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This is a directory of community yogis. Please contact the facilitators directly to connect with them.
Dani is student in the 300-Hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training at Community Yoga Center. She facilitates yin and yang yoga as part of Community Yoga Initiative.
Vivian is student in the 300-Hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training at Community Yoga Center. She facilitates yin and yang yoga as part of Community Yoga Initiative.
Inga co-leads 200-hour and 300-hour yoga teacher trainings at Community Yoga Center, in Riverside, California. She is passionate about instructing asana with energetic sensitivity and guiding pratyahara practice from the heart.
In 2018, she co-founded Community Yoga Initiative, a movement committed to expanding yoga access and inclusivity by offering yoga at no cost in an environment that welcomes every body. She currently facilitates ashtanga vinyasa yoga, yin yoga, and chair yoga as part of Community Yoga Initiative.
Inga serves as a licensed clinical social worker at the California Institution for Women in Chino, California, and has facilitated yoga for women experiencing incarceration and the staff who work at the facility.
She recently completed the triad of Insight Seminars in Los Angeles, California, all of which are rooted in the timeless teachings of love, acceptance, and personal responsibility. She has assisted the Insight I Seminar Awakening the Power of the Heart, and expects to complete the Insight Master Class in 2024.
Chelsea is founder of Tonal Temple, a collective of yogis, artists, and wellness providers who share their talents in inclusive ways. She facilitates sound baths, yin yoga, slow flow yoga, yang yoga, power yoga, acro yoga, chair yoga, and meditation in Southern California through the Tonal Temple collective.
Chelsea also founded SummaTime For Your Mind, an affordable, family-friendly summer wellness series in Corona and Riverside, California designed to promote well-being through a variety of fun and inviting movement and meditation sessions. She is also the main organizer behind Ananda Yoga Festival - a grassroots wellness event that brings people together to experience yoga in commUNITY. Ananda Yoga Festival is an immersive yoga exploration for everyBODY - a joy-filled day of movement, music, and mindfulness in Riverside, California.
She is a mentor to the yogis in the 200-hour and 300-hour yoga teacher trainings at Community Yoga Center and facilitates yang yoga and sound bath as part of Community Yoga Initiative.
Margo is a mentor to the yogis in the 200-hour and 300-hour yoga teacher trainings at Community Yoga Center. She facilitates yin yoga as part of Community Yoga Initiative.
Hannah started yoga when she was 14 years old as a means of exercise, but discovered a spirituality that deeply resonated with her. After practicing for 10 years, she sought to deepen her practice by completing her 500-Hour Yoga Teacher Certification.
Hannah is a mentor to the yogis in the 200-hour and 300-hour yoga teacher trainings at Community Yoga Center. She facilitates yang yoga as part of Community Yoga Initiative.
Ty is an artist who creates in mediums of photography and videography. His passion is pausing life’s little moments, and capturing them to fully appreciate the many gifts the world gives us every day. He’s a sought-after photographer for yoga events and festivals as well as individual yoga portfolios.
Ty co-created and produced The Art of Meditation course and is currently growing his course catalog of videography, specializing in content related to health and wellness.
Katie facilitates individual yoga sessions and wellness retreats through Deva Sol Yoga. Her offerings are curated to serve individual needs and often include a unique balance of relaxing yin yoga, intentional breathing, guided meditation, mantra, and exploration of yogic concepts.
She is passionate about sharing yoga as a creative expression of self and especially loves sharing yoga music, sound baths, and chants. She is gifted in sharing yoga nidra as well as pre- and post- natal yoga. She also facilitates restorative yoga, yin yoga, slow flow yoga, chair yoga, yang yoga, and vinyasa flow yoga. She is adept at facilitating yoga for children, teens, elders, people living with cancer or chronic illness, and people living with mobility constraints. Katie does not turn anyone away due to lack of funds.
Katie serves a mentor to the yogis in the 200-hour and 300-hour Yoga Teacher Training at Community Yoga Center in Riverside, California.
Katie is part of the organizing committee for the Ananda Yoga Festival - a grassroots wellness event that brings people together to experience yoga in commUNITY. Ananda Yoga Festival is an immersive yoga exploration for everyBODY - a joy-filled day of movement, music, and mindfulness in Riverside, California.
Savanna has served a mentor to the yogis in the 200-hour and 300-hour Yoga Teacher Training at Community Yoga Center in Riverside, California. She also facilitated meditation as part of Community Yoga Initiative. She now resides in Oklahoma.
Kim is student in the 300-Hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training at Community Yoga Center. She facilitates yin and yang yoga as part of Community Yoga Initiative.
Lori is a mentor to the yogis in the 200-hour and 300-hour yoga teacher trainings at Community Yoga Center. She facilitates yang yoga as part of Community Yoga Initiative.
Allison serves on the leadership committee of the Big Bear Yoga Festival.
While working as an elementary school teacher, Allison initiated a program of sharing yoga freely with her co-workers and students.
She currently co-leads the 200-hour and 300-hour yoga teacher trainings at Community Yoga Center in Riverside, California. Her love of art and music informs her teachers that are centered around yantra and mantra.
She also facilitates chair yoga and meditation as part of Community Yoga Initiative.
Community Love Project
Casey founded the Community Love Project in Riverside, California, a movement that helps create and nurture relationships through a variety of community gatherings and events.
Casey has served as a mentor to the yogis in the 200-hour and 300-hour Yoga Teacher Training at Community Yoga Center in Riverside, California.
Experiencing life as a loving, present moment engagement is what inspires Scott’s practice and sharing of yoga. It was his inspiration behind founding Western Yoga College and opening Inland Yoga Centers in Riverside, California nearly twenty-five years ago. He regularly offers on-line yoga classes, including a vitalizing asana and pranayama experience called iBAMN! on Saturday mornings at 8:30amPST and ashtanga vinyasa yoga on Sunday mornings at 9:00amPST. If you’d like to request an invitation to his yoga offerings, e-mail Scott here. Scott facilitates ashtanga vinyasa yoga in-person as part of Community Yoga Initiative.
Scott has written many articles and books about yoga including What Is(n’t) Hatha Yoga, and Yogic Love: An Alternative to Our Crap.
Community Yoga Center exists in part because of Scott’s practice and sharing of yoga. CYC’s Board of Directors originally connected around Scott’s teachings of yoga eight years ago.
Toby co-leads the 200-hour and 300-hour yoga teacher trainings at Community Yoga Center in Riverside, California. He currently facilitates ashtanga vinyasa yoga, yin yoga, and meditation as part of Community Yoga Initiative in Riverside, California.
Toby has served as a volunteer and yoga facilitator for the Ananda Yoga Festival and Big Bear Yoga Festival, offering an arm balance and inversion workshops, ashtanga vinyasa flow classes, and fun yoga for children.
Toby is part of the ManKind Project, an organization committed to supporting men break free of limiting beliefs so they can live their most authentic lives and serves others.
Catherine facilitates individual and group yoga sessions in Riverside, California. She shares yang yoga and vinyasa flow yoga at various studios in Riverside, California and as part of Community Yoga Initiative. She is also adept at facilitating yin yoga, slow flow yoga, and restorative yoga. Catherine is passionate about serving teens and people living with mobility constraints.
She serves as mentor to the yogis in the 200-hour and 300-hour Yoga Teacher Training at Community Yoga Center.
Gap Self-Healing Therapies
Cindy is founder of Gap Self-Healing Therapies in Parowan, Utah - a school that teaches self-healing therapies including yoga, meditation, and reiki. With a real love for humanity, she is committed to helping individuals learn, heal, and evolve to serve their highest purpose. In addition to offering in-person self-healing retreats, Cindy currently shares ashtanga vinyasa yoga on-line, and offers distance reiki and trauma healing.
Community Yoga Center
Carly is student in the 300-Hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training at Community Yoga Center. She facilitates yin and yang yoga as part of Community Yoga Initiative.
Cherie founded roots HOME + BODY with the mission to “be WELL!” She creates thoughtfully handcrafted home and body care products to foster intentional moments of wellbeing.
Cherie co-founded Community Yoga Initiative, a movement committed to expanding yoga access and inclusivity by offering yoga at no cost in an environment that welcomes every body. She currently facilitates yin yoga and moody Mondays as part of Community Yoga Initiative.
Cherie serves as a co-leader of the 200-hour and 300-hour yoga teacher trainings at Community Yoga Center in Riverside, California. She is an advocate for radical rest and has developed Audacity To Rest - an curriculum and experience that explores the vital aspects of rest and the link between rest, wisdom, and creativity.
Cherie is part of the organizing committee for the Ananda Yoga Festival - a grassroots wellness event that brings people together to experience yoga in commUNITY. Ananda Yoga Festival is an immersive yoga exploration for everyBODY - a joy-filled day of movement, music, and mindfulness in Riverside, California.
Community Yoga Center
Marlene has been a mentor to the yogis in the 200-hour and 300-hour yoga teacher trainings at Community Yoga Center. She facilitates ashtanga vinyasa yoga as part of Community Yoga Initiative.
Community Yoga Center
Melissa is a mentor to the yogis in the 200-hour and 300-hour yoga teacher trainings at Community Yoga Center. She facilitates yin yoga as part of Community Yoga Initiative.
Kristin is a steward of Community Yoga Center in Riverside, California and co-leads its 200-hour and 300-hour yoga teacher trainings. She co-created The Art of Meditation course and guides people in meditation practice.
In 2018, Kristin co-founded Community Yoga Initiative, a movement committed to expanding yoga access and inclusivity by offering yoga at no cost in an environment that welcomes every body. She currently facilitates ashtanga vinyasa yoga, chair yoga, yin yoga, yang yoga, and meditation as part of Community Yoga Initiative.
Kristin is part of the organizing committee for the Ananda Yoga Festival - a grassroots wellness event that brings people together to experience yoga in commUNITY. Ananda Yoga Festival is an immersive yoga exploration for everyBODY - a joy-filled day of movement, music, and mindfulness in Riverside, California.
She also facilitates yoga and meditation for people experiencing incarceration in Norco, California through the Prison Yoga Project.
Kristin is the yoga instructor for the United States Men’s Olympic Water Polo Team.
