Community Yoga Initiative

Community Feedback: Help us serve our community

We value accessibility & want to continue to offer yoga freely & offer scholarships for our Yoga Teacher Trainings.

Please take a moment to share your feedback to help us share the impact of Community Yoga Initiative & Community Yoga Center.

Sample Feedback:

How has CYI/CYC impacted you personally?

How has CYI/CYC influenced your everyday life?

What else do you want people to know about CYI/CYC?

Please send your feedback to the emails below.

THANK YOU!

Email feedback to CYI grants team members:

Vivian: [email protected]

Aly: [email protected]

This is us. Day one. Not fitting into a single frame. Beginning with endings. A new journey awaits -
unknown, unfolding, alive. And what a gift it is
to be doing this life with these beautiful humans.
Feeling grateful. ♥️-Kristin

What are you doing Sunday morning!?!? You’re invited to join us for an immersive sound experience that invites deep relaxation and presence. The sustained tones of crystal singing bowls gently anchor your attention, allowing the mind to settle and the body to soften. As distraction falls away, space opens for stillness, clarity, and connection. This offering by my friend, Eliza, is an invitation to pause, listen, and remember the peace that is always within you. Come as you are. Rest, reconnect, and experience the power of sound guided stillness. ♥️ - Kristin

FREELY OFFERED
NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED
DONATIONS ACCEPTED-NOT EXPECTED

ONLY TWO SPOTS LEFT IN YOGA TEACHER TRAINING! ♥️

If becoming a yoga teacher - or deepening your relationship with yoga - has been on your mind and heart - this is an opportunity to consider.

Community Yoga Center has just TWO spots remaining in our upcoming 200 & 300-Hour Yoga Teacher Training in Riverside, California. This nine-month, in-person program is designed to be more than a certification. It’s a transformational journey into the heart of yoga, supported by inspiring instructors, dedicated mentors, genuine peer connection, engaging weekend learnshops, self-paced study and reflection, daily practice, and meaningful opportunities to teach.

Orientation is September 13, and admissions will close as soon as these final two spots are filled. There is no later application deadline to wait for - once two more trainees are accepted, enrollment is officially closed.

If you’ve been wondering, “What is it I plan to do with my one wild and precious life?” perhaps this is part of your answer.

Come learn. Practice. Teach. Connect. Grow. And become part of a community that will support you long beyond graduation.

Ready to claim one of the final two spots? Apply now:
https://communityyogacenter.com/yoga-teacher-training-application

Two spots. One extraordinary journey. September 13 is almost here.♥️

YOGA MUSIC NIGHTS ARE BACK!!! ♥️

Gather in community for an evening of kirtan - the yogic practice of singing together in community. Rooted in the tradition of bhakti yoga, the yoga of devotion, kirtan invites us out of our individual experience and into something shared. We repeat simple melodies and sacred sounds, allowing rhythm, voice, and collective presence to quiet the mind, open the heart, and deepen our sense of connection. Together, we listen. Together, we sing. Together, we connect.

No musical experience is needed. Sing, play, listen, or simply rest in the sound. There is no performance and no audience. We create the music together. Come as you are. Add your voice or simply receive.

Community Yoga Center
2900 Adams Street, Suite A20
Riverside, CA 92504

SAVE THESE DATES FOR COMMUNITY KIRTAN

Thursday, September 3, 2026
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Thursday, September 24, 2026
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Thursday, October 1, 2026
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Thursday, October 22, 2026
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

SAVE THE DATE! ♥️
Saturday morning September 26th we’ll be honoring the Autumn Equinox with sun salutations at Community Yoga Center (2900 Adams Street, Suite A-20, Riverside, CA 92504) and we hope you’ll consider practicing with us. The practice will begin around 7:30am.

Practicing cycles of sun salutes 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’s a practice of reverence and commitment, and a special opportunity to connect in community.

It can also be a practice 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 the flames die to embers - embers that carry the potential to spark real transfiguration. Tapas recognizes the reality of suffering and asks us to willingly bear adversity in order to open up to greater insight. It knows that sometimes we are unaware of our own capacity unless we’re challenged and discover within ourselves a force that matches the adversity we face.

Practicing sun salutations can be an act of tapas - 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 part of the whole of our human experience, please consider practicing sun salutes with us on the Autumn Equinox. It holds the potential to connect us all with a fierce kind of grace. ♥️ -Kristin

THIS OFFERING IS FREE OF CHARGE
NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED

VOLUNTEER AT COMMUNITY YOGA CENTER
The care, creativity, and generosity of our community members help make the center the welcoming and heartful place it is. If you have been looking for a way to become more involved, we warmly invite you to bring your practice into community through service.

There are five committees at Community Yoga Center, each offering a different way to contribute:

♥️ House Committee - Caring for the Space

Help tend the physical home of the yoga center through routine cleaning, plant care, organizing, and basic maintenance. This may be a wonderful fit if you enjoy creating order, beauty, and calm behind the scenes.

♥️ Hospitality Committee - Welcoming Folks & Providing Nourishment

Help create a warm sense of belonging by welcoming people and assisting with beverages, snacks, and meals at community gatherings. If you love feeding people, meeting new faces, or helping others feel at home, you may enjoy serving here.

♥️ Activities Committee - Creating Connection & Joy

Help bring our community together by supporting the calendar and creating events, gatherings, and opportunities to connect. This is a great place for planners, organizers, collaborators, and anyone who enjoys bringing people together.

♥️ Outreach Committee - Extending the Circle

Help share the story of Community Yoga Center and invite others into what we offer through grassroots communication, newsletters, social media, and community events. If communication, storytelling, creativity, or connecting with others energizes you, consider joining us.

♥️ Special Projects Committee - Caring for Learning Resources

Help care for our library and make books and other learning resources organized, accessible, and inviting. Book lovers, organizers, and thoughtful system-builders may especially enjoy this opportunity.

If you feel inspired to serve, please take a little time to consider which committee resonates most with you. Think about what you enjoy, what you might like to learn, and where your presence and energy could be useful. Then let me know where you’d like to serve.

I appreciate you considering this service opportunity.
With Love,
Kristin

NEW CLASS! Mandala Yoga with Alejandro Yamas

We’re excited to announce a new class at Community Yoga Center! Join Alejandro Yamas for Mandala Yoga, a playful and fluid practice that moves through a circular sequence of postures, inviting you to experience yoga from a fresh perspective.

Mandala Yoga combines flowing vinyasa with intentional breathing and concentration. The circular sequences are designed to strengthen the body and bring mobility to the joints, while giving you the freedom to explore the practice with your own energetic emphasis - moving in a way that can be smooth and contemplative or vibrant and strong.

Alejandro brings a bright energy and a deep love of yoga to his teaching. He approaches yoga as a way to connect body, breath, and inner experience. On the mat, we practice presence and awareness; beyond the mat, we carry those qualities into how we meet ourselves and move through our lives.

We’re excited to welcome Alejandro and this joyful new practice to Community Yoga Center! Come move, breathe, and experience the mandala with us.

Tuesdays | 7–8 PM
Community Yoga Center • Riverside, CA
Freely offered in English & Spanish • Everyone welcome

BRING A FRIEND TO YOGA♥️

There’s something better about yoga when we share it. This August, we’re encouraging you to bring a friend to community yoga! When you bring someone who hasn’t attended any of our 20 FREE yoga classes you’ll both receive an opportunity to win a gift card. And, you can enter again and again! Every time you bring someone new to practice, you and your friend each receive an opportunity to win.

HOW IT WORKS:

• Come to any community yoga class at Community Yoga Center or All Saints Episcopal Church.
• Bring a friend who is new to the community yoga offerings.
• You and your friend receive an opportunity to win a gift card.
• Bring another new friend another day – the new friend gets entered into the opportunity to win and you get entered again!
• We’ll draw from all the August entries and announce the winner on September 1, 2026.

No purchase necessary, of course – all our classes are FREE! ♥️

Maybe there’s someone in your life who could benefit from intentional movement and mindfulness in a peace-filled space? Maybe you could be that friend that invites them to practice with us in commUNITY?

You might win a gift card! But even better, you might introduce someone you care about to a practice - and a community - they’ll come to love.

We can’t wait to welcome you both.♥️

MOODY MONDAYS WITH CHERIE AMOUR
What if Monday evening didn’t include another thing “to do”? What if, instead, it was an invitation to pause, rest, and be?

What if it was an invitation to step away from the noise - the notifications - the incessant busyness that can make us forget what it feels like to simply be.

Every Monday evening, Cherie lovingly curates a mood-evoking space for restorative yoga and deep relaxation.

There is no striving or performing or agenda.

Just an invitation to listen inward - to allow the body unwind - to let the mind open.

Come as you are - tender, tired, joyful, hopeful, moody. Every mood is welcome here.

MOODY MONDAYS WITH CHERIE AMOUR
Every Monday | 7:30–8:30 PM
Community Yoga Center
2900 Adams Street, Suite A-20
Riverside, CA 92504

Freely offered. Everyone welcome.

Come practice the radicalness of rest.