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# FOR OVER SEVEN YEARS, WE’VE OFFERED NO-COST YOGA IN COMMUNITY FOR EVERY BODY.
Community Yoga Initiative is a grassroots, volunteer-driven wellness movement dedicated to improving the physical, mental, and emotional health of human beings through the practice of yoga. In 2023, initiative volunteers offered over 500 free and inclusive opportunities to practice yoga in commUNITY.
All these yoga offerings are open to everyBODY - folks of all faiths, cultures, ages, genders, physical abilities, and financial resources. These free yoga offerings help a growing number of people access the therapeutic and self-revelatory benefits of yoga - allowing people to experience how yoga strengthens, stretches, and destresses the body; soothes, relaxes, and decompresses the mind; and opens the heart.
These yoga offerings also contribute to the creation of conscious community and recognition of the truth of interconnectedness. Initiative volunteers are known for nurturing inclusive community and co-creating space for connection and refuge by emphasizing collective collaboration, where everyone is an important part of the group yoga experience. The volunteers honor the infinite aspects of individuality and welcome all bodies, backgrounds, traditions, and situations. They adapt yoga practices to meet individual needs and encourage personal responsibility and intuitive direction.
All these yoga offerings are provided solely through voluntary giving - at no cost to participants. The giving of many is what allows the practice opportunities to be offered so freely. In giving, we loosen the grip of our greatest source of suffering - self-absorption. We expand our hearts in a way that recognizes we are not actually separate from others. Giving is a letting go of a sense of separateness that’s based in ignorance. When we practice giving, we feel into how we all depend on one another - how we are all part of the whole. In this way, giving is the natural response of the awakened heart.
# WE ARE COMMITTED TO EXPANDING YOGA ACCESS AND INCLUSIVITY, CHALLENGING DELUDED CONCEPTS ABOUT WHAT YOGA IS AND DOES, AND SHARING YOGA IN WAYS THAT HONOR THE INTERCONNECTEDNESS OF ALL.
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See all- The Art of MeditationCommunity Yoga Center, Riverside, CA
5-WEEK IMMERSIVE MEDITATION COURSE
This five-week immersive meditation opportunity supports the asynchronous version of the course and includes over twenty recorded offerings and accompanying written materials. Both the in-person and recorded on-line course are offered at no cost. The in-person class will meet once a week for five consecutive weeks - either on Saturday mornings from 10:15am to 11:30am at Community Yoga Center (2900 Adams Street, A-20, Riverside, CA 92504) or Wednesday evenings from 7:30pm to 8:45pm at All Saints Episcopal Church (3847 Terracina Drive, Riverside, CA 92506). This immersive meditation experience is free and registration is not required. ♥️
You’re invited to download the on-line course through this link here and begin the learning experience at your own pace, anytime: https://www.theartofmeditationcourse.com/offers/6DGDuu4F/checkout. If you’d like to join me for the live course, feel free to come to either the first session on Saturday, August 2nd at 10:15am or Wednesday, August 6th at 7:30pm – whatever you prefer.The in-person course is designed for us to begin each week learning together - feeling into the module concepts collaboratively - and then for you to practice a specific meditation technique independently during the rest of the week. Understanding the “why” behind the meditation methods and consistently practicing meditation over the course of five weeks is the power behind this course - it’s what creates such significant potential for change - for a shift into deeper truth and love. ♥️
If you feel at all drawn to take a step into the world of meditation - to deepen your understanding- to create and sustain a meaningful meditation practice that can cause lasting change - a practice that literally changes your brain and how you experience life - consider enrolling in this course. Meditation has touched my life with profound love, and I hope this course is a continuation of that love. ♥️
With Great Love & Gratitude,
Kristin - The Art of MeditationCommunity Yoga Center, Riverside, CA
5-WEEK IMMERSIVE MEDITATION COURSE
This five-week immersive meditation opportunity supports the asynchronous version of the course and includes over twenty recorded offerings and accompanying written materials. Both the in-person and recorded on-line course are offered at no cost. The in-person class will meet once a week for five consecutive weeks - either on Saturday mornings from 10:15am to 11:30am at Community Yoga Center (2900 Adams Street, A-20, Riverside, CA 92504) or Wednesday evenings from 7:30pm to 8:45pm at All Saints Episcopal Church (3847 Terracina Drive, Riverside, CA 92506). This immersive meditation experience is free and registration is not required. ♥️
You’re invited to download the on-line course through this link here and begin the learning experience at your own pace, anytime: https://www.theartofmeditationcourse.com/offers/6DGDuu4F/checkout. If you’d like to join me for the live course, feel free to come to either the first session on Saturday, August 2nd at 10:15am or Wednesday, August 6th at 7:30pm – whatever you prefer.The in-person course is designed for us to begin each week learning together - feeling into the module concepts collaboratively - and then for you to practice a specific meditation technique independently during the rest of the week. Understanding the “why” behind the meditation methods and consistently practicing meditation over the course of five weeks is the power behind this course - it’s what creates such significant potential for change - for a shift into deeper truth and love. ♥️
If you feel at all drawn to take a step into the world of meditation - to deepen your understanding- to create and sustain a meaningful meditation practice that can cause lasting change - a practice that literally changes your brain and how you experience life - consider enrolling in this course. Meditation has touched my life with profound love, and I hope this course is a continuation of that love. ♥️
With Great Love & Gratitude,
Kristin - The Art of MeditationCommunity Yoga Center, Riverside, CA
5-WEEK IMMERSIVE MEDITATION COURSE
This five-week immersive meditation opportunity supports the asynchronous version of the course and includes over twenty recorded offerings and accompanying written materials. Both the in-person and recorded on-line course are offered at no cost. The in-person class will meet once a week for five consecutive weeks - either on Saturday mornings from 10:15am to 11:30am at Community Yoga Center (2900 Adams Street, A-20, Riverside, CA 92504) or Wednesday evenings from 7:30pm to 8:45pm at All Saints Episcopal Church (3847 Terracina Drive, Riverside, CA 92506). This immersive meditation experience is free and registration is not required. ♥️
You’re invited to download the on-line course through this link here and begin the learning experience at your own pace, anytime: https://www.theartofmeditationcourse.com/offers/6DGDuu4F/checkout. If you’d like to join me for the live course, feel free to come to either the first session on Saturday, August 2nd at 10:15am or Wednesday, August 6th at 7:30pm – whatever you prefer.The in-person course is designed for us to begin each week learning together - feeling into the module concepts collaboratively - and then for you to practice a specific meditation technique independently during the rest of the week. Understanding the “why” behind the meditation methods and consistently practicing meditation over the course of five weeks is the power behind this course - it’s what creates such significant potential for change - for a shift into deeper truth and love. ♥️
If you feel at all drawn to take a step into the world of meditation - to deepen your understanding- to create and sustain a meaningful meditation practice that can cause lasting change - a practice that literally changes your brain and how you experience life - consider enrolling in this course. Meditation has touched my life with profound love, and I hope this course is a continuation of that love. ♥️
With Great Love & Gratitude,
Kristin - The Art of MeditationCommunity Yoga Center, Riverside, CA
5-WEEK IMMERSIVE MEDITATION COURSE
This five-week immersive meditation opportunity supports the asynchronous version of the course and includes over twenty recorded offerings and accompanying written materials. Both the in-person and recorded on-line course are offered at no cost. The in-person class will meet once a week for five consecutive weeks - either on Saturday mornings from 10:15am to 11:30am at Community Yoga Center (2900 Adams Street, A-20, Riverside, CA 92504) or Wednesday evenings from 7:30pm to 8:45pm at All Saints Episcopal Church (3847 Terracina Drive, Riverside, CA 92506). This immersive meditation experience is free and registration is not required. ♥️
You’re invited to download the on-line course through this link here and begin the learning experience at your own pace, anytime: https://www.theartofmeditationcourse.com/offers/6DGDuu4F/checkout. If you’d like to join me for the live course, feel free to come to either the first session on Saturday, August 2nd at 10:15am or Wednesday, August 6th at 7:30pm – whatever you prefer.The in-person course is designed for us to begin each week learning together - feeling into the module concepts collaboratively - and then for you to practice a specific meditation technique independently during the rest of the week. Understanding the “why” behind the meditation methods and consistently practicing meditation over the course of five weeks is the power behind this course - it’s what creates such significant potential for change - for a shift into deeper truth and love. ♥️
If you feel at all drawn to take a step into the world of meditation - to deepen your understanding- to create and sustain a meaningful meditation practice that can cause lasting change - a practice that literally changes your brain and how you experience life - consider enrolling in this course. Meditation has touched my life with profound love, and I hope this course is a continuation of that love. ♥️
With Great Love & Gratitude,
Kristin
