Fitness & Instruction
Anti-Gravity Yoga Wings
8000 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90046
323-654-4550
After adjusting the silk hammocks that hang from the ceiling to the heights of her dozen or so waiting students, Saharah Ali issues a final warning…
Website: http://www.crunch.com
Neighborhood: Los Angeles, West Hollywood
Category: Fitness & Instruction, Sports & Recreation, Sports & Recreation Instruction
Barry’s Bootcamp
1106 N. La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90069
310-360-6262
We rocked out with Yoga Shelter’s Eric Paskel (Kristin Cavallari is an acolyte) and explored the stretch band-tastic Tracy Anderson Method (Madonna, Gwyneth Paltrow)…
Website: http://barrysbootcamp.com/
Neighborhood: Los Angeles, West Hollywood
Category: Fitness & Instruction, Sports & Recreation, Sports & Recreation Instruction
Basics of Mindfulness Meditation
1430 Olympic Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90404
310-774-3325
Don’t beat yourself up if your mind starts to wander, Allen Weiss tells students in his Basics of Mindfulness Meditation course at InsightLA. There’s never an intimidating moment during the six weeks of secular-based instruction…
Website: http://www.insightla.org
Category: Fitness & Instruction, Sports & Recreation
BootCamp4Moms
Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90094
310-463-1003
At BootCamp4Moms, Tami Tyson mixes kickboxing with more playful exercises using squishy, half-sphere Bosu balls…
Website: http://bootcamp4moms.com/
Neighborhood: Los Angeles, Playa Vista
Category: Fitness & Instruction, Sports & Recreation, Sports & Recreation Instruction
Burn 60
159-161 S. Barrington Pl., Los Angeles, CA, 90049
310-476-5656
When celebrity trainers Valerie Waters (Jennifer Garner, Jessica Biel) and Teddy Bass (Alicia Keys, Lucy Liu) think their clients could use some extra cardio, they send them to Burn 60…
Website: http://burn60.com/
Neighborhood: Brentwood, Los Angeles
Category: Fitness & Instruction, Sports & Recreation, Sports & Recreation Instruction
Cove Paddle Fitness
23823 Malibu Road, Malibu, CA, 90265
310-429-2058
A choppy ocean can be intimidating, but Tyler Lennon of Malibu-based Cove Paddle Fitness instills confidence with a combination of unwavering attention and skillful teaching
Website: http://www.covepaddlefitness.com
Category: Best of LA, Best of LA 2015: Do, Best of LA: 2015, Best of LA: Do, Fitness & Instruction, Sports & Recreation Instruction
Edge Performing Arts Center
1020 Cole Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90038
323-962-7733
Taught in an industrial-looking room at the Edge Performing Arts Center, jazz funk fuses the fluid movements of contemporary dance with house and waacking…
Website: http://www.edgepac.com/
Neighborhood: Hollywood, Los Angeles
Category: Fitness & Instruction, Sports & Recreation, Sports & Recreation Instruction
George Haas
Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles, CA, 90013
213-820-7800
The local meditation center has a great vibe, but those dreaded obstacles to enlightenment—anger, fear, desire—are messing with your mind now. Those in the know power up the laptop, click on Skype, and make a call to George Haas, a vipassana instructor who’s brought the ancient practice online.
Website: http://mettagroup.org/index.html
Neighborhood: Downtown
Category: Fitness & Instruction, Sports & Recreation
Hatha Lessons
1860 North Fuller Ave., Los Angeles, CA, 90046
There are certainly more rigorous yoga classes in Los Angeles, some taught by instructors who can trace their pedigree to time spent with gurus like Pattabhi Jois…
Website: http://www.myspace.com/runyoncanyonyoga
Neighborhood: Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles
Category: Fitness & Instruction, Sports & Recreation, Sports & Recreation Instruction
Hollywood Aerial Arts
3838 W. 102nd St, Inglewood, CA, 90303
310-412-7171
Anyone who has dreamed of running away with the circus will fall—sometimes literally—for this high-flying discipline performed on fabric suspended from the ceiling
Website: http://www.hollywoodaerialarts.com/
Category: Best of LA, Best of LA 2015: Do, Best of LA: 2015, Best of LA: Do, Fitness & Instruction
La Cienega Tennis Center
325 S. La Cienega Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA, 90211
310-285-6820
Best Public Tennis Courts, August 2014 As with many things in Beverly Hills, the courts at the city-run La Cienega Tennis Center are a step up from those in neighboring L.A. Residents of the gilded burg pay a mere $10 for an annual reservation card; for everyone else the card costs $20, plus $3 per […]
Website: http://www.beverlyhills.org/exploring/cityparks/lacienegatenniscenter/
Neighborhood: Beverly Hills
Category: Best of LA, Best of LA 2014: Do, Best of LA: 2014, Best of LA: Do, Fitness & Instruction, Recreation Facilities, Sports & Recreation
Muev8
3141 Glendale Blvd., Atwater Village, CA, 90039
323-669-2821
As paint-by-numbers Zumba classes continue to pop up at cookie-cutter gyms, Muev8 at Heartbeat House has a way of blasting mediocrity off the dance floor
Website: http://www.heartbeathouse.net/
Neighborhood: Atwater Village
Category: Best of LA, Best of LA 2014: Do, Best of LA: 2014, Best of LA: Do, Fitness & Instruction, Sports & Recreation
Nike Run Club
9560 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90210
Wend your way through the streets of Beverly Hills—Wilshire to Rodeo, over to Crescent, and down Roxbury—but don’t bother bringing your wallet
Category: Fitness & Instruction, Sports & Recreation
Physique 57
320 North Canon Drive, Los Angeles, CA, 90210
(310) 271-0570
Unlike its competitors, Physique 57 (which takes its name from the length of the workout, just three minutes short of an hour) features classes with a duo of instructors, so you can count on extra correction and encouragement.
Website: http://www.physique57.com
Category: Fitness & Instruction, Gyms, Sports & Recreation
Silver Lake Yoga
2810 1/2 Glendale Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90039
323-953-0496
In most “Mommy and Me” yoga classes—where parents bring their babies while fitting in a few vinyasas—wailing is part of the soundtrack. Leah Miller, who teaches the Monday morning “Parent & Me” class at Silver Lake Yoga, cultivates a more Zen atmosphere…
Website: http://silverlakeyoga.com
Neighborhood: Silver Lake
Category: Fitness & Instruction, Sports & Recreation, Yoga Studio
SpeedX by Brick Sport Performance
7811 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90046
323-315-0700
If doing demi-pliés at a ballet barre is the white wine spritzer of workouts, the SpeedX class at Brick Sport Performance Training is a shot of Red Bull.
Website: http://brickcrossfit.com
Category: Fitness & Instruction, Sports & Recreation
Stephen Gaspar
Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 90013
Scaling the real thing—as opposed to an indoor contrivance—is the fast track to climbing prowess, and you’re out in the bracing air and sunlight as well. Stephen Gaspar, with the assistance of fellow climber Colin McPike, gives private lessons at Point Dume’s Westward Beach…
Neighborhood: Malibu
Category: Fitness & Instruction, Personal Trainers, Sports & Recreation
Stronghold Climbing Gym
Brewery Arts Complex, 650 S. Avenue 21, Lincoln Heights, CA, 90031
323-505-7000
Housed in a defunct brewery turned artist community, the Stronghold Climbing Gym offers both roped climbing and bouldering (unroped climbing on 10- to 20-foot-high walls)
Website: http://strongholdclimb.com
Category: Best of LA, Best of LA 2015: Do, Best of LA: 2015, Best of LA: Do, Fitness & Instruction, Gyms, Recreation Facilities, Sports & Recreation, Sports & Recreation Instruction