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This is a directory of community yogis. Please contact the facilitators directly to connect with them.
Dani’s sharing of yoga is deeply rooted in Karma Yoga - the path of service. She embodies humility, compassion, and commitment - offering many good works as acts of love for the benefit of all. Rather than seeking recognition and reward, Dani serves without expectation. Her sharing of yoga is about remembering our interconnectedness and the sacredness of everyday acts.
Dani is a mentor to the yogis in the 200-hour and 300-hour yoga teacher trainings at Community Yoga Center and facilitates a holistic blend of yang yoga and yin yoga as part of Community Yoga Initiative - inviting balance, presence, and inner awareness. Her sharing is inclusive and heart-led - inviting participants into a deeper relationship with themselves, each other, and the world.
She co-chairs the House Committee at CYC, lovingly caring for the space that is enjoyed by the community.
Dani serves as a lead ambassador for the Ananda Yoga Festival in Riverside, California, organizing event set-up and shaping the overall experience and energy of the festivities.
VIvian listens deeply - to the body, breath, and subtle pulses of the inner world - and gives voice to what arises through the language of the heart. She is a poet-yogi. Rooted in the art of poetry and the practice of yoga, she lives with an awareness that every moment holds a verse, every movement a metaphor, every pause a prayer. For Vivian, yoga is an expression of creativity itself. She invites opportunities to feel - not necessarily to fix - but to witness and honor.
Vivian 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 yin yoga as part of Community Yoga Initiative. Her offerings reflect the natural rhythms of life - the dynamic energy of movement to build strength and vitality, and the stillness of yin to nourish deep layers of body-mind. Through an integrative approach, Vivian supports the cultivation of both effort and ease, action and surrender, movement and mindfulness. She reminds us yoga is not only found in poses, but also in presence.
Vivian co-chairs the special projects committee at CYC, helping to organize and offer resources to the community.
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.
Inga 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 also co-founded Community Yoga Center (CYC), a non-profit yoga school in Riverside, California. CYC provides affordable yoga teacher trainings (YTTs) as well as free yoga education and practice opportunities. These offerings break down financial, cultural, and systemic barriers, and reflect the true spirit of yoga - generosity, equity, and service - shifting the focus from profit to purpose, and nurturing practitioners and teachers who are deeply motivated by service and community connection. Inga facilitates CYC’s 200-hour and 300-hour YTTs. She is passionate about instructing asana with energetic sensitivity and guiding pratyahara practice from the heart.
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 completed 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.
Margo is a mentor to the yogis in the 200-hour and 300-hour yoga teacher trainings at Community Yoga Center. She co-chairs the Hospitality Committee at CYC, creating a warm, welcoming, and engaging environment for everyone there. Her loving and generous energy contribute greatly to the creation of conscious community at CYC.
She regularly facilitates yin yoga as part of Community Yoga Initiative, holding space for stillness, deep release and inner inquiry. With a gentle and calm presence, Margo guides folks through the subtle landscapes of the body-mind, inviting softness, surrender, and self-awareness. Her offerings encourage slowing down and reconnecting with our innate wisdom.
Margo serves as a lead ambassador for the Ananda Yoga Festival in Riverside, California organizing event vendors and sponsorships, contributing to the creation of a vibrant marketplace centered around wellness without walls.
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 has served as a mentor to the yogis in the 200-hour and 300-hour yoga teacher trainings at Community Yoga Center. She has also facilitated 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 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 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.
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.
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Kim is committed to making yoga accessible to all bodies, levels, and lived experiences. With the view that yoga is for everyBODY, she cultivates welcoming spaces where folks feel supported and encouraged to practice yoga no matter their ability or body-type. Her approach integrates movement, breath awareness, and mindfulness while offering adaptive poses and practice supports to facilitate yoga practice.
Kim shares yoga with folks in psychiatric hospitals and mental health treatment centers in Riverside, California. Her sharing in these spaces centers around reconnection to the body, nervous system regulation, and cultivating a sense of calm and agency. She adapts every yoga offering to meet folks where they are - honoring diverse needs, experiences, and emotional states.
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 yin yoga as part of Community Yoga Initiative. She co-chairs the Outreach Committee at CYC, spreading the word and inviting folks to freely offered yoga experiences.
Kim serves as a lead ambassador for the Ananda Yoga Festival in Riverside, California, organizing event break-down and contributing to the mindful closing and clearing of the space at the end of the festivities.
Lori is a mentor to the yogis in the 200-hour and 300-hour yoga teacher trainings at Community Yoga Center. She facilitates yoga music sessions as part of Community Yoga Initiative. Lori also co-chairs the Activities Committee at CYC, organizing fun and meaningful events for commUNITY.
Lori co-leads yoga music at Community Yoga Center, cultivating a space for connection through music by blending traditional chants from the Bhakti yoga tradition with soulful melodies and contemporary influences. Lori’s yoga music offerings are less about performance and more about collective participation. She leads with heart and an intention to remeber the divine within all things.
Lori serves as a lead ambassador for the Ananda Yoga Festival in Riverside, California organizing the eco-conscious elements of the event and contributing to environmental sustainability and non-harming of the collective.
While working as an elementary school teacher, Allison initiated a program of sharing yoga freely with her co-workers and students.
She co-founded Community Yoga Center (CYC), a non-profit yoga school in Riverside, California. CYC provides affordable yoga teacher trainings (YTTs) as well as free yoga education and practice opportunities. These offerings break down financial, cultural, and systemic barriers, and reflect the true spirit of yoga - generosity, equity, and service - shifting the focus from profit to purpose, and nurturing practitioners and teachers who are deeply motivated by service and community connection. Inga facilitates CYC’s 200-hour and 300-hour YTTs. Her love of art and music informs her teachings that are centered around yantra and mantra.
She also facilitates chair yoga and meditation as part of Community Yoga Initiative. With a welcoming and adaptive approach she makes yoga and meditation accessible to all bodies and abilities.
Allison serves on the leadership committee of the Big Bear Yoga Festival.
Austin shares meditation rooted in the Insight tradition as taught at the Spirit Rock Meditation Center. His teaching is informed by a commitment to mindfulness and compassion as a path to liberation and social awakening. With a calm and clear presence, Austin’s sharings are rooted and responsive - honoring ancient teachings while meeting the complexity of today’s world.
Austin also co-leads yoga music at Community Yoga Center, cultivating a space for connection through music by blending traditional chants from the Bhakti yoga tradition with soulful melodies and contemporary influences. Austin’s yoga music offerings are less about performance and more about collective participation. Each gathering an opportunity for a co-created experience of presence and joy.
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 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. Inga, Allison, Toby, Cherie and Kristin originally connected around Scott’s teachings of yoga in 2017.
Toby co-founded Community Yoga Center (CYC), a non-profit yoga school in Riverside, California. CYC provides affordable yoga teacher trainings (YTTs) as well as free yoga education and practice opportunities. These offerings break down financial, cultural, and systemic barriers, and reflect the true spirit of yoga - generosity, equity, and service - shifting the focus from profit to purpose, and nurturing practitioners and teachers who are deeply motivated by service and community connection. Inga facilitates CYC’s 200-hour and 300-hour YTTs. He is passionate about instructing asana with energetic sensitivity and guiding pranayama practice from the heart. Toby co-leads the 200-hour and 300-hour yoga teacher trainings at Community Yoga Center in Riverside, California.
Toby also co-leads yoga music at Community Yoga Center, cultivating a space for connection through music by blending traditional chants from the Bhakti yoga tradition with soulful melodies and contemporary influences. Toby’s yoga music offerings are less about performance and more about collective participation. Each gathering an opportunity for a co-created experience of presence and joy.
He currently facilitates ashtanga vinyasa yoga, yin yoga, and meditation as part of Community Yoga Initiative.
Toby has served as a lead ambassador, 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 yoga spaces 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. Catherine also co-chairs the House Committee at CYC, lovingly caring for the yoga space.
Catherine serves as a lead ambassador for the Ananda Yoga Festival in Riverside, California. It’s become a destination for folks to experience yoga in a way that’s accessible, heart-centered, and healing. A portion of the festival is open to the public and entirely free to attend – a space to gather, connect, and explore wellness resources.
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.
Shawna is a mentor to the yogis in the 200-hour and 300-hour yoga teacher trainings at Community Yoga Center.
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. Carly also co-chairs the Activities Committee at CYC, organizing fun and meaningful events for commUNITY.
Carly serves as a lead ambassador for the Ananda Yoga Festival in Riverside, California. It’s become a destination for folks to experience yoga in a way that’s accessible, heart-centered, and healing. A portion of the festival is open to the public and entirely free to attend – a space to gather, connect, and explore wellness resources.
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.
She also co-founded Community Yoga Center (CYC), a non-profit yoga school in Riverside, California. CYC provides affordable yoga teacher trainings (YTTs) as well as free yoga education and practice opportunities. These offerings break down financial, cultural, and systemic barriers, and reflect the true spirit of yoga - generosity, equity, and service - shifting the focus from profit to purpose, and nurturing practitioners and teachers who are deeply motivated by service and community connection. Inga facilitates CYC’s 200-hour and 300-hour YTTs and the Audacity to Rest course. She is passionate about the need and benefits of rest as a human right.
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.
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Community Yoga Center
Melissa has a heartfelt passion for supporting women through the transformative journey of pregnancy, birth, and motherhood. Specializing in prenatal and postnatal yoga, she creates nurturing spaces where mothers can connect to their bodies, breath, and precious babies. Melissa combines gentle movement, mindful breathing, and womb awareness to support physical, mental, and emotional well-being at every stage of motherhood.
Melissa is a mentor to the yogis in the 200-hour and 300-hour yoga teacher trainings at Community Yoga Center. She co-chairs the Hospitality Committee at CYC, creating a warm, welcoming, and engaging environment for everyone there. Her loving and generous energy contribute greatly to the creation of conscious community at CYC.
She regularly facilitates yin yoga as part of Community Yoga Initiative, holding space for stillness, deep release and inner inquiry. With a caring and motherly presence, Melissa is committed to making restful, embodied practice accessible in a fast-moving world.
Melissa serves as a lead ambassador for the Ananda Yoga Festival in Riverside, California, caring for and supporting the festival yoga facilitators, artists, and musicians.
Kristin loves yoga and is inspired by the therapeutic and self-revelatory benefits of yoga. She has practiced yoga as long as she’s practiced law – over twenty-five years. She co-founded Community Yoga Initiative (CYI), a grassroots, volunteer-driven wellness movement dedicated to improving the physical, mental, and emotional health of human beings through the practice of yoga. She facilitates free yoga classes for CYI daily.
She also co-founded Community Yoga Center (CYC), a non-profit yoga school in Riverside, California. CYC provides affordable yoga teacher trainings (YTTs) as well as free yoga education and practice opportunities. These offerings break down financial, cultural, and systemic barriers, and reflect the true spirit of yoga - generosity, equity, and service - shifting the focus from profit to purpose, and nurturing practitioners and teachers who are deeply motivated by service and community connection. Kristin facilitates CYC’s 200-hour and 300-hour YTTs and The Art of Meditation course.
Through the Prison Yoga Project, Kristin also facilitates an immersive yoga and mindfulness course at a state prison in Norco, California - guiding incarcerated men through yoga and mindfulness practices that ease states of trauma, develop resilience, and promote well-being. Facilitating yoga in prison reminds her how yoga is about more than physical movement of the body; it’s about experiencing moments of freedom – even behind walls.
She co-founded Ananda Yoga Festival in Riverside, California. It’s become a destination for folks to experience yoga in a way that’s accessible, heart-centered, and healing. A portion of the festival is open to the public and entirely free to attend – a space to gather, connect, and explore wellness resources.
Kristin is the yoga instructor for the United States Men’s Olympic Water Polo Team.
Blanca is founder of Embodied Breath Wellness, an organization dedicated to creating sensitive, inclusive, and empowering opportunities for healing through movement, breath, and meditation. Trained in trauma-informed ways of facilitating and a deep understanding of the nervous system, she guides folks in reconnecting with their bodies, cultivating resilience, and fostering self-compassion. Blanca integrates mindfulness, grounding techniques, and inviting presence to share yoga centered around, choice and agency.
Blanca also regularly shares yoga freely in public park spaces in the Redlands and Highland area of Southern California - co-creating inclusive landing spaces for community folks to connect, breathe, and practice yoga together. She approaches yoga as a tool for self-discovery, personal growth, and incremental, profound healing.
Blanca is a mentor to the yogis in the 200-hour and 300-hour yoga teacher trainings at Community Yoga Center. Blanca also co-chairs the Hospitality Committee at CYC, creating a warm, welcoming, and engaging environment for everyone there. Her loving and generous energy contribute greatly to the creation of conscious community at CYC.
