The best yoga classes in London, 2026

Right. London yoga in 2026 is fine. Actually fine. The £30 boutique studio nonsense has died down a bit, the genuinely good teachers are mostly still teaching, and there is enough free or near-free stuff that you do not have to spend £200 a month to have a regular practice.

I have been doing yoga in London for the better part of a decade and have wasted a proper amount of money on bad classes. Here is the ranked list, with one outdoor pick because it is finally that time of year.

How I picked

Three things. The teacher quality — are the teachers actually correcting form or just calling the shapes? The room — temperature, mat space, the smell. And the value. £24 is fine for a great class. £24 is mental for a class where the teacher counts breaths from a script.

1. Triyoga Camden — Stuart Gilchrist vinyasa

The teacher you book around. Stuart's Tuesday and Thursday vinyasa classes at Camden are the best vinyasa in the city by a clear margin. He is the kind of teacher who will quietly walk over and adjust your hip in pigeon and you will realise you have been doing it wrong for three years.

£24 drop-in. Book a week ahead, the regulars know about him. Camden Triyoga itself is the strongest of the Triyoga sites — the Soho one is too small, the Chelsea one is too west.

2. House of Yoga, Hackney

The best small studio in east London. Two rooms, decent heat, the teachers know everyone's name by week three. £18 drop-in is correct value. The Saturday morning slow flow with Anya is properly the nicest hour of my week most weeks.

Mats are provided which sounds like a small thing untill you realise how many studios charge £3 to rent one.

3. Yotopia, Covent Garden

The reliable central pick. £22, clean, well-run, the heated classes are the actual reason to go. The non-heated classes are fine but you can get those cheaper elsewhere.

If you work near Covent Garden the lunchtime express classes are 45 minutes and the changing rooms have proper showers. That is the entire pitch.

4. The Light Centre Belgravia — Sunday yin

Sunday 4pm yin class. £20. The room is candlelit, the teacher does not over-talk it, and the savasana at the end is honestly the closest I get to a nap on a Sunday afternoon. If you went out Saturday night, this is the move.

5. Embody Wellness, Vauxhall

The south London House of Yoga. Slightly more athletic in tone, the lunchtime classes are £14 which for a proper 60-minute vinyasa in zone 1 is mental. The studio is in the railway arches near Vauxhall station which sounds rough and is actually really nice once you are inside.

6. Lululemon community classes

Free. Properly free. Sunday morning at the Regent Street store, occasionally Soho. The catch is the mats run out by 9:45 for a 10am class so show up early or bring your own. Teachers are usually decent — Lululemon screen them properly.

It is in a shop and you can feel that. But for free, and central, on a Sunday, you cannot really argue.

7. Primrose Hill outdoor yoga

Saturday morning, donation-based, runs roughly May through September. Show up at 9:30 with a mat. The teacher rotates but the format is consistent — about 60 minutes, all-levels vinyasa, view of central London which is the gimmick and it does in fact work.

If it rains it moves under the trees and that is its own kind of nice.

What I left off

I have left off the obvious chains. Frame is fine for what it is — group fitness with a yoga skin. The Hot Yoga Society is fine if you want a sweat box. Neither is in the same conversation as the picks above.

Quick picks

If you only do one: Stuart at Triyoga Camden. If you want a regular: House of Yoga, Hackney. If you have £0: Lululemon Sunday or Primrose Hill in summer.

I keep a running list of London wellness events on Rifio that picks up one-off workshops, retreats and pop-up classes. The studio websites alone miss a lot of the interesting stuff.