths, and sunset sessions on Santa Monica beach when the calendar says so. Booked by the class rather than by membership, with private events and facilitator training alongside.

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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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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.

FlowSlow flowRestorativeBeginner-friendlyAll levelsSound bathBreathworkPrenatalCommunity
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
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
Westchester

HOM Town Yoga

Not yet rated

A Howard Hughes Center studio running vinyasa at two levels alongside a basics class, yin, sound baths and a pilates-flow hybrid. The pitch is unserious in a good way, an hour a day, no performance required.

FlowAll levelsBeginner-friendlyYinSound bathPilates
Hot 8 Yoga Sherman Oaks, Sherman Oaks Hot yoga
Sherman Oaks

Hot 8 Yoga Sherman Oaks

Not yet rated

The Sherman Oaks room of the Hot 8 chain, on Ventura Boulevard. Heated classes are the spine of the schedule (power, sculpt and a slower hot yin), with sound baths on the calendar alongside. First-timers get a week for the price of a class, which is the cheapest way to find out whether you like the heat.

Hot yogaPowerSculptYinSound bath
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.

FlowAll levelsBeginner-friendlyCommunityHot yogaSculptYinRestorativePilatesSound bath
Light On Lotus Yoga, Mar Vista Flow
Mar Vista

Light On Lotus Yoga

Not yet rated

Founded by Kate Duyn in 2016 and billed as soulful and sweaty: the signature Lotus Flow is an open-level vinyasa that still means to make you work. Practice happens inside, out in the garden when the weather allows, or live-streamed from home, and the schedule also carries prenatal classes, kirtans, sound baths and teacher trainings. A Wellness Wing books massage, acupuncture and reiki by appointment.

FlowAll levelsPrenatalSound bathCommunityTeacher trainingLivestream
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.

AshtangaFlowSlow flowYinRestorativePowerTraditionalMobilitySound bathAll levelsBeginner-friendly
Metta Meditation and Yoga Studio, Glendale Flow
Glendale

Metta Meditation and Yoga Studio

Not yet rated

Open since 2018 on the Montrose edge of Glendale, and unusual in giving meditation equal billing with the mat: short guided sits are scheduled as their own twenty-minute classes straight after the evening Vinyasa, not tacked onto the end of one. The rest of the week runs Hatha, Yin, Gentle Yoga, a breathwork-and-twists class and a stretch ritual, with crystal-bowl sound bath meditations as the recurring special event. There are meditation chairs as well as mats.

FlowYinSlow flowTraditionalMeditationBreathworkSound bathAll levelsCommunity
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
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.

FlowAshtangaRestorativeYinAll levelsBeginner-friendlySound bathReikiTeacher trainingLivestreamCommunity
Pure Sound Bath, Redondo Beach Sound bath
Redondo Beach

Pure Sound Bath

Not yet rated

A sound healing studio rather than a yoga studio, at the south end of Redondo Beach near Riviera Village, opened in 2021 by Lynette Toma, a speech therapist by training. Sessions are played on gongs, Tibetan and crystal singing bowls, chimes and bells, and are kept small. There is no fixed weekly timetable: group sound baths are posted on the booking calendar, some of them at venues around the South Bay, and the studio also takes private and on-location events and runs a one-to-one sound bath teacher training in three levels.

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Reserve Venice, Venice Flow
Venice

Reserve Venice

Not yet rated

A 50-person studio on Abbot Kinney that hosts independent teachers rather than employing its own, so the calendar is a rotating bill of yoga, pilates, sound baths, breathwork and workshops, each ticketed on its own. There is a sauna, a cold plunge and an outdoor terrace, and the room is also rented for brand events. Come for a specific session on the calendar, not for a drop-in timetable.

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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.

FlowTraditionalYinRestorativePilatesBreathworkSound bathSauna
Manhattan Beach

Sol Seek Yoga El Porto

Not yet rated

Sol Seek's second Manhattan Beach room, opened in 2022 at the busy corner of Rosecrans and Highland, a few doors from Round Willow. It is the company's only heated studio, with classes between 85 and 108 degrees: hot flow, Burn, hot HIIT Pilates and Sol Strength, plus warm flow, warm yin and sound baths, in medium to large classes. The intro offer covers both rooms, and the livestream and on-demand library is shared.

Hot yogaFlowYinAll levelsPrivate sessionsTeacher trainingLivestreamCommunityPilatesSound bath
Sound Bird Center, Mar Vista Sound bath
Mar Vista

Sound Bird Center

Not yet rated

A sound bath, yoga and breathwork room on Washington Blvd that publishes its opening hours, unusual in this corner of the listings, where most schedules sit behind a booking app. Mostly evenings, with a Saturday and Sunday morning block.

Sound bathBreathworkTeacher training
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.

PilatesSculptFlowPowerYinRestorativeSound bathReikiMeditation
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
Sunstone Yoga, Westchester Flow
Westchester

Sunstone Yoga

Not yet rated

A single-location Westchester studio running vinyasa, yin and slow flow classes seven days a week, with sound baths and its own teacher training alongside. Booked through the studio's own online schedule.

FlowYinSlow flowAll levelsSound bathTeacher training
The Circle Burbank, Burbank Community
Burbank

The Circle Burbank

Not yet rated

Not a public studio: a private women's membership community on Burbank Boulevard whose own site says it is open to members only. The programming is circles, sound baths, movement and workshops rather than a class timetable, and the room is built for sitting together. Worth knowing before you turn up: you join first, then attend.

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Topanga

The Clearing Topanga

Not yet rated

A community-run studio in the canyon, named for the space in a forest where people gather. The schedule is built from local teachers and runs slow yin, creative flows, breath sessions and sound baths rather than a single house style. Memberships and studio rental are both on offer; contact is by email.

FlowYinMeditationBreathworkSound bathCommunity
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.

MeditationFlowRestorativeBreathworkSound bathPrivate sessionsTeacher trainingLivestream
Glendale

Vedic Yoga and Meditation

Not yet rated

Not a drop-in studio in the usual sense: this is the Swadharma Ashram, an ashram, Ayurveda clinic and college on Kenwood Street that dates its founding to 1901, with a Vedic Yoga studio inside it. The yoga taught is Swadharma Kriya Yoga alongside Sanskrit, Vedic philosophy and Jyotisha, and the same address offers Ayurvedic therapies and consultations. Sound baths, a women's circle and teacher trainings are on the public calendar. Come for the tradition and the study, not for a vinyasa class.

MeditationTraditionalPhilosophyBreathworkSound bathTeacher trainingCommunity
Veritas Yoga, Malibu Kundalini
Malibu

Veritas Yoga

Not yet rated

A Kundalini-led studio in the Malibu Country Mart, where the kriyas come with breathwork, mantra and a gong rather than a mirror. The schedule also carries sound healing, yin, a dharma class, morning sadhana and a power class, plus surf yoga when the ocean cooperates, and there is an online studio for practising away from Malibu.

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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.

FlowYinRestorativeAll levelsSound bathTeacher training
Hollywood

Yoga Galactica

Not yet rated

A small kundalini, breathwork and sound-bath operation running evening classes on Gower Street, plus outdoor sessions up at Runyon Canyon. Community-priced and openly cannabis-friendly, which is unusual enough to say out loud. Twice-weekly rather than a full timetable. Check the calendar, and note the site also bills itself as Burbank, while the only street address it publishes is this one.

KundaliniBreathworkSound bathCommunityOutdoorDonation-based
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.

Hot yogaFlowYinRestorativeTraditionalSound bathTeacher trainingLivestream
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.

FlowSlow flowPowerSculptRestorativeMobilityPilatesMeditationSound bathAll levelsBeginner-friendlyCommunity
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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Zula Den, West Adams Sound bath
West Adams

Zula Den

Not yet rated

A West Adams space built around sound healing, breathwork and guided meditation rather than a class timetable. Ceremonies, workshops and community gatherings are the format. Come for the evening events rather than a drop-in.

Sound bathBreathworkMeditationCommunity

Frequently asked questions

What actually happens in a sound bath?

You lie down, get comfortable, and listen. A facilitator plays instruments like crystal singing bowls, gongs, and chimes while you rest. There's no flowing, no posing, the "bath" is the wash of sound moving over you while you stay still.

Is a sound bath good for beginners?

It's one of the easiest practices to start with. There's nothing to learn and nothing to keep up with, you just lie there and listen. If you've found regular yoga intimidating or you simply want to switch off, a sound bath is a gentle way in.

What should I bring or wear?

Wear soft, warm layers, your body cools down when you're lying still. Most studios provide mats, but a personal blanket, an eye pillow, and an extra cushion all make it cozier. Bring water for after.

How will I feel afterward?

Most people leave deeply relaxed, a little dreamy, sometimes sleepy. Give yourself a slow few minutes before driving. The calm tends to linger well into the evening.