Hatha Yoga and meditation classes are offered regularly at Community Yoga Center at no cost about twenty times a week. All regular practice opportunities are free and registration is not required. Please feel free to visit us for our weekly offerings – we would love to meet you.
Community Yoga Center and Community Yoga Initiative will be taking “radical rest” during the month of July. A full schedule of community yoga and meditation offerings will resume August 1.
Reserved for Private Event - Dani Adams & Lina Hogan - Open Practice - 7am-9am
Reserved for Private Event - Carly Pierce - Solidarity In Motion -9am-10am
Reserved for Private Event - Catherine Murray - Grand Rising - 6am-7am
Reserved for Private Event - Catherine Murray - Grand Rising - 6am-7am
Reserved for Private Event - Kylee Moats - 1pm-9pm
Reserved for Private Event - Kylee Moats - 1pm-9pm
Rise and shine for your body and mind. This offering integrates yin and yang aspects of asana and pranayama practice to optimize energetic vitality and presence. Feel into the freshness of all kinds of new beginnings and endings, and explore the magnitude of your limitless potential.
Meditation can be beneficial at any time of day, but there’s something beautiful about beginning the day mindfully with meditation. We do not advocate any particular method of meditation and our regular meditators practice a variety of meditation methods, including single-pointed concentration, open awareness meditation, and prayer. If you're new to meditation, focusing on your breath can be a beautiful starting point for your practice.
Like new skool ashtanga, community ashtanga is a postural practice that links breath and movement in a dynamic sequence of poses. We follows the primary sequence of postures - about 75 incredible poses that are repeated during every practice session. Each posture is held for a certain number of breaths (about 5) and includes transitional movements into and out of the poses. However, in community led ashtanga, there is no authority per se who’s “authorized” to officiate the group practice. Instead, we facilitate communally, with multiple practitioners offering sequencing and alignment cues during practice.
You're invited to join us for LUNASA - a Gaelic celebration of Summer Harvest with Catherine Murray. This is an evening of movement, connection, and reflection on Friday, August 1 from 6:30pm-8:30pm at Community Yoga Center (2900 Adams Street, A-20, Riverside CA, 92504). This event if freely offered. No registration is required. Everyone is welcome.
Experience energetic balance and vitality with Catherine Murray in this art-full yoga practice that integrates a dynamic sequence of yoga movements and breathing. Catherine is known for facilitating yoga with creativity and love where the whole practice feels like art itself - an engaging play of perception and expression.
Yin yoga is a gentle, slow-paced postural yoga practice where poses are held for extended periods of time. Three-minute holds are not uncommon. Most yin yoga poses are seated or supine. The sustained traction of yin yoga reaches deep connective tissue, stretching and stimulating fascia, tendons, and ligaments – especially when muscles are not engaged. With muscles relaxed, the connective tissues around joints can be accessed without interference at a deeper level, allowing them to be remodeled and revitalized.
Meditation can be beneficial at any time of day, but there’s something beautiful about beginning the day mindfully with meditation. We do not advocate any particular method of meditation and our regular meditators practice a variety of meditation methods, including single-pointed concentration, open awareness meditation, and prayer. If you're new to meditation, focusing on your breath can be a beautiful starting point for your practice.
YOU'RE INVITED TO JOIN US AT COMMUNITY YOGA CENTER FOR THE ART OF MEDITATION WITH KRISTIN!
Meditation, like art, is a dynamic process of emancipated expression and perception. In meditation, you are the artist, art, and art lover. Moment by moment you are the artist consciously and unconsciously expressing your self through the medium of body sensations, mind states, and feeling tones. Your perennial expression of “you” creates an ongoing work of art. When you witness this perpetual “you-art,” you are the art lover perceiving what’s expressed, from the ordinary to the ineffable. This experience of expression and perception can evoke real intimacy with your self and the great mystery of life itself - it can reveal eternal truths.
The Art of Meditation course offers a way to open and deepen perception and develop a wise relationship with the nature of experience. Cultivating present moment awareness imbued with courageous honesty and radical love is the foundational practice. It works against our habit of wanting to be distracted - of not wanting to meet life as it actually is - of looking outside ourselves for something to ease our pain and suffering. This practice allows us to experience the precious gift of being alive - it helps us feel into our physical, mental, and emotional experience and feel more connected to life itself.
This course explores three forms of meditation and encourages you create your own unique trinity meditation practice by integrating the three forms. The Art of Meditation course provides opportunities for you to:
If you feel at all drawn to take a step into the world of meditation - to create and sustain a meaningful meditation practice that can cause lasting change - a practice that literally changes your brain and how you experience life - consider enrolling in this course. This five-week asynchronous course allows you to learn at your own pace and refer back to course content during your meditation journey. It includes over twenty recorded offerings and accompanying written materials. The course is designed for you to spend about an hour at the start of your week feeling into the module concepts, and then practice a specific meditation technique for that week. Understanding the “why” behind the meditation methods and consistently practicing meditation over the course of five weeks is the power behind this course - it’s what creates such significant potential for change - for a shift into deeper truth and love.
Meditation has touched my life with profound love, and I hope this course is a continuation of that love. - Kristin
WE ARE BUILT ON GIVING
This offering is provided solely through voluntary giving. The giving of many is what allows this gathering to be offered so freely. Anyone who’s experienced benefit from this offerings is invited to give for the benefit of others. There are many ways to give beyond financial contributions. Giving includes all types of altruistic service.
In giving, we expand our hearts in a way that recognizes we are not actually separate from others. Giving is a letting go of a sense of separateness that’s based in ignorance. When we practice giving, we feel into how we all depend on one another - how we are all part of the whole. In this way, giving is the natural response of the awakened heart.
You’re invited to give according to your volition and means - in whatever ways resonate with you. You might like to make monetary donations, contribute to our collective resources, or dedicate your time and skill to assist the community.
Check with Toby & Austin for more details about this event.
New skool ashtanga values the genius of old school ashtanga poses, sequencing, and intentionality of breath - without the old school asana fundamentalism that fuels insidious competition around physical abilities. New skool ashtanga emphasizes the joy of practice - the creativity, love, and self-realization that’s cultivated in an atmosphere of infinite possibilities. New skool ashtanga includes subtle energy experiencing not only through linking ujjayi breath with a dynamic sequence of asanas, but also through pranayama that punctuates particular parts of practice.
Meditation can be beneficial at any time of day, but there’s something beautiful about beginning the day mindfully with meditation. We do not advocate any particular method of meditation and our regular meditators practice a variety of meditation methods, including single-pointed concentration, open awareness meditation, and prayer. If you're new to meditation, focusing on your breath can be a beautiful starting point for your practice.
Like new skool ashtanga, community ashtanga is a postural practice that links breath and movement in a dynamic sequence of poses. We follows the primary sequence of postures - about 75 incredible poses that are repeated during every practice session. Each posture is held for a certain number of breaths (about 5) and includes transitional movements into and out of the poses. However, in community led ashtanga, there is no authority per se who’s “authorized” to officiate the group practice. Instead, we facilitate communally, with multiple practitioners offering sequencing and alignment cues during practice.
This is a restorative freestyle yoga offering imbued in a mood evoking relaxed setting. Cherie is facilitating. Come and practice with us if you have the audacity to rest.
Meditation can be beneficial at any time of day, but there’s something beautiful about beginning the day mindfully with meditation. We do not advocate any particular method of meditation and our regular meditators practice a variety of meditation methods, including single-pointed concentration, open awareness meditation, and prayer. If you're new to meditation, focusing on your breath can be a beautiful starting point for your practice.
New skool ashtanga values the genius of primary series ashtanga poses, sequencing, and intentionality of breath - without the old school asana fundamentalism that fuels insidious competition around physical abilities. New skool ashtanga emphasizes the joy of practice - the creativity, love, and self-realization that’s cultivated in an atmosphere of infinite possibilities. New skool ashtanga includes subtle energy experiencing not only through linking ujjayi breath with a dynamic sequence of asanas, but also through pranayama that punctuates particular parts of practice.
This is a gentle yoga practice emphasizing deep stretches held for long periods of time in a calm and relaxing space. Come and join us if you’d like to let go of tension and stress while improving body flexibility.
Rise and shine for your body and mind. This offering integrates yin and yang aspects of asana and pranayama practice to optimize energetic vitality and presence. Feel into the freshness of all kinds of new beginnings and endings, and explore the magnitude of your limitless potential.
Meditation can be beneficial at any time of day, but there’s something beautiful about beginning the day mindfully with meditation. We do not advocate any particular method of meditation and our regular meditators practice a variety of meditation methods, including single-pointed concentration, open awareness meditation, and prayer. If you're new to meditation, focusing on your breath can be a beautiful starting point for your practice.
Reserved for Private Event - Kylee Moats - 1pm-9pm
Chair yoga is a gentle postural yoga practice that uses the support of a chair. The practice typically begins with gentle movements of the head, neck, and shoulders with emphasis on linking the breath with the movements. Sun salutations and warrior sequences follow, all while seated. After a series of hip openers, forward folds, and inversions in the chair, the practice usually ends with mindfulness meditation and offerings of gratitude and thanksgiving.
Yin yoga is a gentle, slow-paced postural yoga practice where poses are held for extended periods of time. Three-minute holds are not uncommon. Most yin yoga poses are seated or supine. The sustained traction of yin yoga reaches deep connective tissue, stretching and stimulating fascia, tendons, and ligaments – especially when muscles are not engaged. With muscles relaxed, the connective tissues around joints can be accessed without interference at a deeper level, allowing them to be remodeled and revitalized.
Meditation, like art, is a dynamic process of emancipated expression and perception. In meditation, you are the artist, art, and art lover. Moment by moment you are the artist consciously and unconsciously expressing your self through the medium of body sensations, mind states, and feeling tones. Your perennial expression of “you” creates an ongoing work of art. When you witness this perpetual “you-art,” you are the art lover perceiving what’s expressed, from the ordinary to the ineffable. This experience of expression and perception can evoke real intimacy with your self and the great mystery of life itself - it can reveal eternal truths.
The Art of Meditation course offers a way to open and deepen perception and develop a wise relationship with the nature of experience. Cultivating present moment awareness imbued with courageous honesty and radical love is the foundational practice. It works against our habit of wanting to be distracted - of not wanting to meet life as it actually is - of looking outside ourselves for something to ease our pain and suffering. This practice allows us to experience the precious gift of being alive - it helps us feel into our physical, mental, and emotional experience and feel more connected to life itself.
This course explores three forms of meditation and encourages you create your own unique trinity meditation practice by integrating the three forms. The Art of Meditation course provides opportunities for you to:
If you feel at all drawn to take a step into the world of meditation - to create and sustain a meaningful meditation practice that can cause lasting change - a practice that literally changes your brain and how you experience life - consider enrolling in this course. This five-week asynchronous course allows you to learn at your own pace and refer back to course content during your meditation journey. It includes over twenty recorded offerings and accompanying written materials. The course is designed for you to spend about an hour at the start of your week feeling into the module concepts, and then practice a specific meditation technique for that week. Understanding the “why” behind the meditation methods and consistently practicing meditation over the course of five weeks is the power behind this course - it’s what creates such significant potential for change - for a shift into deeper truth and love.
Meditation has touched my life with profound love, and I hope this course is a continuation of that love. - Kristin
WE ARE BUILT ON GIVING
Our practice opportunities are provided solely through voluntary giving. The giving of many is what allows the practice opportunities to be offered so freely. Anyone who’s experienced benefit from our offerings is invited to give for the benefit of others.
There are many ways to give beyond financial contributions. Giving includes all types of altruistic service, inside or outside our yoga community. Giving also includes generously sharing yoga and consistently practicing yoga with honesty and love. This kind of perpetual giving makes living yoga possible.
In giving, we loosen the grip of our greatest source of suffering - self-absorption. We expand our hearts in a way that recognizes we are not actually separate from others. Giving is a letting go of a sense of separateness that’s based in ignorance. When we practice giving, we feel into how we all depend on one another - how we are all part of the whole. In this way, giving is the natural response of the awakened heart.
You’re invited to give according to your volition and means - in whatever ways resonate with you. You might like to make monetary donations, contribute to our collective resources, or dedicate your time and skill to assist the community.
Meditation can be beneficial at any time of day, but there’s something beautiful about beginning the day mindfully with meditation. We do not advocate any particular method of meditation and our regular meditators practice a variety of meditation methods, including single-pointed concentration, open awareness meditation, and prayer. If you're new to meditation, focusing on your breath can be a beautiful starting point for your practice.
New skool ashtanga values the genius of old school ashtanga poses, sequencing, and intentionality of breath - without the old school asana fundamentalism that fuels insidious competition around physical abilities. New skool ashtanga emphasizes the joy of practice - the creativity, love, and self-realization that’s cultivated in an atmosphere of infinite possibilities. New skool ashtanga includes subtle energy experiencing not only through linking ujjayi breath with a dynamic sequence of asanas, but also through pranayama that punctuates particular parts of practice.
Release your day in a slow kind of way with Sunset Slowdown. This yang to yin style offering invites you to first dynamically engage your body to relieve tension built up through the day, then surrender into longer holds that promote the peace and relaxation your body-mind craves.
Rise and shine for your body and mind. This offering integrates yin and yang aspects of asana and pranayama practice to optimize energetic vitality and presence. Feel into the freshness of all kinds of new beginnings and endings, and explore the magnitude of your limitless potential.
Meditation can be beneficial at any time of day, but there’s something beautiful about beginning the day mindfully with meditation. We do not advocate any particular method of meditation and our regular meditators practice a variety of meditation methods, including single-pointed concentration, open awareness meditation, and prayer. If you're new to meditation, focusing on your breath can be a beautiful starting point for your practice.
Like new skool ashtanga, community ashtanga is a postural practice that links breath and movement in a dynamic sequence of poses. We follows the primary sequence of postures - about 75 incredible poses that are repeated during every practice session. Each posture is held for a certain number of breaths (about 5) and includes transitional movements into and out of the poses. However, in community led ashtanga, there is no authority per se who’s “authorized” to officiate the group practice. Instead, we facilitate communally, with multiple practitioners offering sequencing and alignment cues during practice.
Experience energetic balance and vitality with Catherine Murray in this art-full yoga practice that integrates a dynamic sequence of yoga movements and breathing. Catherine is known for facilitating yoga with creativity and love where the whole practice feels like art itself - an engaging play of perception and expression.
Yin yoga is a gentle, slow-paced postural yoga practice where poses are held for extended periods of time. Three-minute holds are not uncommon. Most yin yoga poses are seated or supine. The sustained traction of yin yoga reaches deep connective tissue, stretching and stimulating fascia, tendons, and ligaments – especially when muscles are not engaged. With muscles relaxed, the connective tissues around joints can be accessed without interference at a deeper level, allowing them to be remodeled and revitalized.
Meditation can be beneficial at any time of day, but there’s something beautiful about beginning the day mindfully with meditation. We do not advocate any particular method of meditation and our regular meditators practice a variety of meditation methods, including single-pointed concentration, open awareness meditation, and prayer. If you're new to meditation, focusing on your breath can be a beautiful starting point for your practice.
New skool ashtanga values the genius of old school ashtanga poses, sequencing, and intentionality of breath - without the old school asana fundamentalism that fuels insidious competition around physical abilities. New skool ashtanga emphasizes the joy of practice - the creativity, love, and self-realization that’s cultivated in an atmosphere of infinite possibilities. New skool ashtanga includes subtle energy experiencing not only through linking ujjayi breath with a dynamic sequence of asanas, but also through pranayama that punctuates particular parts of practice.
Sacred time for your body and mind, this offering includes gentle and vitalizing sun salutations followed by an immersive sound bowl experience to aid meditation.
Meditation can be beneficial at any time of day, but there’s something beautiful about beginning the day mindfully with meditation. We do not advocate any particular method of meditation and our regular meditators practice a variety of meditation methods, including single-pointed concentration, open awareness meditation, and prayer. If you're new to meditation, focusing on your breath can be a beautiful starting point for your practice.
Like new skool ashtanga, community ashtanga is a postural practice that links breath and movement in a dynamic sequence of poses. We follows the primary sequence of postures - about 75 incredible poses that are repeated during every practice session. Each posture is held for a certain number of breaths (about 5) and includes transitional movements into and out of the poses. However, in community led ashtanga, there is no authority per se who’s “authorized” to officiate the group practice. Instead, we facilitate communally, with multiple practitioners offering sequencing and alignment cues during practice.
This is a restorative freestyle yoga offering imbued in a mood evoking relaxed setting. Cherie is facilitating. Come and practice with us if you have the audacity to rest.
Meditation can be beneficial at any time of day, but there’s something beautiful about beginning the day mindfully with meditation. We do not advocate any particular method of meditation and our regular meditators practice a variety of meditation methods, including single-pointed concentration, open awareness meditation, and prayer. If you're new to meditation, focusing on your breath can be a beautiful starting point for your practice.
New skool ashtanga values the genius of primary series ashtanga poses, sequencing, and intentionality of breath - without the old school asana fundamentalism that fuels insidious competition around physical abilities. New skool ashtanga emphasizes the joy of practice - the creativity, love, and self-realization that’s cultivated in an atmosphere of infinite possibilities. New skool ashtanga includes subtle energy experiencing not only through linking ujjayi breath with a dynamic sequence of asanas, but also through pranayama that punctuates particular parts of practice.
This is a gentle yoga practice emphasizing deep stretches held for long periods of time in a calm and relaxing space. Come and join us if you’d like to let go of tension and stress while improving body flexibility.
Rise and shine for your body and mind. This offering integrates yin and yang aspects of asana and pranayama practice to optimize energetic vitality and presence. Feel into the freshness of all kinds of new beginnings and endings, and explore the magnitude of your limitless potential.
Meditation can be beneficial at any time of day, but there’s something beautiful about beginning the day mindfully with meditation. We do not advocate any particular method of meditation and our regular meditators practice a variety of meditation methods, including single-pointed concentration, open awareness meditation, and prayer. If you're new to meditation, focusing on your breath can be a beautiful starting point for your practice.
Reserved for Private Event - Kylee Moats - 1pm-9pm
Chair yoga is a gentle postural yoga practice that uses the support of a chair. The practice typically begins with gentle movements of the head, neck, and shoulders with emphasis on linking the breath with the movements. Sun salutations and warrior sequences follow, all while seated. After a series of hip openers, forward folds, and inversions in the chair, the practice usually ends with mindfulness meditation and offerings of gratitude and thanksgiving.
Yin yoga is a gentle, slow-paced postural yoga practice where poses are held for extended periods of time. Three-minute holds are not uncommon. Most yin yoga poses are seated or supine. The sustained traction of yin yoga reaches deep connective tissue, stretching and stimulating fascia, tendons, and ligaments – especially when muscles are not engaged. With muscles relaxed, the connective tissues around joints can be accessed without interference at a deeper level, allowing them to be remodeled and revitalized.
Meditation, like art, is a dynamic process of emancipated expression and perception. In meditation, you are the artist, art, and art lover. Moment by moment you are the artist consciously and unconsciously expressing your self through the medium of body sensations, mind states, and feeling tones. Your perennial expression of “you” creates an ongoing work of art. When you witness this perpetual “you-art,” you are the art lover perceiving what’s expressed, from the ordinary to the ineffable. This experience of expression and perception can evoke real intimacy with your self and the great mystery of life itself - it can reveal eternal truths.
The Art of Meditation course offers a way to open and deepen perception and develop a wise relationship with the nature of experience. Cultivating present moment awareness imbued with courageous honesty and radical love is the foundational practice. It works against our habit of wanting to be distracted - of not wanting to meet life as it actually is - of looking outside ourselves for something to ease our pain and suffering. This practice allows us to experience the precious gift of being alive - it helps us feel into our physical, mental, and emotional experience and feel more connected to life itself.
This course explores three forms of meditation and encourages you create your own unique trinity meditation practice by integrating the three forms. The Art of Meditation course provides opportunities for you to:
If you feel at all drawn to take a step into the world of meditation - to create and sustain a meaningful meditation practice that can cause lasting change - a practice that literally changes your brain and how you experience life - consider enrolling in this course. This five-week asynchronous course allows you to learn at your own pace and refer back to course content during your meditation journey. It includes over twenty recorded offerings and accompanying written materials. The course is designed for you to spend about an hour at the start of your week feeling into the module concepts, and then practice a specific meditation technique for that week. Understanding the “why” behind the meditation methods and consistently practicing meditation over the course of five weeks is the power behind this course - it’s what creates such significant potential for change - for a shift into deeper truth and love.
Meditation has touched my life with profound love, and I hope this course is a continuation of that love. - Kristin
WE ARE BUILT ON GIVING
Our practice opportunities are provided solely through voluntary giving. The giving of many is what allows the practice opportunities to be offered so freely. Anyone who’s experienced benefit from our offerings is invited to give for the benefit of others.
There are many ways to give beyond financial contributions. Giving includes all types of altruistic service, inside or outside our yoga community. Giving also includes generously sharing yoga and consistently practicing yoga with honesty and love. This kind of perpetual giving makes living yoga possible.
In giving, we loosen the grip of our greatest source of suffering - self-absorption. We expand our hearts in a way that recognizes we are not actually separate from others. Giving is a letting go of a sense of separateness that’s based in ignorance. When we practice giving, we feel into how we all depend on one another - how we are all part of the whole. In this way, giving is the natural response of the awakened heart.
You’re invited to give according to your volition and means - in whatever ways resonate with you. You might like to make monetary donations, contribute to our collective resources, or dedicate your time and skill to assist the community.
Meditation can be beneficial at any time of day, but there’s something beautiful about beginning the day mindfully with meditation. We do not advocate any particular method of meditation and our regular meditators practice a variety of meditation methods, including single-pointed concentration, open awareness meditation, and prayer. If you're new to meditation, focusing on your breath can be a beautiful starting point for your practice.
New skool ashtanga values the genius of old school ashtanga poses, sequencing, and intentionality of breath - without the old school asana fundamentalism that fuels insidious competition around physical abilities. New skool ashtanga emphasizes the joy of practice - the creativity, love, and self-realization that’s cultivated in an atmosphere of infinite possibilities. New skool ashtanga includes subtle energy experiencing not only through linking ujjayi breath with a dynamic sequence of asanas, but also through pranayama that punctuates particular parts of practice.
Release your day in a slow kind of way with Sunset Slowdown. This yang to yin style offering invites you to first dynamically engage your body to relieve tension built up through the day, then surrender into longer holds that promote the peace and relaxation your body-mind craves.
Rise and shine for your body and mind. This offering integrates yin and yang aspects of asana and pranayama practice to optimize energetic vitality and presence. Feel into the freshness of all kinds of new beginnings and endings, and explore the magnitude of your limitless potential.
Meditation can be beneficial at any time of day, but there’s something beautiful about beginning the day mindfully with meditation. We do not advocate any particular method of meditation and our regular meditators practice a variety of meditation methods, including single-pointed concentration, open awareness meditation, and prayer. If you're new to meditation, focusing on your breath can be a beautiful starting point for your practice.
Like new skool ashtanga, community ashtanga is a postural practice that links breath and movement in a dynamic sequence of poses. We follows the primary sequence of postures - about 75 incredible poses that are repeated during every practice session. Each posture is held for a certain number of breaths (about 5) and includes transitional movements into and out of the poses. However, in community led ashtanga, there is no authority per se who’s “authorized” to officiate the group practice. Instead, we facilitate communally, with multiple practitioners offering sequencing and alignment cues during practice.
Experience energetic balance and vitality with Catherine Murray in this art-full yoga practice that integrates a dynamic sequence of yoga movements and breathing. Catherine is known for facilitating yoga with creativity and love where the whole practice feels like art itself - an engaging play of perception and expression.
Yin yoga is a gentle, slow-paced postural yoga practice where poses are held for extended periods of time. Three-minute holds are not uncommon. Most yin yoga poses are seated or supine. The sustained traction of yin yoga reaches deep connective tissue, stretching and stimulating fascia, tendons, and ligaments – especially when muscles are not engaged. With muscles relaxed, the connective tissues around joints can be accessed without interference at a deeper level, allowing them to be remodeled and revitalized.
Meditation can be beneficial at any time of day, but there’s something beautiful about beginning the day mindfully with meditation. We do not advocate any particular method of meditation and our regular meditators practice a variety of meditation methods, including single-pointed concentration, open awareness meditation, and prayer. If you're new to meditation, focusing on your breath can be a beautiful starting point for your practice.
Reserved for Kylee Moats - Event Time?
New skool ashtanga values the genius of old school ashtanga poses, sequencing, and intentionality of breath - without the old school asana fundamentalism that fuels insidious competition around physical abilities. New skool ashtanga emphasizes the joy of practice - the creativity, love, and self-realization that’s cultivated in an atmosphere of infinite possibilities. New skool ashtanga includes subtle energy experiencing not only through linking ujjayi breath with a dynamic sequence of asanas, but also through pranayama that punctuates particular parts of practice.
Meditation can be beneficial at any time of day, but there’s something beautiful about beginning the day mindfully with meditation. We do not advocate any particular method of meditation and our regular meditators practice a variety of meditation methods, including single-pointed concentration, open awareness meditation, and prayer. If you're new to meditation, focusing on your breath can be a beautiful starting point for your practice.
Like new skool ashtanga, community ashtanga is a postural practice that links breath and movement in a dynamic sequence of poses. We follows the primary sequence of postures - about 75 incredible poses that are repeated during every practice session. Each posture is held for a certain number of breaths (about 5) and includes transitional movements into and out of the poses. However, in community led ashtanga, there is no authority per se who’s “authorized” to officiate the group practice. Instead, we facilitate communally, with multiple practitioners offering sequencing and alignment cues during practice.
This is a restorative freestyle yoga offering imbued in a mood evoking relaxed setting. Cherie is facilitating. Come and practice with us if you have the audacity to rest.
Meditation can be beneficial at any time of day, but there’s something beautiful about beginning the day mindfully with meditation. We do not advocate any particular method of meditation and our regular meditators practice a variety of meditation methods, including single-pointed concentration, open awareness meditation, and prayer. If you're new to meditation, focusing on your breath can be a beautiful starting point for your practice.
New skool ashtanga values the genius of primary series ashtanga poses, sequencing, and intentionality of breath - without the old school asana fundamentalism that fuels insidious competition around physical abilities. New skool ashtanga emphasizes the joy of practice - the creativity, love, and self-realization that’s cultivated in an atmosphere of infinite possibilities. New skool ashtanga includes subtle energy experiencing not only through linking ujjayi breath with a dynamic sequence of asanas, but also through pranayama that punctuates particular parts of practice.
This is a gentle yoga practice emphasizing deep stretches held for long periods of time in a calm and relaxing space. Come and join us if you’d like to let go of tension and stress while improving body flexibility.
Rise and shine for your body and mind. This offering integrates yin and yang aspects of asana and pranayama practice to optimize energetic vitality and presence. Feel into the freshness of all kinds of new beginnings and endings, and explore the magnitude of your limitless potential.
Meditation can be beneficial at any time of day, but there’s something beautiful about beginning the day mindfully with meditation. We do not advocate any particular method of meditation and our regular meditators practice a variety of meditation methods, including single-pointed concentration, open awareness meditation, and prayer. If you're new to meditation, focusing on your breath can be a beautiful starting point for your practice.
Reserved for Private Event - Kylee Moats - 1pm-9pm
Chair yoga is a gentle postural yoga practice that uses the support of a chair. The practice typically begins with gentle movements of the head, neck, and shoulders with emphasis on linking the breath with the movements. Sun salutations and warrior sequences follow, all while seated. After a series of hip openers, forward folds, and inversions in the chair, the practice usually ends with mindfulness meditation and offerings of gratitude and thanksgiving.
Yin yoga is a gentle, slow-paced postural yoga practice where poses are held for extended periods of time. Three-minute holds are not uncommon. Most yin yoga poses are seated or supine. The sustained traction of yin yoga reaches deep connective tissue, stretching and stimulating fascia, tendons, and ligaments – especially when muscles are not engaged. With muscles relaxed, the connective tissues around joints can be accessed without interference at a deeper level, allowing them to be remodeled and revitalized.
Meditation, like art, is a dynamic process of emancipated expression and perception. In meditation, you are the artist, art, and art lover. Moment by moment you are the artist consciously and unconsciously expressing your self through the medium of body sensations, mind states, and feeling tones. Your perennial expression of “you” creates an ongoing work of art. When you witness this perpetual “you-art,” you are the art lover perceiving what’s expressed, from the ordinary to the ineffable. This experience of expression and perception can evoke real intimacy with your self and the great mystery of life itself - it can reveal eternal truths.
The Art of Meditation course offers a way to open and deepen perception and develop a wise relationship with the nature of experience. Cultivating present moment awareness imbued with courageous honesty and radical love is the foundational practice. It works against our habit of wanting to be distracted - of not wanting to meet life as it actually is - of looking outside ourselves for something to ease our pain and suffering. This practice allows us to experience the precious gift of being alive - it helps us feel into our physical, mental, and emotional experience and feel more connected to life itself.
This course explores three forms of meditation and encourages you create your own unique trinity meditation practice by integrating the three forms. The Art of Meditation course provides opportunities for you to:
If you feel at all drawn to take a step into the world of meditation - to create and sustain a meaningful meditation practice that can cause lasting change - a practice that literally changes your brain and how you experience life - consider enrolling in this course. This five-week asynchronous course allows you to learn at your own pace and refer back to course content during your meditation journey. It includes over twenty recorded offerings and accompanying written materials. The course is designed for you to spend about an hour at the start of your week feeling into the module concepts, and then practice a specific meditation technique for that week. Understanding the “why” behind the meditation methods and consistently practicing meditation over the course of five weeks is the power behind this course - it’s what creates such significant potential for change - for a shift into deeper truth and love.
Meditation has touched my life with profound love, and I hope this course is a continuation of that love. - Kristin
WE ARE BUILT ON GIVING
Our practice opportunities are provided solely through voluntary giving. The giving of many is what allows the practice opportunities to be offered so freely. Anyone who’s experienced benefit from our offerings is invited to give for the benefit of others.
There are many ways to give beyond financial contributions. Giving includes all types of altruistic service, inside or outside our yoga community. Giving also includes generously sharing yoga and consistently practicing yoga with honesty and love. This kind of perpetual giving makes living yoga possible.
In giving, we loosen the grip of our greatest source of suffering - self-absorption. We expand our hearts in a way that recognizes we are not actually separate from others. Giving is a letting go of a sense of separateness that’s based in ignorance. When we practice giving, we feel into how we all depend on one another - how we are all part of the whole. In this way, giving is the natural response of the awakened heart.
You’re invited to give according to your volition and means - in whatever ways resonate with you. You might like to make monetary donations, contribute to our collective resources, or dedicate your time and skill to assist the community.
Meditation can be beneficial at any time of day, but there’s something beautiful about beginning the day mindfully with meditation. We do not advocate any particular method of meditation and our regular meditators practice a variety of meditation methods, including single-pointed concentration, open awareness meditation, and prayer. If you're new to meditation, focusing on your breath can be a beautiful starting point for your practice.
New skool ashtanga values the genius of old school ashtanga poses, sequencing, and intentionality of breath - without the old school asana fundamentalism that fuels insidious competition around physical abilities. New skool ashtanga emphasizes the joy of practice - the creativity, love, and self-realization that’s cultivated in an atmosphere of infinite possibilities. New skool ashtanga includes subtle energy experiencing not only through linking ujjayi breath with a dynamic sequence of asanas, but also through pranayama that punctuates particular parts of practice.
Release your day in a slow kind of way with Sunset Slowdown. This yang to yin style offering invites you to first dynamically engage your body to relieve tension built up through the day, then surrender into longer holds that promote the peace and relaxation your body-mind craves.
Rise and shine for your body and mind. This offering integrates yin and yang aspects of asana and pranayama practice to optimize energetic vitality and presence. Feel into the freshness of all kinds of new beginnings and endings, and explore the magnitude of your limitless potential.
Meditation can be beneficial at any time of day, but there’s something beautiful about beginning the day mindfully with meditation. We do not advocate any particular method of meditation and our regular meditators practice a variety of meditation methods, including single-pointed concentration, open awareness meditation, and prayer. If you're new to meditation, focusing on your breath can be a beautiful starting point for your practice.
Like new skool ashtanga, community ashtanga is a postural practice that links breath and movement in a dynamic sequence of poses. We follows the primary sequence of postures - about 75 incredible poses that are repeated during every practice session. Each posture is held for a certain number of breaths (about 5) and includes transitional movements into and out of the poses. However, in community led ashtanga, there is no authority per se who’s “authorized” to officiate the group practice. Instead, we facilitate communally, with multiple practitioners offering sequencing and alignment cues during practice.
Experience energetic balance and vitality with Catherine Murray in this art-full yoga practice that integrates a dynamic sequence of yoga movements and breathing. Catherine is known for facilitating yoga with creativity and love where the whole practice feels like art itself - an engaging play of perception and expression.
Yin yoga is a gentle, slow-paced postural yoga practice where poses are held for extended periods of time. Three-minute holds are not uncommon. Most yin yoga poses are seated or supine. The sustained traction of yin yoga reaches deep connective tissue, stretching and stimulating fascia, tendons, and ligaments – especially when muscles are not engaged. With muscles relaxed, the connective tissues around joints can be accessed without interference at a deeper level, allowing them to be remodeled and revitalized.
Meditation can be beneficial at any time of day, but there’s something beautiful about beginning the day mindfully with meditation. We do not advocate any particular method of meditation and our regular meditators practice a variety of meditation methods, including single-pointed concentration, open awareness meditation, and prayer. If you're new to meditation, focusing on your breath can be a beautiful starting point for your practice.
New skool ashtanga values the genius of old school ashtanga poses, sequencing, and intentionality of breath - without the old school asana fundamentalism that fuels insidious competition around physical abilities. New skool ashtanga emphasizes the joy of practice - the creativity, love, and self-realization that’s cultivated in an atmosphere of infinite possibilities. New skool ashtanga includes subtle energy experiencing not only through linking ujjayi breath with a dynamic sequence of asanas, but also through pranayama that punctuates particular parts of practice.
Sacred time for your body and mind, this offering includes gentle and vitalizing sun salutations followed by an immersive sound bowl experience to aid meditation.
Meditation can be beneficial at any time of day, but there’s something beautiful about beginning the day mindfully with meditation. We do not advocate any particular method of meditation and our regular meditators practice a variety of meditation methods, including single-pointed concentration, open awareness meditation, and prayer. If you're new to meditation, focusing on your breath can be a beautiful starting point for your practice.
Like new skool ashtanga, community ashtanga is a postural practice that links breath and movement in a dynamic sequence of poses. We follows the primary sequence of postures - about 75 incredible poses that are repeated during every practice session. Each posture is held for a certain number of breaths (about 5) and includes transitional movements into and out of the poses. However, in community led ashtanga, there is no authority per se who’s “authorized” to officiate the group practice. Instead, we facilitate communally, with multiple practitioners offering sequencing and alignment cues during practice.
This is a restorative freestyle yoga offering imbued in a mood evoking relaxed setting. Cherie is facilitating. Come and practice with us if you have the audacity to rest.
Meditation can be beneficial at any time of day, but there’s something beautiful about beginning the day mindfully with meditation. We do not advocate any particular method of meditation and our regular meditators practice a variety of meditation methods, including single-pointed concentration, open awareness meditation, and prayer. If you're new to meditation, focusing on your breath can be a beautiful starting point for your practice.
New skool ashtanga values the genius of primary series ashtanga poses, sequencing, and intentionality of breath - without the old school asana fundamentalism that fuels insidious competition around physical abilities. New skool ashtanga emphasizes the joy of practice - the creativity, love, and self-realization that’s cultivated in an atmosphere of infinite possibilities. New skool ashtanga includes subtle energy experiencing not only through linking ujjayi breath with a dynamic sequence of asanas, but also through pranayama that punctuates particular parts of practice.
This is a gentle yoga practice emphasizing deep stretches held for long periods of time in a calm and relaxing space. Come and join us if you’d like to let go of tension and stress while improving body flexibility.
Rise and shine for your body and mind. This offering integrates yin and yang aspects of asana and pranayama practice to optimize energetic vitality and presence. Feel into the freshness of all kinds of new beginnings and endings, and explore the magnitude of your limitless potential.
Meditation can be beneficial at any time of day, but there’s something beautiful about beginning the day mindfully with meditation. We do not advocate any particular method of meditation and our regular meditators practice a variety of meditation methods, including single-pointed concentration, open awareness meditation, and prayer. If you're new to meditation, focusing on your breath can be a beautiful starting point for your practice.
Reserved for Private Event - Kylee Moats - 1pm-9pm
Chair yoga is a gentle postural yoga practice that uses the support of a chair. The practice typically begins with gentle movements of the head, neck, and shoulders with emphasis on linking the breath with the movements. Sun salutations and warrior sequences follow, all while seated. After a series of hip openers, forward folds, and inversions in the chair, the practice usually ends with mindfulness meditation and offerings of gratitude and thanksgiving.
Yin yoga is a gentle, slow-paced postural yoga practice where poses are held for extended periods of time. Three-minute holds are not uncommon. Most yin yoga poses are seated or supine. The sustained traction of yin yoga reaches deep connective tissue, stretching and stimulating fascia, tendons, and ligaments – especially when muscles are not engaged. With muscles relaxed, the connective tissues around joints can be accessed without interference at a deeper level, allowing them to be remodeled and revitalized.
Meditation, like art, is a dynamic process of emancipated expression and perception. In meditation, you are the artist, art, and art lover. Moment by moment you are the artist consciously and unconsciously expressing your self through the medium of body sensations, mind states, and feeling tones. Your perennial expression of “you” creates an ongoing work of art. When you witness this perpetual “you-art,” you are the art lover perceiving what’s expressed, from the ordinary to the ineffable. This experience of expression and perception can evoke real intimacy with your self and the great mystery of life itself - it can reveal eternal truths.
The Art of Meditation course offers a way to open and deepen perception and develop a wise relationship with the nature of experience. Cultivating present moment awareness imbued with courageous honesty and radical love is the foundational practice. It works against our habit of wanting to be distracted - of not wanting to meet life as it actually is - of looking outside ourselves for something to ease our pain and suffering. This practice allows us to experience the precious gift of being alive - it helps us feel into our physical, mental, and emotional experience and feel more connected to life itself.
This course explores three forms of meditation and encourages you create your own unique trinity meditation practice by integrating the three forms. The Art of Meditation course provides opportunities for you to:
If you feel at all drawn to take a step into the world of meditation - to create and sustain a meaningful meditation practice that can cause lasting change - a practice that literally changes your brain and how you experience life - consider enrolling in this course. This five-week asynchronous course allows you to learn at your own pace and refer back to course content during your meditation journey. It includes over twenty recorded offerings and accompanying written materials. The course is designed for you to spend about an hour at the start of your week feeling into the module concepts, and then practice a specific meditation technique for that week. Understanding the “why” behind the meditation methods and consistently practicing meditation over the course of five weeks is the power behind this course - it’s what creates such significant potential for change - for a shift into deeper truth and love.
Meditation has touched my life with profound love, and I hope this course is a continuation of that love. - Kristin
WE ARE BUILT ON GIVING
Our practice opportunities are provided solely through voluntary giving. The giving of many is what allows the practice opportunities to be offered so freely. Anyone who’s experienced benefit from our offerings is invited to give for the benefit of others.
There are many ways to give beyond financial contributions. Giving includes all types of altruistic service, inside or outside our yoga community. Giving also includes generously sharing yoga and consistently practicing yoga with honesty and love. This kind of perpetual giving makes living yoga possible.
In giving, we loosen the grip of our greatest source of suffering - self-absorption. We expand our hearts in a way that recognizes we are not actually separate from others. Giving is a letting go of a sense of separateness that’s based in ignorance. When we practice giving, we feel into how we all depend on one another - how we are all part of the whole. In this way, giving is the natural response of the awakened heart.
You’re invited to give according to your volition and means - in whatever ways resonate with you. You might like to make monetary donations, contribute to our collective resources, or dedicate your time and skill to assist the community.
Meditation can be beneficial at any time of day, but there’s something beautiful about beginning the day mindfully with meditation. We do not advocate any particular method of meditation and our regular meditators practice a variety of meditation methods, including single-pointed concentration, open awareness meditation, and prayer. If you're new to meditation, focusing on your breath can be a beautiful starting point for your practice.
New skool ashtanga values the genius of old school ashtanga poses, sequencing, and intentionality of breath - without the old school asana fundamentalism that fuels insidious competition around physical abilities. New skool ashtanga emphasizes the joy of practice - the creativity, love, and self-realization that’s cultivated in an atmosphere of infinite possibilities. New skool ashtanga includes subtle energy experiencing not only through linking ujjayi breath with a dynamic sequence of asanas, but also through pranayama that punctuates particular parts of practice.
Release your day in a slow kind of way with Sunset Slowdown. This yang to yin style offering invites you to first dynamically engage your body to relieve tension built up through the day, then surrender into longer holds that promote the peace and relaxation your body-mind craves.
Rise and shine for your body and mind. This offering integrates yin and yang aspects of asana and pranayama practice to optimize energetic vitality and presence. Feel into the freshness of all kinds of new beginnings and endings, and explore the magnitude of your limitless potential.
Meditation can be beneficial at any time of day, but there’s something beautiful about beginning the day mindfully with meditation. We do not advocate any particular method of meditation and our regular meditators practice a variety of meditation methods, including single-pointed concentration, open awareness meditation, and prayer. If you're new to meditation, focusing on your breath can be a beautiful starting point for your practice.
Like new skool ashtanga, community ashtanga is a postural practice that links breath and movement in a dynamic sequence of poses. We follows the primary sequence of postures - about 75 incredible poses that are repeated during every practice session. Each posture is held for a certain number of breaths (about 5) and includes transitional movements into and out of the poses. However, in community led ashtanga, there is no authority per se who’s “authorized” to officiate the group practice. Instead, we facilitate communally, with multiple practitioners offering sequencing and alignment cues during practice.
Experience energetic balance and vitality with Catherine Murray in this art-full yoga practice that integrates a dynamic sequence of yoga movements and breathing. Catherine is known for facilitating yoga with creativity and love where the whole practice feels like art itself - an engaging play of perception and expression.
Yin yoga is a gentle, slow-paced postural yoga practice where poses are held for extended periods of time. Three-minute holds are not uncommon. Most yin yoga poses are seated or supine. The sustained traction of yin yoga reaches deep connective tissue, stretching and stimulating fascia, tendons, and ligaments – especially when muscles are not engaged. With muscles relaxed, the connective tissues around joints can be accessed without interference at a deeper level, allowing them to be remodeled and revitalized.
Meditation can be beneficial at any time of day, but there’s something beautiful about beginning the day mindfully with meditation. We do not advocate any particular method of meditation and our regular meditators practice a variety of meditation methods, including single-pointed concentration, open awareness meditation, and prayer. If you're new to meditation, focusing on your breath can be a beautiful starting point for your practice.
New skool ashtanga values the genius of old school ashtanga poses, sequencing, and intentionality of breath - without the old school asana fundamentalism that fuels insidious competition around physical abilities. New skool ashtanga emphasizes the joy of practice - the creativity, love, and self-realization that’s cultivated in an atmosphere of infinite possibilities. New skool ashtanga includes subtle energy experiencing not only through linking ujjayi breath with a dynamic sequence of asanas, but also through pranayama that punctuates particular parts of practice.
A gathering of the Community Yoga Center Board of Directors. Committee Chairs and Mentors are welcome to attend the first thirty minutes of this gathering to ask questions, give updates, and provide conscious feedback.
This is a virtual meeting for the Community Yoga Center Organizing Team. The Board of Directors, Committee Chairs, and Mentors are all invited to attend this gathering. Please reach out to Kristin for the Zoom link and credentials.
A gathering of the Community Yoga Center Board of Directors. Committee Chairs and Mentors are welcome to attend the first thirty minutes of this gathering to ask questions, give updates, and provide conscious feedback.
A gathering of the Community Yoga Center Board of Directors. Committee Chairs and Mentors are welcome to attend the first thirty minutes of this gathering to ask questions, give updates, and provide conscious feedback.
A gathering of the Community Yoga Center Board of Directors. Committee Chairs and Mentors are welcome to attend the first thirty minutes of this gathering to ask questions, give updates, and provide conscious feedback.
This is a virtual meeting for the Community Yoga Center Organizing Team. The Board of Directors, Committee Chairs, and Mentors are all invited to attend this gathering. Please reach out to Kristin for the Zoom link and credentials.
A gathering of the Community Yoga Center Board of Directors. Committee Chairs and Mentors are welcome to attend the first thirty minutes of this gathering to ask questions, give updates, and provide conscious feedback.
A gathering of the Community Yoga Center Board of Directors. Committee Chairs and Mentors are welcome to attend the first thirty minutes of this gathering to ask questions, give updates, and provide conscious feedback.
A gathering of the Community Yoga Center Board of Directors. Committee Chairs and Mentors are welcome to attend the first thirty minutes of this gathering to ask questions, give updates, and provide conscious feedback.
This is a virtual meeting for the Community Yoga Center Organizing Team. The Board of Directors, Committee Chairs, and Mentors are all invited to attend this gathering. Please reach out to Kristin for the Zoom link and credentials.
A gathering of the Community Yoga Center Board of Directors. Committee Chairs and Mentors are welcome to attend the first thirty minutes of this gathering to ask questions, give updates, and provide conscious feedback.
THIS IS PRACTICUM DAY! Students will either attend the morning session (10am-1pm) or afternoon session (1pm-4pm) to offer their practicum.
A gathering of the Community Yoga Center Board of Directors. Committee Chairs and Mentors are welcome to attend the first thirty minutes of this gathering to ask questions, give updates, and provide conscious feedback.
Something special happens when a community comes together with a shared purpose. Ananda Yoga Festival as more than just another event at the park. It’s a community of kindred spirits woven together by a collective love for movement, mindfulness, and meaningful connection. You’re invited to be part of the festival this year and co-create the experience with us.
You’re invited to:
Enjoy over 25 movement and mindfulness offerings in a beautiful outdoor space in the heart of downtown Riverside.
Experience the transformative power of music with an all-star line-up of legendary musicians collaborating to offer a heart-centered musical experience.
Learn how yoga fosters social change with justice advocate Bill Brown from the Prison Yoga Project.
Be part of a family-friendly event that includes a little yogis zone full of interactive experiences for children.
Support a mindful marketplace that values ecological sustainability, active lifestyles, nature and outdoor experiences, health and wellness, and yoga (of course!).
Be part of a conscious commUNITY that honors the interconnectedness of everyone and everything.
This year, Ananda Yoga Festival will be held on Saturday, May 17th from 9am to 6pm at White Park in the heart of downtown Riverside. Gates open at 8:30am and opening ceremonies will begin at 9am. Starting at 10am, yoga experiences will be facilitated simultaneously in different areas of White Park. At the top of each hour (11am, 12pm, and 1pm) another set of offerings will be shared. The keynote address will begin at 2pm followed by an afternoon concert in the park from 3pm-6pm.
Early bird tickets are only available until the end of March! This event is expected to sell out, so if you want to be part of this event, secure your spot today.
$30 Early Bird General Admission (Age 18+)
$20 Early Bird Youth Admission (Age 4-17)
Admission for children age 3 and under is FREE!
To get tickets and learn more about Ananda Yoga Festival, check out the festival website.
Reserved for Private Event - Carly Pierce - Solidarity In Motion -9am-10am
Reserved for Private Event - Dani Adams & Lina Hogan - Open Practice - 7am-9am
Reserved for Private Event - Kylee Moats - 1pm-9pm
Reserved for Private Event - Kylee Moats - 1pm-9pm
Reserved for Private Event - Catherine Murray - Grand Rising - 6am-7am
Reserved for Private Event - Catherine Murray - Grand Rising - 6am-7am
Reserved for Embodied Breath Yoga - Blanca Wright - The Art of Breathing - 11am-1pm
Reserved for Private Event - Carly Pierce - Solidarity In Motion -9am-10am
Reserved for Private Event - Dani Adams & Lina Hogan - Open Practice - 7am-9am
Reserved for Private Event - Catherine Murray - Grand Rising - 6am-7am
Reserved for Private Event - Catherine Murray - Grand Rising - 6am-7am
Reserved for Private Event - Carly Pierce - Solidarity In Motion -9am-10am
Kusalamula Bhikkhu is offering weekly dhamma learning and meditation on-line via Zoom every Saturday from 7:00AM to 8:30AM PT (10:00AM to 11:30AM ET) beginning June 7, 2025. These sessions are focused on the Buddha’s teachings in The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha (Majjhima Nikaya) along with guided meditation practice.
Reserved for Private Event - Dani Adams & Lina Hogan - Open Practice - 7am-9am
Like new skool ashtanga, community ashtanga is a postural practice that links breath and movement in a dynamic sequence of poses. We follows the primary sequence of postures - about 75 incredible poses that are repeated during every practice session. Each posture is held for a certain number of breaths (about 5) and includes transitional movements into and out of the poses. However, in community led ashtanga, there is no authority per se who’s “authorized” to officiate the group practice. Instead, we facilitate communally, with multiple practitioners offering sequencing and alignment cues during practice.
Meditation can be beneficial at any time of day, but there’s something beautiful about beginning the day mindfully with meditation. We do not advocate any particular method of meditation and our regular meditators practice a variety of meditation methods, including single-pointed concentration, open awareness meditation, and prayer. If you're new to meditation, focusing on your breath can be a beautiful starting point for your practice.
Rise and shine for your body and mind. This offering integrates yin and yang aspects of asana and pranayama practice to optimize energetic vitality and presence. Feel into the freshness of all kinds of new beginnings and endings, and explore the magnitude of your limitless potential.
Governing Retreat for Board of Directors
Yin yoga is a gentle, slow-paced postural yoga practice where poses are held for extended periods of time. Three-minute holds are not uncommon. Most yin yoga poses are seated or supine. The sustained traction of yin yoga reaches deep connective tissue, stretching and stimulating fascia, tendons, and ligaments – especially when muscles are not engaged. With muscles relaxed, the connective tissues around joints can be accessed without interference at a deeper level, allowing them to be remodeled and revitalized.
Governing Retreat for Board of Directors
Experience energetic balance and vitality with Catherine Murray in this art-full yoga practice that integrates a dynamic sequence of yoga movements and breathing. Catherine is known for facilitating yoga with creativity and love where the whole practice feels like art itself - an engaging play of perception and expression.
Kusalamula Bhikkhu is offering weekly dhamma learning and meditation on-line via Zoom every Saturday from 7:00AM to 8:30AM PT (10:00AM to 11:30AM ET) beginning June 7, 2025. These sessions are focused on the Buddha’s teachings in The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha (Majjhima Nikaya) along with guided meditation practice.
Like new skool ashtanga, community ashtanga is a postural practice that links breath and movement in a dynamic sequence of poses. We follows the primary sequence of postures - about 75 incredible poses that are repeated during every practice session. Each posture is held for a certain number of breaths (about 5) and includes transitional movements into and out of the poses. However, in community led ashtanga, there is no authority per se who’s “authorized” to officiate the group practice. Instead, we facilitate communally, with multiple practitioners offering sequencing and alignment cues during practice.
Governing Retreat for Board of Directors
Meditation can be beneficial at any time of day, but there’s something beautiful about beginning the day mindfully with meditation. We do not advocate any particular method of meditation and our regular meditators practice a variety of meditation methods, including single-pointed concentration, open awareness meditation, and prayer. If you're new to meditation, focusing on your breath can be a beautiful starting point for your practice.
Rise and shine for your body and mind. This offering integrates yin and yang aspects of asana and pranayama practice to optimize energetic vitality and presence. Feel into the freshness of all kinds of new beginnings and endings, and explore the magnitude of your limitless potential.
Release your day in a slow kind of way with Sunset Slowdown. This yang to yin style offering invites you to first dynamically engage your body to relieve tension built up through the day, then surrender into longer holds that promote the peace and relaxation your body-mind craves.
New skool ashtanga values the genius of old school ashtanga poses, sequencing, and intentionality of breath - without the old school asana fundamentalism that fuels insidious competition around physical abilities. New skool ashtanga emphasizes the joy of practice - the creativity, love, and self-realization that’s cultivated in an atmosphere of infinite possibilities. New skool ashtanga includes subtle energy experiencing not only through linking ujjayi breath with a dynamic sequence of asanas, but also through pranayama that punctuates particular parts of practice.
Meditation can be beneficial at any time of day, but there’s something beautiful about beginning the day mindfully with meditation. We do not advocate any particular method of meditation and our regular meditators practice a variety of meditation methods, including single-pointed concentration, open awareness meditation, and prayer. If you're new to meditation, focusing on your breath can be a beautiful starting point for your practice.
Yin yoga is a gentle, slow-paced postural yoga practice where poses are held for extended periods of time. Three-minute holds are not uncommon. Most yin yoga poses are seated or supine. The sustained traction of yin yoga reaches deep connective tissue, stretching and stimulating fascia, tendons, and ligaments – especially when muscles are not engaged. With muscles relaxed, the connective tissues around joints can be accessed without interference at a deeper level, allowing them to be remodeled and revitalized.
