Yoga House Pasadena Yin Yoga Studio: Tuesday 7:30 pm Holds

Yoga House holds its yin classes at 7:30 pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays, each running 75 minutes, inside a 1920s brick building at 11 West State St in Pasadena. A single class is $30, and first-time students can take 30 days of classes for $59. The studio opened in 1997, which makes it one of the longest-running places in the San Gabriel Valley to find a yin yoga studio with real teachers rather than a recorded voice.

The studio describes its home as a beautiful 1920s-era brick building at the corner of Fair Oaks Avenue and West State Street, a few blocks south of the bars and shops of Old Pasadena. Inside there are two dressing rooms, which matters when you arrive straight from an office. The phone number on every page of the site is 626-403-3961, the line to call if a class shows as full online.

Parking is the quiet luxury here. Yoga House has a free lot directly behind the building, entered from Grace Terrace, and you need the studio's parking pass to use it. Ask for one at the front desk on your first visit. If you are coming by train, the Metro A Line stops at Fillmore station a short walk to the east, so a car is optional for the evening classes.

Jacqui Dziak leads both regular yin slots. The Tuesday class is listed as In-Studio Yin Yoga, while the Thursday session is also offered as a livestream, so pick the in-person booking if you want a mat in the room. Sarah Hemphill has covered the Thursday hour on at least one recent week, which is normal for a studio this size, but the core teacher has stayed the same.

The studio's own description is short: the recharging benefits of a yin practice, with long poses and a slow pace, recommended for experienced students of yoga. That last part is worth taking seriously. The 75-minute format leaves room for several holds of five minutes or more, and a complete beginner may find the stillness harder than the stretch. Yoga House offers a better starting point, covered below.

Both evenings carry the same 75-minute length and the same $30 price on the booking page, so the choice comes down to format. Tuesday is booked only as an in-studio class, with no camera in the room. Thursday doubles as a livestream for students at home, which means you share the hour with people you cannot see. If you prefer an evening that is entirely about the people on the mats, Tuesday is the one to reserve.

The intro deal is 30 days for $59, and it is the obvious way to try both evenings and see which suits your week. After that a drop-in is $30, a series of ten classes is $240 at $24 each, and a series of twenty is $440 at $22 each. Students and seniors pay $17 for a single class, one of the lowest rates in this part of Los Angeles County.

For regulars, one month of unlimited classes over 30 days is $190, and a full year paid at once is $1,650. There is also a yearly autopay plan billed at $165 per month and a four-month plan of eight classes a month at $135 per month. Mat rental is $2 and includes a sanitary wipe, but the studio asks you to bring your own mat whenever you can.

Here is the simple math for a yin-only student. Two classes a week at the drop-in rate cost about $240 a month, so the $190 unlimited month already wins if you come to both Tuesday and Thursday. If you can only make one evening a week, the ten-class series at $24 per class is the better buy, and it leaves room for a weekend flow class when you want more movement.

Because the yin classes are aimed at experienced students, newcomers should look at the Yoga 101 series first. The beginner workshop costs $35, and the longer 101 Plus option is $75. The next date listed on the site is Sunday, November 1. Taking that session before your first Tuesday hold will make the long postures feel familiar instead of strange, and you will already know where the props and dressing rooms are.

The new-student page is direct about etiquette. Its first rule is not to be late, because arriving after the start puts you at a disadvantage in a class built around settling down. It also asks you to bring your own mat. Plan to arrive by 7:15 pm, change in one of the two dressing rooms, and set up your props before the lights dim and the first hold begins.

Farzaneh Noori is the co-founder and owner, and the About page calls Yoga House the oldest and largest center for yoga in the San Gabriel Valley. Nearly three decades on, the studio still runs a full teacher-training calendar, with workshop blocks already scheduled for December 3 to 10 and December 11 to 16, 2026. That depth shows in the yin room, where teachers tend to explain why a shape is held rather than only how.

Skip the Thursday livestream if you are local. Yin is a practice where a teacher noticing a collapsed knee matters, and the screen version loses that. The real limit is supply: there are only two yin evenings a week. If both are full, drive about fifteen minutes to Kinship Yoga in Highland Park, where unheated Yinship classes run on most days of the week, including a 6 pm session on Wednesdays.

Walk north to Central Park at 275 South Raymond Avenue, a 9.2-acre city park with a rose garden and two lawn bowling greens. The rose beds make a calm place to sit for ten minutes before a long practice, away from the traffic on Fair Oaks. Afterward, Old Pasadena's restaurants are a few blocks farther north along Raymond, which turns the evening into a simple loop of park, studio, and dinner on foot.