Riffs Yoga Studios in Bird Rock, La Jolla and Ocean Beach, San Diego, California is a unique yoga studio with a musical vibe. In La Jolla we offer both outdoor and indoor yoga studio, while our Ocean Beach location sports a large and beautiful indoor space.

Riffs was founded in 2010 in Park City, Utah by Larry Hart, Stephen Hart's father. It started as a guitar store called Riffs Acoustic Music and the term "Riffs" refers to a musical phrase, often one that is catchy and recognizable. In 2012, Stephen moved to San Diego to open his own guitar store of the same name, but quickly found the age of music retail stores was falling to online shopping. A big fan of yoga, one day he had the idea to host a live music yoga class behind the shop on our beautiful redwood deck he built originally to host small concerts. The class was a hit, and over the course of a couple years the yoga program grew and grew. In 2014, Stephen suffered the traumatic loss of his mother, something that turned his world upside down. He found healing in the yoga practice as he immersed himself in a Yoga Teacher Training program. With a new respect for the life changing powers of the yoga practice, he rebranded the business to Riffs Yoga Studios to keep the Riffs name in honor of his father, but put more focus on the yoga program. As Stephen continued to study and heal through yoga, the program grew until Jan 1st 2019, when he acquired a second location in Ocean Beach, at which point he sold off the last of his guitars and focused the business on yoga and sound healing.