Small classes, personalized attention
Our program is based on the ancient legacy of soma, a Vedic-era spirit medicine that brings about non-dual awareness and spiritual awakening
Our Soma Yoga guides are trained in yoga and psychedelic facilitation
We emphasize on-going commitment to your personal yoga practice. You should be ready to practice 2-3 times per week, for a few weeks to a few months.
The primary way to access our studio is through a Mandala Monthly Pass -- which gives you unlimited access to our standard yoga classes -- along with other benefits and discounts.
Our special Soma Yoga sessions are designed to deepen your psychedelic experiences and improve the therapeutic benefits of psychedelic medicine
Soma Mandala Studios offers an integrative form of yoga designed to support nervous-system health, emotional resilience, and meaningful personal growth.
Through breathwork, slow intentional movement, and deep interoceptive awareness, the practice opens expanded states of consciousness that are rooted in safety, embodiment, and neuroplastic change.
This makes Soma Mandala Yoga an ideal complement to working with trauma, PTSD, deep depression, severe anxiety, and other existential feelings of being 'stuck'.
Rather than chasing peak poses and experiences, we cultivate stable shifts in baseline wellbeing — changes that live in the body, not just the moment.
Learn powerful yet accessible yoga techniques to support your healing goals related to trauma, depression, and anxiety
We offer in-person pre- and post-journey support around your psychedelic medicine sessions, offering a beautiful set & setting based in yoga knowledge
Our unique and groundbreaking Soma Psychedelic Support offerings provide thorough preparation and ample opportunities for integration of your somatic or transcendental journey experience
What is Soma Mandala Studios, and how is it different from a traditional yoga studio?
Soma Mandala blends yoga, breathwork, meditation, and somatic awareness with a modern understanding of consciousness and nervous-system healing. It’s more experiential and introspective than a typical fitness-based studio.
We also support some clients, as individuals or small groups, with curated in-person yoga guidance, in support of legal psychedelic medicine journeys provided by independent medical clinics.
Other clients have completed psychedelic journey work in the past and value our studio's friendly approach to integration over time, using yoga arts as a foundation for transformation and personal growth.
Soma Mandala Yoga is a union of soma-awareness (non-dual consciousness) and mandala-awareness (the exquisite forms of the human experience) through the practice of traditional yoga arts -- with the goal of being a well and joyful person.
Is this a spiritual practice, a movement practice, or a therapeutic approach?
It’s a fusion.
Yoga is well known for advancing general wellness goals and yet does not require any specific belief system.
Our classes support physical wellbeing, emotional processing, and deeper self-awareness.
What styles of yoga do you teach?
We offer hatha yoga classes in several styles -- including Yin, Restorative, Alignment, and Meridian -- all of which are supportive of psychedelic integration.
We also offer a broader set of practices related to breathwork, meditation, and deep inner awareness.
Do I need prior yoga experience to join?
No. Nearly all classes are beginner-friendly and taught with clear cues and options for every body. Only a few advanced soma meditation classes have prerequisites.
How are the physical movements intense?
All classes are gentle or moderate, not requiring any intense movement or advanced poses. You’ll be invited to move intuitively, rest anytime, and honor your own pace.
However, just letting go and surrendering into a longer simple pose can bring up strong feelings or emotions. This is welcomed as part of the process.
Does your studio provide psychedelic medicine?
No. Soma Mandala Studios does not provide, sell, source, handle, store, distribute, or facilitate access to, any illegal psychedelic substances.
We do sometimes offer in-person support for psychedelic experiences within legal clinical contexts. Currently this is limited to psychedelic ketamine provided by:
a clinician in an independent medical practice, or;
clinician-prescribed at-home oral medications that remain solely in the possession of each individual client.
These clinical providers operate independently from Soma Mandala Studios. They work with qualified patients who have undergone medical screening and typically have a clinical diagnosis related to depression, anxiety, OCD, trauma, PTSD, grief, rumination/intrusive thoughts, or other existential issues.
All services offered by Soma Mandala Studios are limited to legal wellness practices, such as yoga, breathwork, meditation, somatic awareness, pre-journey preparation and post-journey integration of psychedelic journey experiences, along with educational content.
Nothing on this website or in our programming should be interpreted as encouragement or assistance to obtain or use illegal substances.
Is Soma Mandala 'yoga on drugs'?
No. Nearly all of our offerings are 'standard yoga classes', meaning no psychedelics are used in any way, nor are they allowed for any reason.
Among our services, Soma Mandala provides trained support for clients who are also working with psychedelic medicine that is independently accessed through legal clinical providers.
Our container treats these experiences as sacred, mystical encounters with consciousness and deeper reality rooted in the beautiful and ancient philosophy of yoga.
Such experiences should be sought infrequently and with careful regard to the transformative power of psychedelic medicine.
"I didn’t realize how disconnected from my body I’d become. The breathwork and guided meditations dropped me into a level of clarity and peace I haven’t felt in years. It felt like a reset for my nervous system."
-AJ (Pasadena)
"The slow movement and somatic cues helped something open and I had a powerful emotional release that felt healing instead of scary. -- I felt held by the container the whole time."
-KM (Monrovia)
"I was nervous because I’m new to yoga, but everything was explained so clearly. I never felt pressured to ‘perform.’ The class welcomed my pace and my experience exactly as they were."
-BV (San Marino)
"Bottom line -- you've got to try this. The team at Soma Mandala is incredible!"
-EP (Los Angeles)
"I didn’t realize how disconnected from my body I’d become. The breathwork and guided meditations dropped me into a level of clarity and peace I haven’t felt in years. It felt like a reset for my nervous system."
-AJ from Pasadena
"The slow movement and somatic cues helped something open and I had a powerful emotional release that felt healing instead of scary. -- I felt held by the container the whole time."
-KM (Monrovia)
"I was nervous because I’m new to yoga, but everything was explained so clearly. I never felt pressured to ‘perform.’ The class welcomed my pace and my experience exactly as they were."
-BV (San Marino)
"Bottom line -- you've got to try this. The team at Soma Mandala is incredible!"
-EJP (Los Angeles)
"I didn’t realize how disconnected from my body I’d become. The breathwork and guided meditations dropped me into a level of clarity and peace I haven’t felt in years. It felt like a reset for my nervous system."
-AJ (Pasadena)
"The slow movement and somatic cues helped something open and I had a powerful emotional release that felt healing instead of scary. -- I felt held by the container the whole time."
-KM (Monrovia)
"I was nervous because I’m new to yoga, but everything was explained so clearly. I never felt pressured to ‘perform.’ The class welcomed my pace and my experience exactly as they were."
-BV (San Marino)
"Bottom line -- you've got to try this. The team at Soma Mandala is incredible!"
-EP (Los Angeles)
"I didn’t realize how disconnected from my body I’d become. The breathwork and guided meditations dropped me into a level of clarity and peace I haven’t felt in years. It felt like a reset for my nervous system."
-AJ from Pasadena
"The slow movement and somatic cues helped something open and I had a powerful emotional release that felt healing instead of scary. -- I felt held by the container the whole time."
-KM (Monrovia)
"I was nervous because I’m new to yoga, but everything was explained so clearly. I never felt pressured to ‘perform.’ The class welcomed my pace and my experience exactly as they were."
-BV (San Marino)
"Bottom line -- you've got to try this. The team at Soma Mandala is incredible!"
-EJP (Los Angeles)
"I didn’t realize how disconnected from my body I’d become. The breathwork and guided meditations dropped me into a level of clarity and peace I haven’t felt in years. It felt like a reset for my nervous system."
-AJ (Pasadena)
"The slow movement and somatic cues helped something open and I had a powerful emotional release that felt healing instead of scary. -- I felt held by the container the whole time."
-KM (Monrovia)
"I was nervous because I’m new to yoga, but everything was explained so clearly. I never felt pressured to ‘perform.’ The class welcomed my pace and my experience exactly as they were."
-BV (San Marino)
"Bottom line -- you've got to try this. The team at Soma Mandala is incredible!"
-EP (Los Angeles)
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Psychedelics have a long history with nearly all of the worlds' mystical traditions. In ancient India, soma was consumed ritually during the formation of this exquisite philosophy.

I facilitate somatic and contemplative practices that open access to expanded states of awareness while grounding in nervous system resilience. My approach blends breathwork, chakra-based embodiment, and trauma-informed pacing to help seekers transition from dysregulation to inner coherence.
