Aerial Yoga Near Me in Venice: Yoga Nest's Morning LIFT Hammock Class

Yoga Nest Venice teaches its aerial class, LIFT, at 9 am every Tuesday and Thursday, upstairs at 38 Washington Boulevard where Washington meets Pacific Avenue, a few hundred meters from the Venice Fishing Pier. Each class runs 60 minutes and is billed as perfect for all levels. New students get three classes for $33. If you searched aerial yoga near me on the Westside, this is the beach option: a woman-owned studio that turned five this summer.

Yoga Nest describes its home as the heart of Dogtown, the stretch of Venice and Santa Monica that gave skateboarding its legend, and the studio sits above the street on the corner of Washington and Pacific. Its own events calendar marked the fifth anniversary of Yoga Nest Venice with celebrations on July 31 and August 14, 2026, which places the opening in the summer of 2021.

The studio calls itself woman-owned and inclusive, and it says its 200-hour, 300-hour and 500-hour teacher training programs are recognized by the World Yoga Federation. That training focus explains why the schedule is mostly mat yoga, with aerial as a specialty rather than the main act. Two rooms share the building: Studio 1 upstairs and Studio 2 downstairs.

LIFT is taught by Patricia De Borba, listed on the schedule as Péa. The class description lays out the arc: mindful movement, strength, flexibility and deep relaxation in a soft fabric hammock, with flowing sequences, gentle stretches, balance work and playful inversions. It finishes with the whole room wrapped in a cozy cocoon for a short meditation, swinging slightly while the instructor talks you down.

Because the hammock does most of the lifting, the inversions described here are playful rather than acrobatic: there are no climbs or drops in the class description. On the schedule for October 20, 22, 27 and 29 and November 3 and 5, every LIFT session is at 9 am. That timing is the main limitation of aerial here: there is no evening hammock class on the regular weekly schedule.

The studio's other hammock offering is an evening event. All Hallows' Eve Floating Sound Bath runs on Friday, October 30, 2026, from 7 to 9 pm and costs $65. The listing invites you to settle into an aerial hammock while the sound session plays out, so this is two hours of lying in fabric rather than a workout, and it sells as a separate event outside class packs.

A similar format ran in September: RISE, an aerial yoga class followed by a floating sound bath, cost $44 on September 12, and its listing said no aerial yoga experience was necessary and all levels were welcome. Our honest take: if you want to learn aerial yoga, skip the sound bath and book LIFT twice first. The Halloween event is relaxation, not instruction, and it costs nearly as much as two new-student trials.

The new student deal is three classes for $33, the best value on the pricing page and enough to try LIFT on a Tuesday and Thursday and add one mat class. A single class is $35 on the studio's booking page. The current anniversary sale offers 10 classes plus five free for $233, and a 20-class pack is $433.

Unlimited monthly membership costs $155 on auto-pay, the annual membership is $1,400, and there is a senior and education rate of $95. If you only want the Tuesday and Thursday hammock class, the unlimited membership pays off after roughly five classes a month, especially since mat classes run throughout the week and are included in the same pass.

The studio is on the second floor, and you enter from the alley behind the building, not from Washington Boulevard. The booking listing adds that Studio 1, upstairs, is through the left gate and Studio 2, downstairs, is through the right gate. LIFT is upstairs, so take the left gate. Studio 2 downstairs is where many of the mat classes run, so if you hear a class already underway behind the right gate, you are at the wrong door for LIFT.

Arrive 10 to 15 minutes early, as the studio recommends, mostly to find parking. Doors are locked five minutes after the start time, and you can cancel up to one hour before class. Bring your own mat or rent one for $2. Young adults aged 16 and up are welcome with the consent and supervision of a parent or guardian.

There is no studio lot. The directions page points to street parking on Pacific Avenue, Strongs Drive and the surrounding streets, which is easy at 8:45 on a weekday morning and much harder on summer weekends. Washington Boulevard ends at the pier just west of the studio, so on sunny weekends the nearby blocks fill with beachgoers; give yourself the full 15 minutes.

After a 9 am class, walk to the Venice Fishing Pier at the end of Washington Boulevard, about 370 meters away, and out over the water. Then head north on foot about 500 meters to the Venice Canal Historic District, where small bridges cross residential canals lined with gardens. Plan B: if LIFT is full, Air Fit Bungee in Burbank and D&A Flying Yoga in Koreatown both run more hammock classes per week.

Address: 38 Washington Blvd, second floor, Venice, CA 90292; enter from the alley and take the left gate for Studio 1. Aerial class: LIFT, 60 minutes, Tuesday and Thursday at 9 am. New students: three classes for $33. Single class: $35. Halloween floating sound bath: October 30, 7 to 9 pm, $65. Doors lock five minutes after start.

Best for: Westside locals who want a calm, all-levels hammock class before work, mat yoga students curious about inversions, and visitors staying near the beach. Less suited to: anyone who can only practice in the evening, since the only regular aerial class is at 9 am. Ask the Karpo APP for breakfast near the Venice pier after a Thursday morning class.