
MOODY MONDAYS WITH CHERIE
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.
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.
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.
Ashtanga emphasizes a unique kind of yogic breathing called ujjayi pranayama. It’s unique because it can be done during asana (posture) practice, and when you come into class, that’s what we’ll be doing. We’ll be practicing. If you’ve never done Everyday Ashtanga, you’ll hear the ujjayi, and maybe something will click. We’ll give you an instruction sheet. It won’t make much sense, but if you keep coming, you’ll get it. We also talk after practicing. That helps. (NOTE to ashtangis: This is not “Mysore” Ashtanga. It’s more like what David Williams was doing back in the 70’s).
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.
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.
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
Seated yoga is a gentle postural yoga practice comprised of a sequences of seated yoga postures. 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 seated inversions, 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.
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.
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.
Ashtanga emphasizes a unique kind of yogic breathing called ujjayi pranayama. It’s unique because it can be done during asana (posture) practice, and when you come into class, that’s what we’ll be doing. We’ll be practicing. If you’ve never done Everyday Ashtanga, you’ll hear the ujjayi, and maybe something will click. We’ll give you an instruction sheet. It won’t make much sense, but if you keep coming, you’ll get it. We also talk after practicing. That helps. (NOTE to ashtangis: This is not “Mysore” Ashtanga. It’s more like what David Williams was doing back in the 70’s).
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.
Reserved for Private Event - Kylee Moats - 1pm-9pm
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.
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.
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.
The House Committee is meeting Sunday, September 7th at 8pm via Zoom to collaborate on ways we can support the committee responsibilities.
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.
Reserved for Private Event - Kylee Moats - 1pm-5pm
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.
Ashtanga emphasizes a unique kind of yogic breathing called ujjayi pranayama. It’s unique because it can be done during asana (posture) practice, and when you come into class, that’s what we’ll be doing. We’ll be practicing. If you’ve never done Everyday Ashtanga, you’ll hear the ujjayi, and maybe something will click. We’ll give you an instruction sheet. It won’t make much sense, but if you keep coming, you’ll get it. We also talk after practicing. That helps. (NOTE to ashtangis: This is not “Mysore” Ashtanga. It’s more like what David Williams was doing back in the 70’s).
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
Seated yoga is a gentle postural yoga practice comprised of a sequences of seated yoga postures. 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 seated inversions, 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.
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.
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.
Ashtanga emphasizes a unique kind of yogic breathing called ujjayi pranayama. It’s unique because it can be done during asana (posture) practice, and when you come into class, that’s what we’ll be doing. We’ll be practicing. If you’ve never done Everyday Ashtanga, you’ll hear the ujjayi, and maybe something will click. We’ll give you an instruction sheet. It won’t make much sense, but if you keep coming, you’ll get it. We also talk after practicing. That helps. (NOTE to ashtangis: This is not “Mysore” Ashtanga. It’s more like what David Williams was doing back in the 70’s).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
Reserved for Private Event - Kylee Moats - 1pm-5pm
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.
Ashtanga emphasizes a unique kind of yogic breathing called ujjayi pranayama. It’s unique because it can be done during asana (posture) practice, and when you come into class, that’s what we’ll be doing. We’ll be practicing. If you’ve never done Everyday Ashtanga, you’ll hear the ujjayi, and maybe something will click. We’ll give you an instruction sheet. It won’t make much sense, but if you keep coming, you’ll get it. We also talk after practicing. That helps. (NOTE to ashtangis: This is not “Mysore” Ashtanga. It’s more like what David Williams was doing back in the 70’s).
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
Seated yoga is a gentle postural yoga practice comprised of a sequences of seated yoga postures. 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 seated inversions, 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.
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.
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.
Ashtanga emphasizes a unique kind of yogic breathing called ujjayi pranayama. It’s unique because it can be done during asana (posture) practice, and when you come into class, that’s what we’ll be doing. We’ll be practicing. If you’ve never done Everyday Ashtanga, you’ll hear the ujjayi, and maybe something will click. We’ll give you an instruction sheet. It won’t make much sense, but if you keep coming, you’ll get it. We also talk after practicing. That helps. (NOTE to ashtangis: This is not “Mysore” Ashtanga. It’s more like what David Williams was doing back in the 70’s).
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.
Reserved for Private Event - Kylee Moats - 1pm-9pm
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.
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.
On Sunday, September 22nd, we’ll be honoring the Fall Equinox with a special sun salutation practice at Community Yoga Center. We hope you’ll consider being part of this seasonal event.
Practicing cycles of sun salutations with mantra is a beautiful yogic practice of offering gratitude for the light-giving force of the sun and recognizing the gift of life itself. It is a practice of reverence and commitment, and a special opportunity to connect in community.
Practicing a lot of sun salutations cycles (like 108!) can be an act of tapas. The Sanskrit word “tapas” can be translated to English to mean “heat causing change.” Practicing tapas involves purposely staying in the crucible of intense experience until its wild flames die to embers – embers that carry the potential to spark alchemical transfiguration.
Tapas recognizes the reality of suffering and asks us to willingly bear adversity to open to greater insight. It knows that sometimes we’re unaware of our own capacity unless we’re challenged and discover a force within us powerful enough to match the adversity we face. Practicing sun salutations in this way can be a kind of challenge that asks us to meet it with enough inspired passion, fortitude, and patience to willingly (and even enthusiastically) endure intense experience.
If you’re interested in welcoming intense experience in this way - as a part of the whole of our human experience, please consider practicing sun salutations with us on the Fall Equinox. It invites us to connect with a fierce kind of grace.
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.
Reserved for Private Event - Kylee Moats - 1pm-5pm
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.
Ashtanga emphasizes a unique kind of yogic breathing called ujjayi pranayama. It’s unique because it can be done during asana (posture) practice, and when you come into class, that’s what we’ll be doing. We’ll be practicing. If you’ve never done Everyday Ashtanga, you’ll hear the ujjayi, and maybe something will click. We’ll give you an instruction sheet. It won’t make much sense, but if you keep coming, you’ll get it. We also talk after practicing. That helps. (NOTE to ashtangis: This is not “Mysore” Ashtanga. It’s more like what David Williams was doing back in the 70’s).
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
Seated yoga is a gentle postural yoga practice comprised of a sequences of seated yoga postures. 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 seated inversions, 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.
The Activities Committee is meeting Wednesday, September 24th at 7:30pm via Zoom to collaborate on upcoming events.
The Hospitality Committee is meeting Saturday, September 24th at 7:30pm via Zoom to collaborate on ways we can support the committee responsibilities.
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.
Ashtanga emphasizes a unique kind of yogic breathing called ujjayi pranayama. It’s unique because it can be done during asana (posture) practice, and when you come into class, that’s what we’ll be doing. We’ll be practicing. If you’ve never done Everyday Ashtanga, you’ll hear the ujjayi, and maybe something will click. We’ll give you an instruction sheet. It won’t make much sense, but if you keep coming, you’ll get it. We also talk after practicing. That helps. (NOTE to ashtangis: This is not “Mysore” Ashtanga. It’s more like what David Williams was doing back in the 70’s).
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.
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.
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.
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.
Reserved for Embodied Breath Yoga - Blanca Wright - Somatics Workshop - 11:30am-2:30pm
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.
Reserved for Private Event - Kylee Moats - 1pm-5pm
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.
Ashtanga emphasizes a unique kind of yogic breathing called ujjayi pranayama. It’s unique because it can be done during asana (posture) practice, and when you come into class, that’s what we’ll be doing. We’ll be practicing. If you’ve never done Everyday Ashtanga, you’ll hear the ujjayi, and maybe something will click. We’ll give you an instruction sheet. It won’t make much sense, but if you keep coming, you’ll get it. We also talk after practicing. That helps. (NOTE to ashtangis: This is not “Mysore” Ashtanga. It’s more like what David Williams was doing back in the 70’s).
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.
Reserved for Private Event - Kylee Moats - 1pm-9pm
Reserved for Private Event - Kylee Moats - 1pm-9pm
Reserved for Private Event - Kylee Moats - 1pm-5pm
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.
Reserved for Private Event - Kylee Moats - 1pm-9pm
Reserved for Private Event - Kylee Moats - 1pm-5pm
Reserved for Private Event - Kylee Moats - 1pm-9pm
Reserved for Private Event - Kylee Moats - 1pm-9pm
Reserved for Private Event - Kylee Moats - 1pm-5pm
Reserved for Private Event - Kylee Moats - 1pm-9pm
TIME TBD
You're invited to join us for SAMHAIN - a Gaelic celebration of remembrance with Catherine Murray. This is an evening of movement, connection, and reflection on Sunday, October 26 from 5pm-7pm at Community Yoga Center (2900 Adams Street, A-20, Riverside CA, 92504). This event if freely offered. No registration is required. Everyone is welcome.
Reserved for Private Event - Kylee Moats - 1pm-5pm
Reserved for Private Event - Kylee Moats - 1pm-9pm
The Hospitality Committee is meeting Wednesday, October 29th at 7:30pm via Zoom to collaborate on ways we can support the committee responsibilities.
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.
The Hospitality Committee is meeting Saturday, September 24th at 7:30pm via Zoom to collaborate on ways we can support the committee responsibilities.
Reserved for Private Event - Inga Buchbinder - Event Time TBD
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 - Kylee Moats - 1pm-5pm
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.
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.
The Hospitality Committee is meeting Saturday, August 30th at 11:45am at the Community Yoga Center to talk through the to collaborate on ways we can support the committee responsibilities.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ashtanga emphasizes a unique kind of yogic breathing called ujjayi pranayama. It’s unique because it can be done during asana (posture) practice, and when you come into class, that’s what we’ll be doing. We’ll be practicing. If you’ve never done Everyday Ashtanga, you’ll hear the ujjayi, and maybe something will click. We’ll give you an instruction sheet. It won’t make much sense, but if you keep coming, you’ll get it. We also talk after practicing. That helps. (NOTE to ashtangis: This is not “Mysore” Ashtanga. It’s more like what David Williams was doing back in the 70’s).
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.
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.
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.
Seated yoga is a gentle postural yoga practice comprised of a sequences of seated yoga postures. 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 seated inversions, the practice usually ends with mindfulness meditation and offerings of gratitude and thanksgiving.
Reserved for Private Event - Kylee Moats - 1pm-9pm
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.
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.
Ashtanga emphasizes a unique kind of yogic breathing called ujjayi pranayama. It’s unique because it can be done during asana (posture) practice, and when you come into class, that’s what we’ll be doing. We’ll be practicing. If you’ve never done Everyday Ashtanga, you’ll hear the ujjayi, and maybe something will click. We’ll give you an instruction sheet. It won’t make much sense, but if you keep coming, you’ll get it. We also talk after practicing. That helps. (NOTE to ashtangis: This is not “Mysore” Ashtanga. It’s more like what David Williams was doing back in the 70’s).
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.
The Activities Committee is meeting Monday, August 25th at 8pm via Zoom to collaborate on ways we can support the committee responsibilities.
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.
Reserved for Private Event - Kylee Moats - 1pm-5pm
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.
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.
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.