For eight years, Community Yoga Initiative has served as a living expression of what it means to truly love yoga and share it freely. What began as a gesture of kindness among five friends has grown into a vibrant, community-centered wellness movement dedicated to making yoga accessible to all.

Yoga Teacher Training at Community Yoga Center is not simply about learning to share the most physical aspect of yoga. It is about remembering. Remembering the wisdom already living in your body. Remembering the steadiness beneath the noise. Remembering that yoga is not something we perform, but something we live.

Melissa Shaw shares yoga from a place of compassion, presence, and deep care. With a grounded understanding of life’s interconnection and impermanence, she meets others with warmth and patience - supporting folks in creating meaningful connection both on and off the mat.

Catherine Murray facilitates individual and group yoga sessions offering vinyasa flow as an embodied art form - a practice that moves like a prayer: mindful, rhythmic, and physically invigorating. Her offerings blend creative sequencing with intentional challenge, inviting an exploration of strength, fluidity, and presence in equal measure.

We’re happy to announce that Community Yoga Center is now a community site for the Gluck Fellows Program of the Arts in partnership with UC Riverside. Through this collaboration, we’re excited to offer free, high-quality arts programming at the yoga center, made accessible to all.