exciting offerings!
Save our April calendar below!
April is looking pretty fresh at Yoga Lab ✨
We have something happening every single week — so whether you’re craving community, movement, coffee dates, or deep restoration… there’s a space for you here!
Save this image, plan your month, and reach out to your accountability bestie!
Take a look at everything coming up below!
Womens self-defense + yoga
Step into your strength. 🔥
Join us for a Women’s Self Defense Class + Yoga in collaboration with Gallegos Jiu Jitsu. This empowering workshop is designed to help you feel more confident, aware, and prepared through practical, real-world self-defense techniques—followed by a grounding stretch session to reconnect with your body.
Learn how to protect yourself, move with intention, and embody your power in a supportive, community-driven space.
🗓 Sunday, April 26
⏰ 12–2 PM
📍 Gallegos Jiu Jitsu
🎟 Free RSVP
Come as you are—leave feeling stronger, more confident, and empowered. 💪✨
Reiki Offering
Donation-Based Energy Healing Sessions
Take a moment to slow down, reset, and reconnect 🤍
Our Reiki Offerings presented by reiki master Vanessa Romero, are designed to give you a quick yet powerful energetic reset—whether you’re coming in before or after class, or simply carving out a few minutes for yourself. These 10-minute, one-on-one sessions support relaxation, nervous system regulation, and overall energetic balance.
Reiki works by supporting the body’s natural ability to heal. Through light touch or hands-above techniques, energy is gently guided to help release tension, clear blockages, and bring the body back into a more grounded, calm state ✨ Even in a short session, many people feel a noticeable shift—physically, mentally, and emotionally.
Sessions are donation-based and open to everyone—no prior experience needed. All you have to do is show up, lay down, and receive.
Offerings are available on Mondays (April 20th & 27th from 5–7pm) and Wednesdays (April 22nd & 29th from 6:30–7:30pm). Appointments are required, and space is limited to keep the experience intentional and unrushed.
If you’ve been feeling a little off, overwhelmed, or simply in need of a reset—this is your invitation to pause and take care of yourself 🌿
🔥 STRONG FOR SUMMER: 60-Day Sculpt & Progress Challenge
May 1 – June 30
This is not your typical fitness challenge.
There are no extremes.
No shortcuts.
No quick fixes.
This is a 60-day commitment to building real strength, increasing weight progression, and creating consistency through intentional training, recovery, and nourishment.
If you’re ready to feel stronger, more confident, and see visible results—this is for you.
💪 What This Challenge Is About
The Strong for Summer Challenge is built around three key pillars:
1. Strength Training That Delivers Results
You’ll focus on Yoga Sculpt, Pilates Sculpt, and Surge Strength classes, designed to help you safely increase weights, improve endurance, and build lean muscle.
2. Consistency Over Perfection
Real change happens when you show up consistently. This challenge is structured to help you build a routine that is both challenging and sustainable.
3. Recovery + Nourishment
Recovery is not optional—it’s part of the process. You’ll incorporate weekly recovery classes and simple meal prep habits to support your performance and results.
📆 How the 60 Days Are Structured
Month 1: May — Build Your Foundation
Learn proper form
Establish your baseline weights
Build consistency with your schedule
Month 2: June — Progress + Push
Increase weights
Improve endurance
See and feel the results of your commitment
✅ Challenge Requirements
To successfully complete the challenge and qualify for prizes, participants must:
Complete 21 classes in May
Complete 21 classes in June
Attend a mix of Sculpt + Surge Strength classes
Take at least 1 recovery class per week
Track weights and progress weekly
Meal prep 2–3 times per week
📲 Social Accountability
Post 3 times per week on Instagram
Tag Yoga Lab
Share your journey: workouts, progress, meal prep, recovery, and wins
This is how you document your transformation—and stay accountable along the way.
🏆 Point System
This challenge is designed to reward not just attendance, but effort, consistency, and progression.
Participants will earn:
1 point per class attended
+2 points per weekly progress tracking completed
+5 points per social media post (must tag Yoga Lab)
+10 points per weight progression milestone
(lifting heavier than your previous baseline)
👉 Maximum baseline = 42 points from classes alone, with additional points earned through engagement and progression.
🥇 How Winners Are Selected
Top winners will be determined based on:
Total points accumulated
Consistency across the full 60 days
Demonstrated weight progression
Completion of all challenge requirements
All requirements must be met to qualify.
🎁 Prizes
🥇 1st Place:
1 Month FREE Unlimited All Access
Yoga Lab Merch
3 Guest Passes
🥈 2nd Place:
50% off next month
20% off class packs if you’re not a member
2 guest passes
🥉 3rd Place:
$20 Studio credit
1 guest pass
🎉 All 42 classes completed:
$5 Studio Credit
📘 What You’ll Receive
One week before the challenge begins, you’ll receive your Progress Tracker + Recipe Guide, including:
Weekly tracking sheets
Weight progression logs
Simple, realistic meal prep ideas
Tools to help you stay consistent and organized
🔥 What You Can Expect
By the end of the 60 days, participants can expect:
Increased strength and confidence with weights
Noticeable muscle tone and definition
Improved endurance and performance
Better consistency and discipline
A strong sense of accomplishment
🚨 Who This Is For
This challenge is for those who are ready to:
Show up consistently
Push themselves in a new way
Build strength safely and effectively
Commit to a process—not just a result
⚠️ Spots Are Limited
We intentionally keep this challenge limited to maintain quality, accountability, and community.
🔥 Commit to Your Strongest Summer Yet
This is your opportunity to do things differently—and see what happens when you stay consistent for 60 days.
Sign up today and start strong on May 1.
Fuel Your Practice with Our New Partner: Zero Grain Kitchen
🥗 Fuel Your Practice: Introducing Our Partnership with Zero Grain Kitchen
We’re proud to partner with Zero Grain Kitchen to bring you clean, nourishing, ready-to-go meals—now available right here at the studio. Thoughtfully crafted with high-protein, low-carb ingredients and curated by nutrition experts, these meals are designed to support your body in a way that feels both energizing and sustainable.
Whether you’re participating in our Summer Challenge or simply showing up for your everyday practice, how you fuel your body matters. These meals take the stress out of planning and prep, offering a convenient way to stay aligned with your wellness goals while maintaining a busy lifestyle.
Each option is created to complement your movement practice—supporting recovery, building strength, and helping you feel grounded and nourished throughout your day. From post-class refueling to a quick, wholesome meal on the go, Zero Grain Kitchen makes it easier to care for your body beyond the mat.
✨ Clean, balanced ingredients
✨ High-protein, low-carb options
✨ Ready in minutes
✨ Designed to support strength, energy, and recovery
Whether you’re deep in the challenge or simply committed to feeling your best, this is an easy, supportive addition to your routine.
Available for grab-and-go before or after class. Nourish your body. Support your practice. Stay ready.
Emerging Waves – A 5Rhythms® Experience
Emerging Waves is a lightly guided 5Rhythms® class led by Teacher in Training Marbella Mondaca, under the mentorship of Kierra Foster-Ba and Masayo Benoist. This offering creates a supportive and intentional space for exploration, expression, and embodied movement.
In each class, you are invited to move through the 5Rhythms—Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical, and Stillness—with simple guidance that allows space for your own personal expression. Music serves as a central guide, supporting your journey through the Waves map while encouraging you to connect more deeply with your body and inner experience.
Rooted in the teachings of Gabrielle Roth, 5Rhythms® is practiced worldwide as a dynamic movement meditation, creative practice, and embodied philosophy. It is grounded in the belief that when we move, we heal. Through this practice, movement becomes both medicine and metaphor—offering space for release, insight, and presence.
This class welcomes every body, every background, and every level of experience. No prior movement or dance experience is needed—just a willingness to show up as you are.
Wherever 5Rhythms® is practiced, community naturally forms. Together, we move, breathe, and grow—supporting one another in authenticity, connection, and freedom.
Creativity. Connection. Community.
When: Friday, May 1st
Time: 7:30-9pm
Investment: $20
5Rhythms Movement
Meet your facilitator: Marbella Mondaca
I am a 5Rhythms®️ Teacher in Training, mentored by Kierra Foster-Ba and Masayo Benoist. I am based between San Diego and Tijuana.
Movement and dance have always been part of my life. For as long as I can remember, I’ve loved dancing-whether it was staying on the dance floor until the nightclub doors closed or moving to the rhythm of drums all night under a full moon.
Dance has always made me feel free, alive, and deeply joyful.
I discovered 5Rhythms 8 years ago, this was after exploring Kundalini Yoga, Breathwork, and Sound Healing as pathways for inner connection. When I experienced the 5Rhythms wave I was in awe. Through this map, I was guided to places within myself I had never accessed through movement before.
My dance had been longing for this kind of soulful, healing connection.
5Rhythms map has supported me in moving through sadness, fear, and many other emotions, while continually guiding me back to my center and to self-compassion. It grounds me and helps me see the bigger picture.
As both a sensitive and independent woman, 5Rhythms has offered me a powerful container for healing, expression, and self-trust.
With deep humility and gratitude, I feel truly touched to be preparing to offer this medicine in service to the world.
Men’s Free Pilates Sculpt ClasS
Men’s Pilates Sculpt | Complimentary Class 💪
Step into a new kind of strength training 🔥 This Men’s Only Pilates Sculpt class is designed to introduce you to a powerful, full-body workout focused on building strength, stability, and control from the inside out.
This signature format blends core-focused Pilates with functional strength training and intentional, athletic movement ⚡ Expect a challenging yet accessible class that meets you where you are while pushing you to feel stronger, more connected, and more capable in your body. No prior Pilates experience is needed.
This is a complimentary class 🎉 as we continue to build and grow our Men’s Pilates Sculpt community and capture content that reflects this evolving space. By joining us, you are part of shaping this offering and helping bring more men into the studio 🙌
After class, stay and connect 🤝 Refreshments will be provided so you can recover, meet others, and enjoy the experience beyond the workout 🥤
All levels welcome 👊
Please bring a yoga mat and water 🧘♂️💧
Spots are limited ⚡ Pre-registration is required.
Sound healing, Usui Reiki, & Breathwork journey
Join us for a deeply restorative 2-hour experience designed to calm the nervous system, support emotional release, and reconnect you to yourself 🤍✨
This guided journey blends meditation, breathwork, immersive crystal and metal sound bowls, and Usui Reiki energy healing for a layered, full-body reset.
Led by Alika Yarnell, Vanessa Romero, and Izzy Atkinson, you’ll be guided through a grounding introduction, meditation with live sound healing, and receive individualized Reiki (hands-on or hands-above). The experience closes with quiet journaling time and an optional sharing circle.
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Event Details
Date: Saturday, May 2nd
Time: 5:00–7:00 PM
Investment: $35
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What to Bring
Yoga mat, blanket, pillow, cozy layers, and a journal.
Please arrive 10–15 minutes early to settle in.
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All levels welcome. No prior experience needed 💫
MEet the fACILITATORS:
Vanessa Romero
Vanessa Romero is the inspiring founder of Soul Sanctuary, a collaborative vision with her co-creator, Katherine Wolff. Raised in San Diego, Vanessa’s journey has been shaped by resilience and transformation. Despite facing significant challenges, including the loss of her mother to addiction and experiences of trauma in her childhood, Vanessa has emerged as a beacon of hope and healing. From a young age, she cultivated a successful career as a hairstylist, starting at just 19 years old.
During this time, Vanessa also embarked on a powerful journey of self-discovery and healing, ultimately overcoming her own struggles with addiction. For the past decade, she has deepened her spiritual practice, becoming a certified Reiki practitioner four years ago. Vanessa is passionately dedicated to facilitating and empowering individuals on their paths to self-healing.
She believes in the importance of personalized approaches, guiding others to discover meditation practices that resonate with them and support their unique journeys.
For Vanessa, healing is a lifelong commitment and a profound journey rooted in the ultimate love of self and others. Her compassionate approach and commitment to transformation inspire those around her at Soul Sanctuary, as she helps individuals unlock their true potential and embrace their own practices of growth and renewal.
Alika Yarnell
The first time Alika was bathed in vibrations from a gong bath, her mind was transported to another dimension. Or that’s what it felt like. From then on, she was hooked on the other-worldly sounds from these high-vibe instruments. To further her practice, she earned her certifications in Sound Healing, Yin Yoga, and Yoga Nidra.
With a passion for the arts, Alika discovered sound baths help promote the grounding and clearing often needed when fostering creative projects—sometimes even providing new ideas and insights. She aims to share her growing collection of sound-healing tools to help others garner the wellness they seek: from deep relaxation to spiritual awakenings to creative ideas to emotional balancing and more.
In addition to sound healing and yoga, Alika can be found writing novels, volunteering at school book fairs, adding to her collections of mini perfume bottles and Pop Mart figurines, or hanging out with her family of three daughters, husband, and Boston Terrier.
Izzy Atkinson
Izzy Atkinson is a Pyramid Breath Method facilitator, trauma-informed coach, and space holder.
Born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, Izzy moved to California in the late summer of 2024. Izzy comes from a background in corporate America, focused on leadership development and project management, alongside over a decade in fitness and movement. She also served as President of The Soul Project, a nonprofit in Boston supporting women and young girls, and has spent the last 10 years holding space for others, much of that work centered on supporting women navigating eating disorder recovery, body image challenges, and mental health struggles.
Izzy’s journey into breathwork emerged through her own healing - after years of facilitating mental health meetups in Boston and deepening her work as a coach, she began to peel back layers of her own lived experience through grief, transition, trauma, and change. It was through this process that she first experienced the power of breathwork in her own body - as a way to regulate the nervous system, process emotions, and return to a felt sense of safety within herself.
During her transition to California, Izzy completed her breathwork teacher training - a period that coincided with one of the most challenging chapters of her life to date. Breathwork became a consistent practice of support and grounding as she moved through profound grief, heartbreak, and transformation, ultimately deepening her devotion to the work.
Today, she is dedicated to holding intentional, trauma-informed space for others to do the same. Her facilitation is also shaped by her creative work, including immersive breathwork experiences that integrate music, sound, and visualizations.
Alongside breathwork, Izzy is a creative director, artist, model, and podcast host, with a lifelong devotion to expression, storytelling, and human connection.
At the heart of her work is a commitment to helping others reconnect to their authenticity, and feel safe enough to fully express who they are.
May’s Sound Journey
Step into a space where sound becomes medicine ✨
Join us for our monthly Sound Journey at Yoga Lab, guided by Alika, Kristin, and Lily. This immersive experience invites you to fully unwind as you’re bathed in the healing vibrations of crystal singing bowls, gongs, chimes, and other high-frequency instruments. Each session is intentionally curated to calm the nervous system, release stored tension, and bring the body and mind back into balance.
Whether you’re looking to reset, reflect, or simply rest, this is your time to disconnect from the outside world and reconnect within. No experience is needed, just come as you are, get comfortable, and allow the sound to carry you.
We recommend bringing anything that will help you feel fully supported and relaxed—an eye mask, extra blankets, a pillow, or anything that enhances your experience.
Spots are limited, sign up below ✨
Yoga Sculpt Photoshoot class
Step into the spotlight. ✨
Join us for a Yoga Sculpt photoshoot class on Monday, May 18th at 10:30am with Diana Sophia. Move, sweat, and shine while we capture your strength in action.
Dress in your favorite shades of gray and flow through a powerful class—then get ready to see yourself in a whole new light with stunning photos after.
Spots are limited to 25, so don’t wait. Come sculpt, pose, and be part of something unforgettable. 📸
$10 Drop in Yoga Sculpt Classes
Yoga Sculpt with Francesca 🔥
Strength. Sweat. Flow. Step into a powerful, music-driven class designed to energize your body and elevate your practice. Led by Francesca, Yoga Sculpt blends traditional yoga with strength training, cardio bursts, and intentional movement to create a full-body experience that leaves you feeling strong, grounded, and accomplished.
This heated class is designed to challenge and support you at every level 💪 You’ll move through a dynamic sequence that combines resistance work, bodyweight exercises, and fluid yoga flows. Expect an upbeat atmosphere, motivating guidance, and a workout that builds strength, endurance, and mobility—all in one session.
Join us every Friday at 3:30 PM starting May 8th. Drop in for $10 and experience the energy for yourself. Please arrive early to settle in—doors lock at the start of class to maintain the flow and experience for everyone.
Whether you’re looking to build strength, shake up your routine, or simply sweat it out at the end of the week, Yoga Sculpt offers the perfect balance of intensity and mindfulness ✨ It’s also a great class to bring a friend who’s curious about trying this format—supportive, energizing, and accessible for all levels. Come ready to move, sweat, and grow 🌿
Book club
We’re excited to introduce a new way to slow down, connect, and grow together at Yoga Lab.
Join us for a relaxed, welcoming Book Club designed to build community, spark thoughtful conversation, and explore books that inspire meaningful shifts—on and off the mat.
Book: "Only Love is Real" by Dr. Brian Weiss
Details at a glance:
Date: Saturday, June 27th
Time: 3:30-5:30 PM
Location: Yoga Lab
This is not a lecture or a class—think cozy, intentional, and open. Bring whatever helps you feel comfortable and present: a blanket, a journal, tea, water, or just yourself as you are. Come to listen, to share, or simply to be in the room with like-minded people.
If you’re craving deeper connection, thoughtful conversation, and a calm way to end your week, this space is for you. Sometimes a book doesn’t just change how you think—it changes how you live.
This is offering is free. We can’t wait to read with you.
This series is lovingly hosted by Daniela Mason, who has devoted the past 18 years to serving children with special needs in our community as a school psychologist. Introduced to yoga in 2021, Daniela quickly embraced the practice and continues to grow as a devoted student. Her journey is rooted in spiritual development, inner release, and faith in the universal love that connects us all.
Daniela is intentional about cultivating community and welcoming those who are seeking deeper connection, healing, and higher awareness.
If you’re ready to dive into transformative ideas, share stories, and be part of a supportive, values-aligned space, we would love to have you.
Interested in hosting a workshop at Yoga Lab?
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