Vallejo Yoga Marks 18 Years, Launches Sound Bath Studio Next Door
Vallejo Yoga marked 18 years with an open house and the debut of Cyndi Combs' Sound Bath Studio, adding bowls, chimes and gong to its downtown mix.
Vallejo Yoga used an April 29 open house to mark 18 years in business and introduce Cyndi Combs’ Sound Bath Studio inside its space at 532 Georgia Street in downtown Vallejo. The come-and-go gathering folded in a ribbon cutting, live crystal bowl, chime and gong demonstrations, light bites and raffle prizes, turning a studio anniversary into a very public statement about where this corner of the yoga business is headed.
The timing was deliberate. May 1, 2026, marked 18 years since Dariece Warren co-founded Vallejo Yoga with Rhonda Slota and Hannah Callaway in 2008. In that span, the studio has grown into a ten-instructor operation with fifteen weekly classes, while keeping its pitch rooted in community access. Vallejo Yoga describes itself as welcoming to BIPOC, LGBTQ, and people of all ages, shapes, sizes, genders and gender identities, a broad invitation that helps explain how a small neighborhood studio can last long enough to reach an 18-year milestone.
The new sound bath room shows the next move. Cyndi Combs’ offerings inside Vallejo Yoga include public sessions such as a 40-minute Stress Reset priced at $15 and a 60-minute Heart Centered Sound Bath priced at $22. That adds a different kind of wellness service to the studio’s yoga schedule, one built less around posture instruction and more around layered sensory work, quieter pacing and a guided sonic experience. The open house let visitors see the bowls, hear the gong and understand how the instruments are meant to move through the body in a grounding way.
That shift matters because it reflects how many legacy yoga studios are adapting now. Pure class schedules are no longer the only draw; consumers are increasingly looking for places that combine movement, meditation, recovery and sound-based sessions in one familiar location. Vallejo Yoga’s anniversary event made that evolution visible in one afternoon, using a social, accessible format to introduce a more immersive wellness offering while keeping the studio’s community-first identity intact. In downtown Vallejo, longevity now looks a lot like expansion.
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